Historical Events In 1987

Mar 08 David Hookes (306) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for South Australia

Mar 20 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode

Mar 03 Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74.

Mar 28 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway

Mar 20 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)

Mar 15 New Zealand beat West Indies by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket

Mar 12 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)

Mar 23 West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns

Mar 17 Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing.

Mar 09 Chrysler Corporation offered to buy American Motors Corporation on this day.

Mar 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Mar 19 Bonnie Blair skates ladies world record 500 meter (39.43 seconds)

Mar 15 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances

Mar 07 Gavaskar becomes first cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs

Mar 12 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances

Mar 06 A British ferry sinks off the Belgian port of Zeebrugg, killing 189.

Mar 01 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

Mar 19 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)

Mar 06 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100

Mar 19 Hassanali inaugurated as President of Trinidad &Tobago

Mar 12 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North

Mar 17 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way)

Mar 15 13th People's Choice Awards Bill Cosby

Mar 19 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company

Mar 13 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering

Mar 18 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)

Mar 25 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified

Mar 17 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan

Mar 30 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win

Mar 29 Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party

Mar 19 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4 16.85)

Mar 08 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California

Mar 07 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers

Mar 24 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria

Mar 11 Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74.

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