Historical Events In 1987

Mar 12 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva &Grinkov (USSR)

Mar 30 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)

Mar 08 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425

Mar 27 President Habré's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad

Mar 19 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn

Mar 06 Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die

Mar 29 US tourist Ginger Meadows taken by crocodile in Prince Regent River, Western Australia.

Mar 07 World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champ, "Iron" Mike Tyson, became the youngest heavyweight titlist ever as he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round bout in Las Vegas.

Mar 15 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay

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

Mar 23 Soap opera "Bold & Beautiful" premieres

Mar 06 In the Colombia - Ecuador region a 7.0 earthquake killed approximately 1,000 people, 4,000 missing, 20,000 homeless, extensive damage, landslides and ground cracks in Napo Province and in the Quito-Tulcan area, Ecuador

Mar 07 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

Mar 24 First Soul Train Music Awards Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win

Mar 15 13th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby

Mar 23 Near Kamloops, BC an avalanche kills six American skiers and their Canadian guide.

Mar 26 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit

Mar 26 Hyderabad beat Delhi on first innings to win Ranji Trophy

Mar 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 22 American singer Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," arrived in Japan at the start of his world tour.

Mar 23 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf

Mar 12 World Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova &Bukin (USSR)

Mar 11 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point

Mar 10 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization &embryo transfer

Mar 12 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)

Mar 20 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit

Mar 21 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (ƒ17 million)

Mar 24 First Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win

Mar 29 Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant

Aug 31 Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for the year record ($697,385)

Aug 18 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28 21, 10 hours faster than the first man to do it

Aug 01 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)

Aug 08 Lynne Cox became first to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait

Aug 02 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")

Aug 17 Rudolph Hess Nazi, dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison

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