Historical Events In 1987
Jan 11 Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0)
Jan 05 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack NJ
Jan 31 United Steelworkers union ratified a concessionary contract with USX Corp
Jan 16 Hu Yaobang resigns as head of China's Communist Party, accepting blame for policy mistakes stemming from student turmoil
Jan 02 Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
Jan 29 Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski composer, dies at 73
Jan 01 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
Jan 07 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
Jan 03 Former Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in New York City NY
Jan 26 14th American Music Award Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie &Alabama
Jan 04 Thomas Stevens became first man to bicycle around the world
Jan 05 Canadian author Margaret Laurence takes her own life at age 60, losing a battle with lung cancer;
Jan 29 Lisa files for separation from husband New York Met Darryl Strawberry
Jan 24 61st Australian Women's Tennis H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
Jan 01 International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
Jan 01 Year of the Reader begins
Jan 26 Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
Jan 27 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose &Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
Jan 06 The 100th US Congress convenes
Jan 12 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
Jan 01 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
Jan 21 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi
Jan 20 Rhino Records first #1-Billy Vera & the Beaters' "At This Moment"
Jan 01 International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
Jan 05 Canadian author Margaret Laurence takes her own life at age 60, losing a battle with lung cancer;
Jan 04 Sixteen people die when a Washington-bound Amtrak train collides with Conrail locomotives in Chase, Maryland.
Jan 01 China's rudimentary civil code in effect
Jan 23 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 point loss)
Jan 08 The Dow Jones industrial average closes at over 2000 points for the first time.
Jan 04 16 die in a train crash in Chase MD
Jan 20 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon
Jan 07 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
Jan 04 Thomas Stevens became first man to bicycle around the world
Jan 23 Japan first exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
Jan 22 Glen Tremml, 27, pedaled the ultralight aircraft Eagle over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for a human-powered flight record of 37.2 miles.
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