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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