Historical Events In 1987

Feb 10 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre

Feb 07 Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1

Feb 11 England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup

Feb 19 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson

Feb 27 "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS

Feb 27 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76 meters)

Feb 20 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City

Feb 21 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open

Feb 11 Philippines constitution goes into effect

Feb 03 San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup

Feb 27 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff

Feb 09 New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club

Feb 15 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot

Feb 22 Pop artist Andy Warhol dies in New York City at age 58.

Feb 26 The Tower Commission report is issued, chiding President Reagan for his national security staff's actions in the Iran-Contra affair.

Feb 24 29th Grammy Awards Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby win

Feb 07 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93

Feb 11 British Airways begins trading as a public company

Feb 23 Supernova 1987A in LMC first seen; first naked-eye supernova since 1604

Feb 27 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic

Feb 19 Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland

Feb 12 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages

Feb 21 Syrian army marches into Beirut

Feb 24 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack

Feb 04 Flamboyant pianist-entertainer Liberace dies at his Palm Springs, California, home at age 67.

Feb 26 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Apr 03 Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for œ31,380,197

Apr 22 U.S. Navy ordered to provide assistance to neutral vessels under Iranian attack outside the exclusion zone and that requested help

Apr 17 Julius Erving becomes the 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points

Apr 07 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"

Apr 27 US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II

Apr 05 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King

Apr 09 Supreme Court of Canada rules that the right to strike is not guaranteed by the constitution

Apr 16 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves

Apr 05 Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title

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