Historical Events In 1987
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
Apr 19 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)
Apr 09 Francis C Denebrink US Naval officer who participated in (WW I, WW II, and Korea dies at 90
Apr 23 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct
Apr 03 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
Apr 19 Maxwell D Taylor US commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85
Apr 20 "Starlight Express"posted the largest week’ s gross in Broadway history. The roller-skating musical earned $606,081 at the box office
Apr 18 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
Apr 06 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Apr 16 Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
Apr 03 Chicago Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers
Apr 04 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 points
Apr 12 Texaco files for brankruptcy
Apr 28 Ben Linder development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua
Apr 18 An unconscous skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
Apr 20 Rosa Mota wins the women's division of the Boston Marathon
Apr 30 NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game
Apr 05 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
Apr 03 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualifying record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
Apr 02 Buddy Rich drummer/orch leader (Away We Go), dies at 69
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