Historical Events In 1987

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

Apr 03 The late Duchess of Windsor's jewels are auctioned, fetching nearly $US45 million.

Nov 16 Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"

Nov 16 Lisa Bonet marries Lenny Kravitz

Nov 12 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine

Nov 25 Harold Washington 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), dies at 65

Nov 11 Van Gogh's paining the "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction

Nov 05 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana

Nov 23 The Chicago Board of Trade took its own precautionary steps, implementing a daily price ceiling on the Major Market Index future, as well as the Institutional Index future

Nov 28 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die

Nov 18 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station

Nov 05 Iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic

Nov 03 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56

Nov 29 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost

Nov 15 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9 die in crash at Denver

Nov 08 11 die as a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at Ulster Remembrance Day Service

Sep 06 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal

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