Page 15: Historical Events In 1987
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Oct 13 Walter H Brattain, US physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85 


Oct 14 In Midland, Tx 1«-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well. 


Oct 14 Rodolfo Halffter, composer, dies at 86. 


Oct 15 Fiji is recorded as becoming a republic, after belonging to Britain since 1874. 


Oct 15 Fiji's governor-general steps down, ending century of allegiance by the South Pacific island to British crown 


Oct 15 NFL Players Assn orders an end to the 24 day strike 


Oct 15 Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies 


Oct 16 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England 


Oct 16 Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75. 


Oct 16 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22 feet into a well shaft. 


Oct 17 inaugural World Series game in a covered stadium in Minnesota Metrodome. 


Oct 18 Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83. 


Oct 19 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record 


Oct 19 Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies at 42 


Oct 19 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf. 


Oct 20 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis. 


Oct 20 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail. 


Oct 21 Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan govt official, dies at 88 


Oct 22 Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68. 


Oct 24 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate 


Oct 24 Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86. 


Oct 25 Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80 


Oct 26 Dow Jones down 156.83 points 


Oct 26 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads 


Oct 27 Gilbert McNamee sentenced to 25 years in prison for being an IRA bombmaker 


Oct 27 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution. 


Oct 27 Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47 72, 1st-class avg 71), dies. 


Oct 28 Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91. 


Oct 29 In this year, Thomas Hearns claims unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title. 


Oct 29 Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57. 


Oct 31 Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83. 


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


Nov 04 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87 


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


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