Page 16: Historical Events In 1987

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

Nov 29   Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), dies at 81.   

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

Nov 30   Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89.   

Dec 01   Digging begins to link England and France under the English Channel.   

Dec 01   Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57   

Dec 04   Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), dies at 90   

Dec 05   "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38   

Dec 06   3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"   

Dec 06   James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies.   

Dec 07   43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)   

Dec 07   Gorbachev arrives in the US for a summit meeting.   

Dec 08   Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel.   

Dec 08   President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles.   

Dec 09   Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank.   

Dec 10   "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for inaugural time.   

Dec 10   Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86.   

Dec 12   Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83.   

Dec 14   In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed   

Dec 14   Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies   

Dec 16   Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79.   

Dec 16   In this year, Roh Tae Woo claims Presidential Election in South Korea.   

Dec 17   Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87   

Dec 18   Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari.   

Dec 18   Federal Judge Morris E. Lasker sentenced Ivan Boesky,the once mighty arbitrageur to a three-year prison term.   

Dec 20   Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz collides with Vector 1749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3000)   

Dec 21   3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man   

Dec 21   Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies   

Dec 21   Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir   

Dec 22   Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies.   

Dec 22   Canada beats Finland 4-1 to win inaugural-ever gold medal at the annual Izvestia hockey tournament   

Dec 22   Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin   

Dec 23   Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison   

Dec 24   John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68   

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Apr 30   Nikki webster: Australian entertainer   

Aug 07   Sidney crosby: Canadian hockey player   

Sep 02   Spencer smith: American musician (panic at the disco)   

Oct 23   Faye hamlin: Swedish singer (play)   

Oct 29   Makoto ogawa: Japanese singer   

Nov 06   Ana ivanović: Serbian tennis player   

Nov 15   Isaiah osbourne: English footballer   

Nov 15   Ian hecox: Member of smosh   

Jan 01   Gustav knuth: Actor (heidi, rats),   

Jan 04   F van heek: Dutch sociologist,   

Jan 05   Margaret laurence: Canadian author,    

Jan 07   Larry carr: Pianist (flight to rhythm),   

Jan 08   P g joshi: Cricketer (12 tests for india 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9),   

Jan 09   Arthur lake: Actor (dagwood-blondie),   

Jan 10   Marion hutton: American singer and actress (b. 1919)   

Jan 11   Albert ferber: Swiss-english pianist (b. 1911)