Notable Historical Events - 1987
1987 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico |
Jan 1 |
China's rudimentary civil code in effect |
Jan 1 |
International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins |
Jan 2 |
Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ |
Jan 2 |
Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis |
Jan 3 |
"Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances |
Jan 3 |
"Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances |
Jan 3 |
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin |
Jan 4 |
16 die in a train crash in Chase Md |
Jan 5 |
Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ |
Jan 6 |
100th US Congress convenes |
Jan 6 |
Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy |
Jan 7 |
French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum |
Jan 7 |
Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest |
Jan 8 |
Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25) |
Jan 8 |
Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games |
Jan 9 |
Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed |
Jan 9 |
New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect |
Jan 11 |
Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0) |
Jan 11 |
"The Drive", trailing the Cleveland Browns 20-13 with only 5:32 remaining in the AFC Championship Game and the ball on their own two-yard line, Denver quarterback John Elway drove his team 98 yards for a touchdown to tie the game, which the Broncos won in overtime to advance to Super Bowl XXI |
Jan 12 |
Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training |
Jan 13 |
Seven top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each |
Jan 13 |
West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking |
Jan 14 |
Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 17 |
US President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran |
Jan 18 |
11th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins |
Jan 19 |
Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874 |
Jan 20 |
Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon |
Jan 20 |
Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera & Beaters' "At This Moment" |
Jan 20 |
8th ACE Cable Awards: Ted Turner wins the Golden CableACE |
Jan 20 |
Bank robber Robert Alan Litchfield is arrested at Lake Tahoe |
Jan 21 |
BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi |
Jan 21 |
B.B. King is inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" |
Jan 21 |
Muddy Waters is inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" |
Jan 22 |
Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5 |
Jan 22 |
Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism. |
Jan 23 |
Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss) |
Jan 23 |
Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion) |
Jan 24 |
61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76) |
Jan 25 |
75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63) |
Jan 25 |
Super Bowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB |
Jan 26 |
14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama |
Jan 26 |
Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title |
Jan 27 |
Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team |
Jan 28 |
US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo |
Jan 28 |
Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant |
Jan 29 |
Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry |
Jan 29 |
William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA |
Jan 31 |
44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win |
Jan 31 |
United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp |
Feb 1 |
163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze |
Feb 1 |
38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit |
Feb 1 |
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
Feb 1 |
NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6 |
Feb 2 |
KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires |
Feb 2 |
Philippines adopts constitution |
Feb 3 |
Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton |
Feb 3 |
SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup |
Feb 4 |
Pres Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress |
Feb 4 |
Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup |
Feb 4 |
Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954 |
Feb 5 |
Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time |
Feb 5 |
Soyuz TM-2 launches |
Feb 6 |
No-smoking rules take effect in US federal buildings |
Feb 6 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
Feb 7 |
"Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93 |
Feb 7 |
Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US |
Feb 7 |
Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1 |
Feb 7 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
Feb 8 |
37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle |
Feb 8 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
Feb 9 |
Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide |
Feb 9 |
NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club |
Feb 10 |
Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre |
Feb 11 |
British Airways begins trading stocks |
Feb 11 |
England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
Feb 11 |
Philippines constitution goes into effect |
Feb 11 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 12 |
Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages |
Feb 13 |
Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator |
Feb 14 |
53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit |
Feb 15 |
ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series |
Feb 15 |
Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92) |
Feb 15 |
Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater |
Feb 15 |
Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot |
Feb 16 |
John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins |
Feb 17 |
Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year) |
Feb 17 |
Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA |
Feb 19 |
"Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances |
Feb 19 |
Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner |
Feb 19 |
Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires |
Feb 19 |
Minnisota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson |
Feb 19 |
US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland |
Feb 20 |
Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City |
Feb 20 |
David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years |
Feb 21 |
Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
Feb 21 |
Syrian army marches into Beirut |
Feb 22 |
Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec) |
Feb 23 |
Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals, due to brain tumor |
Feb 23 |
Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member |
Feb 23 |
Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604 |
Feb 24 |
29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins |
Feb 24 |
LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point |
Feb 24 |
Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack |
Feb 25 |
LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse |
Feb 25 |
US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action |
Feb 26 |
1st release of Beatles compact discs |
Feb 26 |
NASA launches GEOS-H |
Feb 26 |
NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record |
Feb 26 |
Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair |
Feb 26 |
USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 26 |
Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record |
Feb 27 |
"Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS |
Feb 27 |
Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff |
Feb 27 |
Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m) |
Feb 27 |
NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption |
Mar 1 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Mar 3 |
Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame |
Mar 6 |
6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100 |
Mar 6 |
Belgium ferry boat "Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes/sinks; 192 die |
Mar 7 |
Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs |
Mar 7 |
Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 8 |
17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425 |
Mar 8 |
David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust |
Mar 8 |
FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in Calif |
Mar 8 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic |
Mar 8 |
Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor |
Mar 8 |
"A Team" last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years |
Mar 9 |
Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion |
Mar 10 |
Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer |
Mar 11 |
Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point |
Mar 12 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs |
Mar 12 |
David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game |
Mar 12 |
Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North |
Mar 12 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS) |
Mar 12 |
Men's Fig Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN) |
Mar 12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 13 |
Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS) |
Mar 13 |
John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering |
Mar 13 |
Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs |
Mar 14 |
Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87 |
Mar 14 |
Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m |
Mar 14 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt |
Mar 14 |
NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl |
Mar 14 |
13th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV) |
Mar 15 |
"Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances |
Mar 15 |
"Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances |
Mar 15 |
Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner |
Mar 15 |
NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket |
Mar 15 |
US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay |
Mar 17 |
IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 |
Mar 17 |
Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak |
Mar 18 |
Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns (Jessica & Matthew) |
Mar 18 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 19 |
Bonnie Blair skates ladies' world record 500 m (39.43 sec) |
Mar 19 |
Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company |
Mar 19 |
Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago |
Mar 19 |
PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn |
Mar 19 |
Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85) |
Mar 20 |
FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment) |
Mar 20 |
NASA launches Palapa B2P |
Mar 20 |
Soap opera "Capitol" final episode |
Mar 20 |
Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit |
Mar 20 |
Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies' world record 5 km (7:20.36) |
Mar 21 |
PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million) |
Mar 22 |
Betsy King wins LPGA Circle K Tucson Golf Open |
Mar 23 |
Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres |
Mar 23 |
US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf |
Mar 23 |
West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns |
Mar 24 |
1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win |
Mar 24 |
WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria |
Mar 25 |
Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified |
Mar 26 |
August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in NYC |
Mar 26 |
Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy |
Mar 26 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit |
Mar 26 |
Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet) |
Mar 27 |
President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad |
Mar 28 |
Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway |
Mar 29 |
6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44 |
Mar 29 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic |
Mar 29 |
Wrestlemania III-93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant |
Mar 29 |
Yitzhak Shamir re-elected chairman of right wing Herut Party |
Mar 29 |
7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins |
Mar 30 |
59th Academy Awards - "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win |
Mar 30 |
Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million) |
Mar 31 |
49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73 |
Apr 2 |
"Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances |
Apr 2 |
Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation |
Apr 2 |
IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2 |
Apr 3 |
Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega |
Apr 3 |
Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers |
Apr 3 |
Duchess of Windsor's jewels auctioned for £31,380,197 |
Apr 3 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 4 |
Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts |
Apr 5 |
16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King |
Apr 5 |
Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman |
Apr 5 |
Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title |
Apr 6 |
22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr |
Apr 6 |
Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler |
Apr 6 |
Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy |
Apr 7 |
National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC |
Apr 7 |
Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline" |
Apr 9 |
For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 points (1 goal, 6 assists) in a Stanley Cup game and passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ |
Apr 11 |
Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals |
Apr 11 |
Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39) |
Apr 12 |
51st Golf Masters Championship: Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285 |
Apr 12 |
Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55) |
Apr 12 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic |
Apr 12 |
Texaco files for bankruptcy |
Apr 13 |
1st 3 SD Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason |
Apr 13 |
Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999) |
Apr 14 |
Turkey asks to join European market |
Apr 15 |
"Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 perfs |
Apr 15 |
Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" premieres in NYC |
Apr 16 |
August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama |
Apr 16 |
FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves |
Apr 16 |
Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC |
Apr 16 |
Michael Jordon becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season |
Apr 16 |
Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
Apr 16 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences" |
Apr 16 |
British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged with gross indecency. |
Apr 17 |
Julius Erving becomes 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points |
Apr 17 |
Richard Wilbur appointed as US poet laureate |
Apr 17 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 18 |
An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air |
Apr 18 |
Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race |
Apr 18 |
Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run (vs Robinson-Pirates) |
Apr 18 |
Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph) |
Apr 19 |
Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka v NZ) |
Apr 19 |
Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight AL win |
Apr 19 |
Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver |
Apr 19 |
Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph) |
Apr 19 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open |
Apr 19 |
LA Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record |
Apr 19 |
Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve |
Apr 19 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Apr 20 |
16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21 |
Apr 20 |
91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50 |
Apr 20 |
Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead |
Apr 20 |
US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes |
Apr 21 |
Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games |
Apr 21 |
Dow Jones Average soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history |
Apr 21 |
Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season |
Apr 21 |
Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka) |
Apr 21 |
Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed |
Apr 22 |
Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed |
Apr 23 |
28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct |
Apr 23 |
NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY |
Apr 24 |
Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC |
Apr 26 |
"Barbara Cook: A Concert" closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 perfs |
Apr 27 |
US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II |
Apr 28 |
NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami Fla in 1988 & Minneapolis Minn & Orlando Fla in 1989 |
Apr 28 |
American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. |
Apr 29 |
Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle |
Apr 29 |
Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US |
Apr 30 |
Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President |
Apr 30 |
NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game |
May 1 |
46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games |
May 1 |
Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun |
May 2 |
113th Kentucky Derby: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 2:03.4 |
May 3 |
"Mikado" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 46 performances |
May 3 |
Cindy Hill wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
May 3 |
Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart |
May 5 |
Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings |
May 5 |
Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East |
May 5 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
May 6 |
Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice |
May 6 |
Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH |
May 6 |
Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes |
May 6 |
PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God |
May 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 7 |
105°F in Sacramento, CA |
May 7 |
Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers |
May 8 |
Gary Hart quits US democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair) |
May 8 |
The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kill 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern Ireland. |
May 9 |
183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw |
May 9 |
Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games |
May 10 |
Jody Rosentha wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
May 11 |
1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore) |
May 13 |
Ajax wins 27th Europe Cup II |
May 14 |
"Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany |
May 14 |
Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000 |
May 15 |
1st Energiya Launch (USSR) |
May 15 |
Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set |
May 16 |
"Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 perfs |
May 16 |
113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8 |
May 16 |
Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show |
May 16 |
"Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site |
May 17 |
"Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances |
May 17 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic |
May 17 |
USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die |
May 19 |
1st American Comedy Award |
May 20 |
Gutenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee |
May 20 |
Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF & Harley Race for trademark name "king" |
May 21 |
Military coup in Fiji Islands under lt col Sitivani Rabuka |
May 21 |
Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama |
May 22 |
30 killed in a Texas tornado |
May 24 |
33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes |
May 24 |
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500 |
May 26 |
Cecilia Bolocco, 22, of Chile, crowned 36th Miss Universe |
May 26 |
Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka |
May 26 |
US Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail |
May 26 |
William H Webster replaces Robert M Gates as 14th director of CIA |
May 27 |
Jim & Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal |
May 27 |
Postage wins 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna |
May 27 |
Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher to make 700th start (Young & Sutton) |
May 28 |
60th National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci |
May 28 |
Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR |
May 28 |
Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot |
May 28 |
Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta |
May 28 |
Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn |
May 28 |
Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed |
May 29 |
"Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor |
May 29 |
Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains |
May 29 |
Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games |
May 30 |
Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 30 |
North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video |
May 30 |
Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 30 |
West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square |
May 31 |
Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 31 |
Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska |
May 31 |
Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 3 |
Jun 1 |
Phil Niekro 314th combines with Joe to have most wins by bros (530) |
Jun 2 |
Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1 |
Jun 3 |
"Little Shop of Horrors" released in France |
Jun 3 |
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure" released in France |
Jun 3 |
Cubs & Astro tie Oriole & Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game |
Jun 4 |
Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins |
Jun 5 |
"Nightline" presents its 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM |
Jun 5 |
Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation & allows wins game |
Jun 6 |
119th Belmont: Craig Perret aboard Bet Twice wins in 2:28.2 |
Jun 6 |
57th French Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (6-4 4-6 8-6) |
Jun 6 |
NY Yankees play their 13,000th game |
Jun 7 |
41st Tony Awards: Fences & Les Miserables win |
Jun 7 |
57th French Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76) |
Jun 7 |
Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header |
Jun 7 |
Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship |
Jun 8 |
21st Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis |
Jun 8 |
Oliver North's secretary Fawn Hall tesifies at Iran-Contra hearing |
Jun 8 |
New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power |
Jun 10 |
Discovery's SRBs & External Tank are mated |
Jun 11 |
Margaret Thatcher is 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd consecutive term |
Jun 12 |
Central Afr Rep ex-emperor Jean-Bédell Bokassa sentenced to death |
Jun 12 |
US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall |
Jun 13 |
Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina |
Jun 14 |
41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2 |
Jun 14 |
4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor |
Jun 14 |
Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jun 15 |
Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy |
Jun 15 |
Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 16 |
Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens |
Jun 16 |
Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him |
Jun 17 |
With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct. |
Jun 18 |
Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon |
Jun 19 |
ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed |
Jun 19 |
Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer) |
Jun 19 |
Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation |
Jun 19 |
Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia |
Jun 20 |
Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss |
Jun 21 |
87th US Golf Open: Scott Simpson shoots a 277 at Olympic Club in SF |
Jun 21 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 21 |
Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vandenberg AFB |
Jun 21 |
Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant |
Jun 22 |
Tom Seaver retires after 3rd try with NY Mets |
Jun 22 |
The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against South African minerals |
Jun 22 |
A bomb blast in a Johannesburg video-game arcade kills an unborn baby and injures ten people |
Jun 24 |
CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold |
Jun 24 |
Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak |
Jun 25 |
Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim |
Jun 26 |
Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn |
Jun 26 |
Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement |
Jun 27 |
Supreme Court Justice Powell retires |
Jun 27 |
In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed |
Jun 28 |
"Dreamgirls" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 177 performances |
Jun 28 |
Deb Richard wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
Jun 28 |
Don Baylor sets career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 (Pitcher Rick Rhoden) |
Jun 29 |
Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts |
Jun 29 |
Yanks blow 11-4 lead but trailing 14-11 Dave Winfield's 8th inning grand slammer beats Toronto 15-14; Mattingly also grand slams |
Jun 30 |
Emmy 14th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 8th time |
Jun 30 |
Patrik Sjoberg of Sweden set a new world record in high jump |
Jun 30 |
The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie. |
Jul 1 |
Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate |
Jul 1 |
NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio |
Jul 1 |
WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format |
Jul 2 |
Jim Eisenreich's comeback after nervous disorder in 1984 |
Jul 2 |
Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. |
Jul 3 |
2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic |
Jul 3 |
NY Met Darryl Strawberry threatens teammates Wally Backman & Lee Mazzilli for criticizing his play |
Jul 4 |
94th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (7-5 6-3) |
Jul 4 |
Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission |
Jul 4 |
Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so |
Jul 4 |
Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France |
Jul 5 |
101st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Pat Cash beats Ivan Lendl (7-6 6-2 7-5) |
Jul 5 |
As' Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 home runs before All Star break |
Jul 5 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
Jul 6 |
1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India |
Jul 6 |
Pakistan score their 1st innings win over England, at Leeds |
Jul 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Jul 7 |
Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent |
Jul 7 |
Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women |
Jul 7 |
Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing |
Jul 7 |
Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7 |
Jul 8 |
Kitty Dukakis, revealed addiction to amphetamines for 26 years |
Jul 9 |
1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime |
Jul 9 |
Colonel Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence |
Jul 11 |
Heart's "Alone" single goes #1 for 3 weeks |
Jul 11 |
Orioles' Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal |
Jul 12 |
15th du Maurier Golf Classic: Jody Rosenthal |
Jul 12 |
1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel |
Jul 12 |
50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar |
Jul 12 |
8th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player |
Jul 12 |
Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief |
Jul 13 |
Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials |
Jul 14 |
58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad |
Jul 14 |
All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos) |
Jul 14 |
Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million |
Jul 14 |
Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony |
Jul 14 |
Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson |
Jul 14 |
Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
Jul 14 |
Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law |
Jul 15 |
Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence |
Jul 15 |
John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings |
Jul 15 |
State of siege ends in Taiwan |
Jul 16 |
Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
Jul 16 |
Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81) |
Jul 16 |
Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8) |
Jul 17 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo |
Jul 17 |
10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx) |
Jul 17 |
Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8) |
Jul 17 |
Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time |
Jul 17 |
Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations |
Jul 18 |
Molly Yard elected new pres of National Organization for Women |
Jul 18 |
NY Yanks Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 cons games |
Jul 19 |
116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane |
Jul 19 |
Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games |
Jul 19 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
Jul 20 |
Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs |
Jul 21 |
Kristi Addis, of Mississippi, crowned 5th Miss Teen USA |
Jul 22 |
Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome |
Jul 22 |
Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian) |
Jul 22 |
US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf |
Jul 23 |
Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record) |
Jul 23 |
RNI (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM |
Jul 23 |
Red Sox waive Bill Buckner, the goat of last year's World Series |
Jul 23 |
Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39) |
Jul 24 |
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released |
Jul 24 |
USSR performs underground nuclear Test |
Jul 25 |
Sherri Martel beats Fabulous Moolah for WWF Woman's Championship Belt |
Jul 25 |
USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite |
Jul 26 |
Catfish Hunter Billy Williams & Ray Dandridge inducted in Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jul 26 |
Stephen Roche wins Tour de France |
Jul 27 |
John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible", testifies in Israel |
Jul 27 |
Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive |
Jul 27 |
First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc. |
Jul 28 |
42nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Laura Davies |
Jul 28 |
Angel Cordero Jr becomes 4th jockey to win 6,000 races |
Jul 29 |
Ben & Jerry's & Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia |
Jul 30 |
An ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command in Johannesburg South Africa kills 1 person and injures 68 |
Jul 31 |
"Living Daylights" premieres in US |
Jul 31 |
Battle between Iranian pilgrims & Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed |
Jul 31 |
Guns & Roses song "Appetite for Destruction" is released |
Jul 31 |
Oriole Eddie Murray hits his 299th & 300th career home runs |
Jul 31 |
Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle |
Jul 31 |
A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage. |
Aug 1 |
Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada |
Aug 1 |
Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Aug 1 |
Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America |
Aug 1 |
In New Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings. |
Aug 2 |
25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1) |
Aug 2 |
chris johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am |
Aug 2 |
Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man |
Aug 2 |
Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3") |
Aug 2 |
Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season |
Aug 2 |
Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game |
Aug 2 |
Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH) |
Aug 2 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 3 |
Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo) |
Aug 3 |
Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26 |
Aug 3 |
Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose |
Aug 3 |
Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound & is ejected |
Aug 4 |
At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker |
Aug 4 |
FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters |
Aug 7 |
5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala |
Aug 7 |
Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six |
Aug 7 |
Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea |
Aug 8 |
Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game |
Aug 8 |
Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait |
Aug 8 |
Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217 |
Aug 9 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv |
Aug 9 |
69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA Natl Palm Beach |
Aug 9 |
LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo) |
Aug 9 |
Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic |
Aug 9 |
The National Union of Mineworkers begin South Africa's longest wage strike |
Aug 10 |
Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully |
Aug 10 |
Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball |
Aug 11 |
France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
Aug 12 |
Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock |
Aug 13 |
Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning |
Aug 13 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5½" jump |
Aug 14 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary |
Aug 14 |
Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49 |
Aug 15 |
US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball |
Aug 15 |
At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition |
Aug 16 |
Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age |
Aug 16 |
NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9 |
Aug 16 |
Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) |
Aug 16 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am |
Aug 17 |
Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games |
Aug 17 |
Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57) |
Aug 17 |
Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame |
Aug 18 |
Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL |
Aug 18 |
Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24) |
Aug 18 |
Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it |
Aug 18 |
Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47) |
Aug 19 |
Hungerford Massacre: in England, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide. |
Aug 21 |
"Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52) |
Aug 21 |
Clayton Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted |
Aug 21 |
Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91) |
Aug 22 |
Madonna's "Who's That Girl" single goes #1 |
Aug 23 |
15-year old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion |
Aug 23 |
Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic |
Aug 23 |
Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s |
Aug 24 |
Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes |
Aug 25 |
Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42 |
Aug 25 |
Madonna sings in Rotterdam |
Aug 26 |
Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games |
Aug 28 |
Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs |
Aug 29 |
Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time |
Aug 29 |
Portuguese athlete Rosa Mota wins Women's Marathon at World Chapionships in Rome in 2hr 25:17mins |
Aug 30 |
87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair |
Aug 30 |
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship |
Aug 30 |
Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec |
Aug 30 |
Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee |
Aug 30 |
Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10½") |
Aug 30 |
Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57) |
Aug 30 |
Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls |
Aug 31 |
Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385) |
Aug 31 |
Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV |
Aug 31 |
South Africa longest mine strike in history ends |
Sep 1 |
15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match |
Sep 1 |
Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium |
Sep 2 |
Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan |
Sep 2 |
Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season |
Sep 2 |
Philips introduces CD-video |
Sep 2 |
West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia |
Sep 3 |
Coup in Burundi suspends constitution |
Sep 5 |
Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson |
Sep 5 |
John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open |
Sep 6 |
Conjoined twins Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital |
Sep 6 |
Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48) |
Sep 6 |
Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal |
Sep 7 |
Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723 |
Sep 7 |
Netherlands sends 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf |
Sep 7 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 7 |
South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young |
Sep 8 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Sep 9 |
Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife |
Sep 9 |
Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016 |
Sep 9 |
Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59 |
Sep 9 |
Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter |
Sep 11 |
4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins |
Sep 11 |
Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die |
Sep 12 |
101st US Womens Tennis Open: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (7-6 6-1) |
Sep 12 |
Ethiopia adopts constitution |
Sep 12 |
Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year |
Sep 13 |
Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro |
Sep 13 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship |
Sep 13 |
Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours |
Sep 14 |
'Les Miserables' opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest |
Sep 14 |
107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64) |
Sep 14 |
Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken |
Sep 14 |
Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles |
Sep 15 |
Italy sends a naval contingent to the Persian Gulf |
Sep 16 |
Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game |
Sep 16 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-209 |
Sep 16 |
NY's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting |
Sep 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 17 |
Phila celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution |
Sep 18 |
Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs |
Sep 18 |
US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles |
Sep 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 19 |
Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America |
Sep 20 |
"Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1005 perfs |
Sep 20 |
39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis & Sharon Gless win |
Sep 20 |
Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race |
Sep 20 |
Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions |
Sep 20 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
Sep 20 |
Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown |
Sep 21 |
3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf |
Sep 22 |
2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins |
Sep 22 |
Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points |
Sep 22 |
Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85) |
Sep 22 |
NFL players go on strike for 24 days |
Sep 22 |
Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons |
Sep 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 25 |
2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka |
Sep 26 |
Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games |
Sep 27 |
27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 15-13 at Muirfield Village GC (Ohio) |
Sep 27 |
Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic |
Sep 27 |
NFL players' strike |
Sep 27 |
Phil Niekro final appearance & is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings |
Sep 28 |
"Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV |
Sep 28 |
Gladys Knight & Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid" |
Sep 29 |
"Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1 |
Sep 29 |
"thirtysomething" debuts on ABC-TV |
Sep 29 |
8th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Sep 29 |
NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year |
Sep 30 |
Suriname constitution ratified |
Oct 1 |
"Roza" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 12 performances |
Oct 1 |
6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA |
Oct 1 |
Fiji's constitution is suspended |
Oct 1 |
The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9. |
Oct 3 |
Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34 |
Oct 3 |
Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile |
Oct 3 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Oct 4 |
1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players |
Oct 4 |
Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant |
Oct 4 |
James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals) |
Oct 6 |
Military coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic |
Oct 9 |
Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000 |
Oct 10 |
Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love" |
Oct 10 |
Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks |
Oct 10 |
Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game |
Oct 11 |
200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington |
Oct 12 |
21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William Jr wins |
Oct 12 |
George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You" |
Oct 12 |
Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant |
Oct 12 |
Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 13 |
1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf) |
Oct 13 |
Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 13 |
West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka |
Oct 14 |
In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well |
Oct 14 |
St Louis Cards beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS |
Oct 15 |
"Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances |
Oct 15 |
6th Belgium government of Martens falls |
Oct 15 |
Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies |
Oct 15 |
Lanford Wilson's "Burn This" premieres in NYC |
Oct 15 |
NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike |
Oct 15 |
The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. |
Oct 16 |
175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England |
Oct 16 |
338,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record) |
Oct 16 |
Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35) |
Oct 16 |
Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft |
Oct 16 |
Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 16 |
Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people. |
Oct 17 |
"Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances |
Oct 17 |
1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome) |
Oct 17 |
1st Lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy |
Oct 19 |
"Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances |
Oct 19 |
"Black Monday" Dow Jones down 508.32 points (22%), 4½ times previous record |
Oct 19 |
US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf |
Oct 19 |
Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM & Billy Martin is named NY Yankee manager for 5th & final time |
Oct 20 |
10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis |
Oct 20 |
Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record) |
Oct 20 |
Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail |
Oct 21 |
7th Belgium government of Martens forms |
Oct 21 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M Solow |
Oct 21 |
Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination |