Today in History for Year 1987

Months in Year 1987: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 787

Jan 1st - 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
Jan 1st - China's rudimentary civil code in effect
Jan 1st - International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
Jan 2nd - Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
Jan 2nd - Troops of Chad President Habré conquer Fada oasis
Jan 3rd - "Oh Coward!" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
Jan 3rd - "Smile" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances
Jan 3rd - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
Jan 4th - 16 die in a train crash in Chase Md
Jan 5th - Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
Jan 6th - 100th US Congress convenes
Jan 6th - Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
Jan 7th - French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
Jan 7th - Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest
Jan 8th - Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)
Jan 8th - Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
Jan 9th - Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
Jan 9th - New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
Jan 11th - Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0)
Earl of Wessex Prince Edward Jan 12th - Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
Jan 13th - 7 top NY Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
Jan 13th - W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
Jan 14th - Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 17th - Pres Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
Jan 18th - 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
Jan 19th - Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
Jan 20th - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon
Jan 20th - Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera & Beaters' "At This Moment"
Jan 21st - BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi
Jan 22nd - Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5
Jan 22nd - 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 23rd - Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
Jan 23rd - Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
Jan 24th - 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
Jan 25th - 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)
Jan 25th - Superbowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB
Singer Whitney Houston Jan 26th - 14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama
Jan 26th - Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
Jan 27th - Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
Jan 28th - US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
Jan 28th - Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
Jan 29th - Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry
Jan 29th - William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
Jan 31st - 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win
Jan 31st - United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp
Feb 1st - 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
Feb 1st - 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
Feb 1st - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
Feb 1st - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6
Feb 2nd - KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
Feb 2nd - Philippines adopts constitution
Deaf Actress Marlee Matlin Feb 3rd - Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
Feb 3rd - SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
Feb 4th - Pres Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
Feb 4th - Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
Feb 4th - Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
Feb 5th - Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
Feb 5th - Soyuz TM-2 launches
Feb 6th - No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
Feb 6th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
Feb 7th - "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
Feb 7th - Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US
Feb 7th - Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1
Feb 7th - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
Feb 8th - 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
Feb 8th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
Pop Star Madonna Feb 9th - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
Feb 9th - NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
Feb 10th - Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
Feb 11th - British Airways begins trading stocks
Feb 11th - England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup
Feb 11th - Philippines constitution goes into effect
Feb 11th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 12th - Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
Feb 13th - Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
Feb 14th - 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
Feb 15th - ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
Feb 15th - Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
Feb 15th - Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
Feb 15th - Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
Feb 16th - John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
Feb 17th - Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
Feb 17th - Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
Feb 19th - "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
Feb 19th - Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
Feb 19th - Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
Feb 19th - Minn sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson
Feb 19th - Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
Feb 20th - Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
Feb 20th - David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years
Feb 21st - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
Feb 21st - Syrian army marches into Beirut
Feb 22nd - Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
Feb 23rd - Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals, due to brain tumor
Feb 23rd - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
Feb 23rd - Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
Feb 24th - 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins
Feb 24th - LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
Feb 24th - Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
Feb 25th - LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 320

Jan 1st - Gilbert Brule, Canadian professional hockey player
Jan 1st - Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
Jan 1st - Devin Setoguchi, Canadian professional hockey player
Jan 2nd - Loui Batley, British actress
Jan 2nd - Syesha Mercado, American singer
Jan 5th - Kristin Cavallari, American actress
Jan 9th - Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian and Liverpool Footballer
Jan 9th - Sam Bird, English racing driver
Jan 9th - Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
Jan 9th - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
Jan 11th - Scotty Cranmer, American professional BMX rider
Jan 12th - Andrew Lawrence, Phila, actor (Andy Roman-Brotherly Love)
Jan 12th - Naya Rivera, actress (Cindy-Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
Jan 12th - Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer
Jan 12th - Will Rothhaar, American actor
Jan 15th - Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
Jan 15th - Aria C Jalali, American musician
Jan 15th - David Knight, English footballer
Jan 15th - Michael Seater, Canadian actor
Jan 16th - Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model
Jan 19th - Edgar Manucharyan, Armenian footballer
Jan 21st - Joe Ledley, Welsh footballer
Jan 22nd - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
Jan 23rd - Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer
Jan 25th - Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
Jan 26th - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
Jan 27th - Lily Donaldson, British model
Jan 27th - Katy Rose, American pop singer
Jan 29th - Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
Jan 29th - Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
Jan 30th - Rebecca Knox, Irish professional wrestler
Feb 1st - Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
Feb 2nd - Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player
Feb 2nd - Martin Spanjers, American actor
Feb 4th - Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
Feb 8th - Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
Feb 9th - Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
Feb 9th - Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer
Feb 10th - Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior)
Feb 14th - Joseph Pichler, American actor
Feb 14th - Julia Savicheva, Russian singer
Feb 14th - David Wheater, English footballer
Feb 16th - Theresa Goh, Singaporean Paralympic swimmer
Feb 21st - Ellen Page, Canadian actress
Feb 21st - Burgess Abernethy, Australian Actor
Feb 21st - Ashley Greene, American model and actress
Feb 24th - Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
Feb 24th - Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
Feb 24th - Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
Feb 25th - Eva Avila, Canadian singer
Feb 26th - Juliet Simms, Guitarist and vocals for the band Automatic Loveletter
Feb 28th - Kerrea Gilbert, English footballer
Mar 1st - Sammie Bush, Boyton Beach Florida, American R&B singer ("I Like It")
Mar 4th - Cameron Wood, Australian rules footballer
Mar 5th - Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
Mar 6th - Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
Mar 9th - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
Mar 11th - Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
Mar 11th - Tomethy Furse, British bassist (The Horrors)
Mar 12th - Chris Seitz, American footballer
Racing Car Driver Mario Andretti (Mar 13th) Mar 13th - Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti)
Mar 15th - Taiwan Brown, video jockey
Mar 16th - Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
Mar 18th - Mauro Zárate, Argentinian Footballer
Mar 18th - Gabriel Mercado, Argentinian Footballer
Mar 18th - Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer
Mar 19th - Michal Švec, Czech footballer
Mar 20th - Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player
Mar 20th - Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer
Mar 20th - Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
Mar 20th - Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player
Mar 20th - Jô, Brazilian footballer
Mar 20th - Rollo Weeks, English actor
Mar 25th - Jason Castro, American Idol contestant
Mar 25th - Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
Mar 26th - Yui, Japanese musician
Mar 27th - Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
Mar 29th - 7th Golden Raspberry Awards: Howard the Duck wins
Mar 31st - "Baby M" born to a surrogate mother, awarded to her dad William Stern
Mar 31st - Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
Apr 1st - Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
Apr 1st - Li Ting, Chinese diver
Apr 3rd - Julie Sokolow, American musician
Apr 3rd - Sal Zizzo, American soccer player
Apr 3rd - Jay Bruce, American baseball player
Apr 4th - Cameron Maybin, American baseball player
Apr 4th - Devon Anderson, English actor
Apr 4th - Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
Apr 6th - Levi Porter, English footballer
Apr 7th - Alexa Demara, American model and actress
Apr 8th - Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
Apr 9th - Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league footballer
Apr 9th - Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
Apr 10th - Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
Singer Joss Stone (Apr 11th) Apr 11th - Joss Stone, English singer
Apr 12th - Brendon Urie, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
Apr 13th - Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer
Apr 16th - Milton J Cross, NYC, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions of the Air)
Apr 16th - Neil Haskell, Finalist of SYTYCD Season 3
Apr 16th - Aaron Lennon, English footballer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 13 of 12

Jan 3rd - Singer/Miss America Vanessa Williams marries Ramon T Hervey in NYC
Jan 9th - Sir Rudolph Bing (of NY Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
Mar 1st - "The Last Picture Show" actress Cybill Shepherd (37) weds Dr. Bruce Oppenheim (38) in San Fernando Valley
May 9th - Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
May 16th - Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
Jun 20th - Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
Jul 7th - "The Bold and the Beautiful" actress Hunter Tylo (25) weds actor Michael Tylo (38)
Aug 1st - Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
Aug 7th - "Magnum, P.I." actor Tom Selleck (42) weds actress and dancer Jillie Mack (29) in Incline Village, Nevada
Nov 16th - Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz
Nov 21st - Actress Demi Moore weds actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
Nov 21st - Actress Demi Moore weds actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
Dec 18th - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 337

Jan 1st - Gustav Knuth, actor (Heidi, Rats), dies at 85
Jan 4th - F van Heek, Dutch sociologist, dies at 79
Jan 4th - Jack Martin, cricketer (Eng pace bowler, 1-111 & 0-18 in Test), dies
Jan 4th - Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91
Jan 5th - Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60
Jan 5th - Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (b. 1875)
Jan 7th - Larry Carr, pianist (Flight to Rhythm), dies at 72
Jan 8th - P G Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), dies
Jan 8th - Peter Adams, actor (Alternative, Blowing Hot & Cold), dies at 69
Jan 9th - Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
Jan 9th - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
Jan 10th - Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
Jan 10th - Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)
Jan 11th - Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist (b. 1911)
Jan 13th - E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/co-founder (Trouw, Loyal), dies
Jan 14th - Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86
Jan 15th - Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
Jan 15th - Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
Jan 15th - Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
Jan 16th - Earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79
Jan 16th - Ilse Langen, writer, dies at 87
Jan 16th - Joyce Jameson, comedienne (Spike Jones Show), dies at 54
Jan 16th - Bertram Wainer, Australian pro-abortion campaigner (b. 1928)
Jan 17th - Hugo Fregonese, Argentine film director (b. 1908)
Jan 19th - Gerald Brenan, English writer, dies at 92
Jan 20th - Tom Dollery, cricketer (4 Tests for Eng 1947-50), dies
Jan 21st - Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83
Jan 21st - Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
Jan 22nd - R Budd Dwyer, Penns State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference
Jan 25th - Emil Hlobil, composer, dies at 85
Jan 29th - Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer, dies at 73
Jan 30th - Angelo Rutherford, actor (Willie-Gentle Ben), dies at 32
Jan 30th - Ken Drake, actor (Crime & Punishment USA), dies
Jan 31st - Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
Feb 1st - Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82
Feb 1st - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (b. 1900)
Feb 2nd - Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78
Feb 2nd - Patrick "Spike" Hughes, Brit jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78
Feb 2nd - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
Feb 2nd - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
Feb 4th - Liberace, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman), dies at 67
Feb 4th - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
Feb 8th - Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies
Feb 8th - Harriet MacGibbon, actress (Mrs Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies
Feb 8th - Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74
Feb 10th - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
Feb 11th - Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930)
Feb 12th - Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55
Feb 13th - M L "Curly" Page, cricketer (NZ Test capt 1933), dies
Feb 14th - Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63
Feb 14th - Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
Feb 14th - Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
Feb 15th - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42
Feb 15th - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57
Feb 16th - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
Feb 17th - Hal K Dawson, actor (Another Language, Wells Fargo), dies
Feb 17th - Verree Teasdale, actress (Skyscraper Souls), dies
Feb 20th - Ivan Brkanovic, composer, dies at 80
Pop Artist Andy Warhol (Feb 22nd) Feb 22nd - Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58
Feb 22nd - David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66
Feb 22nd - Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
Feb 23rd - Esmond Knight, actor (Black Narcissus, Henry V), dies at 80
Feb 24th - Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940)
Feb 25th - James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings), dies at 58
Feb 27th - Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65
Feb 28th - Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83
Feb 28th - Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67
Mar 2nd - Randolph Scott, actor (Fort Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), dies at 89
Mar 3rd - Danny Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74
Mar 11th - [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74
Mar 13th - Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77
Mar 13th - Finn Videro, composer, dies at 80
Mar 13th - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
Mar 15th - Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82
Mar 16th - Scott McKay, actor (Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies at 71
Mar 17th - Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (b. 1914)
Mar 18th - Bil Baird, puppeteer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 82
Mar 19th - Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out), dies at 77
Mar 19th - Emile Meyer, actor (Young Jesse James, Lineup), dies
Mar 19th - Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
Mar 19th - Tony Stratton-Smith, journalist/record co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
Mar 20th - Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
Mar 21st - Dean Paul Martin, actor (Billy-Misfits of Science), dies at 35
Mar 21st - Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68
Mar 22nd - Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott & Costello Show), dies at 58
Mar 23rd - Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29
Mar 25th - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
Mar 26th - Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88
Mar 26th - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
Mar 27th - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
Mar 28th - Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82
Mar 28th - Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56
Jazz Drummer/Band Leader Buddy Rich (Apr 2nd) Apr 2nd - Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at 69
Apr 3rd - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
Apr 4th - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76
Apr 4th - C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
Apr 7th - Maxine Sullivan, [Williams], US actress (Going Places), dies at 75
Apr 8th - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90
Apr 11th - Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
Apr 11th - Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79