Today in History for April 1987

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 71 of 71

2nd - "Mikado" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
2nd - Doc Gooden undergoes cocaine rehabilitation
2nd - IBM introduces PS/2 & OS/2
3rd - Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
3rd - Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers
3rd - Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
3rd - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
4th - Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
5th - 16th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
5th - Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
5th - Wayne Gretzky wins 7th straight NHL scoring title
6th - 22nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr
6th - Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler
6th - Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
7th - National Museum of Female Physician opens in Wash DC
7th - Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on "Nightline"
9th - For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
11th - Yankees score 12 runs in 7th inning vs KC Royals
11th - Zoja Ivanova wins 2nd female World Cup marathon (2:30:39)
NHL all-time top scorer Wayne Gretzky 12th - 51st Golf Masters Championship: Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285
12th - Ahmed Salah wins 2nd World Cup marathon (2:10:55)
12th - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
12th - Texaco files for bankruptcy
13th - 1st 3 SD Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason
13th - Portugal signs agreement to return Macau to China (in 1999)
14th - Turkey asks to join European market
15th - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 perfs
15th - Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy," premieres in NYC
16th - August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama
16th - FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
16th - Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
16th - Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
16th - Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
16th - Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
16th - British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged with gross indecency.
17th - Julius Erving becomes 3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points
17th - Richard Wilbur appointed as US poet laureate
17th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
18th - An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
18th - Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race
18th - Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run (vs Robinson-Pirates)
18th - Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
19th - Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka v NZ)
19th - Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight AL win
19th - Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver
19th - Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)
19th - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open
19th - LA Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record
19th - Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
19th - USSR performs underground nuclear test
20th - 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
20th - 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
20th - Sri Lanka: Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
20th - US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
21st - Brewers lose, ending AL season-opening winning streak at 13 games
21st - Dow Jones Avg soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
21st - Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season
21st - Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka)
21st - Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
22nd - Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
23rd - 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Ct
23rd - NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY
Radio shock jock Howard Stern 24th - Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC
26th - "Barbara Cook: A Concert..." closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 perfs
27th - US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II
28th - NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami Fla in 1988 & Minneapolis Minn & Orlando Fla in 1989
28th - American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
29th - Chicago Cub Andre Dawson hits for cycle
29th - Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US
30th - Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President
30th - NY Islander Mike Bossy plays his final game

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

1st - Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
1st - Li Ting, Chinese diver
3rd - Julie Sokolow, American musician
3rd - Sal Zizzo, American soccer player
3rd - Jay Bruce, American baseball player
4th - Cameron Maybin, American baseball player
4th - Devon Anderson, English actor
4th - Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
6th - Levi Porter, English footballer
7th - Alexa Demara, American model and actress
8th - Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
9th - Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league footballer
9th - Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
10th - Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
11th - Joss Stone, English singer
12th - Brendon Urie, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
13th - Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer
16th - Milton J Cross, NYC, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions of the Air)
16th - Neil Haskell, Finalist of SYTYCD Season 3
Singer Joss Stone (11th) 16th - Aaron Lennon, English footballer
18th - Danny Guthrie, English footballer
18th - Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer
19th - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
19th - Joe Hart, English Under-21 Footballer
19th - Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
19th - Courtland Mead, American actor
20th - John Patrick Amedori, American actor
21st - Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
23rd - Emily Fox, American cupstacking champion
24th - Kristopher Letang, Canadian hockey player
24th - Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer
25th - Johann Smith, American soccer player
26th - Jessica Lee Rose, American-born New Zealand actress, famous YouTube star lonelygirl15
27th - William Moseley, British actor
Tennis Player Maria Sharapova (19th) 27th - Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
27th - Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
29th - Alicia Morton, American actress
30th - Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer
30th - Rohit Sharma, Indian Cricketer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 23 of 23

2nd - Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at 69
3rd - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
4th - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76
4th - C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
7th - Maxine Sullivan, [Williams], US actress (Going Places), dies at 75
8th - Francis C Denebrink, US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea) dies at 90
11th - Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83
11th - Kent Taylor, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders), dies at 79
11th - Primo Levi, Italy, chemist/writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
12th - Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security) dies at 90
12th - Mike Von Erich, American wrestler
14th - Karl Holler, composer, dies at 79
17th - Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at 36
17th - Dick Shawn, comedian (Producers), dies on stage at 57
17th - Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901)
19th - Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 77
19th - Maxwell D Taylor, US commander 101st airborne (WW II), dies at 85
20th - Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater) dies at 78
21st - Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore), dies at 77
Jazz Drummer/Band Leader Buddy Rich (2nd) 26th - John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
26th - Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
28th - Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua
30th - Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies