Today in History for August 1987

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 73 of 73

1st - Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
1st - Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1st - Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
2nd - 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
2nd - Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
2nd - Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
2nd - Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
2nd - Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season
2nd - Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
2nd - Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
2nd - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
3rd - Chicago Bears beat Dallas Cowboys 17-6 in London, England (NFL expo)
3rd - Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
3rd - Jack Morris ties AL record with 5 wild pitches in a 4-2 lose
3rd - Twins Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound & is ejected
4th - At the Kingdome, Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in speaker
4th - FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
7th - 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
7th - Javed Miandad scores 260 v England at The Oval, 28 fours 1 six
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 7th - Lynne Cox swims 4.3 km from US to USSR in 39°F (4°C) Bering Sea
8th - Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
8th - Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
8th - Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217
9th - "Les Miserables," opens at Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv
9th - 69th PGA Championship: Larry Nelson shoots 287 at PGA Natl Palm Beach
9th - LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)
9th - Mary Beth wins LPGA Henredon Golf Classic
10th - Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
10th - Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
11th - France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
12th - Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
13th - Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning
13th - Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5½" jump
14th - "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Szeged Hungary
14th - Oakland's Mark McGwire sets rookie HR record at 39, en route to 49
15th - US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball
15th - 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
16th - Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
16th - NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9
16th - Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
16th - Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am
17th - Bunt single gives Paul Molitor longest hit streak of 1980s at 32 games
17th - Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)
17th - Mohammad Ali elected to "Ring" magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame
18th - Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
18th - Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
18th - Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
18th - Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach/Astrid Strauss/Anke Mohring/ Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
19th - Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
21st - "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
21st - Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
21st - Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)
Pop Star Madonna 22nd - Madonna's "Who's That Girl," single goes #1
23rd - 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
23rd - Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
23rd - Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
24th - Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
25th - Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
25th - Madonna sings in Rotterdam
26th - Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games
28th - Mike Schmidt passes Ted Williams & Willie McCovey with 522 HRs
29th - Nolan Ryan passes the 200-strikeout barrier for record 11th time
29th - Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17)
30th - 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
30th - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
30th - Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100 m in world record 9.83 sec
30th - Kirby Puckett goes 6-for-6 with 2 HRs in Minn 10-6 win over Milwaukee
30th - Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record (6'10½")
30th - Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)
30th - Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
31st - Curtis Strange sets golf's earning for year record ($697,385)
31st - Michael Jacskon's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV
31st - South Africa longest mine strike in history ends

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 26 of 26

1st - Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
3rd - Brooklyn Decker, American fashion model
5th - Genelia D'Souza, Indian actress
5th - Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Swiss model
7th - Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
8th - Katie Leung, Scottish actress
11th - Nkem Ojougboh, American basketball player
14th - Tim Tebow, American football player
16th - Kyal Marsh, Australian actor
18th - Mika Boorem, American actress
19th - Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
19th - Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
19th - Richard Stearman, English footballer
20th - Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
21st - Kim Kibum, one of the member of Korean boy band Super junior. actor and singer
23rd - Nikki Gil, Filipina actress, host and singer
24th - Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player
24th - Jon Scheyer, American basketball player
25th - Stacey Farber, Canadian actress
25th - Blake Lively, American actress
25th - James Wesolowski, Australian footballer
25th - Liu Yifei, Chinese actress and singer
25th - Justin Upton, American baseball player
27th - Darren McFadden, American football player
29th - Tony Kane, Irish footballer
31st - Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

1st - Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart
7th - "Magnum, P.I." actor Tom Selleck (42) weds actress and dancer Jillie Mack (29) in Incline Village, Nevada

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 31 of 31

1st - Benson Fong, actress (Charlie Chan, Purple Heart), dies at 70
1st - Pola Negri, actress (Forbidden Paradise), dies at 92
2nd - Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79
4th - Kenny Price, comedian (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw), dies at 56
5th - Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79
6th - Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91
6th - Sherwood Bailey, actor (Spud-Our Gang), dies
7th - Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon, dies at 87
7th - Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60), dies at 90
8th - Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (b. 1903)
9th - Kees de Galan, Dutch economist, dies at 55
10th - Calvin Culver, actor (Score), dies
10th - Clara Peller, actress (Where's the Beef), dies at 86
10th - I W Able, CEO (United Steel Workers of America, 1965-77), dies at 87
10th - Raquel Torres, actress (Duck Soup, Sea Bat), dies
11th - Clara Peller, commercial spokesperson (Wendy's), dies at 86
13th - Vincent Persichetti, US composer (Sibyl), dies at 72
17th - Charles Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet, dies at 84
17th - Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93
17th - Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (b. 1929)
19th - Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker), dies
21st - Karl Bruck, entertainer, dies
23rd - Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80
23rd - Didier Pironi, French racing car driver (b. 1952)
24th - Bayard Rustin, US civil rights activist, dies at 77
24th - Malcolm Kirk, English wrestler (b. 1936)
26th - John Goddard, cricketer (West Indian captain 1948-53), dies
27th - Scott La Rock, American DJ (Boogie Down Productions) (b. 1962)
28th - John Huston, US/Irish actor/director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81
Actor Lee Marvin (29th) 29th - Lee Marvin, actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park), dies in Tucson Ariz at 63
29th - Archie Campbell, American country music comedian (b. 1914)