Today in History for December 1987

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 54 of 54

1st - Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
2nd - Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
2nd - Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colo becomes Miss Teen of America [Approx]
2nd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
2nd - "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend NJ Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
4th - Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
5th - 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)
5th - David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 v NZ at Brisbane
5th - Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76)
6th - 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
6th - Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
6th - Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
7th - 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
7th - Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
7th - Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank
8th - Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
8th - Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
8th - Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
8th - President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
8th - The Alianza Lima air disaster.
NBA Legend Larry Bird 9th - Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
9th - Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
10th - "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
11th - Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
12th - Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
12th - Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
12th - Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
13th - Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
13th - Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
13th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
14th - Allan Border scores 205 v NZ to become Australia's top rungetter
14th - Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
15th - "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
16th - Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea
17th - Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
18th - Ivan F Boesky sentenced to 3 years for insider trading
19th - Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
19th - Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ
20th - "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres
20th - 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
20th - Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
20th - Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
21st - 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
21st - Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
21st - Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched
22nd - Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
38th US President Gerald R Ford 23rd - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of Pres Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison
25th - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
26th - "Les Miserables" opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
27th - Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass
27th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
28th - In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 2, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover Ark
30th - Australia hang on for draw v NZ at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short
30th - Premier Mugabe elected president of Zimbabwe

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 20 of 20

2nd - Teairra Mari, American R&B singer
3rd - Alicia Sacramone, American Gymnast
3rd - Michael Angarano, American actor
7th - Aaron Carter, American singer and actor
7th - Baran Kosari, Iranian actress
10th - Gonzalo Higuaín, French-born Argentine footballer
11th - Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan singer and dancer
16th - Hallee Hirsh, American actress
18th - Miki Andō, Japanese figure skater
18th - Ayaka, Japanese singer
18th - Fernando Jara, Panamanian-American jockey
19th - Karim Benzema, French footballer
19th - Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
20th - Tariel Zintiridis, Greek judoka
21st - Valerie Concepcion, Filipino Actress
26th - Adam Walker, British flautist
28th - Thomas Dekker, American actor
30th - Jake Cuenca, Filipino actor and commercial model
31st - Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
31st - Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

18th - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 29 of 29

1st - Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57
1st - James Arthur Baldwin, writer (Another Country), dies at 63
1st - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
2nd - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914)
4th - Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
5th - "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38
6th - James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies
10th - Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86
11th - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
12th - Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83
12th - Enrique Jorrín, Cuban musician and composer (b. 1926)
14th - Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies
16th - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79
17th - Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87
17th - Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
17th - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
18th - Conny Plank, German record producer and musician (b. 1940)
21st - Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies
21st - John Spence, founding No Doubt member (b. 1969)
22nd - Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies
22nd - Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82
24th - John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68
24th - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
24th - M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
27th - Priscilla Dean, actress (Outside the Law), dies of injuries at 91
27th - Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
27th - Geoffrey D Lloyd, Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (b. 1933)
28th - Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81
31st - [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60