Today in History for October 1987

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 70 of 70

1st - "Roza" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 12 performances
1st - 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1st - Fiji's constitution is suspended
1st - The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.
3rd - Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34
3rd - Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
3rd - USSR performs underground nuclear test
4th - 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
4th - Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
4th - James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals)
6th - Milt coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
9th - Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000
10th - Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"
10th - Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
10th - Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game
11th - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
12th - 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William Jr wins
12th - George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"
12th - Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant
12th - Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
13th - 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
13th - Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
13th - West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka
14th - In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well
14th - St Louis Cards beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS
15th - "Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances
15th - 6th Belgium government of Martens falls
15th - Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies
15th - Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in NYC
15th - NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike
15th - The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
16th - 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England
16th - 338,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)
16th - Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
16th - Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 16th - Mike Tyson TKOs Tyrell Biggs in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
16th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
16th - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
17th - "Late Nite Comic" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances
17th - 1st indoor World Series game (Minnesota Metrodome)
17th - 1st lady Nancy Reagan undergoes a modified radical mastectomy
19th - "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances
19th - "Black Monday" Dow Jones down 508.32 points, 4½ times previous record
19th - Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record)
19th - US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
19th - Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM & Billy Martin is named NY Yankee manager for 5th & final time
20th - 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
20th - Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record)
20th - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
21st - 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
21st - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M Solow
21st - Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination
22nd - "Cabaret" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 262 performances
22nd - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
23rd - Dutch government gives Fokker's Aircraft Ÿ212 million credit
23rd - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
23rd - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
24th - Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
24th - NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
25th - Minnesota Twins win their 1st World Series championship beating St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series
26th - Dow Jones down 156.83 points
26th - Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
27th - Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
27th - Peter Shaffer's "Lettice & Lovage," premieres in London
27th - South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
29th - "Don't Get God Started" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 86 perfs
29th - Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented 4th different weight boxing title
30th - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
31st - 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont)
31st - A pair in Coventry, England ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 26 of 26

1st - Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor, singer
2nd - Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
3rd - Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe
4th - Michael Roman, actor (Al-One Life to Live)
4th - Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
5th - Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
5th - Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver
7th - Jeremy Brockie, Australian footballer
8th - Aya Hirano, Japanese Seiyuu
11th - Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
15th - Jesse Levine, American tennis player
17th - Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
17th - Bea Alonzo, Filipina actress
18th - Zac Efron, TV actor, born in San Luis Obispo, California, USA (CSI: Miami, ER)
18th - Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
22nd - Jake Richardson, English footballer
23rd - Faye Hamlin, Swedish singer (Play)
24th - Charlie White, American ice dancer
24th - Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
24th - Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
25th - Darron Gibson, Irish football player
25th - Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast and Olympic medallist
27th - Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
27th - Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (Disputed)
29th - Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
30th - Junaid Siddique, Bangladeshi cricketer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 27 of 27

2nd - Madeleine Carroll, actress (39 Steps, Secret Agent), dies at 81
2nd - Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies
3rd - Jean Anouilh, French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), dies at 77
9th - Clare A Booth Luce, US diplomat/journalist, dies at 84
9th - Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (b. 1908)
12th - Alfred M Landon, former Kansas Gov, dies at his Topeka home at 100
12th - Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67), dies at 77
13th - Walter H Brattain, US physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85
13th - Kishore Kumar, Indian Singer (b.1929)
14th - Rodolfo Halffter, composer, dies at 86
15th - Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies
16th - Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures), dies at 75
17th - Abdul Malek Ukil,Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
18th - Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83
19th - Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies at 42
19th - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
20th - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
21st - Ying-Chin Ho, Taiwan government official, dies at 88
22nd - Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68
24th - Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86
25th - Cecil Brown, news correspondent (CBS), dies at 80
27th - Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47 72, 1st-class avg 71), dies
28th - Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91
28th - Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer, dies at 74
29th - Kamal El Mallakh, dies at 57
29th - Woody Herman, bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds), dies at 74
31st - Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83