Today in History for September 1987

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 68 of 68

1st - 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win US Tennis Open match
1st - Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium
2nd - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
2nd - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
2nd - Philips introduces CD-video
2nd - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
3rd - Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
5th - Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson
5th - John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at US Tennis Open
6th - Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital
6th - Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
6th - Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
7th - Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723
7th - Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
7th - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
7th - South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young
8th - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
9th - Gary Hart admits on "Nightline," to cheating on his wife
9th - Largest US Tennis Open single night session (total) 21,016
NBA Legend Larry Bird 9th - Larry Bird (Celtics), begins NBA free throw streak of 59
9th - Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
11th - 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins
11th - Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die
12th - 101st US Womens Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Steffi Graf (76 61)
12th - Ethiopia adopts constitution
12th - Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
13th - Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
13th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
13th - Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
14th - "Les Miserables," opens at Rock Theatre, Vigzinhaz Budapest
14th - 107th US Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (67 60 76 64)
14th - Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken
14th - Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
16th - Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
Tennis Player Martina Navratilova 16th - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
16th - NY's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting
16th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
17th - Phila celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
18th - Detroit Tiger Darrell Evans is 1st 40 year old to hit 30 HRs
18th - US & Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
18th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
19th - Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (Mich), 24, crowned 61st Miss America
20th - "Big River" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 1005 perfs
20th - 39th Emmy Awards: LA Law, Bruce Willis & Sharon Gless wins
20th - Alain Prost wins record 28th Formula one auto race
20th - Dwight Clark ends NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
20th - Jan Stephenson wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
20th - Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown
21st - 3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf
NFL Running Back Walter Payton 22nd - 2nd regular-season National Football League player strike begins
22nd - Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
22nd - Janet B Evans swims female world record 400m freestyle (4:03.85)
22nd - NFL players go on strike for 24 days
22nd - Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons
24th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
25th - 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
26th - Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games
27th - 27th Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 15-13 at Muirfield Village GC (Ohio)
27th - Jan Stephens wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
27th - NFL players' strike
27th - Phil Niekro final appearance & is pounded for 5 runs in 3 innings
28th - "Star Trek: The Next Generation," debuts on syndicated TV
28th - Gladys Knight & Smokey Robinson on "$10,000 Pyramid"
29th - "Didn't We Almost Have It All," by Whitney Houston hits #1
Singer Whitney Houston 29th - "thirtysomething," debuts on ABC-TV
29th - 8th Emmy Sports Award presentation
29th - NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of year
30th - Suriname constitution ratified

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 28 of 28

1st - Dann Hume, New Zealand musician (Evermore)
2nd - Spencer Smith, American musician (Panic at the Disco)
3rd - Chris Fountain, English actor
5th - Pierre Casiraghi, son of Princess Caroline of Monaco
6th - Ramiele Malubay, American singer
7th - Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
7th - Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
9th - Alexandre Song, Cameroonian footballer
9th - Joshua Herdman, English actor
11th - Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
13th - Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby union footballer
15th - Aly Cissokho, French football (soccer) player
16th - Madeline Zima, New Haven Ct, actress (Grace Sheffield-Nanny)
16th - Louis Clement Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian football player
16th - Travis Wall, American Dancer/Dance Instructor
16th - Daren Kagasoff, American actor
17th - Paul Huntington, English footballer
19th - Danielle Panabaker, American actress
20th - Jack Lawless, American drummer for the Jonas Brothers
21st - Jimmy Clausen, American football player
21st - Courtney Paris, American basketball player
21st - Ashley Paris, American basketball player
22nd - Tom Felton, English Actor
24th - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
24th - Matthew Connolly, English footballer
26th - Rosie Munter, Swedish singer (Play)
Singer Hilary Duff (28th) 28th - Hilary Duff, Houston Texas, actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire)
30th - Denise Laurel, Filipine actress and singer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 29 of 29

3rd - Morton Feldman, US composer, dies at 61
3rd - Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76
3rd - Vokopach Stalingrada/Kira Georgijevna, dies at 76
5th - Bill Bowes, cricketer (Bodyline bowler, 68 wkts for England), dies
6th - Quinn Martin, American television producer (b. 1922)
9th - Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered
11th - Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), dies at 72
11th - Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead in Jamacia at 42
12th - John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies
13th - Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86
15th - Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
15th - Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)
16th - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
17th - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
19th - Einar Gerhardsen, Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
20th - Michael Stewart
21st - Ruth Attaway, actress (Porgy & Bess, Conrack, Being There), dies
21st - Jaco Pastorious, jazz bassist and composer (Weather Report) dies at 36
22nd - Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27
22nd - Dan Rowan, actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), dies at 65
22nd - John F "Jaco" Pastorius, rock guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35
22nd - Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82
23rd - Bob Fosse, choreographer (All the Jazz), dies at 62
23rd - O B McClinton, US country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47
25th - Emlyn Williams, actor/director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81
25th - Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81
28th - Mehdi Hashemi, Iranian aid of Ayatollah Khomeini, shot for treason
29th - Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70
30th - Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73