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Music Concert
Oct 16 Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards organizes concert celebrating rock and roll legend Chuck Berry's 60th birthday at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri; performers include: Richards, Berry, Johnnie Johnson, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Cray, and Julian Lennon among others
Event of Interest
Oct 16 US government shuts down due to disputes between President Reagan and the House
- Oct 16 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nobel Prize in Literature
Oct 16 Wole Soyinka, Nigerian playwright and poet, becomes the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Oct 17 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982
Event of Interest
Oct 17 Yitzhak Rabin forms Israeli government
Cricket History
Oct 19 Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in all test cricket (vs India in Bombay)
- Oct 19 USSR expels five US diplomats
- Oct 20 Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
- Oct 21 American writer Edward Tracy kidnapped in Beirut
- Oct 21 Hugh Whitemore's "Breaking the Code" premieres in London
- Oct 21 IBM re-forms in South Africa
- Oct 21 Republic of Marshall Islands signs Compact of Free Association with US
- Oct 22 WNBC-AM NYC helicopter crashes into Hudson River during a live report, killing traffic reporter Jane Dornacker
Event of Interest
Oct 23 Artist Keith Haring commissioned to paint a mural on the Berlin wall by Checkpoint Charlie Museum 300 metres long
F1 World Champion
Oct 26 French McLaren driver Alain Prost retains his Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 2 points from Nigel Mansell
- Oct 27 British government deregulates financial markets in a "Big Bang", enhancing London's status as a financial capital while increasing income inequality
Pretty Little Head
Oct 27 Paul McCartney releases single "Pretty Little Head"
- Oct 28 Stanley E. Hubbard's KOB sells the company's Albuquerque, New Mexico radio stations, KOB-AM and KOB-FM, the stations change their call signs to KKOB
Statue of Liberty
Oct 28 The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor
'Splendid Achievement' becomes the 'Road To Hell'
Oct 29 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the final stretch of London's Orbital Motorway, the M25. Then the world’s longest ring road at 117 miles (188.3 km).
Cricket History
Oct 29 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 6-16 as the West Indies dismissed for 53 in 186 run defeat in 1st Test at Faisalabad
Sports History
Nov 2 German tennis star Boris Becker wins his third tournament in 3 weeks in different continents; beats Sergio Casal of Spain 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 in the final of the Paris Open after victories in Japan and Australia
- Nov 3 Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
- Nov 3 Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
Menlove Avenue
Nov 3 John Lennon's "Menlove Avenue" album released posthumously
- Nov 3 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
- Nov 3 Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
- Nov 6 "Just Like the First Time" second studio album by Freddie Jackson is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1987)
- Nov 6 Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
- Nov 6 President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
- Nov 6 Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
- Nov 9 Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore
- Nov 10 Bangladeshi Constitution restored
Springsteen's Live/1975-85
Nov 10 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band "Live/1975-85", a 5 LP box set of concert recordings
Roger Clemens
Nov 12 Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
- Nov 13 NASA launches space vehicle S-199
- Nov 13 US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran
- Nov 14 Doubleday Publishing sells NY Mets to Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilpon
- Nov 14 FCC issues Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP Philadelphia
- Nov 14 US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky for insider trading
Saturday Night Live
Nov 15 2nd time "Saturday Night Live" uses a time delay (Sam Kinison hosts)
Licensed to Ill
Nov 15 Beastie Boys release their debut album "Licensed to Ill" - 1st No. 1 rap album on Billboard charts
Television Premiere
Nov 16 Dennis Potter's TV drama "The Singing Detective", starring Michael Gambon, premieres on the BBC in the UK
- Nov 18 Roger Clemens wins AL MVP
Schmidt NL MVP
Nov 19 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
- Nov 19 Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances" premieres in NYC
- Nov 20 Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
- Nov 20 World Health Organization announces first global effort to combat AIDS
- Nov 21 Central African Republic adopts constitution
- Nov 21 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village
Tyson Youngest Heavyweight
Nov 22 20-year-old Mike Tyson becomes youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history when he stops titleholder Trevor Berbick in round 2 at Las Vegas Hilton to earn the WBC title
Gretzky's Makes 500
Nov 22 Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky becomes the 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
Navratilova's Eighth Title
Nov 23 Second WTA Tour Championship of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilova wins 5th straight and 8th overall title with 7–6, 6–3, 6–2 win over Steffi Graf in NYC
- Nov 24 Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 24 Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana
- Nov 25 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arms deal
Fawn Hall
Nov 25 Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall, smuggles documents out of his office
- Nov 26 Trial begins in Israel for John Demjanjuk, accused of being Nazi prison guard "Ivan the Terrible" at Treblinka concentration camp
- Nov 27 Europa TV, a project of five European public service broadcasters ceases operations after exhausting its budget
- Nov 28 Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
- Nov 28 OPEC reaches oil production accord
- Nov 28 US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
Ivan Lendl
Nov 30 American-based Czech tennis star Ivan Lendl is first player to make over $10 million in career earnings
- Dec 1 Musée d'Orsay opens in Paris
- Dec 1 Paul McCartney releases single "Only Love Remains"
- Dec 2 Dow-Jones index hits record 1,955.57
Sri Lanka Dismissed for 55
Dec 3 Chasing the West Indies 248/5, Sri Lanka is sensationally dismissed for just 55 in cricket's Champions Trophy in Sharjah; Windies pace bowler Courtney Walsh takes 5 for 1 in 4.3 overs
Duvalier flees Haiti
Dec 7 President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti
Holocaust Spokesman Awarded Nobel
Dec 10 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for being a leading spokesman on the Holocaust
- Dec 10 Ivan Lendl repeats previous year's result with a 6–4, 6–4, 6–4 win over Boris Becker to claim back-to-back season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis titles at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Dec 11 South Africa censors press
Boon's Fourth Century
Dec 12 Australian cricketer David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 v England at Adelaide
- Dec 12 James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden
- Dec 12 Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
- Dec 12 South African journalist and activist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested at John Vorster Square
- Dec 14 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, takes off from Edwards AFB, California on 1st non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world; lands 9 days later
- Dec 15 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
- Dec 15 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
Casey Suffers Seizure
Dec 15 CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
Hitman Kuklinski Arrested
Dec 17 American mafia hitman Richard Kuklinski is arrested at a roadblock
- Dec 17 Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England
- Dec 17 Edmonton's Wayne Gretzky scores 4 goals, including a natural hat trick in the 1st period and also records an assist as the Oilers win 5-3 over the visiting Quebec Nordiques; his 41st NHL career hat trick
- Dec 17 US Congress forms "Irangate" committee
"Platoon"
Dec 19 "Platoon" directed by Oliver Stone, starring Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Willem Dafoe is released (Academy Awards Best Picture & Best Director)
Jack Morris - Tigers Dispute
Dec 19 Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion against free agency
- Dec 19 OPEC reaches an accord that would cut production by 7 percent for the first six months of 1987 and would raise prices immediately toward a target world oil price of $18 per barrel
USSR Frees Sakharov
Dec 19 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
- Dec 20 White teenagers beat blacks in New York City's Howard Beach
- Dec 22 India score 7-676 v Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
- Dec 23 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert, 9 days after taking off from the same location
- Dec 24 French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
- Dec 24 Iran offensive against Iraqi islands of Shatt al-Arab
- Dec 26 Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed
- Dec 26 Hartford center Doug Jarvis sets NHL record of 916 consecutive games as the Whalers tie 1-1 after OT against his old club Montreal Canadiens
Messier Suspended
Dec 26 Mark Messier is suspended for 10 games for instigating a fight with Jamie Macoun and breaking his cheekbone
- Dec 26 TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
- Dec 27 Musical "Les Misérables" opens in the US at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
- Dec 30 Ballon d'Or: Dynamo Kyiv's Ukrainian forward Igor Belanov is named best football player in Europe ahead of Barcelona striker Gary Lineker and Real Madrid forward Emilio Butragueño
- Dec 31 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
- Dec 31 Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
- Dec 31 WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
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