Events Date 1987 December | History by KabAstro

Lendl's 3rd ATP

Dec 4 Defending champion Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia wins 3rd straight season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis title by defeating Mats Wilander of Sweden 6–2, 6–2, 6–3 in the final at Madison Square Garden, NYC

Tennis Player and Eight-Time Major Champion Ivan Lendl

Tennis Player and Seven-Time Major Champion Mats Wilander

Dec 4 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
Dec 5 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (WR)
Dec 5 David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 v NZ at Brisbane
Dec 5 Schonbrunn skates world record 3 km ladies (4:16.76)
Dec 6 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
Dec 6 Christa Rothenburger skates female world record 500m (39.39 sec)
Dec 7 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots)
Dec 7 Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank

Gorbachev in the US

Dec 7 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in the US for a summit meeting with Ronald Reagan

Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev

Hextall Scores 1st Goalie Goal

Dec 8 Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st NHL goalie to actually score a goal, shooting the puck into Boston Bruins empty net in 5-2 win at The Spectrum in Philadelphia

Dec 8 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
Dec 8 Peruvian Navy Fokker F27-400M chartered by Alianza Lima FC crashes into Pacific Ocean 7 miles from Jorge Chávez International Airport near Callao; 43 killed, only pilot survives
Dec 8 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles

Bird's Streak Ends

Dec 9 Larry Bird ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws

Dec 9 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
Dec 10 "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time

Wall Street

Dec 11 "Wall Street" film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen is released

Filmmaker, Director and Screenwriter Oliver Stone

Nuts

Dec 11 Martin Ritt's dramatic film "Nuts", starring Barbra Streisand and Richard Dreyfus premieres

Singer-Songwriter and Actress Barbra Streisand

Dec 11 Test debut of Carl Hooper, WI v India at Bombay
Dec 12 Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
Dec 12 Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary
Dec 12 Rollermania at Madison Square Garden, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
Dec 13 Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
Dec 13 Browns set club record for most points scored in a quarter, 28
Dec 13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

Border Becomes Top Batsman

Dec 14 Allan Border scores 205 vs NZ to become Australian crickets' top run getter

Dec 14 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new
Dec 15 First National US tour of musical "Les Misérables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts
Dec 16 Roh Tae Woo elected president of South Korea
Dec 17 Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
Dec 18 American stockbroker Ivan Boesky sentenced to 3 years in prison for insider trading
Dec 19 NHL Boston Bruins Ken Linseman & St. Louis Blues Doug Gilmore set a record for the fastest two goals in league history, scoring 2 seconds apart
Dec 20 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
Dec 20 Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector in Philippine waters, 4,386 die in world's deadliest peacetime maritime disaster
Dec 21 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
Dec 21 Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts - Vladimir Titov, Musa Manarov, and Anatoli Levchenko - to space station Mir. Titov and Manarov stay in space for just under 366 days, setting a new spaceflight record

Nikki Sixx Overdoes

Dec 22 Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx overdoses from heroin

Dec 23 Buffalo goaltender Tom Barrasso leads the Sabres to a 5-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings to record his 100th NHL victory; makes him the youngest player to reach milestone at just 22 years, 9 months

Fromme Escapes Prison

Dec 23 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford, escapes from Alderson Prison

Dec 25 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
Dec 27 Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass
Dec 27 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Dec 28 Ronald Gene Simmons kills 2 former employers and wounds 4 in a shooting spree and surrenders to police; later bodies of 14 of his relatives he had murdered are found at his home near Dover, Arkansas
Dec 29 Ballon d'Or: Milan's Dutch midfielder Ruud Gullit wins best football player in Europe award ahead of Paulo Futre (Porto/Atlético Madrid) and Real Madrid striker Emilio Butragueño
Dec 29 US Food and Drug Administration first approves the use of Prozac (fluoxetine hydrochloride) to treat depression [1]
Dec 30 Australia hang on for draw v New Zealand at MCG, 1 wkt left 17 runs short