Historical Events in 1987 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 679

• Apr 21 Dow Jones Average soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
• Apr 21 Milwaukee Brewers lose after 13th straight victory to start season

• Apr 21 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
• Apr 22 Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
• Apr 23 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Connecticut
• Apr 23 NJ Devils farm team Maine Mariners (AHL) move to Utica (Devils) NY

• Apr 28 American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
• Apr 28 NBA announces expansion to Charlotte NC & Miami Fla in 1988 & Minneapolis Minn & Orlando Fla in 1989
• Apr 28 NFL Draft: University of Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde first pick by Tampa Bay Buccaneers

• Apr 29 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US
• Apr 30 Lou Lamoriello is named NJ Devils President

• May 3 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
• May 5 Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
• May 5 Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
• May 5 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• May 6 Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice

• May 6 Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes
• May 6 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• May 7 105°F in Sacramento, California
• May 7 Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on TV comedy "Cheers"
• May 8 Gary Hart quits US democratic presidential race due to affair with Donna Rice
• May 8 The Loughgall ambush: The SAS kill 8 IRA members and 1 civilian, in Loughgall, Northern Ireland
• May 9 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw

• May 11 1st heart-lung transplant take place in Baltimore

• May 14 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
• May 14 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
• May 15 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)

• May 15 Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
• May 16 "Bobro 400", a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage sets sail from NYC, beginning an unsuccessful 8 week search for a dumping site

• May 17 USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
• May 19 40th Cannes Film Festival: "Sous le soleil de Satan" directed by Maurice Pialat wins the Palme d'Or

• May 21 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
• May 22 30 killed in a Texas tornado

• May 24 Golden Gate Bridge 50th anniversary: Over 800K people show up, 300K walk on bridge at same time, span temporarily flattens from weight (San Francisco, California)
• May 26 Great offensive against Tamil-rebellion in Jaffra Sri Lanka
• May 26 US Supreme Court ruled dangerous defendants could be held without bail

• May 27 Christian evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal

• May 28 60th US National Spelling Bee: Stephanie Petit wins spelling staphylococci
• May 28 Mathias Rust, 18-year-old West German pilot, makes unauthorized landing near Red Square, Moscow in USSR
• May 28 Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a deep sea robot
• May 28 Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
• May 28 Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
• May 28 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed

• May 29 Jury finds "Twilight Zone: The Movie" director John Landis innocent of involuntary manslaughter in death of actor Vic Morrow and 2 child actors during filming

• May 29 Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games

• May 30 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
• May 30 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
• May 31 Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska
• May 31 Stanley Cup Final, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, AL: Edmonton Oilers beat Philadelphia Flyers, 3-1 to win title 4 games to 3: Oilers' 3rd SC
• Jun 1 Cleveland Indians pitcher Phil Niekro beats Detroit Tigers, 9-6 for his 314th MLB victory; combines with Joe Niekro (216) for most combined wins by brothers in baseball history (530)

• Jun 3 "Little Shop of Horrors" released in France
• Jun 3 Cubs & Astro tie Oriole & Ranger record of 3 grand slams in a game
• Jun 4 American hurdler Edwin Moses' 122 race winning streak which extends to nearly 10 years ends when he is beaten by countryman Danny Harris in Madrid, Spain
• Jun 5 "Nightline" presents its 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS and the show runs until 3:47 AM

• Jun 6 NY Yankees play their 13,000th game
• Jun 7 41st Tony Awards: "Fences" (play) and "Les Misérables" (musical) win
• Jun 7 Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
• Jun 8 New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power.

• Jun 10 NASA Discovery's SRBs & external tank are mated

• Jun 13 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
• Jun 14 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor

• Jun 15 Bettino Craxi's Socialist Party wins election in Italy
• Jun 15 Michael Spinks TKOs Gerry Cooney in 5 for The Ring heavyweight boxing title at Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
• Jun 16 Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
• Jun 16 New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him
• Jun 17 With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct
• Jun 18 Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
• Jun 19 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed

• Jun 19 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
• Jun 20 1st Rugby World Cup Final, Eden Park, Auckland: New Zealand fly-half Grant Fox lands 4 penalties, a conversion and drop goal as the All Blacks beat France, 29-9
• Jun 20 Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss
• Jun 21 Discovery rolls over from OPF to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
• Jun 21 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a parking lot attendant
• Jun 22 A bomb blast in a Johannesburg video game arcade kills an unborn baby and injures ten people
• Jun 22 The International Labour Organisation, meeting for its annual conference in Geneva, calls for international sanctions against South African minerals

• Jun 24 CFL's Montreal Alouettes team folds
• Jun 24 Minor League Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consecutive win streak
• Jun 25 Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim

• Jun 26 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn

• Jun 27 "The Living Daylights", 15th James Bond film, 1st film to star Timothy Dalton premieres in London
• Jun 27 In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
• Jun 28 Boston outfielder Don Baylor sets MLB career hit-by-pitch mark at 244 when plunked by Rick Rhoden in Red Sox, 6-2 win over NY Yankees

• Jun 29 Phil's Steve Bedrosian is 1st to record 12 saves in 12 attempts
• Jun 30 Patrik Sjöberg of Sweden sets a new men's high jump world record 2.42m (7 ft 11 1⁄4 in) in Stockholm, Sweden
• Jun 30 The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie
• Jul 1 New York City radio station WFAN-AM commences first 24 hour all sports radio format
• Jul 1 US President Ronald Reagan nominates Robert Bork for a seat on the Supreme Court, rejected by US Senate in October
• Jul 1 WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
• Jul 2 KC Royals outfielder Jim Eisenreich hits 1st HR since 1982, in MLB comeback process, retired 1984 (Tourette syndrome)
• Jul 2 Nilde Iotti is named as the first female President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
• Jul 3 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic

• Jul 4 Discovery moves to Launch Pad 39B for STS-26 mission
• Jul 4 Nazi Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life imprisonment in France
• Jul 6 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India

• Jul 6 USSR performs nuclear test
• Jul 7 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
• Jul 7 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North begins public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
• Jul 8 Kitty Dukakis reveals an addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
• Jul 9 1 million South Koreans demonstrate against Chun Doo Hwan regime
• Jul 9 Colonel Oliver North admits to shredding Iran-Contra evidence
• Jul 11 Heart's "Alone" single goes #1 for 3 weeks
• Jul 11 Orioles' Cal Ripkin becomes 1st to manage 2 sons, as Billy joins Cal
• Jul 12 1st time in 20 years a delegation from USSR lands in Israel
• Jul 12 50 white South Africans meets ANCers in Dakar
• Jul 12 Phillies Kent Tekulve pitches his 900th game in relief

• Jul 14 Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
• Jul 14 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony

• Jul 14 Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law

• Jul 15 John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
• Jul 15 State of siege ends in Taiwan
• Jul 16 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

• Jul 16 Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
• Jul 17 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
• Jul 17 Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
• Jul 17 Iran and France break diplomatic relations
• Jul 17 New York Yankees Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
• Jul 18 Molly Yard elected new President of National Organization for Women
• Jul 18 New York Yankees Don Mattingly ties record of HRs in 8 consecutive games
• Jul 19 New York Yankees Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 consecutive games
• Jul 20 New York Yankees Don Mattingly ties 1st base fielding record with 22 put-outs

• Jul 22 Said Aouita of Morocco sets 5k record (12:58.39) in Rome
• Jul 22 Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts (1 Syrian)
• Jul 22 US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
• Jul 23 Petra Felke (E Ger) throws javelin 78.89 m (women's record)
• Jul 23 RNI (Brooklyn New York pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
• Jul 23 Said Aouita of Morocco runs world record 5,000 m (12:58.39)
• Jul 24 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
• Jul 24 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• Jul 25 R. Venkataraman becomes the eighth President of India
• Jul 25 USSR launches Kosmos 1870, 15-ton Earth-study satellite
• Jul 26 Catfish Hunter Billy Williams and Ray Dandridge are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
• Jul 27 First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.
• Jul 27 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible", testifies in Israel
• Jul 27 Salt Lake City Trappers lose 7-5 to Billings Mustangs, ending their professional-record winning streak at 29 consecutive

• Jul 30 An ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command in Johannesburg South Africa kills 1 person and injures 68
• Jul 31 A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage
• Jul 31 Baltimore first baseman Eddie Murray hits his 299th and 300th career home runs to lead Orioles to an 8-4 win over Texas Rangers
• Jul 31 Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed
• Jul 31 Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle
• Aug 1 ArenaBowl I, Pittsburgh Civic Arena: Denver Dynamite beats Pittsburgh Gladiators 45-16, Gary Mullen MVP
• Aug 1 Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada
• Aug 1 In New Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings
• Aug 1 Mike Tyson outpoints Tony Tucker in 12 rounds in a heavyweight boxing unification matchup in Las Vegas; first to own all 3 major belts WBA, WBC and IBF simultaneously

• Aug 1 Nurse Mary R Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
• Aug 2 Cincinnati outfielder Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season as he homers in Reds 5-4 win v Giants
• Aug 2 Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
• Aug 2 Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49mph) in winning the Marlboro 500 at the Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn, Michigan
• Aug 2 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• Aug 3 Discovery in Orbital Processing Facility is powered up for STS-26
• Aug 3 Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound in 11-3 win v Angels, ejected and suspended for 10 games
• Aug 4 FCC vote 4-0 to rescind fairness doctrine for broadcasters
• Aug 7 5 Central American presidents sign peace accord in Guatemala
• Aug 7 Javed Miandad becomes first to score 6,000 Test runs for Pakistan as he cracks 260 in drawn 5th Test v England at The Oval
• Aug 7 Lynne Cox becomes the 1st woman to swim from the US to the Soviet Union, 4.3 km across the Bering Sea in water temperature averaging 43 to 44 °F (6 to 7 °C)

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