Historical Events in 1987 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 679

• Aug 8 Brewers' Rob Deer struck-out 5 times in a game
• Aug 8 Pakistan all out 708 v England at The Oval, Botham 3-217
• Aug 9 LA Rams beat Dallas Cowboys 28-27 in London, England (NFL expo)

• Aug 9 The National Union of Mineworkers begin South Africa's longest wage strike
• Aug 10 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully
• Aug 10 Kevin Gross is 2nd pitcher in 8 days to be ejected for scuffing ball
• Aug 11 France & Great-Britain send minesweepers to Persian Gulf
• Aug 12 Charles Cole climbs 870'Tyrolean Traverse from top of Elephant Rock
• Aug 13 Cards outfield sets record of no putouts in a 4-2 in 13 inning

• Aug 15 At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1st loss in 20 years of Pan Am competition
• Aug 16 Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age
• Aug 16 Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
• Aug 16 NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-10 at Wrigley Field, Chicago; Greg Maddox records the loss

• Aug 17 Dow Jones Industrial Avg closes above 2,700 for 1st time (2,700.57)

• Aug 18 Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
• Aug 18 Ohio health care worker Donald Harvey sentenced to triple life for poisoning 24 patients
• Aug 18 Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it
• Aug 18 Straatsburg: Manuela Stellmach, Astrid Strauss, Anke Mohring and Heike Friedrich swims female world record 4x200m freestyle (7:55.47)
• Aug 19 Hungerford Massacre: in England, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide

• Aug 21 "Mack Lobell" set harness racing's trotting mil (1:52)
• Aug 21 Clayton Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
• Aug 21 Silke Horneer swims female world record 100m breaststroke (1:07.91)

• Aug 23 15-year old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
• Aug 23 Violent rainfall and floods in Bangladesh, kill 100's of people
• Aug 24 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
• Aug 25 Dow Jones industrial stock avg reaches record 2722.42
• Aug 25 Madonna sings in Rotterdam
• Aug 26 Paul Molitor goes 0-for-4 ends hitting streak at 39 consecutive games

• Aug 30 87th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Billy Mayfair
• Aug 30 Ben Johnson of Canada runs 100m in world record 9.83 sec

• Aug 30 Knuckleballer Charlie Hough on the mound, Rangers catcher Geno Petralli ties the major league record by allowing 6 passed balls
• Aug 30 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jump woman's record 2.09m (6'10½"), one of the most long-standing records in athletics
• Aug 30 Street Fighter, the first arcade fighting game to introduce special attacks (designed by Takashi Nishiyama), is released
• Aug 30 Yves Pol of France runs complete marathon backwards (3:57:57)

• Aug 31 South Africa's longest mine strike in history ends
• Aug 31 The Great Potato Incident: Minor league Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan attempts to lure an opposing baserunner off third base using a potato carved to look like a baseball. Umpire calls runner safe, and the catcher is fined $50 and released by the team [1] [2]
• Sep 1 Smoking forbidden in public buildings in Belgium

• Sep 2 Houston outfielder Kevin Bass becomes 1st NL player to switch hit HRs in a game twice in one season in Astros 10-1 win v Cubs
• Sep 2 Philips introduces CD-video
• Sep 2 Trial begins in Moscow for West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Finland to Moscow, USSR
• Sep 3 Coup in Burundi suspends constitution
• Sep 5 Carlton Fisk clubs his 300th career HR off Danny Jackson
• Sep 6 Conjoined twins Benjamin & Patrick Binder separated at Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Sep 6 Douglas Wakiihuri wins marathon (2:11:48)
• Sep 6 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks a CFL-record 60-yard field goal
• Sep 7 "I Want Her" single released by Keith Sweat (Billboard Song of the Year, 1988)

• Sep 7 Netherlands sends 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
• Sep 7 South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist/Anc'er Klaas de Young
• Sep 9 Gary Hart admits on "Nightline" to cheating on his wife

• Sep 9 MLB pitcher Nolan Ryan strikes out his 4,500th batter
• Sep 11 Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die
• Sep 12 Ethiopia adopts constitution
• Sep 12 Vince Coleman steals his 100th base for 3rd straight year
• Sep 13 Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
• Sep 13 Paul Lynch of Great Britain does 32,573 push-ups in 24 hours
• Sep 13 Tampa Bay quarterback Steve DeBerg establishes a franchise record with 5 touchdown passes in the Buccaneers 48-10 win over the Atlanta Falcons

• Sep 14 Toronto Blue Jays hit a record 10 HRs vs Baltimore Orioles
• Sep 15 Italy sends a naval contingent to the Persian Gulf

• Sep 15 US Senate Judiciary Committee begins confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork
• Sep 16 Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
• Sep 16 New York City's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting
• Sep 16 Pope John Paul II's ends his Los Angeles tour with an interfaith meeting at Dodger Stadium with leaders of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism
• Sep 16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Sep 17 Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution
• Sep 17 Pope John Paul II arrives in San Francisco, meets with AIDS patients, and embraces an AIDS infected child
• Sep 18 Detroit first baseman Darrell Evans hits home run #30 off Bill Wegman in 5th inning of Tigers' 7-6 win over the Milwaukee Brewers; first 40-year-old to hit 30 MLB HRs in a season

• Sep 18 US & USSR sign accord to remove mid range missiles
• Sep 18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• Sep 20 San Francisco wide receiver Dwight Clark's NFL record streak of 105 consecutive games with a reception ends in 49ers 27-26 victory in Cincinnati
• Sep 21 3 Belgian minesweepers depart to Persians Gulf

• Sep 22 Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
• Sep 22 NFL players go on strike for 24 days (2nd regular-season strike)

• Sep 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• Sep 26 Padres Benito Santiago sets rookie hitting streak to 28 games

• Sep 27 NFL players' strike begins in the US

• Sep 28 Star Trek: The Next Generation premieres with the episode 'Encounter at Farpoint'

• Sep 29 "thirtysomething" debuts on ABC-TV

• Sep 30 Suriname constitution ratified
• Oct 1 Fiji's constitution is suspended
• Oct 1 Whittier Narrows magnitude 5.9 earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley and Southern California, causing $213–358 million of damage, 200 injuries and 8 deaths
• Oct 3 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
• Oct 3 San Diego catcher Benito Santiago's MLB rookie record 34-game hitting streak ends as Padres snap 9-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory v LA Dodgers
• Oct 3 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• Oct 4 First "Scab Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players as a result of players strike; chiefly related to the expiration of 1982 Collective Bargaining Agreement; players returned October 15
• Oct 4 Winnipeg CFL defensive back James Jefferson scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception; scores both on laterals in Blue Bombers' 47-14 win v Hamilton Tiger-Cats

• Oct 6 Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
• Oct 6 US Senate Judiciary Committee votes 9-5 to send nomination of Robert Bork for a seat on the Supreme Court to full senate with an unfavorable recommendation

• Oct 9 Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000
• Oct 10 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's 8th studio album "Tunnel of Love"
• Oct 10 Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
• Oct 10 Giant's Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record HR in his 4th cons game
• Oct 10 Hartford center Doug Jarvis ends his career having played an NHL record 964 consecutive games as the Whalers lose 6-2 to the New York Rangers
• Oct 11 200,000 march for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington, D.C.

• Oct 12 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
• Oct 13 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
• Oct 13 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
• Oct 14 In Midland, Tx 1½-year-old Jessica McClure falls 22' (7m) down a well
• Oct 15 6th Belgium government of Martens falls
• Oct 15 Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies
• Oct 15 Lanford Wilson's "Burn This" premieres in NYC
• Oct 15 NFL Players Association orders an end to 24 day strike; union fails to achieve demands short-term with no collective bargaining agreement in place
• Oct 15 The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England
• Oct 16 338,500,000 shares traded on NY stock exchange (record)

• Oct 16 Dow Jones for 1st time falls more than 100 pts (108.35)
• Oct 16 Great Storm of 1987: 175-kph hurricane force winds hit London and much of the South of England killing 23 people and causing widespread blackouts
• Oct 16 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22' into a well shaft
• Oct 16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• Oct 19 Black Monday: Stock markets around the world crash, including the Dow Jones stock index, which falls 508.32 points (22%), 4½ times the previous daily record
• Oct 19 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf

• Oct 20 10 die as US Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
• Oct 20 Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts/608,120,000 shares traded (record)
• Oct 20 Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
• Oct 21 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
• Oct 21 Full US Senate debate begins on Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court

• Oct 22 American composer John Adams's first opera, "Nixon in China", premieres at the Houston Grand Opera, in Houston, Texas
• Oct 22 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
• Oct 23 Dutch government gives Fokker's Aircraft Ÿ212 million credit
• Oct 23 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• Oct 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 23 US Senate rejects Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court by a bipartisan vote of 58-42
• Oct 24 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
• Oct 26 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
• Oct 26 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
• Oct 27 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections

• Oct 27 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution

• Oct 30 "Faith" debut album by George Michael is released
• Oct 30 In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
• Oct 31 A pair in Coventry, England, ties world record for longest singles tennis match at 80 hrs 21 minutes
• Oct 31 American jockey Chris Antley becomes first rider to win 9 races in a day (4 at Aqueduct / 5 at The Meadowlands)

• Nov 1 New York Jets retire Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Don Maynard's jersey #13
• Nov 1 New Zealand All Blacks create a rugby union international world record score when they beat Japan, 106-4 at the National Stadium in Tokyo
• Nov 2 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
• Nov 2 George Harrison releases album "Cloud 9" & Paul McCartney releases greatest hits album "All the Best"

• Nov 3 Oakland A's first baseman Mark McGwire wins American League Rookie of the Year with 49 home runs, 118 RBI; second to win AL award unanimously; first Carlton Fisk 1972
• Nov 3 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
• Nov 4 Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
• Nov 4 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
• Nov 4 NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989
• Nov 5 France performs nuclear test
• Nov 5 Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
• Nov 5 South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
• Nov 5 US Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana, later withdraws from consideration
• Nov 7 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires President Habib Bourguiba
• Nov 8 11 are killed in an IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
• Nov 10 Steve Bedrosian edges Rick Sutcliffe 57-55 to win NL Cy Young Award

• Nov 11 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns

• Nov 12 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
• Nov 13 1st condom commercial on British TV

• Nov 14 Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett
• Nov 15 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver

• Nov 15 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)

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