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1987 Oct 1, Eight
people were killed when an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter
scale and an aftershock measuring 5.3 struck the Los Angeles area. In
1999 researchers reported that data revealed a new active fault system,
christened the Punete Hills fault, under Los Angeles that probably
caused the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake.
(AP, 10/1/97)(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A7)
1987 Oct 2, On Capitol Hill, more
Democratic senators lined up against Supreme Court nominee Robert H.
Bork as President Reagan continued to lobby undecided lawmakers on
behalf of his candidate for the high court.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1987 Oct 2, Peter Brian Medawar,
Brazilian-born English medical scientist, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medawar)
1987 Oct 3, Negotiators for the
United States and Canada reached agreement in Washington D.C., on a
framework to eliminate all tariffs between the world's two largest
trading partners.
(AP, 10/3/97)
1987 Oct 3, Jean Anouilh (77),
French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), died.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/anouilh.htm)
1987 Oct 4, National Football
League owners staged their first games since the players union went on
strike, with nonstriking and replacement personnel on the gridiron at
sparsely attended stadiums.
(AP, 10/4/97)
1987 Oct 5, Supreme Court nominee
Robert H. Bork suffered new setbacks as Senate Democratic Leader Robert
Byrd and Republican Sens. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. of Connecticut and John
H. Chafee of Rhode Island declared they were opposed to his
confirmation.
(AP, 10/5/97)
1987 Oct 6, The Senate Judiciary
Committee voted 9 to 5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the
Supreme Court, and both supporters and opponents predicted rejection by
the full Senate.
(AP, 10/6/97)
1987 Oct 6, Microsoft announced
its first Windows application, Excel.
(Wired, 12/98, p.196)
1987 Oct 6, In Oklahoma Michael
Houghton (27) and Laura Lee Sanders (22) were kidnapped from behind a
Tulsa bar, stuffed into a car trunk and taken to a rural area where the
car was set afire. Scott Allen Hain was executed for the murders on Apr
3, 2003. Hain was 17 in 1987 and claimed to be under the influence of
Robert Lambert.
(SFC, 4/4/03, p.A6)
1987 Oct 7, President Reagan's
advisory commission on AIDS was left seemingly in disarray as its
chairman, Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, and its vice chairman, Dr. Woodrow A.
Myers Jr., resigned.
(AP, 10/7/97)
1987 Oct 8, US helicopter gunships
in the Persian Gulf sank three Iranian patrol boats after an American
observation helicopter was fired on. Two of six Iranian crewmen taken
from the water later died.
(AP, 10/8/97)
1987 Oct 9, Supreme Court nominee
Robert H. Bork, his rejection by the Senate a virtual certainty,
angrily told reporters he would not ask that his nomination be
withdrawn.
(AP, 10/9/97)
1987 Oct 9, Clare Boothe Luce
(b.1903), former journalist, playwright and congresswoman, died in
Washington DC. Her biography by Sylvia Jukes Morris, "Rage for Fame:
The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce," was published in 1997.
(SFEC, 6/1/97, BR
p.4)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce)
1987 Oct 10, The Rev. Jesse
Jackson formally launched his bid for the Democratic presidential
nomination in Raleigh, N.C.
(AP, 10/10/97)
1987 Oct 11, Some 200,000
homosexual rights activists marched through Washington DC to demand
protection from discrimination and more federal money for AIDS research
and treatment. The AIDS Memorial Quilt had its inaugural presentation.
In 2000 Cleve Jones and Jeff Dawson authored "Stitching a Revolution,
The making of an AIDS Activist."
(AP, 10/11/97)(SFEC, 6/18/00, BR p.5)
1987 Oct 12, In Houston, Vice
President George Bush formally launched his quest for the Republican
presidential nomination.
(AP, 10/12/97)
1987 Oct 12, Former Kansas Gov.
Alfred "Alf" M. Landon, who ran for president against Franklin
Roosevelt, died at his Topeka home at age 100.
(AP, 10/12/97)
1987 Oct 13, Costa Rican President
Oscar Arias was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts
on behalf of a Central American peace plan to end the war in Nicaragua.
(AP, 10/13/97)(WSJ, 12/12/97, p.A19)
1987 Oct 14, A real-life drama
began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet
down an abandoned well at a private day care center. Hundreds of
rescuers worked 58 hours to free her.
(AP, 10/14/97)(SFC, 5/14/99, p.A3)
1987 Oct 15, Lanford Wilson's
"Burn This," premiered in NYC.
(http://allstarz.hollywood.com/~malkovich/nyburnthis.html)
1987 Oct 15, Frantic efforts
continued in Midland, Texas, to save 18-month-old Jessica McClure, who
had fallen 22 feet down an abandoned well the day before. Jessica was
freed the following evening.
(AP, 10/15/97)
1987 Oct 15, In Burkina Faso
Blaise Compaore (b.1951), trained in Gadhafi's guerrilla camps, seized
power in a bloody takeover. Libya and Burkina Faso later denied
repeated accusations of gunrunning to West Africa hot spots.
(SFC, 2/19/00, p.A10)(AP,
12/16/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Compaor%C3%A9)
1987 Oct 16, A 58 1/2-hour drama
in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an
18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well.
(AP, 10/16/97)
1987 Oct 16, 175-kph winds caused
a blackout in London and much of southern England. At least 13 people
died.
(http://tinyurl.com/h29j)
1987 Oct 16, In the Persian Gulf,
an Iranian missile hit a re-flagged Kuwaiti ship in the first direct
attack on the tanker fleet guarded by the U.S.
(AP, 10/16/97)
1987 Oct 17, The 1st indoor World
Series game took place at the Minnesota Metrodome.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_World_Series)
1987 Oct 17, First lady Nancy
Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval
Hospital in Maryland.
(AP, 10/17/97)
1987 Oct 18, President Reagan
summoned congressional leaders to the White House to announce he had
decided on what action to take in response to an Iranian missile attack
on a US-flagged tanker off Kuwait two days earlier. The next day, US
destroyers bombarded an Iranian offshore oil rig.
(AP, 10/18/97)
1987 Oct 19, US Navy warships
disabled the 1st of 3 Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in
retaliation for an Iranian missile attack on a U.S.-flagged tanker off
Kuwait. [see Apr 18, 1988]
(AP, 10/19/97)(HN, 10/19/02)
1987 Oct 19, Black Monday, the
stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, amid frenzied
selling, plunged 508 points, 22.6%,-- its biggest-ever one-day decline.
The crash was preceded by legislation to block tax deductions for debt
incurred in corporate takeovers which were fueling the market. It was
also preceded by plunges in other international markets. Hong Kong
suffered a 46% decline in October.
(V.D.-H.K.p.253)(TMC, 1994, p.1987)(AP,
10/19/97)(SFC,10/27/97, p.B2)
1987 Oct 19, Jacqueline du Pre
(42), British cellist, died of multiple sclerosis.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_du_Pr%C3%A9)
1987 Oct 20, NYC subway gunman
Bernhard Goetz was sentenced to 6 months in jail. [see Jan 13, 1989]
(http://tinyurl.com/zbf5m)
1987 Oct 20, Ten people were
killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near
Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying to
make an emergency landing, ejected safely.
(AP, 10/20/97)
1987 Oct 21, Sometimes-acrimonious
debate began in the Senate on the nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to
the U.S. Supreme Court. (Two days later, the Senate voted 58-42 to
reject the nomination.)
(AP, 10/21/97)
1987 Oct 22, Nobel prize for
literature was awarded to Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996). At an interview
in the Stockholm airport, to a question: "You are an American citizen
who is receiving the Prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an
American or a Russian?", he responded: "I am Jewish".
(http://tinyurl.com/zx2yz)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky)
1987 Oct 22, In a bid to calm the
recent frenzy in the world's financial markets, President Reagan said
he would be meeting with congressional leaders to negotiate ways of
reducing the budget deficit.
(AP, 10/22/97)
1987 Oct 22, The US Navy
acknowledged that it had deployed 5 dolphins to the Persian Gulf to
search for Iranian mines.
(http://tinyurl.com/g9o9d)
1987 Oct 23, The U.S. Senate
rejected, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork.
(AP, 10/23/97)
1987 Oct 24, The Teamsters union
was welcomed back into the AFL-CIO by a vote of the labor federation's
executive council in Miami Beach, Fla. The union had been expelled from
the AFL-CIO in December, 1957, because of racketeering by its
executives, including union president Dave Beck and vice president
James R. Hoffa. However, the Teamsters disaffiliated themselves from
the AFL-CIO in 2005.
(AP, 10/24/97)(HNQ, 1/8/99)(AP, 10/24/07)
1987 Oct 24, NBC technicians
accepted a pact and ended a 118 day strike.
(http://tinyurl.com/eq22r)
1987 Oct 25, The Minnesota Twins
won their first World Series championship, beating the St. Louis
Cardinals 4-2 in game seven.
(AP, 10/25/97)
1987 Oct 25, In China Deng
Xiaoping stepped down from all but the top military post.
(SFC, 2/20/96, p.A4)
1987 Oct 26, The DJIA dropped 8%.
In Miami, an investor who had suffered heavy stock market losses shot
and killed a brokerage manager and wounded his personal broker, then
turned the gun on himself.
(SFC,10/17/97, p.B2)(AP, 10/26/97)
1987 Oct 26, Herbert Anaya
Sanabria, the head of Salvadoran Human Rights Commission, was
assassinated by death squads.
(www.cidh.org/annualrep/87.88eng/chap4a.htm)
1987 Oct 27, South Korean voters
overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, establishing direct
presidential elections and other democratic reforms.
(AP, 10/27/97)
1987 Oct 27, Associated Press
correspondent Terry Anderson, a hostage in Lebanon, spent his 40th
birthday in captivity.
(AP, 10/27/97)
1987 Oct 28, During a debate in
Houston that included the six Republican presidential contenders, Vice
President George Bush argued that as President Reagan's "co-pilot," he
knew how to "land the plane in a storm."
(AP, 10/28/97)
1987 Oct 29, Following the
confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme
Court, President Reagan announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a
nomination that fell apart over revelations of Ginsburg's past
marijuana use.
(AP, 10/29/97)
1987 Oct 29, Woody Herman
(b.1913), US jazz clarinetist and composer, died in Los Angeles at age
74. The government had just seized his home for back taxes. His manager
Abe Turchen had not paid taxes on musician salaries for 3 years. Gene
Lees later authored "Leader of the Band: Woody Herman."
(AP, 10/29/97)(WSJ, 8/22/01, p.A14)
1987 Oct 30, President Reagan
announced that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would visit
Washington the following December for a summit, during which the two
leaders would sign a treaty banning intermediate-range nuclear
missiles.
(AP, 10/30/97)
1987 Oct 31, Noburo Takeshita,
leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, was elected party president
in his first official step toward replacing Prime Minister Yasuhiro
Nakasone.
(AP, 10/31/97)
1987 Oct 31, Joseph Campbell
(b.1904), American writer and professor of mythology, died in Hawaii at
age 83.
(SFEC, 6/1/97,
p.A17)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell)
1987 Oct, The US FDA approved
Cipro, marketed by Bayer, as an antibiotic.
(www.prescriptionaccess.org/press/pressreleases?id=0014)(SSFC, 1/20/08,
p.A10)
1987 Oct, The iceberg B9 calved
from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctic.
(http://tinyurl.com/ldeng)
1987 Oct, In Turkey a ban on
former political leaders was lifted. Erbakan took over Welfare
leadership.
(AP, 11/4/02)
1987 Nov 1, Ibrahim Hussein of
Kenya won the New York City Marathon in two hours, 11 minutes and one
second; Priscilla Welch of Britain led the women in two hours, 30
minutes and 16 seconds.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1987 Nov 1, Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping retired from the Communist Party's Central Committee.
(AP, 11/1/97)
1987 Nov 1, Rene Levesque
(b.1922), Quebec premier (1976-85), died at age 65.
(www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4258)
1987 Nov 2, Zhao Ziyang was
appointed head of China's Communist Party, succeeding his mentor, Deng
Xiaoping.
(AP, 11/2/97)
1987 Nov 2, In Peru during the All
Souls holiday a 20 person raiding party of the Maoist Shining path
attacked the mountain community of Lucanas. They burned down the
municipal hall and several stores and then dragged a local political
leader and 7 merchants from their homes and stoned them to death.
(WSJ, 6/12/97, p.A12)
1987 Nov 3, On Wall Street, after
five consecutive gains, the Dow Jones industrial average closed down
50.56 points, ending the day at 1,963.53.
(AP, 11/3/97)
1987 Nov 4, Lisa Steinberg (6) was
pronounced dead at a New York City hospital in a child-abuse case that
sparked national outrage; Joel Steinberg, a lawyer who adopted her
illegally, served 17 years in prison for manslaughter.
(AP, 11/4/07)
1987 Nov 5, Stephen Sondheim's and
James Lapine's musical "Into the Woods," premiered on Broadway. It had
debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986.
(www.sondheimguide.com/woods.html)
1987 Nov 5, US Supreme Court
nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana several times in
the 1960s and 70s, calling it a mistake. Ginsburg ended up withdrawing
his nomination.
(AP, 11/5/08)\
1987 Nov 5, President Reagan named
Frank Carlucci as secretary of defense to succeed retiring Caspar W.
Weinberger.
(AP, 11/5/97)
1987 Nov 5, Govan Mbeki, an early
leader of the African National Congress, was released from Robben
Island prison after 24 years.
(www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/1980s/pr871105.html)(SFC,
8/31/01, p.A24)
1987 Nov 6, Education Secretary
William Bennett, acting with President Reagan's approval, asked Douglas
H. Ginsburg to withdraw as a Supreme Court nominee because of
revelations that Ginsburg had used marijuana.
(AP, 11/6/97)
1987 Nov 7, Judge Douglas H.
Ginsburg asked President Reagan to withdraw his nomination to the U.S.
Supreme Court, citing the clamor that arose over Ginsburg's admission
that he had smoked marijuana on occasion.
(AP, 11/7/97)
1987 Nov 7, Zine El Abidine Ben
Ali became president of Tunisia after doctors declared Habib Bourguiba
medically unfit to govern. Mr. Ben Ali led a peaceful coup that ended
the 30 year rule of Habib Bourguiba. "The Tunisians are Sunni Muslims
and deny polygamy, admit abortion, and abjure the veil."
(SFC, 5/6/96, p.A-4)(WSJ, 6/22/95, p.A-5)(SFC,
10/28/99, p.A13)
1987 Nov 7, Italian citizens
began voting in a 2-day referendum to close down 3 nuclear power plants.
(AP, 11/13/03)(Econ, 6/6/09,
p.66)(www.radicalparty.org/ambiente/dilascia_ing.htm)
1987 Nov 8, Eleven people were
killed when a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded as
crowds gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony
honoring Britain's war dead.
(AP, 11/8/97)
1987 Nov 9, Senate Minority Leader
Bob Dole formally announced a bid for the Republican presidential
nomination during a visit to his hometown of Russell, Kan.
(AP, 11/9/97)
1987 Nov 10, President Reagan,
seeking to shore up the embattled U.S. dollar, declared the currency
had fallen far enough and that his administration was "not doing
anything to bring it down."
(AP, 11/10/97)
1987 Nov 11, Following the failure
of two Supreme Court nominations, President Reagan announced his choice
of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who went on to win confirmation.
(AP, 11/11/97)
1987 Nov 11, Vincent Van Gogh’s
painting "Irises" was bought from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson by
Alan Bond, an Australian businessman, for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in
New York.
(HN, 11/11/98)(Econ, 11/18/06, p.79)
1987 Nov 11, Boris Yeltsin
(1931-2007), who had criticized the slow pace of Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's reforms, was dismissed as Moscow Communist Party chief for
criticizing the slow pace of reform.
(AP, 11/11/07)(http://tinyurl.com/38s7ew)(Econ,
4/28/07, p.98)
1987 Nov 12, The American Medical
Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a
doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS
or was HIV-positive.
(AP, 11/12/97)
1987 Nov 12, Heavy snow closed
schools from DC to Maine.
(http://weather.intellicast.com/Almanac/Northeast/November/)
1987 Nov 13, Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega unveiled an 11-point proposal in Washington for a
cease-fire that called for the Contra rebels to lay down their weapons
and accept an amnesty.
(AP, 11/13/97)
1987 Nov 14, A bomb hidden in a
box of chocolates exploded in the lobby of Beirut's American University
Hospital, killing seven people, including the woman who was carrying
it.
(AP, 11/14/97)
1987 Nov
14, Pieter Menten (b.1899), Dutch war criminal, died at an old people's
home in Loosbroek, southern Netherlands.
(www.jbwan.com/roblog/archives/000615.html)
1987 Nov 15, "La Cage aux Folles"
closed at Palace Theater in NYC after 1761 performances.
(www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4231)
1987 Nov 15, Twenty-eight of 82
people aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilot and
co-pilot, were killed when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking
off from Denver's Stapleton International Airport.
(AP, 11/15/97)
1987 Nov 16, The US Supreme Court,
by an 8-0 vote, upheld the federal mail and wire fraud convictions of
former Wall Street Journal reporter R. Foster Winans and two
co-defendants in connection with an insider-trading scheme.
(AP, 11/1697)
1987 Nov 17, Retiring Secretary of
Defense Caspar W. Weinberger received an elaborate send-off on the
grounds of the Pentagon.
(AP, 11/17/97)
1987 Nov 17, A federal jury in
Denver convicted two neo-Nazis and acquitted two others of civil rights
violations in the 1984 slaying of radio talk show host Alan Berg.
(AP, 11/17/97)
1987 Nov 17, Richard McNair (28)
killed Jerome Theis, of Circle Pines, Minn., during a burglary at a
Minot, North Dakota, grain elevator. Richard Kitzman, an elevator
employee, was shot three times but survived. McNair was convicted and
sentenced to life in prison, but escaped a number of times. In 2007 he
was again captured in New Brunswick, Canada.
(AP, 10/26/07)
1987 Nov 18, The congressional
Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President
Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides.
(AP,
11/18/97)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair)
1987 Nov 18, CBS Inc. announced it
had agreed to sell its records division to Sony Corp. for about $2
billion.
(AP, 11/18/97)
1987 Nov 18, Thirty-one people
died in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station.
(AP, 11/18/97)
1987 Nov 19, US Congressional
budget negotiators finished all but the final details of a two-year,
$75 billion deficit reduction pact, but not in time to avert spending
cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman Act.
(AP, 11/19/97)
1987 Nov 19, Christopher Wilmarth
(b.1943), minimalist sculptor, died of suicide in Brooklyn. His work
used glass, steel and bronze to explore translucency and the textural
effects of the materials.
(WSJ, 10/23/01,
p.A24)(www.bettycuninghamgallery.com/CWexhibition.html)
1987 Nov 20, The film "Nuts"
starring Barbra Streisand premiered.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuts_%28film%29)
1987 Nov 20, President Reagan and
congressional leaders announced agreement on a two-year, $76 billion
deficit-reduction plan designed to reassure jittery financial markets.
(AP, 11/20/97)
1987 Nov 21, An eight-day siege
began at a detention center in Oakdale, La., as Cuban detainees,
alarmed over the possibility of being returned to Cuba, seized the
facility and took hostages.
(AP, 11/21/97)
1987 Nov 21, James E. Folsom (79),
former 2-term governor of Alabama (1947-1951 and 1955-59), died.
(http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/folsom.html)
1987 Nov 21, In South Korea riot
police stood guard to prevent violence by rival supporters as
presidential candidates traded charges of corruption and cruelty.
(AP, 11/21/02)
1987 Nov 22, The government of
Nicaragua released 985 political prisoners in a show of compliance with
a Central American peace plan.
(AP, 11/22/97)
1987 Nov 23, Two days after a riot
by Cuban inmates erupted at a detention center in Oakdale, La., Cuban
detainees at a federal prison in Atlanta also rioted, seizing hostages
in a drama that was not resolved until Dec 4.
(AP, 11/23/97)
1987 Nov 24, The United States and
the Soviet Union agreed to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles in
the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear
weapons.
(AP, 11/24/97)
1987 Nov 25, Harold Washington,
the first black mayor of Chicago, died at age 65 after suffering a
heart attack in his City Hall office.
(AP, 11/25/97)
1987 Nov 26, Cuban detainees
concerned about the possibility of being sent back to Cuba continued to
hold hostages at a prison in Atlanta and a detention center in Oakdale,
La.
(AP, 11/26/97)
1987 Nov 26, Peter Hujar (b.1934),
photographer, died in NYC from complications of AIDS. He had captured
images of New York’s gay underground.
(SFEM, 10/13/96,
p.6)(www.villagevoice.com/art/9906,saltz,3915,13.html)
1987 Nov 26, Powerful typhoon
whipped across Philippines, killing 270 people and damaging or
destroying 14,000 homes.
(AP, 11/26/02)
1987 Nov 27, French hostages
Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were freed by their pro-Iranian
captors in west Beirut, Lebanon.
(AP, 11/27/97)
1987 Nov 28, A South African
Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean with the loss of all
159 people aboard.
(AP, 11/28/97)
1987 Nov 29, Joe Montana of 49ers
completed an NFL record 22 consecutive passes.
(www.sportingnews.com/archives/nfl/hof00/montana-stats.html)
1987 Nov 29, Cuban detainees
released 26 hostages that they'd been holding for more than a week at
the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, La.
(AP, 11/29/97)
1987 Nov 29, A Korean Air
jetliner, Flight 858, disappeared off Burma over the Indian Ocean, with
the loss of all 115 people aboard; South Korean authorities charged
that North Korean agents had planted a bomb on the aircraft.
(WSJ, 9/9/96, p.A18)(AP, 11/29/97)
1987 Nov 30, Author James Baldwin
died in St. Paul de Vence, France, at age 63. His work included: "If
Beale Street Could Talk," "Blues for Mister Charlie," "Notes of a
Native Son," "Nobody Knows My Name," and "The Fire Next Time," and "Go
Tell It on the Mountain." In 1991 James Campbell published the
biography: "Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin."
(AP 11/30/97)(SFC, 12/30/98, p.A2)
1987 Nov 30, In an interview
broadcast by NBC, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev acknowledged that his
country was engaged in "Star Wars"-related research, but said there
were no plans to build a space-based system against nuclear attack.
(AP 11/30/97)
1987 Nov, The US-headquartered KFC
launched its first China outlet in the Qianmen area of Beijing,
neighboring Tiananmen Square.
(www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-09/08/content_7007412.htm)
1987 Nov, In Mexico the peso was
devalued and caused the 3rd financial crises since 1976.
(WSJ, 12/20/96,
p.A17)(www.dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2006/el0606.html)
1987 Dec 1, NASA announced that
four companies -- Boeing Aerospace, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics,
General Electric's Astro-Space Division and Rocketdyne Division of
Rockwell International -- had been awarded contracts to help build a
space station.
(AP 12/1/97)
1987 Dec 1, Digging of the
Eurotunnel began on the English side to link England and France, under
co-chairman Alastair Morton (d.2004).
(www.scripophily.net/eurotunnel.html)(Econ, 9/11/04,
p.82)
1987 Dec 2, After a chaotic
meeting that had begun the night before, the Chicago City Council
elected Eugene Sawyer acting mayor, succeeding the late Harold
Washington.
(AP 12/2/97)
1987 Dec 2, Robert Filliou
(b.1926), French-born artist and poet, died in France. He was a member
of the Fluxus prankster network, where jokes and social critique merged
in the conceptual art of the members.
(SFC, 6/24/00, p.B4)(http://tinyurl.com/kppgp)
1987 Dec 3, Four days before his
summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to sign a treaty banning
intermediate-range nuclear missiles, President Reagan said in an
interview with television network anchormen that there was a reasonably
good chance of progress toward a treaty on long-range weapons.
(AP 12/3/97)
1987 Dec 4, Cuban inmates at a
federal prison in Atlanta freed their 89 hostages, peacefully ending an
11-day uprising. The agreement provided for a nationwide moratorium on
deportations of Mariel detainees.
(AP 12/4/97)
1987 Dec 5, FBI agents searched a
federal prison where Cuban inmates had peacefully ended an 11-day
hostage siege the day before. The agents reported finding bottle bombs
and homemade machetes, but no booby-traps or bodies.
(AP 12/5/97)
1987 Dec 6, One day before the
arrival of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, hundreds of thousands of
demonstrators pressing for free emigration of Soviet Jews marched in
Washington.
(AP 12/6/97)
1987 Dec 6, In Missouri 3 Satanist
teenagers bludgeoned Steven Newberry (19), a learning-disabled youth,
to death and blamed the incident on heavy metal inspired satanism.
(http://tinyurl.com/k36su)(www.creationism.org/csshs/v15n1p03.htm)
1987 Dec 6, In Moscow security
agents roughed up Jewish activists and journalists during
demonstrations over Kremlin policy one day before the arrival of Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the US, where hundreds of thousands of
demonstrators pressing for free emigration of Soviet Jews marched in
Washington.
(AP 12/6/97)
1987 Dec 7, Soviet leader Mikhail
S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for
a Washington summit with President Reagan.
(AP 12/7/97)
1987 Dec 7, Forty-three people
were killed in the crash of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner in
California after a gunman apparently opened fire on a fellow passenger
and the two pilots.
(AP 12/7/97)
1987 Dec 8, President Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty,
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, under which the superpowers
agreed to destroy their arsenals of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
(TMC, 1994, p.1987)(AP 12/8/97)(SFEC, 12/19/99,
p.C12)
1987 Dec 8, Kurt Schmoke became
the first African-American mayor of Maryland when he was elected the
mayor of Baltimore. He was a Rhodes scholar and Harvard Law School
graduate. He served 3 terms and decided to run for the Senate.
(SFC, 12/4/98, p.A12)(HN, 12/8/98)
1987 Dec 8-1987 Dec 9, The first
Palestinian intefadeh (Arabic for uprising) began as riots broke out in
Gaza and spread to the West Bank, triggering a strong Israeli
counter-response.
(AP 12/8/97)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A17)(AP, 12/9/07)
1987 Dec 9, On the second day of
their White House summit, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Gorbachev grappled with differences over Afghanistan and cutbacks in
long-range nuclear arms.
(AP 12/9/97)
1987 Dec 10, President Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded three days of summit talks
in Washington.
(AP 12/10/97)
1987 Dec 10, Jascha Heifetz
(b.1901), Lithuania-born Jewish violinist, died in Los Angeles.
(http://www.thirteen.org/publicarts/violin/heifetz.html)(AP 12/10/97)
1987 Dec 11, NATO allies urged the
U.S. Senate to ratify the intermediate-range missile treaty quickly and
underscored their support by pledging to let the Soviet Union inspect
missile bases in five European countries.
(AP 12/11/97)
1987 Dec 12, Secretary of State
George P. Shultz, during a visit to Denmark, urged U.S. allies to
increase spending on conventional forces, following the signing of a
superpower intermediate-range missile ban treaty.
(AP 12/12/97)
1987 Dec 12, Clifton Chenier,
Zydeco accordionist, died. In 1998 Michael Tisserand published "The
Kingdom of Zydeco" and Rick Olivier and Ben Sandmel published the photo
documentary "Zydeco!"
(WSJ, 4/19/99,
p.A20)(http://experts.about.com/e/c/cl/Clifton_Chenier.htm)
1987 Dec 13, Secretary of State
George P. Shultz said the Reagan administration would begin making
funding requests for the proposed "Star Wars" defense system.
(AP 12/13/97)
1987 Dec 14, US Supreme Court
nominee Anthony M. Kennedy told his confirmation hearing he had no
hidden agenda for abortion and privacy cases.
(AP 12/14/97)
1987 Dec 14, Chrysler pleaded no
contest to federal charges of selling several thousand vehicles as new
even though they'd been driven by employees with the odometer
disconnected.
(AP 12/14/97)
1987 Dec 15, Gary Hart, who had
dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination amid
questions about his relationship with Miami model Donna Rice, made a
surprise return to the campaign, saying, "Let's let the people decide."
(AP 12/15/97)
1987 Dec 16, Former White House
aide Michael K. Deaver was convicted of lying to a House subcommittee
and a grand jury investigating whether he had violated federal ethics
laws. He was later fined and ordered to perform community service.
(AP 12/16/97)
1987 Dec 16, South Korea held its
first direct presidential election in 16 years, choosing the
government's handpicked candidate, Roh Tae-woo.
(AP 12/16/97)
1987 Dec 17, With election results
showing him the winner, South Korea's president-elect, Roh Tae-woo,
appealed for "national harmony" while his opponents claimed he had won
through fraud.
(AP, 12/17/97)
1987 Dec 18, Ivan F. Boesky was
sentenced to three years in prison for plotting Wall Street's biggest
insider-trading scandal. Boesky served about two years of his sentence.
(AP, 12/18/97)
1987 Dec 18, Pakistani opposition
leader Benazir Bhutto was married in a traditional Islamic ceremony to
businessman Asif Ali Zardari.
(AP, 12/18/97)
1987 Dec 19, The Palestinian
uprising in Israel's occupied territories spread to Arab east
Jerusalem.
(AP, 12/19/97)
1987 Dec 20, Some 4,340 people
were killed when the Dona Paz, a Philippine passenger ship, collided
with the tanker Vector off Mindoro island, setting off a double
explosion.
(AP, 2/3/06)
1987 Dec 21, In New York City
three white teen-agers from the Howard Beach section of Queens were
convicted of manslaughter in the death of a black man who was chased
onto a highway, where he was struck by a car. A fourth defendant was
acquitted.
(AP, 12/21/97)
1987 Dec 22, The Reagan
administration criticized Israel's handling of the Palestinian uprising
in the occupied territories, particularly the military's use of live
ammunition against civilians.
(AP, 12/22/97)
1987 Dec 23, Lynette "Squeaky"
Fromme, serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of
President Ford in 1975, escaped from the Alderson Federal Prison for
Women in West Virginia. She was recaptured two days later.
(AP, 12/23/97)
1987 Dec 24, M.G. Ramachandran
(b.1917), leading Tamil film actor and Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu
state from 1977, died. He was the first film actor to be a Chief
Minister in India.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran)
1987 Dec 24, In Lebanon, the
kidnappers of Terry Anderson released a videotape in which The
Associated Press correspondent told his family he was in good health,
and said to President Reagan, "Surely by now you know what must be done
and how you can do it." Anderson was freed nearly four years later.
(AP, 12/24/97)
1987 Dec 25, Authorities
recaptured Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who had escaped two days earlier
from the federal prison in Alderson, W.Va., where she was serving a
life sentence for her attempt on the life of President Ford.
(AP, 12/25/97)
1987 Dec 26, A bomb exploded at a
USO bar in Barcelona, Spain, killing one U.S. sailor and injuring nine
others; a little-known group called the Red Army of Catalonian
Liberation claimed responsibility.
(AP, 12/26/97)
1987 Dec 27, Scores of Palestinian
prisoners appeared before Israeli military courts in the first trials
of several hundred protesters arrested in the "intefadeh," or uprising,
in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
(AP, 12/27/97)
1987 Dec 28, The bodies of 14
relatives of R. Gene Simmons were found at his home near Dover, Ark.,
following a shooting spree by Simmons in Russellville that claimed two
other lives. Simmons was later executed.
(AP, 12/28/97)
1987 Dec 29, The antidepressant
drug Prozac was allowed to go on the market. It was based on
fluoxetine, which increases serotonin levels in the brain by preventing
the cells that that produce serotonin from reabsorbing it too quickly.
It was discovered by Dr. Ray W. Fuller (1936-1996), Dr. David Wong and
Dr. Bryan Molloy.
(SFC, 8/15/96,
p.C4)(www.prozactruth.com/fdalilly.htm)
1987 Dec 29, NASA delayed the
planned June launch of the space shuttle -- the first since the
Challenger disaster -- because a motor component failed during a
test-firing of the shuttle's redesigned booster rocket.
(AP, 12/29/97)
1987 Dec 30, Manufacturers of
all-terrain vehicles agreed to withdraw the three-wheel model from
dealers' inventories, but stopped short of a recall, as demanded by
groups who felt the ATV's were dangerous.
(AP, 12/30/97)
1987 Dec 31, One second was added
to the year to compensate for precession of earth's axis.
(HN, 12/31/98)
1987 Dec 31, Robert Mugabe was
sworn in as Zimbabwe's first executive president.
(AP, 12/31/97)
1987 Dec, Sheik Ahmed Yassin
founded Hamas, a Palestinian social welfare and military organization.
He urged the killing of Palestinians who collaborated with Israeli
authorities. Its military wing, called the Izzeddine al-Qassam, used
armed operations against Israel. In 2006 Matthew Levitt authored
“Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad.”
(SFC, 5/25/96, p.A12)(SFC,12/27/97, p.A12)(WSJ,
5/2/06, p.D8)
1987 Dec, Work began on the
Chunnel between Britain and France.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, zone 1 p.4)
1987 Dec, Slobodan Milosevic, head
of a nationalist faction, staged a palace coup and purged Pres. Ivan
Stambolic over his moderate treatment of ethnic Albanians. Milosevic
had risen to power as head of Serbia’s Communist Party.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 12/27/96, p.B3)(SFC,
7/24/97, p.C3)
1987 Jasper Johns, American
artist, painted "The Seasons (Fall)."
(SFC, 3/31/97, p.E6)
1987 The "New Star" sculpture by
Mark di Suvero was constructed.
(SFEC, 3/16/97, DB p.33)
1987 Cleveland Amory authored "The
Cat Who Came for Christmas," a national best-seller about his cat Polar
Bear.
(SFC, 10/16/98, p.D4)
1987 Molefi K. Asante wrote his:
"The Afrocentric Idea."
(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 34)
1987 Ravi Batra authored "The
Great Depression of the 1990s."
(NW, 9/16/02, p.34BB)
1987 Virginia Reade Belmontez
(d.1998 at 68) authored "Mexico Barbarro 1987," a book that exposed the
past of Mexico’s Pres. Salinas and his party’s oppression of the
Mexican people.
(SFC, 11/7/98, p.C2)
1987 Martin Bernal wrote Vol. 1 of
his "Black Athena." Vol. 2 came out in 1991.
(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 34)
1987 Allan Bloom, Prof. of
political philosophy at the Univ. of Chicago, published "The Closing of
the American Mind." In 2000 Saul Bellow authored the novel "Ravelstein"
based on the life of Bloom.
(WSJ, 1/7/98, p.W11)(WSJ, 2/2/00, p.A26)
1987 Stewart Brand wrote "The
Media Lab."
(SFC, 7/1/97, p.A17)
1987 Dorothy Bryant wrote her
historical novel "The Confessions of Madame Psyche."
(SFC, 12/13/96, p.C14)
1987 James Lee Burke published his
1st Dave Robicheaux detective novel "Neon Rain."
(SFC, 9/11/00, p.B7)
1987 Lincoln Caplan authored "The
Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law."
(SFC, 10/13/99, p.C2)
1987 "Southern Food" by John
Egerton was published.
(SFC, 8/14/96, zz-1 p.1)
1987 Neil Folberg published "In a
Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan." It focused on
the Sinai Desert and was re-issued in 1998.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, BR p.6)
1987 Joseph Greenberg (d.2001),
Stanford linguist, authored "Language in the Americas." He assigned the
650 native languages of North and South America to 3 groups.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.C2)
1987 William Greider wrote
"Secrets of the Temple." It was a comprehensive general account of how
the Federal Reserve operates.
(WSJ, 1/17/97, p.A11)
1987 Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese
Zen master, published "Being Peace," the first of his 35 books and
tapes.
(SFC, 10/12/97, Z1 p.3)
1987 David Ignatius authored his
novel “Agents of Innocence.” It became a classic in the espionage genre.
(WSJ, 4/7/07, p.P10)
1987 Kim Jong Il, son of North
Korean leader Kim Il Sung, authored the treatise: “Theory of Cinematic
Art.”
(www.korea-dpr.com/library/209.pdf)
1987 Paul Kennedy, British
historian, authored “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.”
(Econ, 5/24/08, p.108)
1987 "Modern Geology Vol. II" by
Andrew Kitchener was published.
(NH, 8/96, p.58)
1987 Patricia Limerick published
"The Legacy of Conquest." She realigned standard history to account for
minorities and women in the unbroken settlement of the US West.
(SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.12)
1987 "Moon Tiger," a novel by
Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize.
(WSJ, 9/20/96, p.A12)
1987 Malachi Martin (d.1999 at
78), an Irish-born former Jesuit, published "The Jesuits."
(SFC, 7/30/99, p.D8)
1987 The "Food of Southern Italy"
by chef Carlo Middione won the Tastemaker Award in the International
Cookbook category.
(SFEM, 7/21/96, p.16)
1987 Toni Morrison wrote her novel
"Song of Solomon."
(SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.61)
1987 V.S, Naipaul (b.1932),
Trinidad-born English novelist, authored "The Enigma of Arrival."
(SFC, 10/12/01, p.C1)
1987 M.I.T. Press published "A Few
Good Men from Univac." It was a history of the computer.
(WSJ, 11/22/96, p.A12)
1987 Caryl Phillips wrote "The
European Tribe," his "impressionistic tour of a continent with a long
history of persecuting Jews and ignoring blacks."
(WSJ, 5/21/97, p.A12)
1987 T. Boone Pickens, head of
Mesa Petroleum, published his autobiography “Boone.” In 2000 it was
updated under the title “The Luckiest Guy in the World.”
(WSJ, 9/10/08, p.A13)
1987 Richard Preston wrote "First
Light," a book on the romantic era of astronomy. A new edition was
published in 1996.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, BR p.7)
1987 Barbara Raskin (d.1999 at 63)
published her novel "Hot Flashes."
(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A17)
1987 Richester Register, student
of Paolo Soleri, published his "Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a
Healthy Future."
(PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 29)
1987 Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003),
German director, published her autobiography: "Leni Riefenstahl: A
Memoir."
(SFC, 1/19/99, p.B5)
1987 George Seldes, former Berlin
correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, wrote his autobiography:
"Witness to a Century."
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T5)
1987 Randy Shilts authored "The
Band Played On," in which he chronicled the early days of AIDS.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Band_Played_On)
1987 George Soros, businessman,
published "The Alchemy of Finance." It offered his ideas on a wide
range of subjects including his own success. The Quantum Fund is one of
Mr. Soros’ investment vehicles.
(WSJ, 2/27/95, p.A-10)
1987 Larry R. Squire authored
“Memory and Brain.” It became a classic in the biology of memory.
(WSJ, 4/7/07, p.P10)
1987 Choreographer Paul Taylor
published his autobiography "Public Domain."
(WSJ, 4/12/99, p.A21)
1987 Walter Weintz (1915-1996)
wrote his memoir "The Solid Gold Mailbox." He had been a pioneer of
direct mail advertising and used a Persian poet’s lines to sell the
Reader’s Digest: "If thou hast two pennies, spend one for bread."
Weintz sent out 100 million pennies in pairs and advertised that the
1st be kept for luck and the 2nd be used as a down payment to Reader’s
Digest.
(SFC, 12/25/96, p.A22)
1987 Chancellor Williams published
his work: "The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of Race
from 4500 BC to 2000 AD." He also wrote "The Re-Birth of African
Civilization," an account of his 1953-1957 research project on the
nature of education in Europe and Africa.
(Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 34)
1987 "The Truly Disadvantaged" by
William Julius Wilson first discussed the "mismatch thesis," which
points to the problem of unskilled inner-city workers trapped in
poverty and unqualified and unable to reach jobs in the hi-tech urban
environment. The problem continued to be discussed in his 1996 book:
"When Work Disappears."
(WSJ, 9/3/96, p.A12)
1987 William Wilson (d.1999 at 51)
authored "An Incomplete Education," designed to fill in knowledge
lacked by college graduates.
(SFC, 11/3/99, p.C6)
1987 Tom Wolfe published his first
novel "Bonfire of the Vanities" in book form, a complete re-write after
it was serialized in Rolling Stone Magazine. The title referred to an
event on Feb 7, 1497, when followers of the priest Girolamo Savonarola
collected and publicly burned thousands of objects in Florence, Italy.
Wolfe’s book was a story of Reagan-era avarice.
(WSJ, 10/30/98,
p.W1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_of_the_Vanities)
1987 Arthur Miller wrote his play
"I Can’t Remember Anything." He also authored in this year his
autobiography "Timebends."
(WSJ, 1/14/98, p.A17)(Econ, 11/1/03, p.82)
1987 August Wilson won a Pulitzer
prize for his play "Fences." Mr. Wilson’s work chronicles 20th century
life among American blacks.
(WSJ, 2/17/95, p.A-10)
1987 In SF Kenneth R. Dixon
(1945-1994) became artistic director of Theatre Rhinoceros.
(SFC, 2/12/08, p.E1)
1987 The book "White Mischief"
(1982) by James Fox was made into a film starring Charles Dance and
Greta Scacchi. The book highlighted the free-spending, and often
alcoholic ways of much of the early colonial set in Kenya.
(AP, 5/24/06)
1987 Dom DeLuise started in “The
Dom DeLuise Show,” a syndicated sitcom (1987-1988) in which he played a
Hollywood barber and widowed single father of a 10-year-old girl.
(SFC, 5/6/09, p.A9)
1987 Morton Downey Jr. (d.2001)
pioneered the "Trash TV" talk show with his NYC "The Morton
Downey Show."
(SFC, 3/14/01, p.A20)
1987 The TV show "The ‘Slap’
Maxwell Story" began a one year run. It was a drama comedy about a
sports columnist in New Mexico.
(SFC, 12/3/98, p.E5)
1987 The TV show "A Year in the
Life" was a drama about a Seattle widower and businessman and his 4
grown children.
(SFC, 12/3/98, p.E5)
1987 Henry Hampton (d.1998 at 58)
produced his 6-hour PBS TV special "Eyes on the Prize," a look at the
civil rights movement.
(SFC, 11/24/98, p.A26)
1987 M.C. Hammer (aka Stanley Kirk
Burrell) released his first "rap music" single, "Ring ‘Em"/"Stupid Def
Yal" on Bustin’ Records.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, DB p.34)
1987 Carl Perkins (d.1998),
rockabilly king, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
(SFC, 1/20/98, p.A1,8)
1987 John Santos formed the
Machete Ensemble. From Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music the band
moved to Latin jazz and traditional classic jazz.
(SFEC,10/26/97, DB p.49)
1987 Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997)
produced his album "At My Window."
(SFC, 1/4/97, p.E1)
1987 John Whelan, button
accordionist, recorded "Fresh Takes" with violinist Eileen Ivers.
(WSJ, 3/17/97, p.A16)
1987 Philip Glass composed his
Violin Concerto.
(WSJ, 1/27/97, p.A20)
1987 Lou Harrison composed "Strict
Songs." Mark Morris adopted the music to a dance performance.
(WSJ, 4/25/97, p.A16)
1987 In Boston the 46 floor Tower
One of the International Place was completed. The 35 floor Tower Two
was completed in 1992. The architects were Philip Johnson and John
Burgee.
(WSJ, 1/3/97, p.B10)
1987 The Dia Center for the Arts
opened a 40,000-sq.-foot exhibition space on W. 22nd St. in Greenwich
Village, NYC.
(Hem, 4/96, p.55)
1987 The Evangelical Lutheran
Church of America (ELCA) was formed by the merger of 3 small Lutheran
denominations: the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in
America and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.
(SFC, 7/21/97, p.A11)
1987 The Westin Kauai was
completed by developer Christopher B. Hemmeter (d.2003).
(SSFC, 11/30/03, p.A29)
1987 In Texas George Roden was
driven from the Branch Dravidian religious group after a gun battle
with David Koresh over the leadership. The 77-acre compound near Waco,
known as Mount Carmel, belonged to Roden’s mother, who named Koresh as
the trustee in her will.
(SFC, 12/8/98, p.A3)
1987 John Templeton (1912-2008),
financial wizard, founded the John Templeton Foundation to explore the
relationship between science and religion.
(Wired, 2/98, p.176)(Econ, 7/19/08, p.95)
1987 Mickey Weiss founded the Los
Angeles Food Distribution Project. It distributed 60,000 pounds of
produce free of charge in its first month and by 1991 the program had
grown to 1.5 million pounds per month. It reached 100 million pounds
per year by 1995.
(Hem., Oct. '95, p.17-18)
1987 Milton Feldstein (d.1997 at
78) was chosen as president of the Air and Waste Management
Association, a trade group for air quality professionals.
(SFC, 5/20/97, p.A21)
1987 The Joseph and Edna Josephson
Institute of Ethics was founded by Michael Josephson to survey the
character of youths and adults.
(Hem., 8/96, p.21)
1987 First Friday, an African
American networking organization, began in New Jersey as a happy hour
for people in their 30s.
(SSFC, 8/18/02, p.E1)
1987 The National Museum of Women
in the Arts was founded in Washington DC. It was the idea of Wilhelmina
Holladay. In 1997 a new $1 million wing was added.
(SFEC,11/9/97, p.A12)
1987 Samuel Eilenberg (d.1998 at
84), mathematician and art collector, donated over 400 artifacts from
his collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In return the museum
raised some $1.5 million to create the Samuel Eilenberg Visiting
Professorship of Mathematics at Columbia Univ.
(SFC, 2/3/98, p.A15)
1987 Village Enterprises Fund was
founded to help small businesses in under-developed countries. In 1997
it began focusing on East Africa.
(SFC, 6/805, p.C1)
1987 The Feminist Majority was
founded by Toni Carabillo, Judith Meuli, Eleanor Smeal, Peg Yorkin and
Katherine Spillar. Their goal was to encourage women’s empowerment.
(LAT, 9/29/97, p.A18)
1987 Mary Shurz, editor of the
Danville Advocate in Kentucky, unofficially started the Danville Great
American Brass Band Festival.
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A8)
1987 Sam Moskowitz (d.1997 at 76)
was inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame for his
extensive work in science fiction.
(SFC, 4/26/97, p.A22)
1987 Donald J. Cram (d.2001 at 82)
won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing molecules that
mimicked some chemistry reactions of life. He later created "prison:
molecules that enclosed smaller molecules.
(SFC, 6/22/01, p.D6)
1987 Susumu Tonegawa of Japan won
the Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of the process that
enables the body to produce thousands of different antibodies to fight
disease.
(SFEC, 10/8/96, A9)
1987 The Nobel Peace Prize was
awarded to Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica.
(SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13)
1987 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian
president and former U.N. secretary general, was barred from entering
the U.S. for his past involvement in Nazi war crimes.
(HNQ, 10/22/99)
1987 A US Congressional Sentencing
Commission, created in 1984, put forth its 1st sentencing guidelines.
(WSJ, 7/14/04, p.A1)
1987 The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) set standards for air quality that included a maximum
level of particulate matter in air. The standard applied to particles
smaller than 10 microns (10 millionths of a meter).
(WSJ, 5/21/97, p.A14)
1987 The Federal Abandoned
Shipwreck Act gave states control of historic wrecks that were found
near their coasts.
(SFC, 12/2/97, p.A2)
1987 The Amerasian Homecoming Act
was enacted by Congress and enabled Vietnamese with American facial
features born between 1962 and 1976 to get an American visa.
(WSJ, 2/28/02, p.B1)
1987 The US Congress approved a
$6.4 billion budget for "the Big Dig" in Boston. Its 85% support later
shrank to 55%, as costs in 2002 rose to $14.6 billion.
(SFC, 12/20/02, p.J12)
1987 US Congress added portions of
California’s Merced, Kings, and Kern Rivers (north and south forks) to
the national system for federal protection. The 1968 National Wild and
Scenic Rivers Act originally covered 9 rivers including the Middle Fork
Feather River in California.
(SFC, 7/21/06, p.B3)
1987 A wrongful death suit filed
by Michael Donald’s mother gave a $7 million verdict against the United
Klans of America. In 1981 Ku Klux Klansman Henry Hays had murdered
Donald, a 19-year-old black man, in a random abduction. Donald was
beaten, cut, strangled and his body was strung up a tree. Hays was
convicted and sentenced to death. He was executed Jun 6, 1997.
(SFC, 6/6/97, p.A3)
1987 A sex scandal hit TV
evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. [see Feb 21, 1988]
(TMC, 1994, p.1987)
1987 California passed a law that
required unmarried girls under 18 to get written parental consent or to
prove to a judge that they are mature enough to make an informed
decision in order to get an abortion.
(SFC, 4/4/96, p.A-1)
1987 In Pasadena, Ca., a crematory
owner was accused of selling body parts and stuffing up to 18 bodies at
a time into a combustion chamber.
(WSJ, 2/28/02, p.B1)
1987 Hubcap Ranch in Pope Valley,
Napa County, Ca., was declared a state historic landmark. Litto Damonte
(d.1985), Italian marble mason, had bought the 360-acre ranch in 1930.
He soon began collecting hubcaps from passing cars on the potholed Pope
Valley Road.
(SSFC, 3/15/09, p.B2)
1987 New Jersey adopted
legislation requiring bottled water to carry an expiration date. Water
companies began stamping all bottles.
(WSJ, 2/11/04, p.D11)
1987 In New York Tawana Brawley
(16) charged that 6 white law-enforcement officers abducted and raped
her. Her claims were declared a hoax by a grand jury. 9 years later a
related trial opened in a defamation suit brought by a former
prosecutor against the Rev. Al Sharpton and 2 other advisers to
Brawley. In 1998 Steven Paganes was awarded $345,000 in damages.
Sharpton was fined $65,000, C. Vernon Mason was fined $185,000 and
Alton Maddox was fined $95,000.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A7)(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A9)
1987 There were demonstrations at
the California Concord Naval Weapons Station against the base’s alleged
role in shipping arms to Central America. Writer Alice Walker was
arrested.
(SFEC, 4/20/97, BR p.6)
1987 AdLib launched a PC audio
card that delivered stereo sound.
(WSJ, 3/4/97, p.B1)
1987 A.W. Clausen, head of the
Bank of America, sold the Charles Schwab securities firm and refocused
on the domestic market.
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.B4)
1987 The Carlyle Group was founded
in Washington DC. It had interests with military contractors and ties
to elite DC circles.
(SFC, 3/27/03, p.B1)
1987 Cyberonics Corp. was founded
to design, develop and bring to market medical devices to treat
epilepsy. The company developed an implantable device to stimulate the
vagus nerve to reduce the frequency and extent of epileptic seizures.
(CYBX, 1997, AR p.19)
1987 Chrysler bought AMC for $600
million.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1987 Ford purchased a 75% share of
Aston Martin.
(HNQ, 11/26/00)
1987 General Electric (GE) sold
its consumer electronics business to Thompson SA.
(WSJ, 11/4/99, p.B6)
1987 LVMH, a fashion and luxury
goods group, was created. Its initials stood for Louis Vuitton (leather
luggage), Moet (champagne) and Hennessy (cognac).
(Econ, 3/6/04, Survey p.6)
1987 The Hearst Corp. acquired the
Houston Chronicle. Hearst also acquired Cowles and North America
Syndicates, which were consolidated into King Features Syndicate.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1987 Martha Stewart joined Kmart
as Entertainment and Lifestyle Spokesperson.
(WSJ, 11/18/04, p.B1)
1987 Mazda opened a new plant in
Flat Rock, Mich.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1987 Craig McCaw took his McCaw
Cellular Communications public and raised $2.39 billion. McCaw’s story
was told in 2000 by O. Casey Cor in "Money From Thin Air."
(WSJ, 6/14/00, p.A24)
1987 Matsushita Electric invested
significant resources to incorporate fuzzy logic technology into
marketable goods.
(Hem, Dec. 94, p.102)
1987 Michael Gilliland and his
wife, Elizabeth Cook, purchased a vegetarian food store in Boulder,
Colo. In 1991 they opened their 1st supermarket-size store in Santa Fe,
NM, and renamed the company Wild Oats Vegetarian Market. They
went public in 1996 and by 2006 had 114 stores in 24 states.
(WSJ, 10/26/06, p.C1)
1987 Shearson Lehman Brothers, a
unit of American Express, acquired E.F. Hutton, which had been crippled
by a 1985 check-kiting scandal and the October 1987 stock market crash.
Shearson and Hutton merged in 1988.
(WSJ, 10/15/05,
p.B3)(www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Lehman_Brothers)
1987 Toyota introduced All Trac
models, featuring 4-wheel-drive, of Camry and other cars.
(WSJ, 9/16/05, p.W12)
1987 TRW developed the first seat
belt pretensioners.
(F, 10/7/96, p.72)
1987 The International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) originally released the ISO 9000
series of standards. Since then, the standards have become recognized
around the world and are now accepted in more than 100 countries.
(BW, 10/6/98)
1987 GSM, a 2nd generation
wireless technology, was mandated as a Europe-wide standard.
(Econ, 5/28/05, p.66)
1987 Dr. Lameh Fananapazir was
hired by the National Institutes of Health [NIH] and expanded the
agency’s research in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy [HCM], an inherited
condition that thickens the heart and can cause sudden death. In 1993
he received approval to begin putting pacemakers into children and
claimed results that indicated a reversal of the disease. His work has
become very controversial.
(WSJ, 6/12/96, p.A1)
1987 The "Breathe Right" strip was
invented by an allergy sufferer as a device to enhance air flow in the
nose.
(SFEC, 2/9/97, Par p.17)
1987 In Hawaii 2
millimeter/submillimeter radio telescopes were completed on Mauna Kea:
the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (10.4m) and the James Clerk
Maxwell Telescope (15m).
(Hem., 7/95, p.115)
1987 Scientist using the Very
Large Array (VLA) found an object known as MG1131+0456, that showed an
oval structure. Additional observations of the object later that year
showed more detail and confirmed that it was an example of an Einstein
Ring, a phenomena that resulted from light bending in a gravitational
lens. Optical observers had discovered the first gravitational lens in
1979.
(Econ, 1/12/08,
p.72)(www.nrao.edu/pr/2000/vla20/background/ering/)
1987 In South Baltimore the Cherry
Hill Elementary School became the first public school in the country to
adopt a school uniform.
(WSJ, 9/11/98, p.W9)
1987 Oral Lee Brown, an Oakland,
Ca., realtor, adopted the entire first grade class at Brookfield
Elementary School and promised to send the 23 students to college after
they graduated. She put $10,000 a year into their college fund. In 1999
19 of the students headed for college under the Oral Lee Brown
Foundation. 14 graduated from college and 3 went on to graduate school.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.A15)(SFC, 10/14/06, p.B3)
1987 The year proved to be the
warmest on record based on studies by NASA’s Goddard Inst. for Space
Studies in New York, and by a team at the Univ. of East Anglia in
Britain led by Thomas Wigley.
(NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.74)
1987 Hawks Aloft Worldwide was
conceived as a cooperative project by the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, in
Kempton, Pennsylvania.
(NH, 10/96, p.41)
1987 Dr. Alastair Carruthers of
Vancouver, BC, injected botulinum toxin into the forehead of his
secretary Cathy Bickerton Swann to reduce her frown lines. The FDA
approved Botox for a variety of conditions in 1989.
(NW, 5/13/02, p.50)
1987 Cetus Corp. patented
polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a process that turns small amounts of
DNA into large amounts of DNA. The enzyme Taq, which helped to automate
the process, was patented in 1989. In 1991 Roche purchased the Cetus
patents for PCR and Taq.
(SFC, 1/31/00, p.B1)
1987 Chiron Corp. discovered
Hepatitis C and then used its patents to control the sale of tests for
the bug [virus].
(SFC, 5/31/99, p.E5)
1987 Some 13,000 people fell ill
in Carrollton, Ga., from the cryptosporidium parasite in contaminated
tap water.
(SFC, 6/24/98, Z1 p.5)
1987 The parasitic mite, Varroa
jacobsoni, spread to America. The verroa mite first appeared west of
the Mississippi. The bee parasite was first found in Java about a
hundred years ago. It spread across the upper Midwest and in 1996
California almond growers advertised that they would pay $34 per colony
for beekeepers to bring in honeybees. In 2005 the bee population fell
by 50% in 6 months. The mite deforms honey bees and shortens their
lifespan.
(NH, 5/97, p.34)(Econ, 6/4/05, p.33)(SFC, 5/4/96,
p.A-17)
1987 Geochemist Wallace Broecker
of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 1st suggested that a greenhouse
induced shutdown of a current in the Atlantic Ocean (the thermohaline
circulation) could trigger abrupt climate change and plunge much of
Europe into a mini-ice age.
(WSJ, 5/14/04, p.B1)
1987 Hundreds of bottlenose
dolphins died from a morbillivirus infection and washed ashore in New
Jersey. The disease spread to Florida in 1988 and more than 1,000
dolphins died. Another epidemic occurred in 1990 among striped dolphins
in the Mediterranean.
(SFEC, 9/30/96, p.A19)
1987 In Afghanistan Najibullah
proposed a cease-fire, but the Mujahideen refused to deal with a
"puppet government". Mujahideen made great gains, and the defeat of the
Soviets was eminent.
(www.afghan, 5/25/98)
1987 Queensland, Australia, began
using a random placement system of cameras to help control traffic.
(Econ, 6/2/07, p.62)
1987 In Azerbaijan Pres. Aliyev
resigned from the Soviet Politburo government.
(WSJ, 12/18/96, p.A21)
1987 In Canada the Meech Lake
Accord was an attempt to modify the Constitution and give Quebec some
special recognition. Quebec did not ratify it and it did not take
effect.
(SFC, 1/29/99, p.A12)
1987 France ousted Libyan troops
from a disputed area of northern Chad. In the proxy war, code-named
Arid Farmer, France and the US backed government forces against Libyan
troops.
(SFC, 6/22/99, p.A12)(WSJ, 2/11/03, p.D8)
1987 Britain’s PM Margaret
Thatcher privatized Rolls Royce.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.63)
1987 Britain passed legislation
governing animal experiments.
(SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A20)
1987 The Sultan of Brunei, leader
of the independent sultanate on the northern coast of Borneo, sent $10
million to support the Nicaraguan contras.
(HNQ, 12/14/98)
1987 Marvin Davis (1925-2004), oil
mogul and former owner of 20th Century Fox, sold the Beverly Hills
Hotel to the Sultan of Brunei for a $65 million profit.
(SSFC, 9/26/04, p.B7)
1987 Burma’s military junta
withdrew most banknotes late this year, which sparked massive protests
in 1988.
(Econ, 10/6/07, p.44)
1987 Cecilia Bolocco of Chile won
the Miss Universe crown.
(WSJ, 8/3/01, p.A1)
1987 In Chile a secret police unit
killed 12 members of a pro-communist urban guerrilla gang. In 2007
retired Col. Ivan Quiroz was convicted as a member of the secret police
unit and sentenced to 10 years in prison. Sentenced along with Quiroz
were 10 other agents of Dina, including its director at the time,
retired Gen. Hugo Salas, who received a life sentence.
(AP, 1/24/08)
1987 In China Dr. Zhang JianDong
produced a study on villages downstream from the JinZhou Ferroalloy Co.
smelter, where large amounts of chromium waste was being spilled into
the groundwater. His 2-decade study showed that villagers in the area
had a higher death rate from all cancers and especially stomach and
lung cancer. A 1997 report by the consulting firm ChemRisk, hired by
PG&E Corp., said the results of Dr. Zhang’s study reflected
lifestyle or environmental factors rather than exposure to chromium-6.
(WSJ, 12/23/05, p.A1)
1987 By this year China had
stationed nine armies (approximately 400,000 troops) in the
Sino-Vietnamese border region, including one along the coast. It had
also increased its landing craft fleet and was periodically staging
amphibious landing exercises off Hainan Island, across from Vietnam,
thereby demonstrating that a future attack might come from the sea.
(www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/prc-vietnam.htm)
1987 Giant pandas in China were
down to about 35 isolated populations in the wild, most of them of
fewer than 20 pandas each. They were confined to the wooded mountains
of Sichuan province, on the edge of the Tibetan plateau.
(NOHY, 3/90, p.52)
1987 Denmark recognized
Copenhagen’s Christiana enclave, founded in 1971, as a social
experiment. In 1991 the government gave residents the right to use the
land. In 2006 the government proposed a plan to regularize housing in
the enclave.
(SSFC, 10/22/06, p.G3)
1987 In Ecuador members of the
Tagaeri tribe killed Spanish Bishop Alejandro Lavaca and Colombian nun
Ines Arango with poison-tipped spears. The 2 had been dropped in by an
oil company helicopter to bring the word of god and discuss the arrival
of oil workers.
(SFC, 9/3/04, p.W2)
1987 In Egypt the opera "Aida" was
staged at the Temple of Luxor by the company Opera on Original Site Inc.
(WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A20)
1987 A major famine hit Ethiopia.
(TMC, 1994, p.1987)
1987 Eurotunnel started trading on
the Paris Bourse for $6.35 a share. It peaked in 1989 at $23.04, but in
2004 was down to 44 cents.
(WSJ, 5/19/04, p.A1)
1987 In France the Monde Arabe
(The Arab World Institute) was opened in Paris. The building at 1 Rue
des Fosses Saint-Bernard was designed by Jean Nouvel.
(SFEC, 1/4/98, p.T7)
1987 William Koch of Germany paid
some $500,000 for 4 bottles of French wine said to have been discovered
in Paris in 1985 and allegedly once owned by Thomas Jefferson. By 2006
Koch’s investigations led him to believe they were fakes, which he
attributed to Hardy Rodenstock (born as Meinhard Goerke), a German
collector and dealer.
(WSJ, 9/1/06, p.A1)
1987 In Haiti Paul Farmer,
American doctor and anthropologist, helped create a community-based
health care system called Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health). Partners
In Health (PIH) was founded by Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd
McCormack to support activities in Cange. In 2003 Tracy Kidder authored
“Mountains Beyond Mountains,” the story of Dr. Farmer. In 2004 Farmer
authored “Pathologies of Power.”
(Econ, 1/3/04,
p.61)(www.pih.org/whoweare/history.html)(SFC, 2/8/08, p.E1)
1987 Hong Kong tycoon Adrian Zecha
bought a piece of land in Phuket, Thailand, and started his Amanresorts
for luxurious vacations.
(SFC, 7/2/96, p.D1)
1987 In India Bodo insurgents
began attacking police and soldiers who protected the Muslim settlers
in the tea-growing Assam state.
(SFC, 12/31/96, p.A10)
1987 Pantaloon chain began
operations as India’s 1st formal trouser brand. By 2006 the retail
chain employed 12,000 people in over 100 shops.
(Econ, 4/15/06, p.70)
1987 In Iran the Bahai Institute
of Higher Education began following the virtual banning of Bahais from
Iranian universities after the Islamic revolution of 1979.
(SFC, 10/30/98, p.A20)
1987 Iran acquired centrifuge
designs for a uranium enrichment program that was similar to technology
used in Pakistan.
(SFC, 11/28/03, p.A3)
1987 Iraq restructured its
security organizations. Hussein Kamel al-Majid, the son-in-law of
Saddam Hussein, was placed in charge of the Special Security
Organization and the research at Salman Pak.
(SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A18)
1987 Iraq reportedly tested a bomb
3 times designed to cast a radioactive cloud to weaken enemy units and
cause slow death. It did not work and the project was abandoned.
(SSFC, 4/29/01, p.A14)
1987 In Iraq a census counted some
1.4 million Christians. By 2007 some 1.25 million had moved out of Iraq
leaving about 250,000 behind.
(Econ, 11/17/07, p.55)
1987 In Ireland the Social
Partnership Agreement was initiated. The 1st agreement, a Program for
National Recovery, included a renewable 3-year pact between government,
employers and unions that tied wage increases to the rate of growth.
(SFC, 5/26/97,
p.A10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Partnership)
1987 In Jerusalem, Israel, an
ancient roadway was discovered that skirts the western foundation of
the Temple Mount. A 534-yard tunnel was constructed to follow the
roadway.
(SFC, 9/25/96, p.A1)
1987 Japan gave its tentative
consent to co-develop a version of the US F-16 fighter jet.
(WSJ, 3/22/96, p.A-1)
1987 The Lebanese Free Forces, a
right-wing Christian militia, arranged to accept and store 15,800
barrels and 20 large containers of toxic chemicals from the Italian
firm Jelly Wax in exchange for cash. Later German, Canadian and Belgium
firms shipped in toxic chemicals for storage. By 1998 70% of the
country’s drinking water sources was contaminated.
(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A10)(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A10)
1987 The EU inked its first
fishing deal with Mauritania.
(WSJ, 1/18/07, p.A13)
1987 Mauritius opened a stock
exchange.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1987 In Mexico PRI chairman Munoz
Ledo led a political split from the PRI party and helped form the PRD.
(SFC, 9/2/97, p.A7)
1987 Julio Baldenegro, a
Mexican-Indian leader who opposed logging in Tarahumara mountains of
northern Mexico, was killed. His unsolved murder marked the beginning
of a wave of killings.
(AP, 8/12/03)
1987 Chendra and Shanti,
one-horned rhinos, were presented as a gift to the SF Zoo from Prine
Gyanendra of Nepal. They came from the Royal Chitwan National park, one
of only 3 places where the species survives in the wild.
(SFC, 9/6.96, p.B1)
1987 Olga Murray (62), a retired
California Supreme Court research attorney, broke her leg while
traveling in Nepal. Her hospital experience led her to support another
young patient and then to found her Nepalese Youth Opportunity
Foundation. Her efforts grew to fight the use of young girls as
domestic slaves. In 2006 the Nepalese Supreme Court past token
legislation outlawing the “kamlari” system, which indentured young
girls.
(SSFC, 2/8/09, p.A17)
1987 In the Netherlands the
first campaign to alter social norms of condom use focused on a number
of Dutch celebrities who use condoms themselves.
(http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/IES/netherlands.html)
1987 In the Netherlands art works
by David Teniers, Willem van de Velde, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Eva
Gonzales, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Paul Desire
Trouillebert were stolen from the Noortman gallery in Maastricht. In
2009 police recovered eight of the paintings and arrested 3 suspects.
(AP, 3/8/09)
1987 In the Netherlands heavy
floods inundated the town of Valkenburg as the Geul River overflowed.
(SFC, 9/19/98, p.A5)
1987 Andy Krieger sold short more
kiwis than the entire money supply of New Zealand. The kiwi collapsed
and Krieger banked his profits.
(Econ, 12/18/04, p.108)
1987 Pakistan claimed a nuclear
bomb-building capability.
(SFEC, 5/17/98, p.A15)
1987 Pres. Alfredo Stroessner
lifted the state of siege in Asuncion, Paraguay.
(SFC, 8/17/06, p.A10)
1987 A new constitution for the
Philippines was drafted with checks and balances to prevent a return to
strongman rule.
(Econ, 7/3/04, p.20)
1987 The Philippines abolished the
death penalty. Capital punishment was reimposed in 1994 in response to
widespread crime.
(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A12)(SFC, 6/26/99, p.A13)
1987 In South Korea Roh Tae Woo
agreed to hold presidential elections after weeks of student democracy
demonstrations. Democracy started to take root and suppression of
worker unions ended. The year marked the end of 26 years of
dictatorship.
(SFC, 1/18/96, p.A10)(SFC, 8/26/96,
p.A11)(SFC,12/15/97, p.B2)
1987 Lim Kook-Jae (33), a South
Korean fisherman, was abducted in the Yellow Sea. In 2008 he died at
one of the North's political camps in the northeastern port of Chongjin
after failed attempts to escape.
(AFP, 10/13/08)
1987 In the Soviet Union Gorbachev
introduced the terms glasnost and perestroika.
(TMC, 1994, p.1987)
1987 The Soviet Oka car was
launched.
(Econ, 7/12/08, p.94)
1987 Russia recorded its first
case of AIDS. By 1997 the number rose to 7,000. By 2008 the number
reached 430,000.
(Econ, 11/29/08, p.14)
1987 In Suriname Desi Bouterse was
forced by international pressure to give up power and allow the return
of a democratically elected government.
(AP, 7/16/06)
1987 Syria sent troops into West
Beirut to enforce a cease-fire.
(SFC, 4/27/05, p.A8)
1987 In Taiwan martial law was
lifted by Pres. Chiang Ching-Kuo, son of Chiang Kai-Shek.
(SFC, 6/9/97, p.A8)(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A8)
1987 Rebel leaders of a Thailand
southern insurgency were offered general amnesty.
(SFC, 1/23/04, p.A7)
1987 A UN Convention Against
Torture was established.
(SSFC, 5/19/02, p.A18)
1987-1991 Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila headed the
CIA-financed Venezuelan National Guard antinarcotics group. During his
tenure 1-2 tons of cocaine were smuggled into the US. He was indicted
by a federal grand jury in Miami in 1996.
(WSJ, 11/22/96, p.A12)(SFC, 11/23/96, p.A2)
1987-1992 ChevronTexaco used the services of James
Giffen to gain exclusive rights to study the Tengiz oil field.
Kazakstan paid his Mercator corp. some $67 million from 1994-2000 for
consulting work. In 2003 Giffen was indicted under the 1977 Foreign
Corrupt Practices Act.
(SFC, 4/7/03, p.A14)
1987-1992 Earl Edwin Pitts, a senior FBI agent, was
arrested on espionage charges in 1996. He was most active as a Russian
spy over this period.
(SFC, 12/19/96, p.A1)
1987-1993 In Burundi Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi
paratrooper, became the military president.
(SFC, 8/26/96, p.A4)
1987-1993 The Intifada, a stone-throwing revolt
against Israel, began in Gaza’s Jebaliya refugee camp. The Ansar-3
detention camp in the Negev Desert was one of a number established to
hold Palestinian men arrested in the uprising. In 1998 the documentary
film "Diogenes: Ansar 3" was produced by Hans Fels and Eitan Wetzler of
The Netherlands and Israel.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A12)(Cinemayyat, 2000)
1987-1998 Chester D. Turner, a pizza delivery man,
raped and strangled at least 10 women in South Los Angeles. In 2004 DNA
Turner (39) was charged with 10 murders based on DNA evidence. Turner
was already serving an 8-year sentence for rape when DNA linked him to
the serial killings. In 2007 he was sentenced to death.
(AP, 10/27/04)(SFC, 7/11/07, p.B10)
1987-2001 In France Michel Fourniret, dubbed the
"Ogre of the Ardennes", admitted in his trial to murdering, raping and
kidnapping seven young girls and women during this period. His wife,
Monique Olivier, was accused of helping him trap the victims. In 2008
Fourniret (66) and Olivier (59) were convicted and sentenced to life in
prison for the murders.
(AFP, 5/26/08)(AFP, 5/28/08)
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