April 1987 calendar

Events

• 02 Apr 1987 Mikado opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 46 performances
• 03 Apr 1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualifying record of 212.809 mph at Talladega.
• 04 Apr 1987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
• 05 Apr 1987 Fox TV network premieres showing Married With Children and Tracey Ullman
• 06 Apr 1987 Al Campanis appears on Niteline saying blacks may not be equiped to be in baseball management, sparking a racial controversy
• 07 Apr 1987 Al Campanis, Dodger executive for more than 40 years, resigns, after making racial remarks on Nightline
• 09 Apr 1987 For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
• 11 Apr 1987 Zoja Ivanova wins second female World Cup marathon (2:30:39).
• 12 Apr 1987 Texaco files for bankruptcy.
• 13 Apr 1987 1st 3 SD Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason
• 14 Apr 1987 Turkey asks to join European market.
• 15 Apr 1987 Barbara Cook: A Concert... opens at Ambassador NYC for 13 performances
• 16 Apr 1987 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
• 17 Apr 1987 Richard Wilbur appointed as US poet laureate.
• 18 Apr 1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
• 19 Apr 1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver.
• 20 Apr 1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with German war crimes, to USSR.
• 21 Apr 1987 Milwaukee Brewers lose, ending American League season-opening winning streak at 13 games.
• 22 Apr 1987 Sri Lanka Air Force bombs Tamil rebels; 100s killed.
• 23 Apr 1987 28 construction workers die when the L'Ambiance Plaza apartment building collapses while under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
• 24 Apr 1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City
• 26 Apr 1987 Barbara Cook: A Concert... closes at Ambassador NYC after 13 performances
• 27 Apr 1987 US Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WWII
• 28 Apr 1987 NBA announces expansion to Charlotte, North Carolina and Miami, Florida in 1988 and Minneapolis, Minnesota and Orlando, Florida in 1989.
• 29 Apr 1987 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US.
• 30 Apr 1987 New York Islanders' Mike Bossy plays his final game.

Famous Birthday

• Maria Sharapova

  Russian tennis player, the first Russian to win the 4 tournaments of the grand slam.

• Jesse McCartney

  American singer and actor.

• Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Movie Actress.

• Joss Stone

  Soul Singer.

• Shay Mitchell

  Canadian Actress.

• Brendon Urie

  American musician (Panic at the Disco).

• Jay Park

  b-boy & musician, part of Art of Movement.

• Brooklyn Decker

  American model and actress.

• William Moseley

  Movie Actor.

• Sarah Gadon

  Canadian actress.

• Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
• Hayley Westenra

  New Zealand soprano (Celtic Woman).

• Ilana Glazer
• Samantha Jade

  Pop Singer.

• Hilary Rhoda

  American model.

• Jazmine Sullivan

  American R&B singer.

• David Luiz

  Brazilian footballer.

• Lola Naymark
• Alexandra Lacrabère
• Alicia Morton

  American actress.

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Famous Deaths

• Primo Levi

  Italian novelist, essayist, poet and scientist, whose writings were influenced by his imprisonment at a concentration camp in Auschwitz,...

• Erskine Caldwell

  American best-selling writer known for his two most successful novels, "Tobacco Road," 1932 and "God's Little Acre," 1933.

• Dick Shawn

  American actor/comedian (Producers), dies on stage from a heart attack at age 63 (born 1924).

• Buddy Rich

  American jazz drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at age 69 (born 1917).

• Hugh Dempster

  Actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine).

• CL Moore

  American writer (Born 1911).

• Francis C Denebrink

  US Naval officer (WWI, WWII, Korea) dies at age 90.

• Ewan Calague

  economist/statistician (Social Security) dies at age 90.

• Carlton Barrett

  Jamaican reggae drummer (No woman no cry), dies at age 36 (born 1950).

• Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum

  American actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at age 77 (born 1910).

• Maxwell D Taylor

  US commander of 101st airborne (WWII), dies at age 85.

• Edith S Green

  American politician (Representative-Democrat-Oregon), dies at age 77.

• Ben Linder

  American development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua (born 1959).

• Chogyam Trungpa

  Tibetan Buddhist meditation master (Born 1939).

• Cecil Harmsworth King

  owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (Born 1901).

• Mike Von Erich

  American wrestler (Born 1964).

• Jan Lindblad

  Swedish naturalist, writer and photographer (d. 1987).

• Shankar

  Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo -Jaikishan (Born 1922).

• Antony Tudor

  Dancer / choreographer (American Ballet Theater) dies at 78.

• C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore

  American author (Judgment Night), dies at age 76 (born 1911).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
2. Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
3. Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms
4. Club Nouveau - Lean On Me
5. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Boy George - Everything I Own
2. Madonna - La Isla Bonita
3. Mel & Kim - Respectable
4. Ferry Aid - Let It Be
5. Ben E King - Stand By Me