December 1987 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1987 Digging begins to link England and France under the English Channel.
• 02 Dec 1987 Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
• 04 Dec 1987 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51).
• 05 Dec 1987 53rd Heisman Trophy Award: Tim Brown, Notre Dame (world record).
• 06 Dec 1987 Jane Crafter / Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
• 07 Dec 1987 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California
• 08 Dec 1987 Occupied Palestinians start intefadeh (uprising) against Israel
• 09 Dec 1987 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
• 10 Dec 1987 Nightline is seen in the USSR for 1st time
• 11 Dec 1987 Test debut of Carl Hooper, West Indies versus India at Bombay.
• 12 Dec 1987 Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game.
• 13 Dec 1987 Belgium Christian Democrats (CVP) lose parliamentary election.
• 14 Dec 1987 Chrysler pleads no contest to selling driven vehicles as new.
• 15 Dec 1987 Les Miserables opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
• 16 Dec 1987 Roh Tae Woo wins presidential election in South Korea.
• 17 Dec 1987 Square Co., Ltd. releases ''Final Fantasy'' in Japan for the Famicom.
• 18 Dec 1987 Warne Marsh, jazz saxophonist, dies of a heart attack after collapsing onstage while giving a perfomance at Donte's in North Hollywood, California.
• 19 Dec 1987 Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champion.
• 20 Dec 1987 Nuts with Barbra Striesand premieres
• 21 Dec 1987 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
• 23 Dec 1987 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of US President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison.
• 24 Dec 1987 In the USA, the Illinois State Lottery draw for US$39.5 million is split between four winners.
• 25 Dec 1987 Lynette Squeaky Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
• 26 Dec 1987 Les Miserables opens at National Theatre of Iceland, Reykjavik
• 27 Dec 1987 Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass.
• 28 Dec 1987 In Arkansas, USA, R Gene Simmons kills two, later bodies of 14 of his relatives are found at his home near Dover.
• 29 Dec 1987 Prozac anti-depressant drug makes its debut in the United States.
• 30 Dec 1987 Australia hangs on for draw versus New Zealand at Melbourne Cricket Ground, one wicket left 17 runs short.

Famous Birthday

• Karim Benzema

  French international footballer born in Lyon to French nationals of Algerian descent.

• Aaron Carter

  American singer who came to fame as a pop and hip hop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among pre-teen and teenage...

• James Eagan Holmes
• Lily Cole
• Émilie Nef Naf
• Andreas Lubitz

  German airline pilot and presumed mass murderer, working since autumn 2013 for Lufthans as A320 pilot.

• Chelsea Manning

  American soldier.

• Gonzalo Higuaín

  French-Argentinian footballer.

• Teairra Mari
• Ophélie Meunier
• Emilie Le Pennec

  Fremch gymnast and Olympian, she won a gold medal for her performance on the uneven bars in the 2004 games in Athens.

• Chris Crocker

  YouTube Star.

• Michael Angarano

  American actor.

• Karim Réveillé
• Thomas Dekker

  American actor.

• Ronan Farrow

  American human rights activist, journalist, lawyer, former U.S.

• Miki Ando

  Japanese figure skater.

• Uffie
• Alicia Sacramone

  American athlete and Olympian gymnast, she led her gymnastics team to a silver medal in the 2008 Beijing summer Olympics.

• Tatana Kucharova
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Famous Deaths

• James Baldwin

  American writer (Born 1924).

• James Baldwin

  American writer (Born 1924).

• Joop den Uyl

  Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977 (Born 1919).

• Marguerite Yourcenard

  Author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84.

• Robert Paige

  Actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong).

• Alice Terry [Taaffe]

  Actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse).

• Leonidas Zoras

  Composer, dies at 82.

• [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett

  Author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60.

• Donn Fulton Eisele

  Colonel US Air Force/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at age 57.

• Albert P Morano

  American politician (Representative-Republican-Connecticut, 1951-59), dies at age 79.

• Bernard Cardinal Alfrink

  archbishop of Ultrecht, Netherlands, dies at age 87.

• John M "Joop" de Uyl

  Dutch social-democratic premier (1973-77), dies at age 68.

• Rewi Alley

  New Zealand author, pro-Chinese communist, dies at age 90 in Beijing.

• G A Kulkarni

  Indian (Marathi) writer (Born 1923).

• Enrique Jorrin

  Cuban musician and composer (Born 1926).

• Nikos Stavridis

  Greek actor (Born 1910).

• Linda Wong

  American porn star (Born 1951).

• John Spence

  American musician (No Doubt) (Born 1969).

• M G Ramachandran

  Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (Born 1917).

• Geoffrey D Lloyd

  Chairman of the guild of British Newspaper editors (Born 1933).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
2. George Michael - Faith
3. Bill Medley - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life
4. Whitesnake - Is This Love
5. Whitney Houston - So Emotional

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. T'Pau - China In Your Hand
2. Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
3. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
4. George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You
5. Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody