October 1987 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1987 Roza opens at Royale Theater NYC for 12 performances
• 03 Oct 1987 Benito Santiago ends longest catcher / rookie hitting streak at 34
• 04 Oct 1987 Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win AL pennant
• 06 Oct 1987 Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a Republic
• 09 Oct 1987 Japanese bank buys Lady McGill stamp for $1,100,000
• 10 Oct 1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album Tunnel of Love
• 11 Oct 1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
• 12 Oct 1987 21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William Jr wins
• 13 Oct 1987 First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf).
• 14 Oct 1987 St. Louis Cardinals beat SF Giants, 4 games to 3 in NLCS
• 15 Oct 1987 Late Nite Comic opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 16 Oct 1987 338,500,000 shares traded on New York stock exchange
• 17 Oct 1987 Late Nite Comic closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 4 performances
• 19 Oct 1987 Anything Goes opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances
• 20 Oct 1987 Dow-Jones increases 102.27 pts / 608,120,000 shares traded
• 21 Oct 1987 7th Belgium government of Martens forms
• 22 Oct 1987 Cabaret opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 262 performances
• 23 Oct 1987 On a vote of 58-42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 24 Oct 1987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike.
• 25 Oct 1987 Minnesota Twins win their first World Series championship beating Saint Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 84th World Series.
• 26 Oct 1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
• 27 Oct 1987 Lucas Mangopes Democratic Party wins Bophuthatswana elections
• 29 Oct 1987 Thomas Hearns wins unprecidented fourth different weight boxing title.
• 30 Oct 1987 In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
• 31 Oct 1987 A pair in Coventry, England ties the world record for the longest singles tennis match at 80 hours 21 minutes.

Famous Birthday

• Zac Efron

  American entertainer, an actor whose singing and dancing abilities became evident at a young age.

• Frank Ocean

  Pop Singer.

• Tove Lo

  Pop Singer.

• Mickaël Vendetta
• Freja Beha Erichsen

  Danish model.

• Zuleyka Rivera

  Puerto Rican model and actress Miss Universe 2006.

• Kilian Jornet
• Ksenia Solo
• Kevin Mirallas

  Belgian footballer of Spanish descent who plays as a winger for Everton and the Belgium national team.

• Sam Querrey

  American tennis player.

• Kaci Lynn Battaglia
• Matthew Daddario

  TV Actor.

• Stuart Lafferty
• Andrey Grechin

  Russian swimmer.

• Yi Jianlian

  Chinese basketball player (birth date disputed).

• Samantha Buxton
• Andrew Bynum

  American basketball player.

• Melissa Baker
• Cleopatra Coleman

  TV Actress.

• Katrin Thormann
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Famous Deaths

• Joseph Campbell

  American writer and leading authority and lecturer on mythology; the psyche and symbolism.

• Jean Anouilh

  French writer, the leading dramatist after WW II, a period that was exceptionally rich in French theater.

• Kishore Kumar

  Indian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1987).

• Madeleine Carroll

  British actress who was a gentle, well-bred leading lady of the '30s and '40s.

• Clare Boothe Luce

  American diplomat (Born 1903).

• Woody Herman

  American musician of big bandleader era.

• Walter H Brattain

  US physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85.

• Philleo Nash

  American anthropologist, government official and the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1959–1961 as a Democrat.

• Thomas Sankara

  Burkinabé captain and politician 5th President of Burkina Faso (d. 1987).

• Ying-Chin Ho

  Taiwan government official, dies at age 88.

• Constantin Alajalov

  Russian artist, dies at age 86.

• Cecil Brown

  news correspondant (CBS), dies at age 80.

• Konstantinos Tsatsos

  President of Greece (Born 1899).

• Abdul Malek Ukil

  Bangladeshi politician (Born 1925).

• Peter Brian Medawar

  Medical scientist.

• Andre Masson

  French artist, a surrealist painter and set designer who caused a stir in the '20s with his works.

• Lino Ventura

  Italian-French film actor.

• Hermann Lang

  German race car driver (Born 1909).

• Konstantinos Tsatsos

  Greek scholar and politician President of Greece (d. 1987).

• Alf Landon

  American politician, Governor of Kansas January 1933 to January 1937.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Whitney Houston - Didn't We Almost Have It All
2. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
3. Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam - Lost In Emotion
4. Michael Jackson - Bad
5. Prince - U Got The Look

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
2. The Bee Gees - You Win Again
3. MARRS - Pump Up The Volume / Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)
4. The Fat Boys & The Beach Boys - Wipeout
5. Abigail Mead & Nigel Goulding - Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor)