Historic Publication
Feb 1 Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Fine Things” is published
Danielle Steel
Event of Interest
Feb 4 US President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
Ronald Reagan
- Feb 4 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
- Feb 4 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
- Feb 5 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
- Feb 5 Soyuz TM-2 launches
- Feb 6 No-smoking rules take effect in US federal buildings
- Feb 6 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
- Feb 7 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
- Feb 7 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring the America's Cup back to US
#1 in the Charts
- Feb 7 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
- Feb 7 Police in South Korea make hundreds of arrests during protest demonstrations, the country's biggest for 6 years, after a student died in custody
- Feb 8 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
- Feb 9 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
- Feb 9 NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
- Feb 10 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre
- Feb 11 British Airways begins trading stocks
- Feb 11 England beat Australia 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
- Feb 11 Philippines constitution goes into effect
- Feb 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 12 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
- Feb 13 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
- Feb 14 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
- Feb 15 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
- Feb 15 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
- Feb 15 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
- Feb 15 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
- Feb 15 29th Daytona 500: Bill Elliott wins (176.263 MPH)
- Feb 16 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
- Feb 17 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
- Feb 17 Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
- Feb 19 "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
- Feb 19 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
- Feb 19 Minnesota sheriff's office arrest FBI's most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson
- Feb 19 US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
- Feb 20 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by a computer store in Salt Lake City
- Feb 20 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America" after 11 years
- Feb 20 37th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Theme" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 21 Syrian army marches into Beirut
- Feb 22 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
- Feb 23 Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals, due to brain tumor
- Feb 23 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
- Feb 23 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
- Feb 24 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins
Event of Interest
Feb 24 LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Event of Interest
Feb 24 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
Larry King
Event of Interest
Feb 26 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record
Michael Jordan
- Feb 26 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
- Feb 26 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Feb 26 Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
- Feb 27 "Washington Week In Review" 20th anniversary on PBS
- Feb 27 Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff
- Feb 27 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
- Feb 27 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption