Historical Events in February 1987

Feb 1 Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Fine Things” is published

Feb 4 US President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress

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

Feb 7 Madonna's "Open Your Heart" single goes #1

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 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner: he died of smoking-induced lung cancer on 10th October 1985

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

Feb 24 LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point

Feb 24 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack

Feb 26 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record

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