Historical Events in March 1987

Mar 7 Mike Tyson beats James 'Bonecrusher' Smith in 12 for WBA heavyweight boxing title

Mar 8 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
Mar 8 David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust
Mar 8 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in California
Mar 8 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
Mar 8 "A Team" last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years
Mar 8 34th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament: NC State beats North Carolina, 68-67
Mar 8 28th SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Alabama beats LSU, 69-62
Mar 8 8th Big East Men's Basketball Tournament: Georgetown beats Syracuse, 69-59
Mar 9 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
Mar 10 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
Mar 11 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
Mar 12 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances

Mar 12 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game

Mar 12 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
Mar 12 Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (Soviet Union)
Mar 12 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)
Mar 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk (Soviet Union)
Mar 13 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)

Mar 13 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering

Mar 14 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
Mar 14 Worlds Ladies' Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt

Mar 14 NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl

Mar 14 13th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV)

Mar 15 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
Mar 15 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
Mar 15 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
Mar 15 NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
Mar 15 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
Mar 17 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
Mar 17 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak
Mar 18 Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns are Jessica and Matthew
Mar 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Mar 19 Bonnie Blair skates ladies' world record 500 m (39.43 sec)

Mar 19 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus Company
Mar 19 Hassanali inaugurated as president of Trinidad & Tobago
Mar 19 American televangelist Jim Bakker resigns amid rape accusation by his secretary, Jessica Hahn
Mar 19 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world record 3 km (4:16.85)
Mar 20 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
Mar 20 NASA launches Palapa B2P
Mar 20 Soap opera "Capitol" final episode
Mar 20 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit
Mar 20 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies' world record 5 km (7:20.36)
Mar 21 PSV sells soccer player Ruud Gullit to AC Milan (Ÿ17 million)
Mar 23 Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
Mar 23 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf

Mar 23 Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns as chairman of the Social Democratic Party

Mar 24 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win

Mar 24 WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
Mar 25 Supreme Court rules women and minorities may get jobs if less qualified
Mar 26 August Wilson's "Fences" premieres in NYC
Mar 26 Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
Mar 26 NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it fails to reach orbit
Mar 26 National Federation of State High School Associations adopt the college 3 point shot (21 feet)
Mar 27 President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
Mar 28 Stacking of Discovery's SRBs gets underway
Mar 29 6th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee routs Louisiana 67-44

Mar 29 Wrestlemania III: 93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant

Mar 30 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win

Mar 30 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for a record 22.5 million pounds ($39.7 million)

Mar 31 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73