April 1987 in History

Events in History

Apr 16 August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama

Apr 16 British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged with gross indecency
Apr 16 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
Apr 16 Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
Apr 16 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Apr 17 Richard Wilbur appointed as American poet laureate
Apr 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Apr 18 Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race
Apr 18 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)
Apr 19 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)
Apr 19 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
Apr 19 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Apr 20 Sri Lankan Civil War: Tamils shoot 122 Sinhalese dead
Apr 20 US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
Apr 21 Dow Jones Average soared 664.7; 2nd biggest one-day gain in history
Apr 21 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed
Apr 22 Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed
Apr 23 28 construction workers killed in an apt collapse in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Apr 27 US Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II

Apr 28 American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
Apr 29 Japan's premier Nakasone visits the US

Apr 9 Sarah of Brunei, wife of Crown Prince of Brunei, born in Bandar Seri Begawan, Sultanate of Brunei
Apr 11 Michelle Phan, American Vietnamese make-up vlogger and entrepreneur, born in Boston, Massachusetts
Apr 13 Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer, born in Baltimore, Maryland
Apr 23 Emily Fox, American cupstacking champion, born in Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Apr 30 Nikki Webster, Australian entertainer

Apr 4 C. L. Moore, American science fiction and fantasy writer (Judgment Night), dies at 76
Apr 8 Francis Denebrink, US Admiral(WW I, WW II - commanded the Brooklyn, Korea), dies at 90 [1]
Apr 11 Erskine Caldwell, American novelist (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre), dies at 83
Apr 11 Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (Survival in Auschwitz), dies at 67
Apr 17 Cecil Harmsworth King, Irish-British owner of Mirror Group Newspapers, dies at 86
Apr 17 Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher and Christian apologist, dies at 91
Apr 17 Willie Donnell Smith, American fashion designer (WilliWear), dies of pneumonia at 39
Apr 19 Maxwell D. Taylor, American army general, (WWII Commander 101st airborne), Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1962-64), dies at 85
Apr 21 Edith Green, American politician (Rep-D-Oregon 1955-74), dies at 77
Apr 26 John Ernest Silkin, British politician, dies at 64
Apr 28 Ben Linder, American engineer, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua at 27