November 1987 in History

Events in History

Nov 3 Gordon Gould issued US patent US4704583 for the laser, ending his 30-year battle to be credited as the inventor of the laser

Nov 3 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
Nov 4 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
Nov 5 France performs nuclear test
Nov 5 Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
Nov 5 South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
Nov 5 US Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana, later withdraws from consideration
Nov 7 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires President Habib Bourguiba
Nov 8 11 are killed in an IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

Nov 11 Judge Anthony Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court

Nov 11 van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction

Nov 12 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
Nov 13 1st condom commercial on British TV
Nov 14 Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett
Nov 15 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
Nov 15 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
Nov 15 NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
Nov 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Nov 18 31 people die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station
Nov 18 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
Nov 19 France performs nuclear test
Nov 22 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
Nov 24 Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang for the People's Republic of China
Nov 25 India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
Nov 25 Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
Nov 27 Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
Nov 28 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
Nov 29 A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115
Nov 29 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Nov 30 Afghanistan Constitution adopted

Nov 3 Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist
Nov 11 Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS and Tegomass), born in Yokohama, Japan
Nov 12 Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Edmonton, Canada
Nov 15 Ian Hecox, Member of Smosh
Nov 26 Summer Lee, American politician (1st back woman elected to Congress for Pennsylvania (D) 2023-), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Nov 1 René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec, dies at 65
Nov 4 Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
Nov 5 Jan Nicolaas Bakhuizen van den Brink, Dutch theologist and church historian, dies at 91
Nov 6 Ross R. Barnett, American lawyer and politician, (Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89
Nov 6 William Pahlmann, American interior designer (4 Season restaurant, NYC), dies at 80
Nov 11 Lowell T. Coggeshall, American medical scientist and US Secretary of HEW (1956-58), dies at 86
Nov 11 Nico Slothouwer, poet (Liefdesstratenplan), commits suicide at 30
Nov 12 Roger Lewis, American businessman (CEO of Amtrak, Pam Am), dies at 75

Nov 14 Dutch war criminal, dies at 88

Nov 21 Jim Folsom, American politician (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79
Nov 24 Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904)
Nov 25 Anton Pieck, Dutch illustrator (1001 Nights), dies at 92

Nov 25 1st African American Mayor of Chicago (Democrat: 1983-87), dies at 65

Nov 26 Thomas G Lanphier Jr, US WW II pilot, dies at 71
Nov 28 Choh Hao Li, Chinese-American bio-chemist (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
Nov 29 Howard Pyle, American politician (Governor-R-Arizona, 1951-55), dies at 81
Nov 30 Arthur H. Dean, American lawyer, ambassador and presidential advisor (1963 nuclear test ban treaty), dies at 89 [1]
Nov 30 Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist (Kronkel), dies at 74