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1987-1-8
"Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)"
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16349
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1987
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8
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"Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)"
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1/1 - 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico
1/1 - China's rudimentary civil code in effect
1/1 - International Year of Shelter for Homeless begins
1/2 - Penn State upsets Miami in Fiesta Bowl for college football champ
1/2 - Troops of Chad President Habrﾃｩ conquer Fada oasis
1/3 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin
1/3 - Smile closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 48 performances
1/3 - Oh Coward! closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 56 performances
1/4 - 16 die in a train crash in Chase Md
1/5 - "Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ"
1/6 - Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy
1/6 - 100th US Congress convenes
1/7 - French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum
1/7 - "Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest"
1/8 - "Dow Jones closes above 2,000 for 1st time (2,002.25)"
1/8 - Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1/9 - New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
1/9 - "Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed"
1/11 - "Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL NY Giant Stadium (beat Wash 17-0)"
1/13 - Seven top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
1/13 - "West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking"
1/14 - Catfish Hunter & Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1/17 - US President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1/18 - 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1/19 - Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874
1/20 - "Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon"
1/20 - "Rhino Records 1st #1-Billy Vera & Beaters' ""At This Moment"""
1/21 - "BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to U of Mississippi"
1/22 - "Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, NJ wins 7-5"
1/22 - "Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism."
1/23 - Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)
1/23 - Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
1/24 - 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76)
1/25 - "Super Bowl XXI: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Super Bowl MVP: Phil Simms, NY Giants, QB"
1/26 - "14th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama"
1/26 - Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
1/27 - Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
1/28 - Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant
1/28 - US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo
1/29 - Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry
1/29 - "William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA"
1/31 - "44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win"
1/31 - United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp