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1987
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POLITICS
and HISTORY
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Bill
Gates, 32 year old founder of Microsoft becomes
microcomuptings first billionaire
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W.H.O
reports that 8% of all pregnant Zairean women and 17% of Zairean blood
donors are AIDS
infected
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Margaret
Thatcher becomes the first British PM this
century to be elected three times
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Black
Monday world stock market share prices crash
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A
Yugoslavian baby boy is declared the world's five billionth inhabitant
MUSIC
- I
Think We're Alone Now by Tiffany
- Livin'
on a Prayer by Bon Jovi
- The
Way it Is by Bruce Hornsby and the Range
- Walk
Like an Egyptian by the Bangles
- With
or Without You by U2
- I
Want Your Sex by George Michael
TV
and at the MOVIES
- Patrick
Swayze and Jennifer Grey were Dirty Dancing
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Glenn
Close proved to be a Fatal Attraction for
Michael Douglas
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Wall
Street taught us that 'Greed is Good'
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South
Africa's apartheid policy was shown to the world in 'Cry
Freedom'
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Jack
Nicholson battled the Witches of Eastwick
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Mel
Gibson was a definite Lethal Weapon
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Biology
was proven wrong in My Two Dads
People
who died in 1987
- Rita
Hayworth (b.1918) American film actress
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Fred
Astaire (b.1899) American actor
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Danny
Kaye (b.1913) American actor
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John
Huston (b.1906 ) American film director
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Liberace
(b.1919) American pianist
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Jackie
Gleason (b.1916) American actor
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Andy
Warhol (b.1928) American film-maker and artist
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Lee
Marvin (b.1924) American actor
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Baroness
Maria Von Trapp (b.1905) author of 'The Sound
of Music'
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