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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
- Glenn Close proved to be a Fatal Attraction for Michael Douglas
- Wall Street taught us that 'Greed is Good'
- South Africa's apartheid policy was shown to the world in 'Cry Freedom'
- Jack Nicholson battled the Witches of Eastwick
- Mel Gibson was a definite Lethal Weapon
- Biology was proven wrong in My Two Dads
People who died in 1987
- Rita Hayworth (b.1918) American film actress
- Fred Astaire (b.1899) American actor
- Danny Kaye (b.1913) American actor
- John Huston (b.1906 ) American film director
- Liberace (b.1919) American pianist
- Jackie Gleason (b.1916) American actor
- Andy Warhol (b.1928) American film-maker and artist
- Lee Marvin (b.1924) American actor
- Baroness Maria Von Trapp (b.1905) author of 'The Sound of Music'
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