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Margaret Thatcher
Dirty Dancing
Herald of Free Enterprise
The Simpsons
AZT
Andy Warhol

21 YEARS AGO -

A REMINDER OF SOME WORLD EVENTS IN 1987

 

 

  • World Population reaches 5 Billion

  • Margaret Thatcher re-elected (again)

  • Herald of Free Enterprise sinks in North Sea; 189 die

  • The first Heart – Lung transplant takes place

  • Condom commercials begin to appear on TV for the first time

  • Klaus Barbie is convicted of Nazi war crimes and sentenced to life in prison

  • The first appearance of The Simpsons on ‘The Tracy Ullman Show’

  • Hurricane force winds hit much of the South of England killing 23 people

  • The pharmaceutical company Burroughs Wellcome (now known as GlaxoSmithKline) released AZT as the first medication to treat AIDS with a price of $10,000, the most expensive drug ever released

  • Cold War: President Ronald Regan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall

  • Dirty Dancing movie released

  • Britain passed legislation governing animal experiments

  • Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon

  • Johnny Logan wins the 32nd Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing ‘Hold me Now’

  • Rock band U2 release the album ‘The Joshua Tree’

  • One of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ paintings is bought by Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto for $39.85 million

  • Andy Warhol die’s

  • Pet Shop Boys – ‘Always on my mind’ was the Christmas Number 1

 


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