In 1987, shortly after it was decided that Charlotte would receive an expansion National Basketball Association franchise ( the Charlotte Hornets ), former NFL player Jerry Richardson met with a group of potential backers to discuss the possibility of bringing an NFL expansion team to the Carolina region.

The Monforts were former executives with ConAgra, which acquired their family's meatpacking and distribution firm in 1987.

In August 1987, the criminal trial was submitted to the jury with the two remaining defendants: Jello Biafra and Michael Bonanno ( former Alternative Tentacles label manager ).

The former Chrysler Corporation acquired the Jeep brand, along with the remaining assets of its owner American Motors, in 1987.

* 1987 – Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer ( former member of Morning Musume )

* 1987 – The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.

* 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie ( aka the " Butcher of Lyon ") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.

Peter Wright, former senior MI5 officer, said in his 1987 book that Litzi Friedmann was " almost certainly the person who recruited him to the Soviet cause.

* 1987 – Asami Konno, Japanese singer ( former member of Morning Musume )

From 1987 to 1992, he was the oldest sitting British MP ( preceding former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath ).

A separate party, the Joh-inspired NT Nationals, competed in the 1987 election with former Chief Minister Ian Tuxworth winning his seat of Barkly by a small margin.

* 1987 – Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer, former member of Morning Musume

In 1987, the opposition parties who wanted to distance both from the Marcos & Aquino cliques formed the Grand Alliance for Democracy ( GAD ) headed by former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Francisco Tatad.

In ' Postmodernist Fiction ' ( 1987 ), Brian McHale details the shift from modernism to postmodernism, arguing that the former is characterized by an epistemological dominant, and that postmodern works have developed out of modernism and are primarily concerned with questions of ontology.

In May 1987, Senegal extradited Captain Moulaye Asham Ould Ashen, a former black member of the Haidalla government accused of corruption, but only after veiled threats from Nouakchott that failure to do so would result in Mauritania's allowing Senegalese dissidents a platform from which to speak out against the government of President Abdou Diouf.

* Umeå School of Fine Arts-was started in 1987 in a former factory next to the Umeälven river.

** Seyni Kountche, former President of Niger ( d. 1987 )

** Fahri Koruturk, former President of Turkey ( d. 1987 )

* May 10 – Einar Henry Gerhardsen, former Prime Minister of Norway ( d. 1987 )

* November 19 – Americo Tomas, former President of Portugal ( d. 1987 )

She has famously been quoted since as stating that she has " no memory of this tour " due to her increasing dependency on the tranquillizer Klonopin, prescribed in ever increasing amounts by a psychiatrist between 1987 and 1994 in an attempt to keep Nicks from regressing to her former abuse of cocaine.

Washington defeated former mayor Jane Byrne in the February 24, 1987, Democratic mayoral primary by 7. 2 %, 53. 5 % to 46. 3 %, and in the April 7, 1987, mayoral general election defeated Vrdolyak ( Illinois Solidarity Party ) by 11. 8 %, 53. 8 % to 42. 8 %, with Northwestern University business professor Donald Haider ( Republican ) getting 4. 3 %, to win reelection to a second term as mayor.

In March 1987, James Miller, a former agent, claimed that the Ulster Workers Council Strike of 1974 had been promoted by MI5 in order to help destabilise Wilson's government.

In July 1987, Labour MP Ken Livingstone used his maiden speech to raise the 1975 allegations of a former Army Press officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace, who also alleged a plot to destabilise Wilson.

* 1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U. S .- funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.

* 1987 – The U. S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

( 1987 ) Uranometria 2000. 0, Willmann-Bell, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, U. S. A., 3 volumes, hardcover.

Released in October 1987, it became a breakthrough hit for Eric B & Rakim outside the U. S., reaching # 15 in the UK and the top 20 in a number of European countries.

The American version was released on VHS by GoodTimes Entertainment ( which acquired the license of some of Universal's film catalogue ) in 1987, and then on DVD to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the film's U. S release in 1998.

* 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U. S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

* Wolff, John U. 1987.

He graduated on May 27, 1987, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force.

Tourist arrivals and foreign exchange earnings derived from tourism have steadily increased since the 1987 watershed, in which there was growth from the previous year of, respectively, 30 % and 63 % ( increase in terms of U. S. dollars ).

Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what ’ s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality ’ together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).

* 1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U. S. Navy warship, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.

Visiting the U. S. for the first time in 1987, Raisa irked Reagan with lectures on subjects ranging from architecture to socialism, reportedly prompting the American President's wife to quip, " Who does that dame think she is?

* 1987 – Iran-Contra Affair: the U. S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.

* 1900 – Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni, American humanitarian, co-founder of U. S. Committee for UNICEF ( d. 1987 )

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Then-Delaware Senator and presidential candidate-and future U. S. Vice President-Joe Biden plagiarized lines from the speech for his own campaign speeches in the summer of 1987.

After the 1986 Reykjavik summit between U. S. President Ronald Reagan and the new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the United States and the Soviet Union concluded two important nuclear arms reduction treaties: the INF Treaty ( 1987 ) and START I ( 1991 ).

" Birth of the U. S. biological warfare program " Scientific American 256: 116 – 121, 1987.

The United States froze economic and military assistance to Panama in the summer of 1987 in response to the domestic political crisis and an attack on the U. S. embassy.

* 1987: "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life " with Jennifer Warnes — # 1 U. S. ( Pop and AC ) ( Gold ), # 6 UK

Entertainment Publishing released an eleven issue series of one-and two-part stories from January 1987 to September 1988 that updated U. N. C. L. E.

The film also had impact outside the U. S. In 1987, during the era of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, the film was shown on Soviet television.

See e. g. South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U. S. 203 ( 1987 ).