* 1987 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashes after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus 2 people on the ground.

* Bureaucracy ( 1987, Infocom & Douglas Adams )

* Douglas Bridges, Fred Richman, " Varieties of Constructive Mathematics ", 1987.

* 1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.

Scott made Someone to Watch Over Me, a romantic thriller starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers in 1987, and Black Rain ( 1989 ), a police drama starring Michael Douglas and Andy García, shot partially in Japan.

** Douglas Sirk, German-born director ( d. 1987 )

* 1987: Con Onor Muore was played during a scene in the erotic thriller Fatal Attraction, in which Dan Gallagher ( Michael Douglas ) tells Alex Forrest ( Glenn Close ) the childhood memory of his father taking him to see the opera.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987.

* Gordon Gekko, Wall Street ( 1987 ) and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ( 2010 )– The notorious " corporate raider " and greenmailer, Gordon Gekko ( played by Michael Douglas ), represents a synthesis of the worst features of various famous private equity figures.

In reviewing the film's sequel twenty-three years later, Variety noted that though the original film was " Intended as a cautionary tale on the pitfalls of unchecked ambition and greed, Stone's 1987 original instead had the effect of turning Douglas ' hugely charismatic ( and Oscar-winning ) villain into a household name and boardroom icon -- an inspiration to the very power players and Wall Street wannabes for whom he set such a terrible example.

Douglas at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

The year 1987 saw Douglas star in the horror thriller Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close.

* Douglas, Marjory ; Rothchild, John ( 1987 ).

Douglas Sirk ( born Hans Detlef Sierck ; April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987 ) was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.

Douglas was the site of the Phelps-Dodge Corporation Douglas Reduction Works until its closure in 1987.

The couple made two surprise impromptu reunion performances: the first on The Mike Douglas Show in the spring of 1979, singing a medley of " United We Stand " and " Without You ", and the second on November 13, 1987 on Late Night with David Letterman where they performed their hit song " I Got You Babe ".

Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American thriller blended with horror, directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Anne Archer.

Douglas, in his autobiography, See You at the Movies ( 1987 ), writes that he was unaware of his Jewish background until later in his youth: " I did not learn about the non-Christian part of my heritage until my early teens ," as his parents preferred to hide his Jewish heritage.

By 1987, the boiler on locomotive No. 6 Douglas was life expired and in need of replacement.

Faith Daniels took over and would remain on the anchor desk, most of the time sharing the anchor desk with Forrest Sawyer ( July to December 1985 and January to September 1987 ) and later Douglas Edwards and Charles Osgood, until leaving to anchor NBC News at Sunrise in 1990.

Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID ( 8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007 ) was a politician active in the government of Southern Rhodesia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1948 to 1987, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 1 June 1979.

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Douglas McGregor and Richard Beckhard while " consulting together at General Mills in the 1950's, the two coined the term organizational development ( OD ) to describe an innovative bottoms-up change effort that fit no traditional consulting categories " ( Weisbord, 1987, p. 112 ).

As reported in the Third Edition of Science and Sanity, The U. S. Army in World War II used Korzybski's system to treat battle fatigue in Europe with the supervision of Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, who went on to become the psychiatrist in charge of the Nazi prisoners at Nuremberg.

* 1918 – World War I: Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.

* 1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.

* 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.

* 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

He attended the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, where he wore the first " futuristicostume " ( designed and created by Myrtle R. Douglas ) and sparked fan costuming, the latest incarnation of which is cosplay.

* Hamilton, Douglas J. Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750 -– 1820.

* Kirsner, Douglas ( 2003 ) The Schizoid World of Jean-Paul Sartre and R. D.

During World War I, she promoted the sale of Liberty Bonds, through an exhausting series of fund-raising speeches that kicked off in Washington, D. C., where she sold bonds alongside Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Theda Bara, and Marie Dressler.

* 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur leaves Corregidor.

* 1967 – Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.

* 1916 – World War I: First Battle of the Somme – in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.

* 1944 – General Douglas MacArthur fulfills his promise to return to the Philippines when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the Japanese during the Second World War.

* April 5 – Douglas MacArthur, U. S. Army general, Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific during World War II ( b. 1880 )

** Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace ( d. 1990 )

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur ( 26 January 18805 April 1964 ) was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

DC-3s were produced in quantity for World War II and sold as surplus afterward. The Douglas DC-3 was a particularly important airplane, because it was the first airliner to be profitable without a government subsidy.

* Douglas DC-6 – originally developed as a military transport, it was reworked for passenger service after World War II, a role it continues to perform today

Douglas Smith ( c. 1910-15 October 1972 ) began his broadcasting career with the BBC European Service ( now the World Service ) in 1946 and later worked as an announcer and newsreader on the Home Service and the Third Programme.

* Douglas Brinkle and Michael E. Haskey, The World War II Desk Reference.

* Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Our World by Douglas Mulhall, 2002, p. 321.

The first successful attempt to circumnavigate the planet Earth by air occurred in 1924, flown by aviators of the U. S. Army Air Service in a quartet of Douglas World Cruiser biplanes.

* United States Army Air Service, 1924, first aerial circumnavigation, 175 days, covering, with examples of the Douglas World Cruiser biplane.

The year 1964 brought back the combat crew training mission of the World War II years with the 4453d Combat Crew Training Wing equipped with the Air Force's newest and most sophisticated fighter, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, GCB, MC, DFC ( 23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969 ) was a senior figure in the Royal Air Force up to and during World War II.