The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

She was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1987 general election as member for the constituency of Maidstone ( which became Maidstone and The Weald in 1997 ).

In 1987 Borland purchased Wizard Systems and incorporated portions of the Wizard C technology into Turbo C. Bob Jervis, the author of Wizard C became a Borland employee.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

Julie Manet became the subject for many of her mother's paintings and a book of her memoirs Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet, was published in 1987.

Between 1985 an 1987 the relationship of the PG with the local Comorians became worse.

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 team set a major-league record by scoring 658 runs at home on the season, and Burks and Bichette became the first pair of teammates since Darryl Strawberry and Howard Johnson of the 1987 New York Mets to both steal 30 bases and hit 30 homers in the same season.

It was released in the summer of 1987 and quickly became popular with bulletin board system ( BBS ) operators and other users.

" Bum " Bright purchased the Dallas Cowboys from Clint Murchison, Jr. As the Cowboys suffered through progressively poorer seasons ( from 10 – 6 in 1985 to 7 – 9 in 1986, 7 – 8 in 1987, and 3 – 13 in 1988 ), Bright became disenchanted with the team.

SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) in 1986, and of the International Organization for Standards ( ISO ) in 1987.

Fantasy Football Index became the first annual fantasy football guide in 1987.

He became CEO in 1979 and chairman in 1987, succeeding Jack and becoming the first non-family member to hold that post.

Historian Patrick O ' Farrell noted in The Irish in Australia ( 1987 ) that the term " Australia first " became " what amounted to the Australian Irish Catholic slogan ".

The party became the Green Alliance in 1983 and in 1987 was renamed to its current title in English.

Goa was invaded by India in 1961 and became an Indian state in 1987 ; East Timor was abandoned in 1975 and was then invaded by Indonesia.

Following boundary changes, Major became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon in 1983 and retained the seat in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

In 1987 ISO TC 97 became ISO / IEC JTC1 and in 1992 CCITT became ITU-T.

Lübeck's restored historic city centre became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.

Soon however, Marl's records became more sample heavy, as can be seen by comparing the MC Shan LPs Down By Law ( 1987 ) and Born to be Wild ( 1988 ); the rhythms less electronic, with drum samples and patterns becoming more prominent.

The chorus of the chant became the title of a compilation album from Anagram Records ( Catalog #: GRAM 28 ) released in 1987.

In 1987 he also became Minister of External Relations and in 1988 Deputy Minister of Finance.

" In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit Washington, D. C. since Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, and Nancy Reagan was in charge of planning and hosting the important and highly anticipated state dinner.

Regan became so angry with Nancy that he hung up on her during a 1987 telephone conversation.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

In second place is Payton, who played 186 games from 1975 to 1987 at running back, a position considered to be conducive to injury, only missing one game in a span of 13 seasons.

A deluxe digital version, available for download only, has 32 tracks including a rare 1987 live recording of the band's version of the Hunters & Collectors song " Throw Your Arms Around Me ".

And the defense effort throughout the period from 1960 to 1987 contributed only marginally to economic decline.

By 1987, with Yzerman, now the captain following the departure of Danny Gare, joined by Petr Klima, Adam Oates, Gerard Gallant, defenseman Darren Veitch and new head coach Jacques Demers, the Wings won a playoff series for only the second time in the modern era.

These imports declined sharply to an average of only US $ 50 million annually between 1985 and 1987, presumably as a result of a dramatic reduction in oil revenues and the precipitous drop in the value of the sucre, which made imported arms extremely expensive.

At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.

CompuServe introduced the GIF format in 1987 to provide a color image format for their file downloading areas, replacing their earlier run-length encoding ( RLE ) format, which was black and white only.

They are also the only club in the league to have never finished lower than 12th position ( which has only been possible since the league's expansion in 1987 ).

The World Bank estimates that only about 36 percent of the Honduran population had access to electricity ( 20 percent of the rural population ) in 1987.

Blume and Cooper were married in 1987. Cooper has an only child from a previous marriage, a daughter named Amanda.

With the sale of Ian Rush to Juventus in 1987, Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley for the 1987 – 88 season, and he played only twice in a league campaign which saw Liverpool gain their 17th title.

* Black Magic M-66 ( 1987 ) by Hiroyuki Kitakubo and Masamune Shirow ( this is the only anime Shirow played a direct role in the production of )

Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6, 1921, at Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women in New York, as the only child of car salesman Kenneth Seymour Robbins ( 1894 – 1972 ) and his actress wife, Edith Luckett ( 1888 – 1987 ).

The 1979 and 1983 teams were the only ones to even finish at. 500 until 1987.

The Giants struggled to a 6 – 9 record in the strike-marred 1987 season, due largely to a decline in the running game, as Morris managed only 658 yards behind an injury-riddled offensive line.

Goldizen ( 1987 ) proposed the hypothesis that monogamy in callitrichidae should develop only in groups with nonreproductive helpers to help raise the young, and in the absence of these helpers, both polyandrous males and females would have higher reproductive success than those in lone monogamous pairs.

The PLA Navy was ranked in 1987 as the third largest navy in the world, although naval personnel had comprised only 12 percent of PLA strength.

In 1987, China's 1, 500 km coastline was protected by more than 100 diesel-powered Romeo-and Whiskey-class submarines, which could remain at sea only a limited time.

Whereas the previous five Rush albums sold platinum or better, Hold Your Fire only went gold in November 1987, although it managed to peak at number 13 on the Billboard 200.

In July 1987, Ze ' evi presented his ideas at a forum in Tel Aviv, describing the plan as a voluntary transfer and the only way to make peace with the Arabs.