" In 1987, Chris Ricciotti started a gay dance group in Providence, RI, using the terms " ladies " and " gents " although dancers were not lining up according to gender.

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.

Cheerleading organizations such as the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors ( AACCA ), founded in 1987, started applying universal safety standards to decrease the number of injuries and prevent dangerous stunts, pyramids and tumbling passes from being included in routines.

In 1983, using the psychoacoustic principle of the masking of critical bands first published in 1967, he started developing a practical application based on the recently developed IBM PC computer, and the broadcast automation system was launched in 1987 under the name Audicom.

In 2012, the sales of Unicharm adult diapers had slightly surpassed those for babies, although Unicharm started selling diapers for adults in 1987, while for babies since 1981.

* The Calgary Corpus dating back to 1987 is no longer widely used due to its small size, although Leonid A. Broukhis still maintains The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge, which started in 1996.

Rust's trial started in Moscow on September 2, 1987.

Public Enemy started out as opening acts for the Beastie Boys during the latter's Licensed to Ill popularity, and in 1987 released their debut album Yo!

In 1987 Don Rosa, a long-time fan of Carl Barks and personal friend of Mark Worden, started creating his own stories featuring Scrooge McDuck and his various associates.

The origins of Unicode date back to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set.

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

Alpha testing of the software started in February 1987, beta-testing in May ; the release of X11 finally occurred on 15 September 1987.

The Base date for the DAX is 30 December 1987 and it was started from a base value of 1, 000.

1987 ( MCMLXXXVII ) was a common year that started on a Thursday, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

Dr. Jeffreys's genetic fingerprinting was made commercially available in 1987, when a chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ), started a blood-testing centre in England.

* Antonino Calderone ( born 1935 ) started to collaborate in April 1987.

The Aurora legend started in March 1990, when Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine broke the news that the term " Aurora " had been inadvertently included in the 1985 U. S. budget, as an allocation of $ 455 million for " black aircraft production " in FY 1987.

A notebook detailing Rose's daily betting activity shows that Rose did in fact place bets on 5 of the 6 games Soto started in 1987.

Castellaneta started to work at The Second City, an improvisational theatre in Chicago, in 1983 and continued to work there until 1987.

George Soros said in late October 1987, ' Mr. Robert Prechter's reversal proved to be the crack that started the avalanche '.

An animated version of the character appeared in the TV series DuckTales, which started airing on September 18, 1987.

The movie title is reported to have been the influence for the name of the popular annual live music festival South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, started in 1987, with the name idea coming from Louis Black, editor and co-founder of the local alternative weekly The Austin Chronicle as a play on the Hitchcock movie title.

* Elektra ( started in 1949, first performed 1987 ), a play by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming

This started a working relationship with Terry Scott that lasted until 1987.

During his 15-year career, Thon spent two seasons with the Angels ( 1979 – 1980 ), seven seasons with the Houston Astros ( 1981 – 1987 ), one season with the San Diego Padres ( 1988 ), three seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1989 – 1991 ), one season with the Texas Rangers ( 1992 ), and finished his career with the Milwaukee Brewers ( 1993 ).

Cloud, Minnesota ) is an American former Major League Baseball player with a 15-year career from 1982 – 1984 and 1987 – 1998.

* 1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.

In 1987, there was media speculation Clinton would enter the race after then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

By 1987 the list included the Encore Multimax and Sequent Balance machines, testing Mach's ability to run on multiprocessor systems.

In 1987, at age 15, he decided to run away to Florida in order to try to live with Piers Anthony.

It is also the last series in an 18-year run of back-to-back new Star Trek shows beginning with Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987.

In 1987, corporate raider, Paul Bilzerian, made a " greenmail " run at Singer, and ended up owning the company when no " White Knight " rescuer appeared.

In 1987, Psion began development of its " SIBO " (" SIxteen Bit Organiser ") family of devices and its own new multitasking operating system called EPOC to run its PDA products.

"), Tom Herr's walk-off grand slam home run against the New York Mets in April 1987 (" A Grand Slam-a!

In 1987, Ryan led the major leagues in both ERA ( 2. 76 ) and strikeouts ( 270 ) at the age of 40 — but finished 8 – 16 as the result of extremely poor run support.

The album's run in the charts was not complete either ; on 7 March 1987, almost 23 years after its original release, Beatles for Sale re-entered the charts briefly for a period of two weeks shortly after the first CD release on 26 February 1987.

The Olsens portrayed Michelle throughout the series ' 1987 – 1995 run.

He soon began drawing for both DC Comics and Marvel, with his first major body of work being a two-year run ( 1985 – 1987 ) on DC's Infinity, Inc.

The pub was the site of the extremely popular and influential six-nightly ' Timebox ' club run by Jon ' Fat ' Beast from 1987 to 1992.

* Don Johnson, a Transylvania farmer who has run unsuccessfully as a Republican for state agriculture commissioner in 1987, 1991, 1995, 2003, and 2007.

Cheyenne was led by Jodi Fisher ( 26. 7 points per game ), Cindy Smith, Jenny Shockey, Leana Burrows, and Sherry Hillman ( also contributing one season each to the three-year run: Julie Barton — 1985, Lori Sanders — 1987, and Cindy Hay — 1987 ).

The run featured 250 guitars which were made between July 1987 – March 1988, and according to Rickenbacker CEO John Hall, the entire run sold out before serious advertising could be done.

He did not start the first two games of his college career in the fall of 1987, but made the most of his opportunities in a second-week rout of Tulsa in which he gained 109 yards on just ten carries, including a 66-yard touchdown run.

Mötley Crüe with Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ) continued their run of commercial success, and Def Leppard with Hysteria ( 1987 ) hit their commercial peak, the latter producing a hard rock record of seven hit singles.

Until 1987, New Zealand had a centrally run system of providers of generation, transmission, distribution, and retailing.

After being rested for the whole of 1986 ( during which time Bygraves offered to finance its production himself ), it returned with Les Dennis on 27 June 1987, and had a consistently successful run for the next fifteen years.