* Other dramatisations: 10, 000 Black Men Named George ( 2002 ); Matewan ( 1987 ); American Playhouse —" The Killing Floor " ( 1985 ); Salt of the Earth ( 1954 ); The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ); Black Fury ( 1935 )

It was also used in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the 1987 film Matewan, where it was used by Baldwin-Felts agents just before a violent attack on striking coal miners.

Attempts to unionize by coal miners in 1920 led to the Battle of Matewan between miners and Baldwin-Felts detectives, which was the inspiration for the 1987 movie Matewan.

* Matewan, Director: John Sayles, 1987 – critically acclaimed account of a coal mine-workers ' strike and attempt to unionize in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia.

* Matewan ( 1987 ), directed by John Sayles

Cooper's early performances include Matewan, the 1987 picture by John Sayles ; the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove ; and the 1990 picture Thousand Pieces of Gold, which is based on the novel of the same title, and Bed of Lies opposite Susan Dey.

In the 1987 John Sayles film Matewan, an Appalachian woman in a camp of West Virginia union miners gives a hare to an Italian immigrant woman, along with some ramps " to flavor the stew ".

The battle was the subject of the 1987 John Sayles film Matewan.

* Matewan, 1987

Gilbert is known statewide for its high school football as well as its rivalry with nearby Matewan.

Matewan is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, USA at the confluence of the Tug Fork River and Mate Creek.

Matewan is located at ( 37. 623034 ,-82. 166416 ).

He arrives in Matewan and takes up residence at a boarding house run by a coal miner's widow, Elma Radnor ( Mary McDonnell ), and her 15-year-old son, Danny ( Will Oldham ), who is also a miner and a budding Baptist preacher.

The staff at Variety magazine lauded the acting in the film, writing, " Matewan is a heartfelt, straight-ahead tale of labor organizing in the coal mines of West Virginia in 1920 that runs its course like a train coming down the track.

Among the memorable characters is Joe Kenehan ( Chris Cooper ), a young union organizer who comes to Matewan to buck the bosses.

This is when Matewan Chief of Police Sid Hatfield intervened on behalf of the evicted families.

Tighe has also become a character actor and has appeared in supporting or featured roles in several films, including Newsies, Matewan, Eight Men Out, K-9 ( the first of two films with James Belushi, the other being Race the Sun ), Road House, Another 48 Hrs., What's Eating Gilbert Grape, I Love a Man in Uniform ( for which he won a Genie Award for best supporting actor in 1994 ) and a TV-remake of Escape to Witch Mountain, and Geronimo: An American Legend.

* In the John Sayles film Matewan, Will Oldham plays a young minister boy who preaches the story of Potiphar to his small town.

He made his film debut in Return of the Secaucus 7, and worked in the films Passion Fish, Matewan, Limbo, and City of Hope, for which he won the Independent Spirit Award.

The film dramatizes the events of the Battle of Matewan, a coal miners ' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia.

The film was made in West Virginia with the town of Thurmond standing in for Matewan.

* Excerpt from Eric Foner essay on the John Sayles film, Matewan in the book Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies edited by historian Mark C. Carnes

: See: Battle of Matewan, Matewan ( film about the shootout )

In 1988, Wexler won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for the John Sayles film Matewan, for which he was also nominated for an Academy Award.

On August 1, Sid Hatfield, a prominent Union organizer and Matewan chief of police, was assassinated by mining company agents.

A section of the floodwall along the Tug Fork in Matewan, West Virginia, constructed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, depicts the Hatfield-McCoy feud.

A section of the floodwall along the Tug Fork in Matewan, West Virginia, constructed by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, depicts the Hatfield – McCoy feud.

The miners, encouraged by their success in getting the Baldwin-Felts detectives out of Matewan, improved their efforts to organize.

* Matewan, a John Sayles produced movie that was filmed in the Thurmond area even though the real-life events actually took place in Matewan, West Virginia, which borders the Kentucky state line about 100 miles away.

Governor John J. Cornwell ordered the state police force to take control of Matewan.

It would continue to McVeigh along Kentucky Route 199, and cross the Tug Fork River south of Matewan, West Virginia and connect with the King Coal Highway ( U. S. Route 52 ) in Mingo County, West Virginia.

Matewan, founded in 1895, was a small independent town with only a few elected officials.

On May 12, 1921, just two months into Harding's presidency, violence was initiated near Matewan, West Virginia, between private detectives, on behalf of the Stone Mountain Coal Company, and United Mine Workers union members who had been fired from their jobs and were being evicted from company-owned housing.

On August 1, 1921, detectives from the Baldwin-Felts agency assassinated Matewan Police Chief Sid Hatfield as well as Ed Chambers at the McDowell County Courthouse located in Welch.

Because of its rich history ( Hatfield – McCoy feud and Matewan Massacre ), the center of the town was designated the Matewan Historic District, a National Historic Landmark.

The Hatfield – McCoy Trails opened a trail head in Matewan.

* Official Matewan, WV Tourism Website at VisitMatewan. com

On the 2007 deluxe edition release, it is revealed that parts of this tape were used for the 1976 Griffith Park Planetarium launch of the original album, the 1987 remix, and various radio spots, all of which were included as bonus material.

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

Even with respect to slavery the new citizen law of 450 BC may have had effect: it is speculated that originally Athenian fathers had been able to register for citizenship offspring had with slave women ( Hansen 1987: 53 ).

* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

Advanced Mobile Phone System ( AMPS ) is an analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs, and officially introduced in the Americas in 1978, Israel in 1986, and Australia in 1987.

In Canada, the largest barter exchange is Tradebank, founded in 1987.

Bombay Sapphire is a brand of gin distributed by Bacardi that was launched in 1987.

* Constantinople under Justinian is the scene of the book A Flame in Byzantium ( ISBN 0312930267 ) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, released in 1987.

In 1987, Charles provided the poem track used for the opening credits of the BBC series The Marksman, which he also acted in, and the track is included on the album " The Marksman: Music from the BBC TV series ".

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.

It is fitted with a KMT-7 mine clearing set and entered service around 1987 during the war in Afghanistan.

Viewership peaked on Christmas Day 1987 when an average of 28. 5 million viewers tuned in to see Hilda Ogden leave the street to start a new life as a housekeeper for long term friend Dr Lowther ( although there is some confusion as to whether or not this was actually the highest rating episode due to a special omnibus repeat of that week's episodes being combined with the original airing ).

Computer controlled music is also found in the performance pieces by the Canadian composer Udo Kasemets such as the Marce ( ntennia ) l Circus C ( ag ) elebrating Duchamp ( 1987 ), a realization of the Marcel Duchamp process piece Erratum Musical using an electric model train to collect a hopper-car of stones to be deposited on a drum wired to an Analog: Digital converter, mapping the stone impacts to a score display ( performed in Toronto by pianist Gordon Monahan during the 1987 Duchamp Centennial ), or his installations and performance works ( e. g. Spectrascapes ) based on his Geo ( sono ) scope ( 1986 ) 15x4-channel computer-controlled audio mixer.

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

Similarly, the Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with liberation theology, had summarized Contra operating procedures in their 1987 human rights report: " The record of the contras in the field, as opposed to their official professions of democratic faith, is one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.

* 1987 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.

Dartmouth is home to 32 recognized Greek houses: 17 fraternities, 12 sororities, and three coeducational organizations, In 2007, roughly 70 % of eligible students belong to a Greek organization ; since 1987, students have not been permitted to join Greek organizations until their sophomore year.

As with the rest of the British Isles and South West England, the area experiences a maritime climate with warm summers and mild winters-this is particularly pronounced due to its position near the coast-extremes range from a record low of just in January 1987 up to a record high of during June 1976.

Financial services have also become important to the city since the establishment of Dublin's International Financial Services Centre in 1987, which is globally recognised as a leading location for a range of internationally traded financial services.

The 1980 novel The Viceroy of Ouidah by Bruce Chatwin is set in Dahomey, as is its film adaptation, Cobra Verde ( 1987 ) by Werner Herzog.

Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987.

The Docklands Light Railway ( the DLR ) is an automated light metro or light rail system opened in 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London.