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For advertising information, call (858) 537-2280 • [email protected] April 1, 2015 THE MILITARY PRESS 13
TV shows• Full House• 21 Jump Street• Married With Children• Star Trek: The Next Generation• Murder, She Wrote• The Golden Girls• Beauty and the Beast• The Bold and the Beautiful• Thirtysomething
Music• “Walk Like An Egyptian,” The
Bangles• Alone,” Heart• “Shake You Down,” Gregory Ab-
bott• “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,”
Whitney Houston• “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now,”
Starship• “Here I Go Again,” Whitesnake• “Livin’ on A Prayer,” Bon Jovi• “With or Without You,” U2out
You,” U2
BORN THIS YEAR: Kesha Sebert, singer.Above left: Zac Efron, actor;
Hillary Duff, singer & actress; Colin Kaepernick,49ers QB; Blake Lively, actress.
Popular films• The Princess Bride• Full Metal Jacket• RoboCop• Dirth Dancing• Predator• The Lost Boys• Lethal Weapon• Spaceballs• Fatal Attraction• Moonstuck
• Income per year .... $24,350• Minimum wage ........... $3.35• New house ............ $92,000• Monthly rent ................. $395• New car ................. $10,305• Gallon of gas .................. 95¢• Dozen eggs .................... 65¢• Gallon of milk ............... $1.98• Loaf of bread ............... $1.28• First-class stamp ........... 22¢• Movie ticket ................. $3.90
AVERAGE COSTOF LIVING
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1987 Chevrolet Corvette
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Ronald Reagan40th President of the U.S.
Served from Jan. 20, 1981 to Jan. 20, 1989
World events• A fire in King’s
Cross Tube Station in London killed 31 people
• Terry Waite, spe-cial envoy to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury, kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon
• The world’s popula-tion exceeds five billion
• Supernova is ob-served. The first naked-eye supernova since 1604
• A cross-channel ferry capsizes outside the harbor off Zeebrugge, Bel-gium, killing 193 passengers and crew
• Margaret Thatcher is elected as Prime Minister of the U.K. for the third time
• Tamil Tigers plant a massive bomb in the Sri Lankan capital of Co-lombo killing more than 100
• In the U.K., Michael Robert Ryan kills 16 people in Hun-gerford with an assault rifle and then
U.S. news• Stock market
crashes on Monday, Oct. 19, with a 508 point drop (26%)
• The first case in an American court ruling on the validity of sur-rogacy is declared by a New Jersey court over custody rights of “Baby M” in an surrogacy agreement with Mary
Beth Whitehead• The USS Stark, a frigate, is at-
tacked by an Iraq air-to-sea missile; 37 U.S. sailors are killed
• The U.S. population estimated at 244.8 million
• Fox Broadcasting Co.made its prime-time TV debut
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Technology• The FDA approves anti-AIDS
drug AZT• The first criminal is convicted us-
ing DNA evidence• Clive Sinclair launches the Z88
Portable Computer weighing under 2 pounds
• 1987 is shortened by 1 second to adjust to the Gregorian calendar
Pop culture• Prozac makes its
debut• Televangelist Jim
Bakker scandal• The Simpsons debuts• Search for Nessie re-
veals no evidence after1.6 mil-lion dollar investment.
George H.W. Bush43rd Vice President of the U.S.Served from Jan. 20, 1981 to Jan. 20, 1989
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”— Ronald Reagan
commits suicide• The Great Southern
British Storm of 1987 featured hurricane winds; kills23 people
• An IRA bomb is set off at Remem-brance Day Ser-vice at Eniskillin, Northern Ireland
• The Nazi war criminal Klaus Bar-bie, the Butcher of Lyon, found guilty of crimes against
humanity• Sikh terrorist attacks
Hindu bus passengers in India leaving 72 dead
• Super typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines submerging 14 fishing villages on the coast under wa-ter, with 1,000 dead
• Manilla, Philippines ferry acci-dent leaves 4,000 dead
Klaus Barbie
Mary Beth Whitehead
1987 Chevy Camaro
1987 Ferrari F40