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12 September 1987 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 12 September 1987 was a Saturday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “La Bamba” by Los Lobos.
- Top Film of 1987
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1987 was Fatal Attraction.
- Bestselling Novel of 1987
- “The Tommyknockers” by Stephen King was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1987.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “The Cosby Show” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1987–88 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 12 September is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 12 September 1987 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 12 September 1987 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 12 September
- 1984 Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
- 1988 Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
- 1990 The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.
- 1990 The Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign the Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal suspects after two days of talks in Kinmen, Fujian Province in response to the two tragedies in repatriation in the previous two months. It is the first agreement reached by private organizations across the Taiwan Strait.
- 1991 NASA launches Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-48 to deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
Famous people born on September 12
- Sydney Sweeney, American actress (born 1997)
- Emmy Rossum, American singer and actress (born 1986)
- Paul Walker, American actor (1973–2013)
- Hans Zimmer, German composer and producer (born 1957)
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Events of 1987 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1987 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- March 3 – Ruthless Records was founded by Eazy-E & Jerry Heller.
- March 30 – The 59th Academy Awards, hosted by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan, are held at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Oliver Stone's Platoon wins four awards out of eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.
- April 19 – The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
Life in the US in 1987
President
Ronald Reagan
Gas (per gallon)
$0.90
Loaf of Bread
$0.68
Average House
$92,000
Weekly Wage
$358
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