At A Glance

23 June 1987 at a glance

Day of the week
23 June 1987 was a Tuesday.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Head to Toe” by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.
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 23 June is Cancer.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 23 June 1987 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
Birthstone
The birthstone for June is Pearl.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 23 June 1987 was Waning Crescent.

On this day: 23 June

  • 1972 Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
  • 1972 Title IX of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is amended to prohibit sexual discrimination to any educational program receiving federal funds.
  • 1991 Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise.
  • 1994 NASA's Space Station Processing Facility, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.
  • 2005 American social news and discussion site Reddit is founded in Medford, Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.

Famous people born on June 23

  • Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom (1894–1972)
  • Alan Turing, English mathematician and computer scientist (1912–1954)
  • Zinedine Zidane, French footballer and manager (born 1972)
  • Joel Edgerton, Australian actor (born 1974)

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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.
More events of 1987 →Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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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