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1987
 
    
Talking Heads, a series of dramatic monologues by English author Alan Bennett, is broadcast on British TV       
1987
 
     
The US Congress begins an investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, eventually clearing President Reagan of direct involvement        
1987
 
     
Timberlake Wertenbaker bases her play Our Country's Good on Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker        
1987
 
     
Sylvie Guillem and Laurent Hilaire dance in the Paris premiere of William Forsythe's In the middle somewhat elevated        
1987
 
    
US author Toni Morrison publishes her novel Beloved, loosely based on a real incident among freed slaves after the Civil War       
1987
 
   
Most of the currency in circulation in Burma becomes worthless when Ne Win replaces it with new 45 and 90 kyat notes (he says 9 is is his lucky number)      
1987
 
   
US architect Daniel Libeskind designs the City Edge project in Berlin, building it up from startlingly fragmented forms      
1987
 
    
British golfer Nick Faldo wins the first of three victories in six years in the British Open       
1987
 
 
The film Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough, tells the story of Steve Biko, killed in police custody in South Africa    
1987
 
    
US author Tom Wolfe gives a bleak view of contemporary New York in his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities