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1987
 
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Designed by Gordon Wilson, and replacing 26 individual glasshouses, the Princess of Wales Conservatory is opened by Diana, Princess of Wales. See in Google maps   
The Princess of Wales Conservatory


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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       
1987
 
    
The Dow-Jones index loses 30% in a dramatic US stock-market collapse       
1987
 
     
John Adams' opera Nixon in China is performed in Houston        
1987
 
    
Robert Hughes describes the penal system of colonial Australia in The Fatal Shore       
1987
 
   
An Intifada begins against Israeli occupation of Palestinian land      
1987
 
   
Hamas (acronym in Arabic for 'Movement for Islamic Resistance') is founded in the occupied territories to lead armed resistance against Israel