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| 1987 |
| | | Mugabe and Nkomo merge their two parties as ZANU-PF, making Zimbabwe effectively a one-party state | |
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| 1987 |
| | | The Zimbabwean constitution is changed to make Mugabe executive president (with Nkomo vice-president, until his death in 1999) | |
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| 1987 |
| | | English poets John Fuller and James Fenton collaborate in a volume of satirical poems, Partingtime Hall | |
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| 1987 |
| | | 18-year-old German tennis player Steffi Graf deposes Martina Navratilova as world no. 1 | |
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| 1987 |
| | | Talking Heads, a series of dramatic monologues by English author Alan Bennett, is broadcast on British TV | |
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| 1987 |
| | | The US Congress begins an investigation of the Iran-Contra affair, eventually clearing President Reagan of direct involvement | |
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| 1987 |
| | | Timberlake Wertenbaker bases her play Our Country's Good on Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker | |
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| 1987 |
| | | Sylvie Guillem and Laurent Hilaire dance in the Paris premiere of William Forsythe's In the middle somewhat elevated | |
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| 1987 |
| | | US author Toni Morrison publishes her novel Beloved, loosely based on a real incident among freed slaves after the Civil War | |
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| 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) | |
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