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• April 3 -- In the Persian Gulf, Iranians attack the Islip garbage barge, but are driven off by courageous flies.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• April 14 -- In Colorado, Gary Hart declares his candidacy for the presidential nominatio
  making the official announcement while standing in front of a dramatic backdrop of soaring mountains, towering pine trees, and four Miami Herald reporters disguised as rhododendrons....
• April 30 -- Following a lengthy and dramatic trial, a confused New Jersey jury awards custody of a 3-month-old boy to a 6-week-old girl.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• April 13 -- True Anecdote: In National League baseball action, the Atlanta Braves' Dion James hits a ball that would have been caught easily, except that in midair it strikes and kills a dove.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• April 22 -- Crack U.S. counter-intelligence agents in Moscow begin to suspect that the new U.
  S. Embassy in Moscow, constructed by Soviet labor, might be bugged, when one of them sneezes in the ambassador's office and six chairs say, "Gesundheit....
• August 28 -- In the Persian Gulf, tensions mount as a U.
  S. gunboat engages in a scuffle with actor Sean Penn. -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• If a President died in office, then it's a certainty that he was elected in a year ending in zero.
• August 3 -- Political activist Donna Rice, in her continuing effort to avoid publicity, sells her story to ABC television.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• August 10 -- The U.S. space probe Meanderer II, after a journey of six years and many millions of mile
  passes within 400 miles of the surface of Neptune, sending back dramatic color photographs of a Delta Air Lines jet....