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• 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...
• April 26 -- Jack Kemp announces that he is running for president, pledging that, if elected, he will deepen his voice.
  -- Dave Barry "Year in Review for 1987...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 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....
• 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...
• 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....
• August 25 -- In what is hailed as a landmark ruling
  he Supreme Court decides, by a 7-2 vote, that you cannot count three oranges as one item in the Express Checkout Lane "unless they are all in the same package....