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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 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...
• 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....
• August 6 -- As "Ollie-mania" continues to sweep the country, one of the most popular video-arcade games in the country is a new one called -- this is true -- "Contra.
  The way it works is, there are are two soldiers on the screen, and when you put in a quarter, it never gets to them....
• 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...
• 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 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....