1987

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign first treaty to reduce nuclear arsenals
Vincent Van Gogh's "Irises" purchased for $53,900,000
Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's PTL ministry is mired in scandal
"Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book" by Maxine Hong Kingston
"A Night at the Movies or You Must Remember This," "The Phantom of the Movie Palace" by Robert Coover
U.S. stock market crashes 508 points on October 19th
"Beloved" by Toni Morrison
"Krazy Kat" by Jay Cantor
"Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza" by Gloria Anzaldúa
"Toward a Concept of Postmodernism" by Ihab Hassan