Timeline April 1987

Events in April 1987 6

• 1919 – 1987 Primo Levi (1919-1987) Died 11 April 1987, aged 67 Levi was an Italian chemist and writer best known for If This Is a Man, his memoir of surviving imprisonment at Auschwitz. His writing became central to Holocaust literature worldwide. He died at his home in Turin in a fall ruled by authorities to be suicide.
• 1987 Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal revealed Japanese and Norwegian firms accused of selling submarine technology to the Soviet Union It was revealed that Toshiba Machine and Norway's Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk had illegally sold milling machinery to the Soviet Union that allowed Soviet submarines to run more quietly. The scandal strained relations between Japan and the United States and led to US sanctions against Toshiba. Japanese export control laws were tightened as a result.
• 1987 Fleetwood Mac release Tango in the Night Little Lies With Big Love, Little Lies and Everywhere.
• 1987 1987 World Snooker Championship Steve Davis Title 4 Winner: Steve Davis; Runner-up: Joe Johnson. Score: 18–14.
• 1987 – present Maria Sharapova The Siberian Siren Completed the career Grand Slam and was the world's highest-paid female athlete for years.
• 1987 The Simpsons debuts as animated shorts Matt Groening's cartoon family first appears on The Tracey Ullman Show The Simpsons first appeared as a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, created by cartoonist Matt Groening. The crudely animated vignettes introduced Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson to television audiences. They led to the standalone series that debuted in 1989 and became the longest-running scripted primetime show in US television history.