News of the Day: 1987

Friday, March 23, 2001 | 10:04 a.m.

May 18: U.S. Navy ship attacked

Story: A U.S. Navy frigate was hit Sunday night by at least one of two missiles fired by Iraqi jets in the Persian Gulf, officials said. At least three Americans were killed and 30 were unaccounted for as the burning ship lay "dead in the water."

Sept. 15: Experts say AIDS infection to spread tenfold in 5 years

Story: Scientists believe the number of people infected with AIDS worldwide will grow by tenfold in the next five years, leaving no racial or ethnic group unaffected, an expert in the fatal disease said Monday.

Oct. 17: Baby Jessica Safe

Story: Jessica McClure, the toddler whose fight for life transfixed the nation, was rescued Friday from the abandoned well where she survived 58 hours without food or water, crying "mamma" as workers dug her path to freedom.

October 20: Wall St. a downer

Story: Panic selling swept the stock market Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average into a 508.32-point tailspin in a percentage drop nearly twice that of Oct. 28, 1929, at the start of the Great Depression.

Octobert 24: Senate bids Bork adieu

Story: The Senate rejected the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court by a 58-42 vote Friday, capping a bitter constitutional struggle over the philosophical direction of the nation's highest court.