What day of the week was October 30, 1987?

The day of the week October 30th, 1987 fell on was a Friday.

There were 56 days until Christmas.

Ali Riley the New Zealand footballer was born on 30 October in 1987.

Joseph Campbell the American mythologist, scholar, and author (b. 1904) died on this day in 1987.

In Japan the NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.