EAST STREET DENTAL PRACTICE
Reception (+44) 01258 452522Way back in 1987
April 19 The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
June 1 Nigel took over an established part time practice located then in West Street.
June 11 Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected for a third term at the 1987 general election.
July 2 & 3 - Richard Branson & Per Lindstrand make first Atlantic crossing in Hot Air balloon.
July 31 London's DLR, the first driverless railway in Great Britain, is opened by Queen Elizabeth.
October 15 & 16 Great Storm of 1987: Hurricane-force winds hit much of South England, killing 23 people.
October 19 Black Monday Stock Market crash.
November 1 InterCity 125 breaks world diesel powered train speed record reaching 147.88 mph.
November 18 The King's Cross fire on the London Underground kills 31.
December 8 - Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign Nuclear Arms treaty.
