Reality star Tanner Tolbert

Events in 1987 and 2-5

Events in US in the birth year of Tanner Tolbert

• US Supreme Court rules Rotary Clubs must admit women (May 4).
• US Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., retires (June 26).
• Oliver North, Jr., tells Congressional inquiry higher officials approved his secret Iran-Contra operations (July 7–10).
• Admiral John M. Poindexter, former National Security Adviser, testifies he authorized use of Iran arms sale profits to aid Contras (July 15–22).
• George P. Shultz testifies he was deceived repeatedly on Iran-Contra affair (July 23–24).
• Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger tells inquiry of official deception and intrigue (July 31, Aug. 3).
• Reagan says Iran arms-Contra policy went astray and accepts responsibility (Aug. 12).
• Senate, 58-42, rejects Robert H. Bork as US Supreme Court Justice (Oct. 23).

Birthday Tanner Tolbert (2-5) in history

• Day 2-5 year 1885: Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.
• Day 2-5 year 1939: Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.
• Day 2-5 year 1945: The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.
• Day 2-5 year 1955: Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• Day 2-5 year 1969: The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.
• Day 2-5 year 1994: Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.
• Day 2-5 year 1997: The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
• Day 2-5 year 2011: U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
• Day 2-5 year 2012: A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.