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Three decades ago, the long-fought Iran-Iraq war had reached a deadly stalemate, the stock markets took a huge hit on Black Monday in October, American politicians were gearing up for the 1988 presidential race, Baby Jessica was rescued from a well, broadcast live on CNN, and much more.

Photographers were also busy documenting the lives of Pee-wee Herman, Menudo, Mikhail Gorbachev, Howard Stern, Princess Diana, Donald Trump, Bernie Goetz, and many others. Take a step into a visual time capsule now, for a brief look at the year 1987.

President Ronald Reagan speaks about Martin Luther King Jr. during a televised speech at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 1987.

Members of the Puerto Rican singing group "Menudo" hold a press conference at New York's Hard Rock Cafe on May 27, 1987.

In the Persian Gulf, a view of the guided missile frigate USS Stark listing to port after being hit by two Iraqi Exocet missiles within 30 seconds. 37 sailors were killed.

Backstage at Carnegie Hall in New York, Liza Minelli meets guests after her show, including Henry Kissinger, Nancy Kissinger, Donald Trump and his wife Ivana Trump, on June 11, 1987.

Michael S. Swavley, vice president of marketing for Compaq Computer Corporation, introduces the new Compaq Portable III at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York, on February 18, 1987.

Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North, is sworn in on July 7, 1987, before the House and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on arms sales to Iran and diversion of profits to Nicaraguan Contra rebels.

A crowd estimated at 800,000 jams the deck of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, on May 24, 1987, as a walk is kicked off to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the bridge that spans the San Francisco Bay.

David Bowie performing on March 17, 1987.

Mayor Bernie Sanders of Burlington, Vermont, sings into the microphone during a recording session on November 20, 1987.

Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a conference at the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas, beside her husband, Governor Bill Clinton, on July 16, 1987.

After the 'Black Monday" stock market crash of 1987, passengers on board the F train in New York read about it in newspapers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by nearly 23% in a single day, on October 19, 1987.

Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and East Germany's Communist party leader Erich Honecker exchange kisses at East Berlin's Schoenefeld airport on May 27, 1987. Mr. Gorbachev arrived in East Berlin to attend the Warsaw Pact summit.

Minnesota Twins Kirby Puckett (left) celebrates with teammate Frank Viola (right) after they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 to win the 1987 World Series in this October 25, 1987 photo.

Congressional candidate Nancy Pelosi, D-California, waves at her Headquarters in San Francisco on April 7, 1987.

Actor Gerard Depardieu in Paris. He was releasing the 1987 film Sous le soleil de Satan, or Under Satan's Sun directed by Maurice Pialat.

Radio shock jock Howard Stern speaks at a rally in New on April 24, 1987, where more than 2,000 people showed their support after the FCC censured Stern's off-color broadcasts.

Eighteen-month old "Baby Jessica" McClure is held by rescue worker on October 16, 1987 after she was trapped 22 feet underground in an abandoned water well for 58 hours.

Actress Morgan Fairchild and funny man Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) pose for photographers as they enter the American Comedy Awards at the Los Angeles Palladium Theater on May 20, 1987.

The corpse of a Libyan soldier lies buried in the sand near Libyan army tanks captured by the National Army of Chad.

Participants of the Lesbian and Gay march on Washington hold their hands high during a rally on the National Mall on October 11, 1987.

Princess Diana, is pictured during an evening reception given by the West German President Richard von Weizsacker in honor of the British Royal guests in Bonn, Germany on Monday, November 2, 1987.

The "gar-barge", a barge full of 3,100 tons of Brooklyn garbage, floats around near Key West, Florida, on May 7, 1987. The barge, originally chartered to be towed from New York to North Carolina, but local officials denied the barge entry in North Carolina, and ordered it to move on.

"Saturday Night Live" host Bill Murray, a former cast member, during rehearsals at Studio 8H in New York's Rockefeller Center, on March 19, 1987. At left is SNL's creator and producer, Lorne Michaels.

Senator Joseph Biden, D-Delaware, speaks at a press conference in Boston on April 15, 1987, the start of what was planned as three-day campaign trip through New England.

The Singapore-registered tanker "Norman Atlantic" sits ablaze in the Straits of Hormuz on December 6, 1987, after being attacked by an Iranian gunboat.

Bag-covered bodies are strewn across the hillsides flanking Middlebelt Road in Romulus, Michigan, on August 16, 1987 after a Northwest Airlines MD-18, en route to California via Phoenix, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Music groups Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys pose atop a restaurant in midtown Manhattan on May 11, 1987.

George Bush and wife, Barbara, wave to supporters that turned out in Houston, Texas, to hear him announce he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States, on October 12, 1987.

First Lady Nancy Reagan watches an anti-drug musical entitled Just Say No on February 26, 1987, in Alexandria, Virginia.

Two men wearing Irish Republican Army (IRA) black masks and berets carry the coffin of Tony Gormley, during his funeral near Dungannon, Northern Ireland on May 11, 1987.

William Shatner, more used to kisses from beautiful aliens in his role as Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, gets a whale of a kiss from Yaka the 10,000-pound killer whale at a Vallejo, California, wildlife park.