Events
DateEvent
1987 Alton Augustus Adams Sr. Died
1987 Zeca Afonso Died
1987 Henk Badings Died
1987 Joseph Beer Died
1987 Emmanuel Bondeville Died
1987 Oswald Brodin Died
1987 Lluís Callejo Died
1987 Abram Chasins Died
1987 Morton Feldman Died
1987 Wolfgang Fortner Died
1987 Hans Gál Died
1987 Jackie Gleason Died
1987 Emil Hlobil Died
1987 Karl Höller Died
1987 David N. Johnson Died
1987 Dmitri Kabalevsky Died
August 21 1987 Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Died
1987 Ma Sicong Died
1987 Federico Mompou Died
1987 Ervin Nyíregyházi Died
1987 Vincent Persichetti Died
1987 Jean Rivier Died
1987 Dana Suesse Died
1987 Phyllis Tate Died
1987 George Thalben-Ball Died
1987 Georges Tzipine Died
January 01 1987 Greece Introduces A Value-added Tax
January 04 1987 Eastern Seaboard Train Collision, 1987, Killed Sixteen
January 20 1987 Terry Waite Kidnapped In Lebanon
January 22 1987 Budd Shoots And Kills Himself
January 22 1987 Philippine Security Kills 13 At Demonstration In Manila
February 02 1987 Phlippines Enact New Constitution After 1986 Revolution
February 06 1987 Mary Gaudron Appointed To High Court
February 16 1987 'Ivan The Terrible' Trial In Jerusalem
February 20 1987 Unabomber Strikes In Salt Lake City Store
February 23 1987 Supernova 1987a Seen
February 25 1987 Southern Methodist Nixed By NCAA For ""slush""
February 26 1987 President Reagan Is Rebuked By Commission
March 06 1987 British MS Herald Capsizes Killing 193
March 19 1987 PTL Club Head Bakker Resigns
March 20 1987 FDA Approves AZT For AIDS Treatment
April 08 1987 Campanis Resigns Over Racist Remarks
April 11 1987 London Agreement Signed Peres And King Hussein
April 13 1987 Agreement Between Portugal And People's Republic Of China
April 19 1987 The Simpsons Premiered On The Tracy Ullman Show
April 21 1987 Tamil Tigers Blamed For Car Bomb
April 27 1987 Austrian President Waldheim Banned From US Entry
April 28 1987 Lindner Killed By Contras In Nicaragua
May 01 1987 Pope John Beatifies Jewish Nun
May 03 1987 Crash At Talladega Leads To Better Safety
May 05 1987 Congressional Hearings In Iran-Contra Affair
May 08 1987 SAS Operatives Kill 8 IRA Members
May 09 1987 Polish Flight Crashes In Warsaw - No Survivors
May 11 1987 Barbie War Crimes Trial Begins
May 11 1987 First Heart–lung Transplant In Baltimore
May 15 1987 Soviet Union Polyus Prototype Orbital Weapons Platform Fails
May 17 1987 Iraqi Jet Attacks USS Stark Killing 37
May 22 1987 Hashimpura Massacre In Meerut, India
May 22 1987 New Zealand Hosts First Rugby World Cup
May 28 1987 Rust Detained After Landing In Red Square
June 03 1987 The Vanuatu Labour Party Is Founded
June 08 1987 New Zealand Establishes Nuclear-free Zone
June 11 1987 Three Black Parliamentarians Elected In Great Britain
June 12 1987 Jean-Bédel Bokassa Sentenced To Death Africa
June 12 1987 Reagan Challenges Gorbachev To Destroy Berlin Wall
June 17 1987 Dusky Seaside Sparrows Now Extinct
June 28 1987 Iraqi Targets Iranian Civilians For Chemical Attack
July 01 1987 WFAN, The World's First All-sport Radio Station
July 04 1987 Klaus Barbie Is Sentenced To Life
July 05 1987 The Black Tigers Commit First Suicide Attacks Against The Sri Lankan Army
July 14 1987 Montreal, Canada Hit By Series Of Thunderstorms
July 27 1987 RMS Titanic Inc Salvaged The Wreckage
July 29 1987 Thatcher And Mitterrand Agree To Eurotunnel
July 29 1987 India And Sri Lanka Sign Accord
August 04 1987 Fairness Doctrine Is Rescinded By The FCC
August 07 1987 Lynne Cox The First To Swim Bering Sea
August 14 1987 Children Held At Kia Lama Are Released
August 19 1987 Ryan Kills Sixteen In UK Massacre
August 23 1987 American Men Basketballers Lose Gold, Brazil
August 31 1987 Thai Airways Crash Off Thailand, 83 Perish
September 03 1987 President Bagaza Of Burundi Is Deposed In A Coup D'état
September 10 1987 Pope On 11 Day North American Tour
September 13 1987 Stolen Radioactive Object Leads To Brazilian Deaths
September 14 1987 Toronto Blue Jays Hit Record 10 Homers
September 15 1987 Shultz And Shevardnadze Sign Treaty Avoiding War
September 16 1987 Montreal Protocol Protects Ozone Layer
September 17 1987 San Francisco: John Paul II Hugs AIDS Victim
September 18 1987 Jerzy Kukuczka Second Mountaineer To Summit 14 Eight-thousanders
October 01 1987 Eartquake Shakes The San Gabriel Valley
October 06 1987 Fiji Becomes A Republic
October 07 1987 Sikh Independence Of Khalistan Not Recognized
October 11 1987 Sri Lankan Force Thousands Of Tamils
October 15 1987 Great Storm Of 1987 Hits Europe
October 19 1987 US Navy Conducts Operation Nimble Archer
October 19 1987 Black Monday: DOW Falls 22%
October 21 1987 Jaffna Hospital Massacre Killing 70
October 30 1987 NEC Releases First 16-bit Video Game Console
November 05 1987 Govan Mbeki Served 24 Years For Terrorism And Treason
November 07 1987 Ben Ali President In Tunisia Coup
November 07 1987 Sinapore Opens Train Services
November 08 1987 26 Killed In IRA Bombing In Enniskillen
November 15 1987 28 Died In Plane Crash In Colorado
November 15 1987 Romania: Workers Rebel Against Ceausescu
November 18 1987 31 Die In King's Cross Fire
November 22 1987 Two Chicago TV Stations Are Hijacked By Impersonated Max Headroom
November 25 1987 Typhoon Nina Pummels Phillippines; Causes 1,036 Deaths
November 28 1987 South African Flight 295 Crashes Killing 159
November 29 1987 Korean Air Flight 858 Explodes Killing 115
December 07 1987 Airplane Crashes In California, Killing 43
December 08 1987 The Alianza Lima Air Disaster Occurs
December 08 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Signed
December 08 1987 Vitkovic Commits Murder-suicide In Melbourne
December 08 1987 The Israeli Army Kills Four Palestinians
December 09 1987 The First Intifafa Beings In Palestinian Territory
December 17 1987 Final Fantasy Released In Japan
December 18 1987 Wall Releases Perl Programming Language
December 20 1987 4,000 Dead After Ferry Collides With Tanker
December 22 1987 ZANU And ZAPU Reach Agreement