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'''1987''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMLXXXVII''') was a
common year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
*
January 1 - Frobisher Bay,
Northwest Territories, changes its name to
Iqaluit, Nunavut Iqaluit. In
1999, it will become the capital of
Nunavut.
*
January 3 -
Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
*
January 4 - An
Amtrak train en route from
Washington, DC to
Boston, Massachusetts Boston Chase, Maryland rail wreck collides with
Conrail engines killing 16.
*
January 5 -
President of the United States US President Ronald Reagan undergoes
prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
*
January 8 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,000 for the first time gaining 8.30 to close at 2,002.25.
*
January 13 -
New York mafia mafiosi Anthony Salerno and
Carmine Peruccia are sentenced for 100 years in prison for
racketeering.
*
January 16 -
Leon Cordero, president of
Ecuador, is kidnapped by followers of imprisoned general
Frank Vargas who successfully demand his release
*
January 20 -
Terry Waite, the special envoy of the
Archbishop of Canterbury in
Lebanon, is kidnapped in
Beirut (released November
1991)
*
January 22 -
R. Budd Dwyer, Treasurer for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, shoots and kills himself at a press conference after being found guilty on charges of
bribery,
fraud,
Conspiracy (crime) conspiracy, and
racketeering.
*
January 24 - In
Lebanon, gunmen kidnap
Alann Steen,
Jesse Turner,
Robert Polhill and
Mitheleshwar Singh.
*
January 29 -
William J. Casey ends his term as a director of
CIA
*
January 31 - The last
Ohrbach's department store closes in
New York City after 64 years of operation.
February
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*
February 11 -
British Airways is privatised and listed on the
London Stock Exchange.
*
February 11 -
Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect.
*
February 11 -
United States US performs nuclear test at
Nevada Test Site
*
February 12 -
Unabomber bomb explodes in
Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah
*
February 20 - Second
Unabomber bomb explodes at the
Salt Lake City computer store - owner injured
*
February 23 -
Supernova 1987A is observed, the first "naked-eye" supernova since
1604.
*
February 26 -
Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes American President
Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
March
*
March 4 -
President Reagan addressed the American nation on the
Iran-Contra Affair, acknowledging his overtures to
Iran had “deteriorated� into an arms-for-hostages deal.
*
March 6 - A cross-channel
ferry capsizes outside the harbor off
Zeebrugge,
Belgium - 180 drown
*
March 29 -
WrestleMania III, an event held by the
World Wrestling Federation, takes place at the
Pontiac Silverdome in,
Pontiac, Michigan. The event is the largest indoor gathering in US history, with an official attendance of 93,173. In the main event,
Terry Bollea Hulk Hogan successfully defended the
WWE Championship World Wrestling Federation Championship, defeating
Andre the Giant.
April
*
April 13 -
Portugal and
People's Republic of China China sign an agreement in which
Macau would be returned to China in
1999.
*
April 27 -
United States U.S. United States Department of Justice Department of Justice declares incumbent
Austrian president
Kurt Waldheim an "undesirable alien"
May
*
May 5 -
Assemblies of God defrocks
Jim Bakker
*
May 8 -
Gary Hart drops out of the running for the
United States Democratic Party Democratic Party nomination in the
U.S. presidential election, 1988 1988 U.S. presidential election, amid allegations of an extra-marital affair with
Donna Rice
*
May 11 - The first
heart-
lung transplant takes place (
Baltimore, Maryland)
*
May 11 -
Klaus Barbie goes on trial in
Lyon for
war crimes committed during
World War II
*
May 14 - Lieutenant Colonel
Sitiveni Rabuka executes a bloodless
Fiji Coups of 1987 coup on the island of
Fiji.
*
May 17 -
Iran-Iraq War: The
USS Stark (FFG-31), while patrolling the Persian Gulf, is struck by two
exocet missiles from an
Iraqi F-1 Mirage fighter killing 37 sailors and injuring 21 other crew members
*
May 24 -
Indianapolis 500:
Al Unser wins for a fourth time, the second driver to do so, after
A.J. Foyt in
1977.
*
May 28 - 19-year-old
West Germany West German pilot
Mathias Rust evades
Soviet Union Soviet air defense and lands a private plane on
Red Square in
Moscow. He is immediately detained and was later released on
August 3 Wednesday, August 3,
1988.
June
* The
Federal Communications Commission rescinds the
Fairness Doctrine which had required
radio and
television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues
*
June 11 -
United Kingdom general election, 1987 1987 election:
Margaret Thatcher is elected as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the third time
*
June 17 - With the death of the last individual, the
Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
July
*
July 1 - The
Single European Act was passed by the
European Union
*
July 3 - In
Soviet Union, Vladimir Nikolayev is sentenced to death for
cannibalism
*
July 4 - Court in
Lyons sentences
Klaus Barbie to
life in prison
*
July 11 -
Australia Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's government is re-elected for a 3rd term
*
July 17 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time at 2510.04.
*
July 22 - Palestine cartoonist
Naji Salim al-Ali is fatally shot in
London. He dies
August 28
*
July 31 - 400
Iranian
pilgrims die in clashes with
Saudi Arabian security forces in
Mecca
August
*
August 9- 9 people die and 17 are injured when 19-year-old Julian Knight goes on a shooting rampage in
Melbourne.
*
August 16 - A
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying
Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes on takeoff from
Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing all but one of the 156 people on-board (sole survivor was four-year old
Cecelia Cichan). The crew forgot to properly set the plane's flaps
*
August 17 - The
Harmonic Convergence is observed.
*
August 17 -
Rudolf Hess is found hanging in his cell in
Spandau Prison
*
August 19 -
Order of the Garter opened to women
*
August 19 -
Hungerford Massacre: In the
United Kingdom,
Michael Robert Ryan kills 16 with an
assault rifle and then commits
suicide
September
*
September 2 - In
Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot
Mathias Rust, who flew his
Cessna airplane into
Red Square in
May May 1987, begins.
*
September 7-
September 21 - World's first conference on
artificial life,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
October
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* Wednesday-Friday,
October 14-
October 16 - The
United States US is caught up in a drama that unfolds on television as a young child,
Jessica McClure, falls down a well and is later rescued.
*
October 15-
October 16 16 -
Great Storm of 1987:
hurricane force winds hit much of the
South England South of England killing 23 people.
*
October 19 -
Black Monday (1987) Black Monday: stock market falls sharply around the world.
*
October 22 -
John Coolidge Adams's opera ''
Nixon in China (opera) Nixon in China'' debuts at the
Houston Grand Opera in
Houston, Texas.
*
October 23 - Champion English
jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for 3 years after being convicted of
tax evasion.
*
October 23 - On a vote of 58-42, the
United States Senate rejects
President of the United States President Ronald Reagan's nomination of
Robert Bork to the
United States Supreme Court U.S. Supreme Court.
November
*
November 8 -
Enniskillen bombing: Eleven people killed by an
PIRA bomb at a
Remembrance Day service at
Enniskillen.
*
November 18 -
King's Cross fire on the
London Underground kills 31.
*
November 25 -
Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale Category 5 Typhoon Nina smashes the
Philippines with 165 mph winds and devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 1,036 deaths.
December
*
December 1 -
NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build
Space Station Freedom:
Boeing Boeing Aerospace,
General Electric's Astro-Space Division,
McDonnell Douglas, and the
Rocketdyne Division of
Rockwell.
*
December 1 -
Channel Tunnel digging commences.
*
December 1 -
Queensland: Following a week of turmoil from his
National Party of Australia colleagues,
Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as
Premier of Queensland. He is replaced by
Mike Ahern, the only premier never to contest an election as premier.
*
December 7 -
Delaware celebrates its
1787 bicentennial statehood.
*
December 7 -
PSA Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
*
December 8 -
First Intifada begins.
*
December 8 -
Queen Street Massacre in
Melbourne,
Australia. 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic kills 8 and injures another 5 in an Australia Post office building in Queen Street before committing suicide by jumping from the 11th floor.
*
December 8 - The
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev.
*
December 12 -
Pennsylvania celebrates its
1787 bicentennial statehood.
*
December 17 -
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakian leader
Gustáv Husák resigns as
General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Communist Party.
*
December 18 -
New Jersey celebrates its
1787 bicentennial statehood.
*
December 18 -
Square Co., Ltd. releases
Final Fantasy in Japan for the Famicom.
*
December 21 - The ferry ''
Doña Paz'' collides with the oil tanker ''Vector I'' - 1,500 confirmed deaths (reportedly closer to 4,000 due to unregistered passengers).
*
December 24 -
Japan Japanese legendary
rock band BOØWY declare their breakup at
Shibuya Kokaido.
*
December 29 -
Prozac® makes its debut in the United States.
Environmental change
*
Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite, is found in the
United States U.S.
Unknown dates
* The
Federal Communications Commission rescinds the
Fairness Doctrine which had required
radio and
television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues
*
Pendolino train in
Italy
*
Shoko Asahara founds
Aum Shinrikyo
*
Barry Minkow's ''ZZZZ Best'' fraud unravels
*
World Population reaches five billion (5,000,000,000)
*
University of Akureyri founded
Births
January
*
January 14 -
Kristin Cavalleri, cast member of MTV's
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
February
*
February 2 -
Martin Spanjers, American actor
*
February 24 -
Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
*February 24 -
Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
March
*
March 5 -
Trent Kodama, College Student
*
March 9 -
Bow Wow, American rapper/singer and actor
*
March 16 -
Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model
April
*
April 10 -
Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
*
April 11 -
Joss Stone, English musician
*
April 19 -
Courtland Mead, American actor
*
April 19 -
Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
May
*
May 2 -
Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
*
May 4 -
Cesc Fabregas Francesc Fabregas, Spanish football player
*
May 6 -
Moon Geun Young, Korean actress
*
May 15 -
Andrew Murray (tennis player) Andrew Murray, Scottish tennis player
*
May 21 -
Ashlie Brillault, American actress
June
*
June 3 -
Lalaine, American actress
*
June 3 -
Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
*
June 16 -
Diana DeGarmo, American singer
*
June 24 -
Lionel Messi, Argentinian soccer player
July
*
July 20 -
Nicolas Dansereau, Canadian professional wrestler
*
July 24 -
Mara Wilson, American actress
*
July 25 -
Michael Welch, American actor
August
*
August 7 -
Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
*
August 25 -
Blake Lively, American actress
September
*
September 7 -
Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer
*
September 19 -
Danielle Panabaker, American actress
*
September 22 -
Tom Felton, English actor
*
September 28 -
Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
October
November
December
*
December 2 -
Teairra Mari, American singer
*
December 4 -
Orlando Brown (actor) Orlando Brown, American actor, singer, and comedian
*
December 7 -
Aaron Carter, American singer and actor
*
December 18 -
Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
Deaths
*
January 15 -
Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b.
1904)
*
January 21 -
Charles Goodell, American politician (b.
1926)
*
January 27 -
Allan V. Cox, American geologist (b.
1926)
*
February 2 -
Alistair MacLean, British writer (heart attack) (b.
1922)
*
February 4 -
Liberace, American pianist (b.
1919)
*
February 14 -
Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b.
1904)
*
February 22 -
Andy Warhol, American artist, director, writer (b.
1928)
*
March 2 -
Randolph Scott, American actor (b.
1898)
*
March 3 -
Danny Kaye, American singer, actor, and comedian (b.
1918)
*
March 11 -
Woody Hayes, Football coach at Ohio State (b.
1913)
*
March 19 -
Louis-Victor de Broglie, French physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1892)
*
March 21 -
Dean Paul Martin, American actor (b.
1951)
*
March 21 -
Robert Preston (actor) Robert Preston, American actor (b.
1918)
*
March 26 -
Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b.
1902)
*
March 28 -
Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b.
1905)
*
March 28 -
Patrick Troughton, British actor (b.
1920)
*
April 2 -
Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer (b.
1917)
*
April 3 -
Tom Sestak, American football player (b.
1936)
*
April 4 -
C. L. Moore, American writer (b.
1911)
*
April 26 -
John Silkin John Ernest Silkin, British poliician (b.
1923)
*
April 28 -
Ben Linder, American engineer (murdered) (b.
1959)
*
May 3 -
Dalida, French singer (b.
1933)
*
May 4 -
Paul Butterfield, American musician (b.
1942)
*
May 6 -
William J. Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b.
1913)
*
May 14 -
Rita Hayworth, American actress (b.
1918)
*
May 17 -
Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1898)
*
May 19 -
James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b.
1915)
*
May 27 -
John Howard Northrop, American chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1891)
*
June 2 -
Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b.
1893)
*
June 6 -
Fulton Mackay, Scottish actor (b.
1922)
*
June 10 -
Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (suicide) (b.
1943)
*
June 22 -
Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (b.
1899)
* June -
John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (b.
1907)
*
July 10 -
John Hammond, American record producer (b.
1910)
*
July 17 –
Kristjan Palusalu, Estonian wrestler (b.
1908)
*July 17 -
Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b.
1934)
*
August 17 -
Rudolf Hess, Egyptian Hitler's second-in-command (b.
1894)
*
August 26 -
Georg Wittig, German chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
*
September 4 -
Bill Bowes, British cricketer (b.
1908)
*
September 11 -
Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b.
1915)
*
September 11 -
Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (b.
1944)
*
September 21 -
Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b.
1951)
*
September 23 -
Bob Fosse, American theater choreographer and director (b.
1927)
*
October 2 -
Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1915)
*
October 3 -
Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (b.
1910)
*
October 3 -
Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b.
1947)
*
October 9 -
William Murphy (scientist) William Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1892)
*
October 13 -
Walter Brattain, American physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1902)
*
October 19 -
Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist (b.
1945)
*
October 20 -
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b.
1903)
*
October 28 -
André Masson, French artist (b.
1896)
*
October 29 -
Woody Herman, American jazz musician (b.
1913)
*
October 31 -
Joseph Campbell, American author on mythology (b.
1904)
*
December 2 -
Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1906)
*
December 2 -
Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b.
1914)
*
December 10 -
Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born violinist (b.
1901)
Fiction
On
November 7, Events in the
Doctor Who episode
Father's Day (Doctor Who) Father's Day take place.
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
J. Georg Bednorz,
K. Alexander Müller
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Donald J Cram,
Jean-Marie Lehn,
Charles J. Pedersen
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Medicine -
Susumu Tonegawa
*
Nobel Prize in literature Literature -
Joseph Brodsky
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace -
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
*
Robert Solow
Templeton Prize
*
Stanley Jaki Rev. Professor Stanley L. Jaki
Right Livelihood Award
*
Johan Galtung,
Chipko movement,
Hans-Peter Dürr /
Global Challenges Network,
Institute for Food and Development Policy /
Frances Moore-Lappé and
Mordechai Vanunu
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