1987 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1987?
- January 20, 1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
- January 22, 1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
- January 29, 1987 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 6, 1987 – Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
- February 16, 1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed “Ivan the Terrible” in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
- March 6, 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- March 19, 1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
- May 5, 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
- May 15, 1987 – The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
- June 30, 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
- July 1, 1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world’s first all-sports radio station.
- July 5, 1987 – First instance of the LTTE using suicide attacks on Sri Lankan Army. The Black Tigers are born, and in the following years continue to use the tactic to deadly effect.
- July 29, 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
- August 4, 1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.
- August 19, 1987 – Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
- September 14, 1987 – The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- September 16, 1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
- October 21, 1987 – Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
- November 8, 1987 – Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
- November 29, 1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
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