1987 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1987?
- 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.
- February 20, 1987 – Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
- March 6, 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- April 11, 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
- May 3, 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
- May 22, 1987 – Hashimpura massacre in Meerut city of India.
- June 12, 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
- August 31, 1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
- September 3, 1987 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
- September 13, 1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
- September 16, 1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
- October 30, 1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
- November 5, 1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
- November 18, 1987 – Iran-Contra Affair: the U.S. Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
- November 22, 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
- November 28, 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
- December 9, 1987 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
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