1987 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1987?
- January 22, 1987 – Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
- January 29, 1987 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 20, 1987 – Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
- February 23, 1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- February 26, 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
- March 6, 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
- April 28, 1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
- May 11, 1987 – In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart-lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
- 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.
- June 17, 1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
- 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.
- September 3, 1987 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
- November 5, 1987 – Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
- 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 15, 1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
- December 7, 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
- December 8, 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
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