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1987 (
MCMLXXXVII ) was a
common year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar .
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Environmental change 1.14 Unknown dates
2 Births
2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December
3 Deaths
3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 May 3.6 June 3.7 July 3.8 August 3.9 September 3.10 October 3.11 November 3.12 December
4 1987 in pop culture and fiction
4.1 Music 4.2 Television 4.3 Computer and video games
5 Nobel prizes 6 Templeton Prize 7 Right Livelihood Award 8 Ship Events
Events January January 1 - Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories , changes its name to Iqaluit . In 1999 , it becomes the capital of Nunavut .
January 2 - Battle of Fada : The Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade.
January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
January 4 - Chase, Maryland rail wreck : An Amtrak train en route from Washington, DC to Boston, Massachusetts collides with Conrail engines, killing 16.
January 5 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery, causing speculation about his physical fitness to continue in office.
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 mafiosi Anthony Salerno and Carmine Peruccia are sentenced to 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 , and racketeering .
January 24 - In Lebanon , gunmen kidnap Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.
January 25 - N.Y. Giants defeat the Denver Broncos, 39- 20, in Super Bowl XXI.
January 29 - William J. Casey ends his term as CIA Director.
January 31 - The last Ohrbach's department store closes in New York City after 64 years of operation.
February March April May May 5 - The Assemblies of God defrocks Jim Bakker .
May 8 - U.S. Senator Gary Hart drops out of the running for the Democratic presidential nomination, amid allegations of an extra-marital affair with Donna Rice .
May 11 - The first heart -lung transplant takes place in 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 coup in 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 20 - Tennessee court rules that WWF can not promote Harley Race as the King of Wrestling in Tennessee upholding Jerry Lawler 's claim.
May 24 - Indianapolis 500 : Al Unser wins for a fourth time, the second driver to do so, after A.J. Foyt in 1977 .
May 26 - Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Iron Sheik are arrested together in car for possession of Marijuana. Many feel this is the beginning of the end for pro wrestling trying to hide the fact that it is scripted entertainment and not real sport, as Duggan and Sheik were portrayed as hated rivals.
May 28 - West German pilot Mathias Rust , 19, evades Soviet air defenses and lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow . He is immediately detained (but is released August 3 , 1988 ).
June June 10 - During a visit to Berlin, Germany , U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall .
June 11 - United Kingdom general election, 1987 : 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.
June 19 - Teddy Seymour became officially designated the first black man to sail around the world when he completed his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.
June 19 - in the case Edwards v. Aguillard the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution was taught was unconstitutional.
June 28 - an accidental explosion at Hohenfels Training Area in the Federal Republic of Germany kills 3 U.S. troopers assigned to the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment , stationed in Fulda and Bad Hersfeld . Over a dozen more are wounded. The accident involves the M180 Cratering Demolition Kit . The kit involved in the accident proved to be defective. Killed in the accident were SSG Joseph Deweese, SGT Joseph Renaldi (both of 58th Combat Engineer Company (Red Devils), 11th ACR), and SPC Joseph Lavoie (HHT, 4th Squadron, 11th ACR).
July July 1 - The Single European Act is passed by the European Union .
July 1 - The first ever Edgefest festival takes place at Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario .
July 1 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominates former Solicitor General Robert Bork , a controversial conservative judge and legal scholar, to the U.S. Supreme Court .
July 3 - In the Soviet Union , Vladimir Nikolayev is sentenced to death for cannibalism .
July 3 - Greater Manchester Police recover the body of 16-year-old Pauline Reade from Saddleworth Moor after her killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley helped them in their search - almost exactly 24 years since Pauline was last seen alive.
July 4 - A court in Lyon sentences former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
July 11 - Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke 's government is re-elected for a third term.
July 17 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time, at 2,510.04.
July 22 - Palestinian cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali is shot in London ; he dies August 28 .
July 27 - Australian singer Kylie Minogue releases her first hit, a remake of Little Eva 's The Locomotion July 31 - Four hundred Iranian pilgrims are killed in clashes with Saudi Arabian security forces in Mecca .
July 31 - Docklands Light Railway , the first driverless railway in Great Britain , is formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II
August
