1987

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1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

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Events

January

January 1 - Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit. In 1999, it became the capital of Nunavut.
January 2 - At 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 - An Amtrak train en route from Washington, DC to Boston 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 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, 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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The damaged US Frigate, USS Stark, after being struck by an Iraqi Exocet Missile in the Persian Gulf.

February 11 - British Airways is privatised and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
February 11 - Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect.
February 11 - US military detonates an atomic weapon at Nevada Test Site
February 12 - Unabomber bomb explodes in 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 7 - U2's The Joshua Tree album is released.
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.

April

April 13 - Portugal and China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
April 27 - U.S. 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 Democratic Party nomination in the 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 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 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 German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defense and lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and was later released on 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 - 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 1 - The first ever Edgefest festival takes place at Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario
July 3 - In Soviet Union, Vladimir Nikolayev is sentenced to death for cannibalism
July 4 - Court in Lyon sentences Klaus Barbie to life in prison
July 11 - 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 27- Australian singer Kylie Minogue released her first hit a remake of Little Eva's The Locomotion in Australia
July 31 - 400 Iranian pilgrims are killed in clashes with Saudi Arabian security forces in Mecca

August

August 4 - The World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Commission, publishes its report, Our Common Future.
August 4 - The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues
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. One of the passengers on Northwest 255 who died was Nick Vanos, a center for the Phoenix Suns basketball team.
August 17 - The Harmonic Convergence is observed.
August 17 - Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison (suicide by hanging).
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

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September 2 - In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
September 7-September 21 - World's first conference on artificial life, Los Alamos National Laboratory

October

Performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Index during Black Monday

Wednesday-Friday, October 14-October 16 - The 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 15-16 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
October 19 - Black Monday: stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.
October 22 - John Coolidge Adams's 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 Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the 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 - Category 5 Typhoon Nina smashes the Philippines with 165 mph winds and devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 1,036 deaths.
November 29 - Korean Air Flight 858 is blown up over the Andaman sea killing 115 crew and passengers, North Korean agents are suspected to be responsible for the act.

December

December 1 - NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.
December 1 - Channel Tunnel construction is initiated.
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 2 - Hustler Magazine v. Falwell is argued before the US Supreme Court
December 7 - Delaware, first state admitted to the Union, celebrates its bicentennial.
December 7 - PSA Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor 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 9 - General Rahimuddin Khan retires from the Pakistan Army, as well as the cabinet of the country's military dictatorship.
December 12 - Pennsylvania celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
December 17 - Czechoslovakian leader Gustáv Husák resigns as General Secretary of the Communist Party.
December 18 - New Jersey celebrates its 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 29 - Prozac® makes its debut in the United States.

Environmental change

Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite, is found in the U.S.

Unknown dates

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)
Scream Bloody Gore by Death is released, a landmark in extreme music.

Births

January

January 14 - Kristin Cavallari, cast member of MTV's

February

February 2 - Martin Spanjers, American actor
February 24 - Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
24 February - Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model

March

March 9 - Bow Wow, American rapper/singer and actor
March 16 - Tiiu Kuik, Estonian model

April

April 9 - Jesse McCartney, American pop singer.
April 10 - Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
April 11 - Joss Stone, English musician
April 12 - Brendon Urie, American musician
April 19 - Courtland Mead, American actor
19 April - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player

May

May 2 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
May 4 - Francesc Fabregas, Spanish football player
May 5 - Ian Michael Smith, American child actor
May 6 - Moon Geun Young, Korean actress
May 15 - Andrew Murray, Scottish tennis player
May 15 - Jennylyn Mercado, Filipino actress and singer
May 16 - Scott Peters, Australian cricketer
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 - Nathan Lawrence, American actor
July 25 - Michael Welch, American actor

August

August 7 - Sidney Crosby, Canadian hockey player
August 25 - Liu Yifei, Chinese actress
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

October 16 - Zac Efron, American actor

November

December

December 2 - Teairra Mari, American singer
December 4 - Orlando Brown, American actor, singer, and comedian
December 7 - Aaron Carter, American singer and actor
December 11 - Natalia Gordienko, Moldovan popstar
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 laureate (b. 1892)
March 21 - Dean Paul Martin, American actor (b. 1951)
March 21 - 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 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 laureate (b. 1898)
May 19 - James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915)
May 27 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, 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 22 - John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet (b. 1907)
June 24 - Jackie Gleason, American actor and comedian (b. 1916)
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 16 - Nick Vanos, Basketball Player (b. 1963)
August 17 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi official (b. 1894)
August 26 - Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
August 29 - Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)
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 17 - Harry Locke, British character actor (b. 1913)
September 21 - Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (b. 1951)
September 23 - Bob Fosse, American theater choreographer and director (b. 1927)
September 25 - Harry Holtzman, American Abstract Artist (b. 1912)
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 Parry Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892)
October 13 - Walter Brattain, American physicist, 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)
November 1 - René Lévesque, Canadian politician and premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
December 1 - Punch Imlach, Canadian NHL coach (b. 1918)
December 2 - Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, 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 take place, and on November 20 the event Energise is scheduled.

Michael Warren is elected mayor of Raccoon City in the video game Resident Evil.

Nobel prizes

Robert Solow

Rev. Professor Stanley L. Jaki

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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