Important Historical Events of the year 1987, Year 1987 in History

1. Birthday Age Calculator
2. Historical Events By Year
3. 20th Century Years
4. Important Historical Events of the year 1987

List of 1987 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1987

What happened in the year 1987?

Date	Event
January 1, 1987	The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.
January 3, 1987	Varig Flight 797 crashes near Akouré in the Ivory Coast, resulting in 50 deaths.
January 4, 1987	The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
January 22, 1987	Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
January 23, 1987	Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan sends a "letter of death" to Somali President Siad Barre, proposing the genocide of the Isaaq people.
February 2, 1987	After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
February 6, 1987	Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
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.
March 7, 1987	Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
March 9, 1987	Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation
March 20, 1987	The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
April 8, 1987	Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline.
April 11, 1987	The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
April 19, 1987	The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".
April 21, 1987	The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
April 27, 1987	The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
May 3, 1987	A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
May 5, 1987	Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
May 8, 1987	The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
May 9, 1987	LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
May 14, 1987	Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
May 17, 1987	Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
May 22, 1987	Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.
May 22, 1987	First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
May 28, 1987	An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
June 8, 1987	New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
June 11, 1987	Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
June 12, 1987	The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
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 19, 1987	Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
June 28, 1987	For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
June 29, 1987	Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
July 1, 1987	The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
July 4, 1987	In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
July 5, 1987	Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
July 24, 1987	US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
July 24, 1987	Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
July 29, 1987	British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
July 29, 1987	Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
July 31, 1987	A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people.
August 4, 1987	The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
August 7, 1987	Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
August 16, 1987	Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
August 19, 1987	Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
August 29, 1987	Odaeyang mass suicide: 33 individuals linked to a religious cult are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in Yongin, South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a murder-suicide pact.
August 31, 1987	Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
September 2, 1987	In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
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.
September 25, 1987	Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
October 1, 1987	The 5.9 Mw  Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
October 6, 1987	Fiji becomes a republic.
October 7, 1987	Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
October 7, 1987	Fiji becomes a republic.
October 11, 1987	The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
October 11, 1987	Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
October 15, 1987	Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.
October 15, 1987	A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.
October 19, 1987	The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
October 19, 1987	Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
October 21, 1987	The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian peacekeeping forces in Sri Lanka, killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
October 22, 1987	John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered.
November 1, 1987	British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238 km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors.
November 7, 1987	In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
November 7, 1987	The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service.
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	In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
November 18, 1987	King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
November 25, 1987	Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 265 km/h (165 mph) and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
November 28, 1987	South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
November 29, 1987	North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
December 7, 1987	Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, 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 steers the plane into the ground.
December 8, 1987	Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
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, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.
December 9, 1987	Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
December 20, 1987	In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
December 22, 1987	In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
December 30, 1987	Stella Sigcau, Prime minister of the South African Bantustan of Transkei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Bantu Holomisa.