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.
- 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.
- April 13, 1987 – Portugal and the People’s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
- April 28, 1987 – American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua.
- May 5, 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
- May 11, 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
- June 28, 1987 – For the first time in the military history, a civilian target was attacked by chemical weapons when Iraqi warplanes dropped mustard gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in rwo separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas.
- July 4, 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the “Butcher of Lyon”) is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- July 27, 1987 – RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
- August 19, 1987 – Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
- August 31, 1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
- 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 14, 1987 – The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- 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 Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
- November 22, 1987 – Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
- December 18, 1987 – Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
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