1987 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1987?
- January 20, 1987 – Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon.
- January 29, 1987 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- April 8, 1987 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
- May 1, 1987 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
- May 11, 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
- May 28, 1987 – 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
- 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 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.
- June 30, 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
- July 29, 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
- July 31, 1987 – A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.
- August 31, 1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
- September 14, 1987 – The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
- 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 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 18, 1987 – Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
- December 20, 1987 – History’s worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
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