1987 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1987?
- January 29, 1987 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
- February 11, 1987 – The Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect.
- February 23, 1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- March 20, 1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
- April 21, 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
- 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 3, 1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop restrictor plate racing the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
- May 17, 1987 – 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 in Meerut city of India.
- July 1, 1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world’s first all-sports radio station.
- 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 14, 1987 – Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
- July 27, 1987 – RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
- 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.
- October 11, 1987 – Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers.
- October 15, 1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
- November 29, 1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
- December 8, 1987 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed.
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