1 : 1987 2 : Events 2.1 : January 2.2 : February 2.3 : March-April 2.4 : May-June 2.5 : July-August 2.6 : September-October 2.7 : November 2.8 : December 2.9 : unknown dates 3 : Year in Topic 4 : Births 5 : Deaths 5.1 : January-July 5.2 : August-December 6 : Nobel Prizes
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Years: 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 - 1987 - 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
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This is a Common year starting on Thursday.
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Events
January
February
- February 11 - British Airways is privatised and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
- Wednesday, February 11, 1987 - Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect.
- Wednesday, February 11, 1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- February 12 - Unabomber bomb explodes in Salt Lake City, Utah
- February 16 - The trial of John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem. He was eventually convicted, but this ruling was overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
- February 20 - Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, Utah a bomb explodes in a computer store.
- 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-April
May-June
July-August
September-October
November
- November 5 - Apartheid: In South Africa, Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority South Africa government.
- November 7 - In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
- November 8 - Enniskillen massacre: In Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, an Irish Republican Army bomb explodes, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing eleven people.
- November 18 - Kings Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station at King's Cross.
- Wednesday, November 18, 1987 - Iran-Contra scandal: The United States Congress issues its final report on the Iran-Contra affair, stating that US President Ronald Wilson Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides and his administration exhibited "secrecy, deception, and disdain for the law."
- November 28 - A Boeing 747 carrying South African Airways 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
- November 28 - In Wappingers Falls, New York, Tawana Brawley is found wrapped in garbage bags, with feces smeared all over her body and a racial written on her body (she later told police that she was held against her will for four days and repeatedly raped by a group of white men, one of which had a police badge. Her story did not check out, however).
- November 29 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 exploded over the Thai-Burmese border killing 155.
December
unknown dates
Year in Topic
- 1987 in film
- Friday, January 30, 1987 - Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
- Friday, February 6, 1987 - Black Widow
- Friday, March 6, 1987 - Lethal Weapon 1 starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
- Wednesday, May 20, 1987 - Beverly Hills Cop 2 starring Eddie Murphy
- Friday, June 12, 1987 - Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Friday, June 26, 1987 - Dragnet
- Friday, July 17, 1987 - Jaws 4: The Revenge
- The Untouchables''
Births
Deaths
January-July
- January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, dancer
- February 2 - Alistair MacLean, British thriller writer, heart attack
- February 4 - Liberace
- February 22 - Andy Warhol, artist, director, writer
- March 2 - Randolph Scott, actor
- March 3 - Danny Kaye, actor, singer, comedian
- March 19 - Louis-Victor de Broglie, physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics
- March 21 - Robert Preston, actor
- March 28 - Maria von Trapp, singer
- April 2 - Buddy Rich, drummer
- April 4 - C. L. Moore, science fiction writer
- April 28 - Ben Linder, American engineer murdered in Nicaragua
- May 3 - Dalida, French singer
- May 6 - William Casey, controversial director of the CIA
- May 11 - Peter Tosh, musician
- May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress
- May 19 - James Tiptree, Jr, science fiction author
- June 22 - Fred Astaire, actor
- July 10 - John Hammond, record producer (b. 1910)
August-December
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