1987
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Events
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Environmental change
- Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite is found in the U.S
- October 15 - Hurricane force winds cause extensive damage in southern England.
January
- January 1 - Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit. In 1999, it will become the capital of Nunavut.
- January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- January 4 - An Amtrak train en route from Washington, DC to New York collides with CONRAIL engines killing 16.
- January 5 - US President Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
- January 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,000 for the first time gaining 8.30 to close at 2,002.25.
- January 20 - Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Lebanon, is kidnapped in Beirut (released November 1991)
- January 22 - In Pennsylvania, R. Budd Dwyer, Treasurer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shoots himself at a press conference after being found guilty on charges of bribery, fraud, conspiracy, and racketeering.
- January 24 - In Lebanon, gunmen kidnap Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.
- January 29 - William J. Casey ends his term as a director of CIA
- January 31 - The last Ohrbach's department store closes in New York City after 64 years of operation.
February-May
- February 11 - British Airways is privatised and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
- February 11 - Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect.
- February 11 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- February 12 - Unabomber bomb explodes in Salt Lake City, Utah
- 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.
- May 8 - Gary Hart drops out of the running for the Democratic Party nomination in the 1988 U.S. presidential election, amid allegations of an extra-marital affair with Donna Rice
- May 11 - The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland)
- May 11 - Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II
- May 14 - Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka executes a bloodless coup on the island of Fiji.
- May 17 - Iran-Iraq War: The USS Stark (FFG-31), while patrolling the Persian Gulf, is struck by two exocet missiles from an Iraqi F-1 Mirage fighter killing 37 sailors and injuring 21 other crew members
- May 28 - 19-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defense and lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained and will later be released on Wednesday, August 3, 1988.
June-September
- The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues
- July 11 - Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's government is re-elected for a 3rd term
- August 9- 9 people die + 11 injured when 19 year old Julian Knight goes on shooting rampage in Melbourne(Hoddle St Massacre)
- August 16 - A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport killing all but one of the 156 people on-board (sole survivor was four-year old Cecelia Cichan). The crew forgot to properly set the plane's flaps
- August 17 - The Harmonic Convergence is observed.
- August 17 - Rudolf Hess is found hanging in his cell in Spandau Prison
- August 19 - Order of the Garter opened to women
- August 19 - Hungerford Massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills 16 with an assault rifle and then commits suicide
- September 2 - In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
- September 7-September 21 - World's first conference on artificial life, Los Alamos National Laboratory
October
- Wednesday-Friday, October 14-October 16 - The US is caught up in a drama that unfolds on television as a young child, Jessica McClure, falls down a well and is later rescued.
- October 15 and October 16 - Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.
- October 19 - Black Monday: stock market falls sharply around the world.
- October 23 - British jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for 3 years for tax evasion
- October 23 - On a vote of 58-42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court.
December
- December 1 - NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build the International Space Station: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell
- December 1 - Channel Tunnel digging commences
- December 1 - Queensland: Following a week of turmoil from his National Party of Australia colleagues, Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as Premier of Queensland. He is replaced by Mike Ahern, the only premier never to contest an election as premier.
- December 7 - Delaware celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
- December 8 - first Intifada begins
- December 8 - Queen Street Massacre in Melbourne, Australia. 22 year old Frank Vitkovic kills 8 and injures another 5 in an Australia Post office building in Queen Street before committing suicide by jumping from the 11th floor.
- December 12 - Pennsylvania celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
- December 18 - New Jersey celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
- December 21 - The ferry Doña Paz collides with the oil tanker Vector I - 1,500 confirmed deaths (reportedly closer to 4,000 due to unregistered passengers)
- December 24 - Japanese legendary rock band BOØWY declared breakup at Shibuya Kokaido.
- December 29 - Prozac® makes its debut in the US
Unknown dates
- Pendolino train in Italy
- Shoko Asahara founds Aum Shinrikyo
- Barry Minkow's ZZZZ Best fraud unravels
Year in Topic
- 1987 in film
- February 6 - Black Widow
- March 6 - Lethal Weapon starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
- May 16 - Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
- May 20 - Beverly Hills Cop II starring Eddie Murphy
- June 3 - The Untouchables
- June 12 - Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- June 26 - Dragnet
- July 17 -
- November 13 - The Running Man starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 1987 in literature
- 1987 in music
- January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- August 28 - Michael Jackson releases Bad, his follow-up to 1982's Thriller
- 1987 in rail transport
- 1987 in science
- 1987 in sports
- 1987 in television
- CBS becomes the last American network to cease a chime intonation at the beginning of telecasts; satellite feeds have made the tones obsolete (the chime served as a signal to the affiliates to start airing the network feed in sync with everyone else).
- April 5 - Married... with Children premieres on the FOX television network.
- September 28 - premieres on syndicated television with the first part of a two-part episode "Encounter at Farpoint"
- 1987 in video gaming and computing
- October 30 - The NEC PC Engine (aka TurboGrafx) is released in Japan.
- December 18 - Programming language Perl 1.0 is released.
- The Legend of Zelda is released for the first time.
Births
- February 2 - Martin Spanjers, actor (8 Simple Rules)
- March 9
- Bow Wow, rap musician, actor
- Pikku G, Finnish rap musician
- April 9 - Jesse McCartney, actor and singer
- April 10 - Hayley Westenra, singer
- April 11 - Joss Stone, musician
- April 19 - Maria Sharapova, tennis player
- May 21 - Ashlie Brillault, actress (Lizzie McGuire)
- June 3 - Lalaine, actress (Lizzie McGuire)
- July 25 - Michael Welch, actor (Stargate SG-1, Joan of Arcadia)
- September 7 - Evan Rachel Wood, actress
- September 22 - Tom Felton, actor (Harry Potter movies)
- September 28 - Hilary Duff, actress, singer (Lizzie McGuire, Agent Cody Banks)
- December 7 - Aaron Carter, singer
- December 12 - Kate Todd, actress (Radio Free Roscoe)
Deaths
- January 15 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
- January 21 - Charles Goodell, American politician (b. 1926)
- January 27 - Allan V. Cox, American geologist (b. 1926)
- February 2 - Alistair MacLean, British writer (heart attack) (b. 1922)
- February 4 - Liberace, American pianist (b. 1919)
- February 14 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
- February 22 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, writer (b. 1928)
- March 2 - Randolph Scott, actor (b. 1898)
- March 3 - Danny Kaye, American singer, actor, and comedian (b. 1918)
- March 19 - Louis-Victor de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- March 21 - Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)
- March 21 - Dean Paul Martin, American actor (b. 1951)
- March 26 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
- March 28 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905)
- April 2 - Buddy Rich, jazz drummer (b. 1917)
- April 3 - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
- April 4 - C. L. Moore, science fiction writer (b. 1911)
- April 28 - Ben Linder, American engineer (murdered) (b. 1959)
- May 3 - Dalida, French singer (b. 1933)
- May 4 - Paul Butterfield, blues musician (b. 1942)
- May 6 - William J. Casey, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1913)
- May 14 - Rita Hayworth, actress (b. 1918)
- May 19 - James Tiptree, Jr, science fiction author (b. 1915)
- May 28 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- June 2 - Andres Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
- June 6 - Fulton Mackay, actor (b. 1922)
- June 6 - Keith Paultur, inventor
- June 10 - Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (suicide) (b. 1943)
- June 22 - Fred Astaire, American actor and dancer (b. 1899)
- July 10 - John Hammond, record producer (b. 1910)
- August 17 - Rudolf Hess, Hitler's second-in-command (b. 1894)
- September 4 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)
- September 11 - Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
- September 11 - Peter Tosh, singer and musician (b. 1944)
- September 23 - Bob Fosse, theater choreographer and director (b. 1927)
- October 3 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (b. 1910)
- October 3 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
- October 19 - Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
- October 20 - Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
- October 28 - André Masson, French artist (b. 1896)
- October 29 - Woody Herman, American jazz musician (b. 1913)
- October 31 - Joseph Campbell, author and expert on mythology (b. 1904)
- December 2 - Yakov Borisovich Zel%27dovich, Soviet physicist (b. 1914)
- December 10 - Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian violinist (b. 1901)
Nobel Prizes
- Physics - J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alexander Müller
- Chemistry Donald J Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
- Medicine - Susumu Tonegawa
- Literature - Joseph Brodsky
- Peace- Oscar Arias Sanchez
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
- Johan Galtung, Chipko Movement, Hans-Peter Dürr / Global Challenges Network, Institute for Food and Development Policy / Frances Moore-Lappé and Mordechai Vanunu
