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1987 (''' MCMLXXXVII ''') was a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the Gregorian Calendar .
Events
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 Boston 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 13 - New York Mafiosi Anthony Salerno and Carmine Peruccia are sentenced for 100 years in prison for Racketeering .
- January 16 - Leon Cordero , president of Ecuador , is kidnapped by followers of imprisoned general Frank Vargas who successfully demand his release
- January 20 - Terry Waite , the special envoy of the Archbishop Of Canterbury in Lebanon , is kidnapped in Beirut (released November 1991 )
- January 22 - R. Budd Dwyer , Treasurer for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , shoots and kills 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
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March
- March 4 - President Reagan addressed the American nation on the Iran-Contra Affair , acknowledging his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.
- March 6 - A cross-channel Ferry capsizes outside the harbor off Zeebrugge , Belgium - 180 drown
- March 29 - WrestleMania III , an event held by the World Wrestling Federation , takes place at the Pontiac Silverdome in, Pontiac, Michigan . The event is the largest indoor gathering in US history, with an official attendance of 93,173. In the main event, Hulk Hogan successfully defended the World Wrestling Federation Championship , defeating Andre The Giant .
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November
December
- , General Electric 's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas , and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell .
- December 1 - Channel Tunnel construction is initiated.
- 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 , first state admitted to the Union , celebrates its Bicentennial .
- December 7 - PSA Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
- 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 8 - The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev .
- December 12 - Pennsylvania celebrates its Bicentennial statehood.
- December 17 - Czechoslovakian leader Gustáv Husák resigns as General Secretary of the Communist Party .
- December 18 - New Jersey celebrates its Bicentennial statehood.
- December 18 - Square Co., Ltd. releases Final Fantasy in Japan for the Famicom.
- 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 declare their breakup at Shibuya Kokaido.
- December 29 - Prozac ® makes its debut in the United States.
Environmental change
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Births
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
- January 15 - Ray Bolger , American 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 , American actor (b. 1898 )
- March 3 - Danny Kaye , American singer, actor, and comedian (b. 1918 )
- March 11 - Woody Hayes , Football coach at Ohio State (b. 1913 )
- March 19 - Louis-Victor De Broglie , French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892 )
- March 21 - Dean Paul Martin , American actor (b. 1951 )
- March 21 - Robert Preston , American actor (b. 1918 )
- March 26 - Eugen Jochum , German conductor (b. 1902 )
- March 28 - Maria Von Trapp , Austrian singer (b. 1905 )
- March 28 - Patrick Troughton , British actor (b. 1920 )
- April 2 - Buddy Rich , American jazz drummer (b. 1917 )
- April 3 - Tom Sestak , American football player (b. 1936 )
- April 4 - C. L. Moore , American writer (b. 1911 )
- April 26 - John Ernest Silkin , British poliician (b. 1923 )
- April 28 - Ben Linder , American engineer (murdered) (b. 1959 )
- May 3 - Dalida , French singer (b. 1933 )
- May 4 - Paul Butterfield , American musician (b. 1942 )
- May 6 - William J. Casey , American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913 )
- May 14 - Rita Hayworth , American actress (b. 1918 )
- May 17 - Gunnar Myrdal , Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898 )
- May 19 - James Tiptree, Jr , American author (b. 1915 )
- May 27 - John Howard Northrop , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891 )
- June 2 - Andres Segovia , Spanish guitarist (b. 1893 )
- June 6 - Fulton Mackay , Scottish actor (b. 1922 )
- June 10 - Elizabeth Hartman , American actress (suicide) (b. 1943 )
- June 22 - Fred Astaire , American actor and dancer (b. 1899 )
- June 22 - John Hewitt , Northern Irish poet (b. 1907 )
- June 24 - Jackie Gleason , American actor and comedian (b. 1916 )
- July 10 - John Hammond , American record producer (b. 1910 )
- July 17 – Kristjan Palusalu , Estonian wrestler (b. 1908 )
- July 17 - Yujiro Ishihara , Japanese actor (b. 1934 )
- August 17 - Rudolf Hess , German (born in Egypt) government official (b. 1894 )
- August 26 - Georg Wittig , German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897 )
- August 29 - Lee Marvin , American actor (b. 1924 )
- September 4 - Bill Bowes , British cricketer (b. 1908 )
- September 11 - Lorne Greene , Canadian actor (b. 1915 )
- September 11 - Peter Tosh , Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1944 )
- September 21 - Jaco Pastorius , American bassist (b. 1951 )
- September 23 - Bob Fosse , American theater choreographer and director (b. 1927 )
- October 2 - Peter Medawar , Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1915 )
- October 3 - Jean Anouilh , French dramatist (b. 1910 )
- October 3 - Kalervo Palsa , Finnish artist (b. 1947 )
- October 9 - William Parry Murphy , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1892 )
- October 13 - Walter Brattain , American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902 )
- October 19 - Jacqueline Du Pré , British 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 , American author on mythology (b. 1904 )
- November 1 - René Lévesque , Canadian politician and premier of Quebec (b. 1922 )
- December 1 - Punch Imlach , Canadian NHL coach (b. 1918 )
- December 2 - Luis Federico Leloir , French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906 )
- December 2 - Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich , Russian physicist (b. 1914 )
- December 10 - Jascha Heifetz , Lithuanian-born violinist (b. 1901 )
Fiction
On November 7 , Events in the Doctor Who episode Father's Day take place, and on November 20 the event Energise is scheduled.
Nobel prizes
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
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