Year 1987 in History - Important Historical Events of the year 1987

The year 1987 has a special significance of its own in India and world history. Let us know some such important events of the year 1987 such as: born famous people, death of famous people, war treaty, independence of a country, invention of new technology, change of power, important national and international day etc., knowing which your general Knowledge will increase.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
04 May	America's first bank was listed under the name National Historic Landmark.
30 May	Goa became the 25th full state of the country.
11 June	Margaret Thatcher became the British Prime Minister for the third consecutive time in 160 years.
18 June	M / s. Swaminathan received the first World Food Award.
19 June	Louis IV was crowned King of France.
11 July	The world's population took the figure of five billion. The United Nations decided to celebrate July 11 as Population Day.
14 July	37 years of military rule in Taiwan came to an end.
25 July	Rangaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth president.
27 July	In 1912, explorers discovered the wreck of the sinking ship Titanic on its first voyage.
12 September	Ethiopia adopted its constitution.
06 October	Fiji was declared a republic.
13 October	Famous playback singer, actor and producer-director Kishore Kumar passed away.
13 November	The first condom commercials aired on British TV.
08 December	The leaders of the world's two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, signed the first treaty that provided for the reduction of land-based nuclear weapons stockpiles.
20 March	The Food and Drug Administration approved the anti-AIDS drug AZT. It was the first drug approved by the US government to treat AIDS.
21 April	More than 100 people died in a bomb blast in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo.
31 January	Ohrbach's department store closed in New York City after 64 years of operation.
11 February	British Airways was privatized and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
02 March	American Motors was acquired by Chrysler Corporation.
03 April	The Showboat Casino Hotel was established in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
03 June	Vanuatu Labor Party was established.
11 July	Australian Prime Minister Robert Hawke's government was elected for a third term.
31 August	Michael Jackson released his hit album "Bad".
21 September	The world's first conference based on artificial life was held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
18 November	A fire at Kings Cross on the London Underground kills 31 people and injures another 100.
17 December	Mega Man was released in Japan.
22 January	After being convicted of receiving bribes, Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer committed suicide during a televised press conference.
06 February	Mary Gaudron was appointed as the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.
23 February	Light from the supernova SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud reached the Earth.
04 March	U.S. President Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address in which he accepted full responsibility for illegal actions in the Iran–Contra affair.
19 March	American televangelist Jim Baker has resigned as head of ThePTL Club amid a sex scandal.
20 March	The antiretroviral drug zidovudine (AZT) was the first drug approved for use against HIV and AIDS.
08 May	A British Army Special Air Service Unit attacked a provisionalist Republican Army Unit in Laggol, Northern Ireland, killing an eightIRA member and a civilian.
28 May	West German Aviator Mathius Rust flew from his cess 172, believing that it fly through the Soviet air defense system and lands in the Redsscrey in Moscow.
04 June	American intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard dismissed the allegations of espionage for Israel.
11 June	In Great Britain, Diane Abbott, Paul Botng and Berney Grant were first elected as black MPs. Diana was the first black woman selected for Abbott House of Common. Burney Grant was a politician of a British Labor Party who was a Member of Parliament after his death from Tottenham in 1987.
12 June	Cold War- During a speech at Berlin Burger Gate of Berlin by Berlin's Wall, US President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tearing this wall'!
17 June	With the death of the last person of the species, the dark seaside sparrow became extinct. The dark seaside sparrows, Ammodramus Maritimus Nigrusten, were non-resident sub-species of Seride Sparrows, found on the banks of the Merit Islands in Florida and on the banks of the River of the Merit Island.
19 June	Basque separatist group ETA exploded a car bomb at Hipercor Shopping Center in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injured 45 people.
30 June	The Royal Canadian mint introduced the Canadian one-dollar currency, usually known as Luni.
05 July	The Black Tigers of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam made the first suicide bombing against Sri Lanka's army in Nellidih.
13 July	Bette Midler's $ 10 million case against Ford Motor Co has been dropped by the Federal Judge. He used the same sound for his TV advertisements.
14 July	Montreal received more than 100 mm (3.9 in) rainfall in two-and-a-half hours of rain, causing severe floods and more than $ 220 million.
16 August	Northwest Airlines flight 255 crashed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Michigan, killing 156 people.
16 August	The Northwest Airlines flight 255 Detroit, Michigan, crashed after takeoff at the US, killing the crew and passengers.
13 September	A radioactive object was released into a hospital in Brazil, which came out of a hospital in Goyaania, resulting in four people who died and 249 others had severe pollution.
16 September	The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty, which has manufactured the ozone layer by phasing out the production of several stages for ozone vacancies.
02 October	Denmark became the first country to legalize civil associations among couples with similar sex.
15 October	Fiji became a republic at the end of the 113 -year -old British Crown rule of the islands.
19 October	Iran-Eraq War-United States Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf in response to the Iranimic attack on the Kuwaiti oil tanker.
07 November	Zeen L Abidin Ben Ali posted in place of Habib Borguiba, Tunisia and disqualified him medically for the duties of the office.
07 November	Singapore's first mass rapid transit line was opened, which began with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations.
09 November	An provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a ceremony on Sunday in Aniskilan, Northern Ireland, killing eleven people and injuring sixty people.
18 November	In London, an underground fire in the Kings Crossst Panches killed 31 people.
29 November	The Korean Air Flight 858 exploded over the Andaman Sea when two Korean agents left a time bomb in the overhead compartment, killing 115 people.
08 December	Arab-Israeli Sangharsh-Ek Israeli army tank transporter killed four Palestinian refugees and injured seven others, crashed in the first Intipada Sparking at the Erase crossing on the border of the Israeli-Gaja Strip.
08 December	Eight people were shot and killed by a man in Australia Postbuilding in Melbourne, before he jumped for his death.
18 December	Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Pearl via Comp.Source.misc. Newsgroup.
20 December	History's deadliest maritime disaster MV Douna Paz occurred after hitting an oil tanker on the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, resulting in an estimated 4,000death.
23 December	Lynet ”escaped from Alderson Jail by serving life imprisonment for attempting to kill President Garald R Ford.

Event__Date	Incident/Event
11 September	Mahadevi Varma, the famous poetess of India, died.
11 October	India's Peace Army launched Operation Pawan in Sri Lanka. The campaign was waged to liberate Jaffna by ending LTTE occupation.
06 December	MiG-29 joined the Indian Air Force, renamed 'Baz'.
20 February	Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh became the 23rd and 24th states of India.
22 May	The Hashimpura massacre took place in Meerut, India.
07 October	Sikh nationalists declared independence of Khalistan from India.
22 May	The Hashimpura massacre took place on 22 May 1987 during Hindu-Muslim riots in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. In this murder, 42 Muslim youths of Hashimpura locality were allegedly mobilized by 19 PACs, who took them into a truck near Murad Nagar, Ghaziabad where they were shot and thrown their bodies into water canals given; However, five of them survived even after being shot. In the absence of adequate evidence, all 16 PAC personals were acquitted by the Tis Hazari Court in 2015, while three of them were already dead.
30 May	Goa became the 25th state of India. Goa is a state located in the southwest region of India, surrounded by Karnataka north and east and south of Maharashtra, while the Arabian Sea builds its western coast. It is the smallest state in India according to the area and the fourth smallest state according to the population.
31 May	After Goa became the 25th state of India, Daman and Diu remained as a union territory. For 450 years, Daman and Diu's coastal expansion on the banks of the Arabian Sea along with Goa and Dadra and Nagar Haveli were part of Portuguese India. Goa, Daman and Diu were included in the Republic of India by military victory.
29 July	Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene eventually signed an unsuccessful attempt to resolve the ongoing Sri Lankan civil war on the India-Sri Lanka agreement.
11 October	Sri Lankan Civil War-Indian Peace Sena began Pawan to control Jaffna with Tamil Tigers, which implements its disarmament as a part of the Indo-Sri-Srilanki Agreement.
28 November	South African Airways flight 295 caught fire on a horrific in-flight and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing 159 people.

Birth	Name/Category/Country
30 April	Rohit Sharma / Player / India
01 November	Ileana D"Cruz / Actress / India
01 August	Taapsee Pannu / Actress / India
02 June	Sonakshi Sinha / Actress / India
03 March	Shraddha Kapoor / Actress / India
05 August	Genelia D"Souza / Actress / India
05 August	Genelia D'Souza / Actress / India
07 February	Ankita Sharma / Actress / India
08 December	Hetal Dave / Wrestler / India
11 November	Nachiket Dighe / Actor / India
12 May	Amrita Prakash / Actress / India
12 August	Vanessa Watts / Cricketer / India
14 May	Adah Sharma / Actress / India
14 May	Zarin Khan / Actress / India
16 May	Sonal Chauhan / Actress / India
17 May	Charmy Kaur / Actress / India
21 November	Eesha Karavade / Chess Player / India
21 June	Mukti Mohan / Actress / India
23 March	Kangna Ranaut / Actress / India
26 September	Anjali Patil / Actress / India
30 January	Puja Gupta / Actress / India

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