1987
1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar .
Events
Environmental change
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 Wilson Reagan undergoes prostate surgery causing worries about his health.
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
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
Monday, December 7, 1987 - Delaware celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
December 8 - first Intifada begins
Saturday, December 12, 1987 - Pennsylvania celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
Friday, December 18, 1987 - New Jersey celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
Friday, December 18, 1987 - programming language Perl 1.0 released
December 20 - Dona Paz collides with Vector I - 749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3,000 due to unregistered passengers)
December 29 - Prozac ® makes its debut in the US
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Year in Topic
Births
March 9 - Bow Wow , rap musician , actor
March 9 - 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 August 22 - Elena Canty , actress (The Ring 2 September 22 - Tom Felton , actor (Harry Potter 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, dancer (b. 1904 )
February 2 - Alistair MacLean , British thriller writer (heart attack ; b. 1922 )
February 4 - Liberace , American pianist (b. 1919 )
February 22 - Andy Warhol , American artist, director, writer (b. 1928 )
March 2 - Randolph Scott , actor (b. 1898 )
March 3 - Danny Kaye , actor , American singer, comedian (b. 1918 )
March 19 - Louis-Victor de Broglie , French physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1892 )
March 21 - Robert Preston , actor (b. 1918 )
March 21 - Dean Paul Martin , 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 in Nicaragua (b. 1959 )
May 3 - Dalida , French singer (b. 1933 )
May 4 - Paul Butterfield , blues musician (b. 1942 )
May 6 - William J. Casey , controversial director of the CIA (b. 1913 )
May 11 - Peter Tosh , musician (b. 1944 )
May 14 - Rita Hayworth , actress (b. 1918 )
May 19 - James Tiptree, Jr , science fiction author (b. 1915 )
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, from suicide (b. 1943 )
June 22 - Fred Astaire , American actor, dancer (b. 1899 )
July 10 - John Hammond , record producer (b. 1910 )
August 17 - Rudolf Hess , Hitler's second-in-command (suicide) (b. 1894 )
September 4 - Bill Bowes , champion Yorkshire and England bowler (b. 1908 )
September 11 - Lorne Greene , Canadian actor (b. 1915 )
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 10 - Jascha Heifetz , Lithuanian violinist (b. 1901 )
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