WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO OCTOBER 1987
Find out what all happened January to October 1987

Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard. (31. August 1987)

New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987. (8. June 1987)

Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses. (21. October 1987)

Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J.R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues. (29. July 1987)

After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution. (2. February 1987)

The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion. (16. September 1987)

Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. (11. May 1987)

The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit. (15. May 1987)

Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (23. February 1987)

The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie. (30. June 1987)

Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon. (20. January 1987)

The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly". (4. August 1987)

The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. Score was 115-120 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team". (23. August 1987)

Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline. (8. April 1987)

Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union (7. August 1987)

The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers were born and, in the following years, continued to kill with the tactic. (5. July 1987)

A value added tax is introduced in Greece for the first time. (1. January 1987)

In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16. (30. October 1987)

The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show. (19. April 1987)

Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. (12. June 1987)