WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO DECEMBER 1987
Find out what all happened March to December 1987

Northwest Airlines Flight 255 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashes after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus 2 people on the ground. (16. August 1987)

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

Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers. (11. October 1987)

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed. (8. December 1987)

The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people. (21. April 1987)

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

In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official). (20. December 1987)

Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115. (29. November 1987)

King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras. (18. November 1987)

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

Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language. (18. December 1987)

Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. (19. October 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 Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England. (15. 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)

A rare, class F4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage. (31. July 1987)

Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason. (5. November 1987)

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

Hashimpura massacre in Meerut, India. (22. May 1987)