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1987 Calendar

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•  January 29, 1987 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  August 14, 1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
•  October 1, 1987 – The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
•  October 19, 1987 – Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
•  November 7, 1987 – In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
•  November 28, 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
•  November 29, 1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
•  December 7, 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
•  December 8, 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
•  December 18, 1987 – Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.

•  February 2, 1987 – Martin Spanjers, American actor
•  April 9, 1987 – Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league footballer
•  April 27, 1987 – Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
•  April 29, 1987 – Alicia Morton, American actress
•  June 6, 1987 – Rubin Okotie, Austrian footballer
•  June 16, 1987 – Christian Tshimanga Kabeya, Belgian footballer
•  August 5, 1987 – Xenia Tchoumitcheva, Swiss model
•  September 21, 1987 – Courtney Paris, American basketball player
•  September 25, 1987 – Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player
•  October 13, 1987 – Ashley Newbrough, American actress