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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.
•  March 20, 1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
•  April 8, 1987 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
•  May 15, 1987 – The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
•  June 30, 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
•  July 5, 1987 – First instance of the LTTE using suicide attacks on Sri Lankan Army. The Black Tigers are born, and in the following years continue to use the tactic to deadly effect.
•  July 27, 1987 – RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
•  October 21, 1987 – Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
•  November 15, 1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
•  December 8, 1987 – The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.

•  January 5, 1987 – Kristin Cavallari, American actress
•  January 8, 1987 – Carmen Klaschka, German tennis player
•  March 25, 1987 – Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer
•  May 1, 1987 – Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
•  May 10, 1987 – Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
•  September 16, 1987 – Daren Kagasoff, American actor
•  October 10, 1987 – Ryan Mathews, American football player
•  October 15, 1987 – Jesse Levine, Canadian/American tennis player
•  December 3, 1987 – Brian Robiskie, American football player
•  December 19, 1987 – Cédric Baseya, DR Congolese footballer