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1987 Calendar

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•  January 22, 1987 – Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
•  January 29, 1987 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
•  April 13, 1987 – Portugal and the People’s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
•  April 19, 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
•  June 12, 1987 – The Central African Republic’s former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
•  July 4, 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the “Butcher of Lyon”) is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
•  July 27, 1987 – RMS Titanic, Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
•  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.
•  November 28, 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board.
•  December 9, 1987 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

•  February 24, 1987 – Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
•  March 13, 1987 – Marco Andretti, American racecar driver
•  March 18, 1987 – Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer
•  April 1, 1987 – Gianluca Musacci, Italian footballer
•  April 18, 1987 – Brett Deledio, Australian Rules football player
•  April 20, 1987 – Michael Klauß, German footballer
•  May 4, 1987 – Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
•  July 8, 1987 – Vlada Roslyakova, Russian model
•  October 27, 1987 – Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
•  November 30, 1987 – Christel Khalil, American actress