Page 16: Historical Events In 1987
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Nov 28 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die. 


Nov 29 Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55), dies at 81 


Nov 29 Korean Air Boeing 707 disappears off Burma, on route to Seoul. All 115 lost 


Nov 30 Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89 


Dec 01 Digging begins to link England and France under the English Channel 


Dec 01 Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57. 


Dec 04 Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), dies at 90. 


Dec 05 "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band-Zoom), dies at 38 


Dec 06 3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun" 


Dec 06 James Dobson, actor (Impulse, Jet Attack, Okinawa), dies. 


Dec 07 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) 


Dec 07 Gorbachev arrives in the US for a summit meeting. 


Dec 08 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel. 


Dec 08 President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles 


Dec 09 Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank 


Dec 10 "Nightline" is seen in the USSR for inaugural time 


Dec 10 Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86 


Dec 12 Louis de Meester, composer, dies at 83 


Dec 14 In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker are killed. 


Dec 14 Paul Clinton Sundberg, actor (Belle of NY, Easter Parade), dies. 


Dec 16 Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79 


Dec 16 In this year, Roh Tae Woo claims Presidential Election in South Korea. 


Dec 17 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, archbishop of Utrecht Neth, dies at 87. 


Dec 18 Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari 


Dec 18 Federal Judge Morris E. Lasker sentenced Ivan Boesky,the once mighty arbitrageur to a three-year prison term 


Dec 20 Worst peacetime shipping disaster, Dona Paz collides with Vector 1749 confirmed deaths (probably closer to 3000) 


Dec 21 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man 


Dec 21 Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies 


Dec 21 Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir. 


Dec 22 Alice Terry, [Taaffe], actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies. 


Dec 22 Canada beats Finland 4-1 to win inaugural-ever gold medal at the annual Izvestia hockey tournament 


Dec 22 Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin 


Dec 23 Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for attempted assassination of President Gerald R Ford escapes from Alderson Prison 


Dec 24 John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68 


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