1987

Events

• January - Joseph Kony founds the Lord's Resistance Army and begins an insurgency against the Ugandan government.
• January 12 - Neil Goldschmidt is elected Governor of Oregon.
• January 22 - The Mendiola Massacre takes place.
• February 22 - The communist Derg military junta of Ethiopia is dissolved. A new constitution is drafted, reorganizing the country into the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, with former Derg Chairman Mengistu Haile Mariam as president.
• May 27 - Somali President Siad Barre launches the Isaaq Genocide.
• June 18 - Phạm Văn Đồng resigns from power as Prime Minister of Vietnam.
• June 19 - ETA bombs the Hipercor Shopping Centre in Barcelona, Spain, killing 21 people and injuring 45.
• June 20 - The Pinarcik massacre takes place when the Kurdistan Workers' Party kills 24 Kurdish women and children and eight village guards in the village of Pinarcik in Mardin Province, Turkey.
• July 15 - The Kuomintang declares the White Terror to be over, ending 38 years of martial law in Taiwan.
• August 19 - Hungerford massacre
• September 11 - Muammar Gaddafi withdraws his forces from Chad after a ceasefire between Chad and Libya is agreed upon. Control of the Aouzou Strip is returned to Chad.
• September 30 - Mohammad Najibullah is sworn in as President of Afghanistan.
• October 11 - The Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea is established as the ruling political party of Equatorial Guinea.
• October 15 - Thomas Sankara is deposed as President of Burkina Faso and murdered. Blaise Compaoré declares himself president.
• November 7 - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali declares himself President of Tunisia after ousting President Habib Bourguiba in a bloodless coup.
• November 8 - The Provisional IRA bombs the Enniskillen war memorial during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, killing 11 people and injuring 63 others.
• December 7 - David Burke hijacks Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 and forces it to crash in San Luis Obispo County near Cayucos, California, killing himself along with all 43 passengers and 5 crew.
• December 8 - Beginning of the First Intifada.
• December 10 - Hamas is founded by Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Ismail Abu Shanab, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, and Rawhi Mushtaha.
• December 17 - Gustáv Husák steps down as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, handing power to Miloš Jakeš.
• December 22 - The Gukurahundi comes to an end when Robert Mugabe signs the Unity Accords with Ndebele rebel leader Joshua Nkomo. Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) would merge with Mugabe's ZANU to form the ZANU-PF.
• December 22 to 28 - Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. goes on a killing rampage, murdering 16 people (including 14 members of his own family) over a week-long period in Arkansas in 1987.
• Unknown - The Rwandan Patriotic Front is founded.

Births

Villain births

• January 13 - Fernando Sabag
• January 22 - Ray Rice
• January 30 - Lionel Tate
• March 15 - Gunnar Rúnar Sigurþórsson
• June 14 - Rizwan Farook
• July 13 - Ajmal Kasab and Wellington de Oliveira
• July 14 - Adam Johnson
• July 17 - Gavin Eugene Long
• July 29 - Claudia Ochoa Felix
• August 16 - Joran van der Sloot
• August 24 - David Brown
• September 30 - Eddie Ray Routh
• November 16 - Anthime Joseph Gionet
• December 13 - James Holmes
• December 18 - Andreas Lubitz
• Unknown - William Joseph Hale

Victim births

• February 7 - Sandra Bland
• February 19 - Justina Morales
• April 24 - Anjelica Castillo
• September 9 - Nicholas Green
• November 4 - Jennifer Laude
• December 3 - Anne Marie D'Amico

Deaths

Villain deaths

• May 8 - Jim Lynagh
• May 30 - Miyuki Ishikawa
• August 7 - Nobusuke Kishi
• August 17 - Rudolf Hess
• August 19 - Michael Robert Ryan
• October 15 - Thomas Sankara
• November 14 - Petras Griskevicius
• December 7 - David Burke
• December 22 - John McMichael