1987 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s – 1980s – 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1984 1985 1986 – 1987 – 1988 1989 1990

1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Movies released
Hit songs
New books
Images for kids
See also

Events

January 3 – Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
February 14–March 7 – Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer" is the #1 song. It would be 1987's Biggest hit song.
February 22 – The Airbus A320 makes its first flight.
March 7 – The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released on Compact disk. Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US.
March 4 - Ronald Reagan issues a televised address to apologize to the American people about the Iran-Contra affair.
March 27 – Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 shoots a music video for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California.
June 12 – Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!" at the Brandenburg Gate.
October – electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart.
October 7 – Independence of Khalistan is legally declared from the Hindu Indians
October 12 – Twisted Sister breaks up.
October 19 – Mötley Crüe release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
November 7 – The first MRT section between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh opened.
December 8 – President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty banning all nuclear weapons.

Births

January 1 – Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
February 16 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian professional ice hockey player (died 2008)
March 9 – Bow Wow, American rapper, actor
March 25 – Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
March 28 – Yui, Japanese musician
April 19 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
May 4 – Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer
June 2 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
June 20 - Paweł Rogaliński, Polish journalist
August 7 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
August 8 – Katie Leung, Scotish actress
September 19 – Danielle Panabaker, American actress
September 28 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
October 3 – Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza, Puerto Rican Miss Universe 2006
October 18 – Zac Efron, American actor
October 24 – Charlie White, American ice dancer
November 3 – Elizabeth Smart, American kidnapping victim
November 18 – Jake Abel, American actor
December 18 – Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
December 18 – Ayaka, Japanese singer and songwriter
December 31 – Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
Ming Kipa, youngest person to climb Mount Everest
Alexander von Zweigbergk Väggö, Swedish model

Deaths

February 22 – Andy Warhol, American artist (b. 1928)
March 19 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist (b. 1892)
March 28 – Patrick Troughton, English actor (b. 1920)
May 3 – Dalida, French-Italian actress (b. 1933)
May 14 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
June 22 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, dancer (b. 1899)
August 17 – Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader (b. 1894)
September 11 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1944)
October 20 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
November 1 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (b. 1922)
November 29 - Ralph Bellamy, American actor and comedian (b. 1904)
December 4 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American movie director (b. 1897)

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics – J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alexander Müller
Chemistry Donald J Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
Medicine – Susumu Tonegawa
Literature – Joseph Brodsky
Peace- Oscar Arias Sanchez
Economics – Robert Solow

Movies released

Full Metal Jacket
The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland

Hit songs

"Alone" – Heart
"Beds Are Burning" – Midnight Oil
"Faith" – George Michael
"Hazy Shade of Winter" – The Bangles
"Hot Love" – Twisted Sister
"I Found Someone" – Cher
"I Knew You Were Waiting for Me" – Aretha Franklin & George Michael
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" – U2
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (who loves me)" – Whitney Houston
"Livin' on a Prayer" – Bon Jovi
"Somewhere Out There" – Linda Ronstadt and J. Ingram
"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" – Genesis
"Walk Like An Egyptian" – The Bangles
"Where the Streets Have No Name" – U2
"Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days" – Judas Priest
"With or Without You" – U2
"You Can Call Me Al" – Paul Simon

New books

Legacy – James A. Michener

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1987 para niños

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