In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. Mathias Rust was an 18…
Tag: 1987
11 May 1987
Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. Klaus Barbie, infamously known as the “Butcher of Lyon,” was…
11 October 1987
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
21 April 1987
The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
2 September 1987
In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
29 June 1987
Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, was bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
19 April 1987
The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
21 October 1987
The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.