The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
Tag Archives: 1987
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.
16 September 1987
The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion
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.
20 March 1987
The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
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.
29 November 1987
North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
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19 October 1987
Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
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