WHAT HAPPENED IN 1987.
Look what happened the 1987.

The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly". (4. August 1987)

The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan. (11. April 1987)

Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45. (19. June 1987)

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. (9. December 1987)

Remembrance Day Bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded. (8. November 1987)

King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras. (18. November 1987)

Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13. (22. January 1987)

United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war. (15. September 1987)

The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit. (15. May 1987)

The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them. (14. September 1987)

Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987. (14. July 1987)

An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M, Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP-LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board. (9. May 1987)

Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell. (19. March 1987)

The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion. (16. September 1987)

Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning. (13. September 1987)

Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed. (6. February 1987)

Church of England envoy Terry Waite is kidnapped in Lebanon. (20. January 1987)

The 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston, Massachusetts from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people. (4. January 1987)

The Central African Republic's former Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule. (12. June 1987)

The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. (27. April 1987)