1987

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1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was an ordinary year of the Gregorian calendar, which began on Thursday.

Events

January
January 3: Aretha Franklin was included in "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," thus becoming the first woman in the world to receive this distinction.

February
February 17: Amid the general discontent caused by economic restrictions, several protests took place in Romania.

March
30 March: Vincent Van Gogh's painting of Sunflower sold for £39.85 million.

May
May 7: The extraction of the first quantities of oil from the subsoil of the Romanian continental shelf of the Black Sea was officially announced.
25 May: Mihail Gorbachev visits for the last time as head of state, Romania.
May 28: The famous flight of a plane piloted by German citizen Mathias Rust, who violated Soviet airspace and landed in Moscow's Red Square. He was immediately detained and released on 3 August 1988.

June
June 6: The Unirea of the Capital, the longest underground passage of the car, with a length of 900 metres, of which 600 are covered, was put into use.
7 June: Romania's handball team wins for the sixth time in a row the title of world champion.
June 11: Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime Minister of Great Britain for the third time.
19 June: The Holy Church on Friday - Hereasca, with the "Cuvioasa Parascheva" (dating from 1645), was demolished by the communists.

July
July 3: In the Soviet Union, Vladimir Nikolaev is sentenced to death for cannibalism.
July 4: The Lujer passage in Bucharest, 800 m long, of which 400 m are covered.
July 12: Robbery of the Knightsbridge Deposit. The thieves left with a prize of approximately $66 million (equivalent to approximately $130 million 2012). In August he was arrested by Italian Valerio Viccei, who later wrote a book about the robbery.
July 24: IBM-PC launches DOS version 3.3.

October
October 1: The first tram line was used in Cluj-Napoca.
19 October: The Great Economic Crisis of 1987 called Black Monday.

November
November 1: Nelson Piquet wins his third world title on Formula 1.
November 15: In Brașov there were spontaneous demonstrations of workers at the "Roman" plants against the ceaushist regime, which part of the city's population joined.

December
December 3: The UN General Assembly adopts resolutions initiated by Romania on the reduction of military budgets, the peaceful regulation of differences between states, the development of good neighbourhoods.
December 8: The Intermediate Range Forces Treaty (INF), by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, have been signed