1987 in India

1987 in India
Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
President of India – Zail Singh until 25 July, R. Venkataraman
Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
Vice President of India – R. Venkataraman until 24 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
Governors
Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
Arunachal Pradesh –
20 February-18 March: Bhishma Narain Singh
starting 18 March: R. D. Pradhan
Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah
Goa – Gopal Singh (starting 30 May)
Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji (until 26 February), Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (starting 26 February)
Kerala – P. Ramachandran
Madhya Pradesh –
until 30 November: K.M Chandy
30 November-29 December: Narayan Dutta Ojha
starting 29 December: K.M Chandy
Maharashtra – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 3 September), vacant thereafter (starting 3 September)
Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
Rajasthan – Vasantdada Patil (until 15 October), vacant thereafter (starting 15 October)
Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan
Events
National income - 3,618,647 million
January - June
January – Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction set up and became operational with effect from May reflecting concerns related to Industrial Sickness and republic day
17 January - Rajiv Gandhi laid the foundation stone for Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kannur.
7 March - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket.
19 March - 1987 Opera House heist
23 March - Controversial 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election held.
March – Magnetic ink character recognition technology introduced for cheque clearing.
March - June - 1987 Meerut riots
12 April - V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India following his disclosure about kickbacks in defense deals by predecessors.
May - 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish the second such conflict between China and India ended.
22 May - Hashimpura massacre.
30 May – The Union territory was split, and Goa was elevated as India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining Union Territories
4 June - Operation Poomalai by India in Jaffna.
June - Minister of External Affairs N. D. Tiwari visits North Korea as part of ministerial conference of Non-Aligned Movement.
July - December
29 July - Indo-Sri Lanka Accord to restore peace in the island signed.
30 July - Assault on Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi by a Sri Lanka Navy sailor named Vijitha Rohana during Guard of honour at Colombo.
October – ICC Cricket World Cup (Reliance Cup 1987)
11 - 12 October - Jaffna University Helidrop by Indian Peace Keeping Force
20 November–27 November – The South Asian Games are held in Calcutta.
28 December - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research was established by RBI as an advanced studies institute to promote research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view.
Law
Births
1 January – Neha Sharma, actress and model.
3 March – Shraddha Kapoor, actress.
31 March – Janani Iyer, actress.
18 February – Mahat Raghavendra, actor
24 April – Varun Dhawan, actor
25 April – Mallika Kapoor, actress.
28 April – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.
30 April – Rohit Sharma, cricketer.
4 May – Charmy Kaur, actress.
7 May – Sundeep Kishan, actor, producer
2 June – Santhosh Prathap, actor
13 June G. V. Prakash Kumar, film composer, singer and actor.
25 June – Anil Shetty, entrepreneur, author, activist and motivational speaker
3 July – Arjai, actor
1 August Taapsee Pannu, actress.
5 August – Genelia D'Souza, actress.
6 August – Aditya Narayan, actor, singer and television host.
25 October – Umesh Yadav, cricketer.
1 November Ileana D'Cruz, actress.
20 November – Sukirti Kandpal, actress.
18 December – Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, politician, member of parliament from Srikakulam.
28 December – Diganth Manchale, actor
Deaths
13 March – Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, Islamic scholar, jurist and literary critic. (born 1910)
1 June – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1914).
13 October – Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (born 1929).
27 October – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (born 1911).
24 December – M. G. Ramachandran, Actor, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born 1917).
Full date unknown
Dasaradhi, poet and political activist (born 1925).
See also
Bollywood films of 1987
References
1980s in India
India
Years of the 20th century in India