1987

1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was .
Events
January 3 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
February 14-March 7 - Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer" is the #1 song. It would be 1987's Biggest hit song.
February 22 - The Airbus A320 makes its first flight.
March 7 - The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! are released on Compact disc. Capitol Records decides to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US.
March 4 - Ronald Reagan issues a televised address to apologize to the American people about the Iran-Contra affair.
March 27 - Inspired by The Beatles' 1969 rooftop concert, U2 shoots a music video for the song "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in Los Angeles, California.
June 12 - Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!" at the Brandenburg Gate.
October - electronic data gathering completely replaces the old sales diary technique in compiling the UK singles and albums chart.
October 7 - Independence of Khalistan is legally declared from the Hindu Indians
October 12 - Twisted Sister breaks up.
October 19 - Motley Crue release the song "You're All I Need" as a single. Its lyrics cause MTV to refuse to play its video. Radio stations never play the song either.
November 7 - The first MRT section between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh opened.
December 8 - President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty banning all nuclear weapons.
Births
January 1 - Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
February 16 - Luc Bourdon, Canadian professional ice hockey player (died 2008)
March 9 - Bow Wow, American rapper, actor
March 25 - Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
March 28 - Yui, Japanese musician
April 19 - Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
May 4 - Cesc Fabregas, Spanish footballer
June 2 - Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
June 20 - Pawel Rogalinski, Polish journalist
June 24 - Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
August 7 - Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
August 8 - Katie Leung, Scotish actress
August 25 - Blake Lively, American actress and model
August 30 - Johanna Braddy, American actress
September 19 - Danielle Panabaker, American actress
September 22 - Tom Felton, English actor and singer
September 28 - Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
October 3 - Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza, Puerto Rican Miss Universe 2006
October 18 - Zac Efron, American actor
October 24 - Charlie White, American ice dancer
November 3 - Elizabeth Smart, American kidnapping victim
November 18 - Jake Abel, American actor
December 3 - Michael Angarano, American actor
December 7 - Aaron Carter, American pop singer
December 18 - Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
December 18 - Ayaka, Japanese singer and songwriter
December 29- Katie Blair, actress, model and pageant titleholder
December 31 - Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
Ming Kipa, youngest person to climb Mount Everest
Alexander von Zweigbergk Vaggo, Swedish model
Deaths
January
February
February 22 - Andy Warhol, American artist (b. 1928)
March
March 19 - Louis de Broglie, French physicist (b. 1892)
March 28 - Patrick Troughton, English actor (b. 1920)
April
May
May 3 - Dalida, French-Italian actress (b. 1933)
May 14 - Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
June
June 22 - Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, dancer (b. 1899)
July
August
August 17 - Rudolf Hess, Nazi leader (b. 1894)
September
September 2 - Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, President of Argentina (b. 1926)
September 11 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae musician (b. 1944)
September 21 - Jaco Pastorius, American jazz bassist (b. 1951)
September 25 - Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906)
October
October 8 - Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1899)
October 20 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
November
November 1 - Rene Levesque, Canadian politician (b. 1922)
November 10 - Seyni Kountche, 2nd President of Niger (b. 1931)
December
December 4 - Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American movie director (b. 1897)
December 24 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize in Physics - J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alexander Muller
Chemistry Donald J Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
Medicine - Susumu Tonegawa
Literature - Joseph Brodsky
Peace- Oscar Arias Sanchez
Economics - Robert Solow
Movies released
Beverly Hills Cop ll
Dirty Dancing
Full Metal Jacket
Lethal Weapon
Over the Top
Predator
RoboCop
Three Men and a Baby
The Running Man
The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland
Hit songs
"Alone" - Heart
"Beds Are Burning" - Midnight Oil
"Faith" - George Michael
"Hazy Shade of Winter" - The Bangles
"Hot Love" - Twisted Sister
"I Found Someone" - Cher
"I Knew You Were Waiting for Me" - Aretha Franklin & George Michael
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (who loves me)" - Whitney Houston
"I Want Your Sex" - George Michael
"Livin' on a Prayer" - Bon Jovi
"Somewhere Out There" - Linda Ronstadt and J. Ingram
"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" - Genesis
"Walk Like An Egyptian" - The Bangles
"Where the Streets Have No Name" - U2
"Wild Nights, Hot & Crazy Days" - Judas Priest
"With or Without You" - U2
"You Can Call Me Al" - Paul Simon
New books
Legacy - James A. Michener