1987

1987 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1987; MCMLXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2740
Armenian calendar	1436; ԹՎ ՌՆԼԶ
Assyrian calendar	6737
Bahá'í calendar	143–144
Balinese saka calendar	1908–1909
Bengali calendar	1394
Berber calendar	2937
British Regnal year	35 Eliz. 2 – 36 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2531
Burmese calendar	1349
Byzantine calendar	7495–7496
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger); 4683 or 4623; — to —; 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit); 4684 or 4624
Coptic calendar	1703–1704
Discordian calendar	3153
Ethiopian calendar	1979–1980
Hebrew calendar	5747–5748
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2043–2044
- Shaka Samvat	1908–1909
- Kali Yuga	5087–5088
Holocene calendar	11987
Igbo calendar	987–988
Iranian calendar	1365–1366
Islamic calendar	1407–1408
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 62; (昭和６２年)
Javanese calendar	1919–1920
Juche calendar	76
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4320
Minguo calendar	ROC 76; 民國76年
Nanakshahi calendar	519
Thai solar calendar	2530
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年; (male Fire-Tiger); 2113 or 1732 or 960; — to —; 阴火兔年; (female Fire-Rabbit); 2114 or 1733 or 961
Unix time	536457600 – 567993599

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s – 1980s – 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1984 1985 1986 – 1987 – 1988 1989 1990

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1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar, the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.

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.
April 19 – The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
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 – Mötley Crüe 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.