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{{About|the year|the number|1987 (number)|other uses}}▼
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Events by month|1987}}
[[File:1987 Events Collage.png|From top left, clockwise: the [[MS Herald of Free Enterprise|MS ''Herald of Free Enterprise'']] capsizes after leaving the [[Port of Zeebrugge]] in [[Belgium]], killing 193; [[Northwest Airlines Flight 255]] crashes after takeoff from [[Detroit Metropolitan Airport]], killing everyone except a little girl; the [[King's Cross fire]] kills 31 people after a fire under an [[escalator]] [[Flashover|flashes-over]]; the [[MV Doña Paz|MV ''Doña Paz'']] sinks after colliding with an [[oil tanker]], [[drowning]] almost 4,400 passengers and crew; [[Typhoon Nina (1987)|Typhoon Nina]] strikes the [[Philippines]], killing 1,036; [[LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055]] crashes outside of [[Warsaw]], taking the lives of all aboard; the {{USS|Stark}} is [[USS Stark incident|struck]] by [[Iraq|Iraqi]] [[Exocet]] missiles in the [[Persian Gulf]]; [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] gives a famous [[Tear down this wall!|speech]], demanding that [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] tear down the [[Berlin Wall]].|300x300px|thumb]]
▲{{About|the year|other uses}}
{{Year nav|1987}}
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