What Happened In October 1987 In History

Historical Events for October, 1987

• 1st » The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake or Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as Richter magnitude scale or magnitude 5.9.
• 6th » Fiji becomes a republic.
• 7th » Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
• 11th » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil people called Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
• 15th » The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
• 19th » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
• 19th » Black Monday (1987) or Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
• 21st » Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil people e.g Tamil patients, physician called doctors and nurses.
• 30th » In Japan, NEC releases the first History of video game consoles (fourth generation) known as 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1987

• 1st » Hiroki Aiba, Japanese actor and singer
• 1st » Lionel Ainsworth, English footballer
• 2nd » Bojana Bobusic, Australian tennis player
• 2nd » Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
• 2nd » Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
• 2nd » Joel Reinders, American football player
• 2nd » Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., American race car driver
• 3rd » Robert Grabarz, English high jumper
• 3rd » Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican model and actress, Miss Universe 2006
• 4th » Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
• 4th » Will Puddy, English footballer
• 4th » Marina Weisband, German politician
• 5th » Kevin Mirallas, Belgian footballer
• 5th » Tim Ream, American soccer player
• 5th » Park So-yeon (singer) known as Park So-yeon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (T-ara)
• 5th » Javier Villa, Spanish race car driver
• 5th » Luigi Vitale, Italian footballer
• 7th » Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
• 7th » Sam Querrey, American tennis player
• 8th » Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 8th » Taylor Price, American football player
• 8th » Hassan Maatouk, Lebanese footballer
• 8th » Ksenia Solo, Latvian-Canadian actress
• 9th » Samantha Murray (tennis) known as Samantha Murray, English tennis player
• 9th » Bill Walker (basketball) called Bill Walker, American basketball player
• 10th » Ryan Mathews (American football) known as Ryan Mathews, American football player
• 10th » Colin Slade, New Zealand rugby player
• 11th » Tony Beltran, American soccer player
• 11th » Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
• 12th » Marvin Ogunjimi, Belgian footballer
• 15th » Jesse Levine, Canadian-American tennis player
• 15th » Chantal Strand, Canadian voice actress and singer
• 15th » Ott Tänak, Estonian rally driver
• 17th » Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer
• 17th » Jarosław Fojut, Polish footballer
• 17th » Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer
• 18th » Zac Efron, American actor and singer
• 18th » Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
• 20th » Raphael Hackl, German rugby player
• 21st » Justin De Fratus, American baseball player
• 21st » Andrey Grechin, Russian swimmer
• 23rd » Faye (musician) e.g Faye, Swedish singer-songwriter (Play (band) known as Play)
• 24th » Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor
• 24th » Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
• 24th » Charlie White (figure skater) or Charlie White, American figure skater
• 25th » Bill Amis, American basketball player
• 25th » Black Angelika, Romanian porn actress
• 25th » Darron Gibson, Irish footballer
• 25th » Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
• 26th » Abudramae Bamba, Ivorian footballer
• 26th » Shawn Lauvao, American football player
• 27th » Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer
• 27th » Andrew Bynum, American basketball player
• 27th » Guillaume Franke, French-German rugby player
• 27th » Victor Genev, Bulgarian footballer
• 27th » Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player
• 28th » Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter (Odd Future)
• 29th » Andy Dalton, American football player
• 29th » Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater
• 29th » Zé Eduardo (footballer born 1987) named Zé Eduardo, Brazilian footballer
• 29th » Frazer McLaren, Canadian ice hockey player
• 29th » Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume, Petitmoni, Morning Musume Otomegumi, and Dream Morning Musume)
• 30th » Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer
• 31st » Nick Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player
• 31st » Jean-Karl Vernay, French race car driver

Famous Deaths for October 1987

• 2nd » Madeleine Carroll, English-Spanish actress (b. 1906)
• 2nd » Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 3rd » Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 3rd » Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (b. 1947)
• 8th » Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)
• 9th » Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903)
• 9th » William P. Murphy, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 12th » Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
• 13th » Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 13th » Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director (b. 1929)
• 15th » Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
• 17th » Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)
• 18th » Adriaan Ditvoorst, Dutch director and screenwriter (b. 1940)
• 19th » Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
• 19th » Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 20th » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
• 21st » Salme Rootare, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
• 22nd » Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919)
• 28th » André Masson, French painter (b. 1896)
• 29th » Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 30th » Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (b. 1904)

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