* 1987 – The U. S. Department of Justice bars the Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.

* 1987 CIA World Factbook

* Conspiracy ' 87, the 45th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Brighton, England, in 1987

The 1987 tournament, named the Reliance World Cup after their Indian sponsors, was held in India and Pakistan, the first time that the competition was held outside England.

Teaneck, NJ: World Scientific, 1987.

In 1987 the 50th anniversary of the bombing was commemorated as the town hosted the Preliminary Congress of the World Association of Martyr Cities.

The Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ; or ) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.

British band Napalm Death holds the Guinness World Record for shortest song ever recorded with the one-second " You Suffer " ( 1987 ).

In 1983, Brundtland was invited by then United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development ( WCED ), widely referred to as the Brundtland Commission, developing the broad political concept of sustainable development in the course of extensive public hearings that were distinguished by their inclusiveness and published its report Our Common Future in April 1987.

The World Bank estimates that only about 36 percent of the Honduran population had access to electricity ( 20 percent of the rural population ) in 1987.

* 1987 – Lena Ma, Canadian model, Miss World Canada 2009

Previously, the Twins had narrowly beat out the Royals for the 1987 American League West pennant, in which the Twins later took the World Series versus the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, Longman, London and New York, 1987.

Lübeck's restored historic city centre became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.

Mr. T returned to the World Wrestling Federation as a special guest referee in 1987 as well as a special referee enforcer confronting such stars as the Honky Tonk Man.

* Girls, Girls, Girls World Tour 87 / 88 ( 1987 )

1987: A world wide “ Safe Motherhood Campaign ” was launched by World Bank

* 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.

* 1987 – First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park, Auckland.

Through the 2011 season, the franchise has won three World Series championships ( 1924, 1987, and 1991 ), and has fielded 18 American League batting champions.

Tom Kelly managed the Twins to World Series victories over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1987 and the Atlanta Braves in 1991.

The quirks of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, including the turf floor and the white roof, gave the Twins a significant home-field advantage that played into their winning the World Series in both 1987 and 1991, at least in the opinion of their opponents, as the Twins went 12 – 1 in post season home games during those two seasons.

In 1992, reminiscent of the resurgence which greeted Trebelhorn's arrival in 1987, the Brewers rallied behind the leadership of rookie manager Phil Garner and posted their best record since their World Series year in 1982, finishing the season 92 – 70 and in second place, four games behind that year's eventual World Champion Toronto Blue Jays.

Within a year, she had been cast by Steven Spielberg to appear in his World War II drama, Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ).

* http :// alumni. imsa. edu /~ stendahl / comp / txt / gnuchess. txt-Heuristic function used by GNU Chess in 1987

Beliavsky won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1973 and the USSR Chess Championship four times in 1974, 1980, 1987 and 1990.

Short won the British Chess Championship in 1984, 1987, and 1998, and the English Championship in 1991.

From 1986 to 1987, Paige appeared as Florence in the stage production of Chess, a role that earned her another Laurence Olivier Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Musical.

The postponed 1987 event was held over until 1988 and the tournament has since become an annual event, with the exception of 1996, when the Women's World Chess Championship was held.

His best performance in the World Chess Championship came in 1987, when he lost a playoff match against Lajos Portisch for a place in the Candidates Tournament.

ChipTest-M won the North American Computer Chess Championship in 1987.

Sixty of Matisons ' studies were collected in the 1987 book Mattison's Chess Endgame Studies by T. G.

* A large-scale computer conferencing system, Chess and Cowlishaw, IBM Systems Journal, Vol 26, No. 1, 1987, IBM Reprint order number G321-5291

Benjamin was the U. S. Chess Champion in 1987 ( sharing the title with Nick De Firmian ), in 1997, and in 2000.

He co-authored Unorthodox Openings along with Eric Schiller, for Batsford publishers in 1987, is a frequent contributor to Chess Life magazine and other chess periodicals, and is a regular commentator on the Internet Chess Club, usually presenting its Game of the Week webcast.

* Caro Kann: 4 ... Nd7, Leonid Shamkovich & Eric Schiller, Chess Enterprises, 1987.

* How to Play the Reti, Eric Schiller, Chess Enterprises, 1987.

* Sicilian Classical Richter Rauzer, Eric Schiller, Chess Enterprises, 1987.

* Sicilian Defence: Yugoslav Attack with 9 Bc4, Eric Schiller, Chess Enterprises, 1987.

* Sicilian Richter Rauzer: Systems with 7 ... a6, Eric Schiller, Chess Enterprises, 1987.

She has also continued to record infrequent secular material and in 1987, Houston and her daughter Whitney recorded a duet titled " I Know Him So Well ", a cover of the original by Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige from the Broadway show, Chess.

He won the 1987 European Junior Chess Championship in Groningen and first achieved international notice by winning the 1988 New York Open with 7½ / 9, ahead of a field of Grandmasters.

Gem, Michael Chesters ( aka Chess Chesters, and older brother of Eds Chesters of The Bluetones ) and Jeff moved to London and formed The Contenders in early 1987, playing at the Bull & Gate in Kentish Town and other venues, often with friends 2 Lost Sons, who at that time were a three piece using Roland 808 and 909 drum machines for their live act.

Notable roles include The Club, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, ART, Born Yesterday, The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, Chess ( the musical ), Love Letters, Blood Relations ( 1987 ), The Real Inspector Hound ’’, Strange Bedfellow The Musical and Stephen Sewell's It Just Stopped ( 2006 ).

* Comprehensive Chess Endings 4: Pawn Endings by Averbakh and Maizelis, 1987, Pergamon, ISBN 0-08-032043-0

* Comprehensive Chess Endings 5: Rook Endings by Averbakh, 1987, Pergamon, ISBN 0-08-032048-1