* 1987 – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.

* 1987 – Northwest Airlines Flight 255 a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashes after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus 2 people on the ground.

In 1987, there was media speculation Clinton would enter the race after then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

Bulgaria's economy contracted dramatically after 1987 with the dissolution of the Comecon, with which the Bulgarian economy had integrated closely.

DJ Scott La Rock was murdered on August 27, 1987, months after the release of BDP's debut album, Criminal Minded.

The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987, 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line.

European business schools adopted business ethics after 1987 commencing with the European Business Ethics Network ( EBEN ).

In 1987, shortly after it was decided that Charlotte would receive an expansion National Basketball Association franchise ( the Charlotte Hornets ), former NFL player Jerry Richardson met with a group of potential backers to discuss the possibility of bringing an NFL expansion team to the Carolina region.

* BLP 72 ( Brückenlegepanzer )-The East-German army had plans to develop a new bridgelayer tank that should have been ready for series production from 1987 but after several difficulties the project was canceled.

L to R: Seymour, Finn, Hester. In June 1987, a year after its release, Crowded House finally reached number one on the Kent Music Report Album Charts.

The Whittier Narrows earthquake of 1987 showed the need for preparing citizens to take care of themselves and their loved ones after a disaster.

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.

Members of ARDE Frente Sur taking a smoke break after routing the FSLN garrison at El Serrano, southeast Nicaragua, 1987.

C. L. Moore died on April 4, 1987 at her home in Hollywood, California after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

In the 1987 season, Earnhardt earned his nickname " The Intimidator " after spinning out Elliott in the final segment of " The Winston ", a non-points event now known as the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

* 1987 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

However, RCA Records did not renew her contract after it expired that year, and she signed with Columbia Records in 1987.

Glen Benton, 2009 Deicide was formed in Tampa, Florida on July 21, 1987, after guitarist Brian Hoffman called Glen Benton, replying to an advertisement the latter had placed in a local music magazine.

* 1987 – History's worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4, 000 people ( 1, 749 official ).

Yehonatan Shimʻon Frenḳel writes that '.. the .. Air Wing was formed after the 1987 coup, when the French provided two helicopters as part of its military aid package.

Ironically the rate of promotion of indigenous Fijian officers had been very rapid after the 1987 coup, and subsequent expansion of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces.

* The Cold Summer of 1953 ( 1987 ) about criminals being released from the gulags after Stalin's death.

The government has recovered nearly $ 22 billion under the False Claims Act between 1987 ( after the significant 1986 amendments ) and 2008.

The November 1987 elections was cancelled after troops massacred 30 – 300 voters on election day.

On 1 January 1987, the name of this municipality was officially changed from " Frobisher Bay " to " Iqaluit "-aligning official usage with the name that the Inuit population had always used ( although, many documents still referred to Iqaluit as Frobisher Bay for several years after 1987 ).

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

In October 1987, however, the contras staged a successful attack in southern Nicaragua.

In 1987, enduring fan interest, partially preserved by the first four installments of the Star Trek film franchise from 1979 to 1986, those films ' popularity led to the development of the Star Trek sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became extremely successful, and led to the later sequels Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and finally Star Trek: Enterprise, which ended in 2005.

One notably successful car during this period was the Lancia Delta Integrale, dominating world rallying during 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992 – winning six consecutive world rally championships, a feat yet unbeaten.

Nimoy would go on to direct the second most successful film ( critically and financially ) in the franchise after the 2009 Star Trek film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ( 1986 ), and Three Men and a Baby, the highest grossing film of 1987, made him a star director.

In the 1980s, Greenaway's cinema flowered in his best-known films, The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 ), A Zed & Two Noughts ( 1985 ), The Belly of an Architect ( 1987 ), Drowning by Numbers ( 1988 ), and his most successful ( and controversial ) film, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ( 1989 ).

In 1987, Willems and Buschow demonstrated a successful battery based on this approach ( using a mixture of La < sub > 0. 8 </ sub > Nd < sub > 0. 2 </ sub > Ni < sub > 2. 5 </ sub > Co < sub > 2. 4 </ sub > Si < sub > 0. 1 </ sub >) which kept 84 % of its charge capacity after 4000 charge-discharge cycles.

Later television sitcoms such as The Magnificent Evans and Clarence were less successful and he decided to retire in 1987.

Though engine production at Christianshavn was later discontinued in 1987, successful engine programs were rolled out.

The most successful season during this period was the 1987 – 88 season in which QPR finished fifth, missing out on a UEFA Cup campaign due to the ban on English clubs in European competition as a result of the Heysel Stadium disaster.

An effort was made in 1987 to change the ordinance to allow supervised daincing which was successful.

Named after the 1981 horror film of the same name, the band's most successful lineup has consisted since 1987 of founding members Kevin Shields ( guitar and vocals ) and Colm Ó Cíosóig ( drums ) with the addition of singer-guitarist Bilinda Butcher and bassist Debbie Googe.

Peter Tosh ( born Winston Hubert McIntosh, 19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987 ), was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers ( 1963 – 1974 ), and who afterwards had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.

Big was the latest, and most successful, of a series of age-changing comedies produced in the late 1980s, the others being: Like Father Like Son ( 1987 ), 18 Again!

He had previously made an attempt, but it failed as the crowd was not prepared for the acid house style until 1987 when the party was successful.

To document their successful worldwide Once Upon a Time Tour, Simple Minds released the double-live set Live in the City of Light in 1987, which was recorded primarily over two nights in Paris in 1986.

After being rested for the whole of 1986 ( during which time Bygraves offered to finance its production himself ), it returned with Les Dennis on 27 June 1987, and had a consistently successful run for the next fifteen years.

Germany would go on to finish second again in 1985 and 1987, making the 1980s their most successful decade.

In the years 1986 and 1987, the version M12 / 13 / 1 was tilted sideways by 72 ° for use in the extremely low Brabham BT55, unfortunately the design was not successful, probably due to cooling issues in the tight compartment.

Her next solo album Desire ( 1987 ) was less successful although the single with her version of " Echo Beach " made it Top 50.

The Zulu Nation's ties to the French hip hop community have waned since 1987, and few contemporary emcees continue to represent the ideals of the group, but since Afrika Bambaataa's successful tour of France in 2008 and a big Zulu Nation reunion in Paris, France, there has been a new movement of the Universal Zulu Nation springing up in different cites again throughout France.

On October 20, 1987, his Top Fuel dragster, Swamp Rat XXX, the sport's only successful streamlined car, was enshrined in National Museum of American History, a branch of The Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC.

He then directed the 1987 science-fiction film Mr. India which was one of the most successful films of the 1980s.

Racing versions of the Cosworth were highly successful in European and World touring car racing throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s ', and the RS500 helped Ford to win the manufacturer's title in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship.

His reign was extremely successful, as the company's revenues increased from $ 1. 5 billion in 1987 to $ 23 billion in 2000 and O ' Neill's personal fortune grew to $ 60 million.