* 1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U. S. Navy warship, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.

The PLA Navy was ranked in 1987 as the third largest navy in the world, although naval personnel had comprised only 12 percent of PLA strength.

As part of this program, two Royal Australian Navy advisers are statiomed in Vanuatu Australia to assist Vanuatu in maintaining and operating the RVS Tukoro, the Pacific class patrol boat donated to Vanuatu by Australia in 1987.

US Navy warships escort the tanker Gas King in 1987

From 1979 to 1987, a submarine, the USS Silversides, was docked at Navy Pier.

However, in the 1987 – 1988 academic year, the U. S. joint services began participation with three U. S. Air Force graduates ; officers from the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps followed in the next two years.

Although drafted in 1987, the Spurs would have to wait until the 1989 – 90 season to see Robinson actually play, due to a two-year commitment he had to serve with the United States Navy.

( Navy blue was added to the color palette in 1987 " to provide better visual contrast to publications, merchandise and athletic uniforms.

After high school he performed military service in the Royal Netherlands Navy from August 1985 to January 1987.

In 1987, a US Navy guided-missile frigate, the USS Stark, was hit by an Exocet anti-ship missile fired by an Iraqi Mirage F-1 fighter plane.

The Navy discarded Yavari but in 1987 charitable interests bought her and started restoring her.

Hence, 45 years after being founded by the U. S. Navy, its management team, led by Erich Burlefinger, purchased the division and in 1987 founded Burle Industries.

During medical school she did active duty training with the Diving Medicine Department at the United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit in March 1987.

Alexander's other television films include Arthur Miller's Playing for Time, co-starring Vanessa Redgrave, for which Alexander won another Emmy Award ; Malice in Wonderland ( as famed gossip-monger Hedda Hopper ); Blood & Orchids ; and In Love and War ( 1987 ) co-starring James Woods, which tells the story of James and Sybil Stockdale during Stockdale's eight years as a US Navy Commander and prisoner of war in Vietnam.

His mother, Yvonne Jean ( née Hickman ), and father, Eric Ernest Hitchens ( 1909 – 1987 ), met in Scotland while both were serving in the Royal Navy during World War II.

The Flight 655 incident was a year after the 17 March 1987, Iraqi Air Force attack on the U. S. Navy guided-missile frigate.

* William Davis ( Royal Navy officer ) ( 1901 – 1987 ), British admiral

In 1987, Cockrell resigned from the Navy and joined the Aircraft Operations Division of Johnson Space Center as a research pilot.

* Ralph Waldo Christie ( 1893 – 1987 ), Navy Admiral involved with torpedo and submarine operations before and during World War II

* Admiral Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, Chief of the Naval Staff, Indian Navy, 1984 – 1987.

Rosyth's dockyards became the very first in the Royal Navy to be privatised when a company named Babcock International acquired the site in 1987.

* Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History ( 1987 ) from the New York Council of the Navy League, in cooperation with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the Theodore Roosevelt Association, for his book The United States Navy: 200 Years ( Henry Holt, 1986 ).

* Richard E. Luehrs Memorial Award for Navy Operational Flight Surgeon of the Year ( 1987 )

The basic line-up of this group from 1987 to May 2006 consisted of Marshall Lytle ( bass ), Joey Ambrose ( sax ), Johnny Grande ( piano ), Dick Richards ( drums ) and Franny Beecher ( guitar ).

Between 1987 and 1999 the administrative structure consisted of nine provinces ( oblasti, singular oblast ).

The station consisted of two parts ( it has subsequently been expanded ), a subsurface station on the Circle and Metropolitan Lines ( in 1987, the Hammersmith & City Line was then part of the Metropolitan ) and a deep-level tube station on the Northern, Piccadilly, and Victoria Lines.

From 1987 to 1988 there were six members of the group ; in other seasons, the band always consisted of three girls and two boys.

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.

The EP, Strawberry Wine, consisted of three tracks and was released in November 1987.

Since 1987, the band's lineup has consisted of singer Milo Aukerman, guitarist Stephen Egerton, bassist Karl Alvarez, and drummer Bill Stevenson.

Then, until 1987, the Mental Agility round consisted of a " knock-out " format, where contestants were asked increasingly difficult questions in turn and eliminated for wrong answers.

From the later heats in the 1986 and 1987 series, this consisted of each player taking turns on a flight simulator and being marked by an actual flight instructor.

Hungerford was policed by two Sergeants and twelve Constables, and on the morning of 19 August 1987 the duty cover for the section consisted of one Sergeant, two Patrol Constables and one Station Duty Officer.

Many of these tracks had been assembled previously for " The Album That Never Was " released in 1987 but this album primarily consisted of the released singles and b-sides that Davies recorded and released from 1967-1969.

They succeeded to a majority in the city government ( which then consisted of nine members, but in 1987 was limited to seven ), which they kept in the following decades.

In 1987, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition was published by Matchbox ; it consisted of 12 silver tiles arranged in a 2 × 6 rectangle, showing 5 interlinked rings that had to be unlinked by transforming the puzzle into a shape reminiscent of a W. Around the same time, Matchbox also produced Rubik's Magic Create the Cube, a " Level Two " version of Rubik's Magic, in which the puzzle is solved when folded into a cube with a base of two tiles, and the tile colors match at the corners of the cube.

The final abbreviated season consisted of six hours of made-for-TV films broadcast in early 1987, including installments filmed on location in Mexico, London, and Ireland.

From 1972 to 1987, the Senate consisted of 22 members.

The special consisted of a performance of many of Orbison's hits at the then Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove nightclub ( Los Angeles ) in Los Angeles, filmed on September 30, 1987, approximately fourteen months before his death.

Work in 1987 consisted primarily of excavation, embankment building and land acquisition.

It originally consisted of three divisions, but this was reduced to two in 1987, partly because of the creation of an extra division in the Northern Premier League ( NPL ).

The format of the first two series ( 1987 – 1989 ) consisted of each episode focusing on a certain topic, a sort of humorous Blue Peter.

For almost the majority of its existence, the band has consisted of guitarist Woody Weatherman, bassist Mike Dean ( who left in 1987 but rejoined six years later ), drummer Reed Mullin ( who left in 2001 but rejoined nine years later ) and vocalist and rhythm guitarist Pepper Keenan ( who joined the band in 1989 ).

Up until 1991, when Giles stopped producing new cartoons, the annual consisted of cartoons from the preceding year — for example, in the 42nd series ( published in autumn 1989 ), the cartoons used were originally published in the Daily Express and Sunday Express between 30 June 1987 and 12 June 1988.

It consisted of 250 research institutes and 60, 500 full-time researchers in 1987, a large percentage in the natural sciences such as biology.

Their lineup consisted of three former AL Rookies-of-the-Year: José Canseco, ( 1986 ); Mark McGwire, ( 1987 ); and Walt Weiss ( 1988 ).

The Burroughs B1000 Series of computers consisted of three major generations which were the B1700, B1800, and B1900 series machines originally introduced in the 1970s with continued software development until 1987.