* 1987 – Hungerford massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.

* 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.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

Carr analyzes how English dictionaries gloss Taoisms pronunciation, comparing 12 published in Great Britain ( 1933 – 1989 ) and 11 published in the United States ( 1948 – 1987 ).

Between 1983 and 1987, Ecuador imported an estimated US $ 460 million of arms, primarily from Italy, France, the United States and Britain.

The United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office delivered a note to the Ecuadorian government in Quito reminding them of the provisions of the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987 which allow the British government to withdraw recognition of diplomatic protection from embassies ; the move was interpreted as a hostile act by Ecuador, with Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño stating that this " explicit threat " would be met with " appropriate responses in accordance with international law ".

Filming took place in Michigan and North Carolina in 1986 and the film was released in the United States on March 13, 1987.

* 1908 – Edward Lansdale, American United States Air Force, CIA and OSS officer ( d. 1987 )

In 1987 the London Mathematical Society established the Pólya Prize for " outstanding creativity in, imaginative exposition of, or distinguished contribution to, mathematics within the United Kingdom.

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.

Despite this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.

IKEA further expanded in the 1980s, opening stores in France & Spain ( 1981 ), Belgium ( 1984 ), the United States ( 1985 ), the United Kingdom ( 1987 ) and Italy ( 1989 ) among other areas.

The original initiative for its establishment was contained in a resolution of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches of the United Kingdom in 1987.

Until 1987, 1-2-3 Jell-O could readily be found in grocery stores throughout most of the United States, but the dessert is now extremely rare.

Before the 1987 – 88 season, Dalglish signed a number of new players: Peter Beardsley from Newcastle, John Aldridge from Oxford United ( who replaced Ian Rush ); winger John Barnes from Watford ; and Oxford United midfielder Ray Houghton.

On July 6, 1983, he entered the United States Air Force Academy as a member of the class of 1987.

* 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America

Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988.

Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware plagiarized one of Kinnock's speeches during his 1988 presidential campaign in a speech at a Democratic debate in Iowa in August 1987.

After the 1986 Reykjavik summit between U. S. President Ronald Reagan and the new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the United States and the Soviet Union concluded two important nuclear arms reduction treaties: the INF Treaty ( 1987 ) and START I ( 1991 ).

* 1922 – Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce ( d. 1987 )

The United States froze economic and military assistance to Panama in the summer of 1987 in response to the domestic political crisis and an attack on the U. S. embassy.

* Healer Of The Nations: Biblical Principles for International Relations, 1987 ISBN 0-930462-21-1

In 1987, the publication of the Brundtland Report by the United Nations had paved the way to establish a environmental governance.

The United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment came into force in June 1987.

The Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture, currently ratified by 17 nations of the Americas and in force since 28 February 1987, defines torture more expansively than the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

In effort to punish South Africa for its policies of apartheid, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a voluntary international oil embargo against South Africa on November 20, 1987 ; that embargo had the support of 130 countries.

The UNFPA began operations in 1969 as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities ( the name was changed in 1987 ) under the administration of the United Nations Development Fund.

In 1987 after the United Nations had declared Burma a " Least Developed Country ", Ne Win, resigned on 23 July 1988 as chairman of the ruling Burma Socialist Programme Party at the height of the uprising against one-party rule.

* United Nations romanization system for geographical names ( 1987 ): Based on GOST 16876-71.

He was the Prime Minister of Finland 1987 – 1991, speaker of the UN General Assembly 2000 – 2001 and headed the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo from 2003-2004 ( leaving the position in the spring of the second year because of health issues ).

* American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nations Public Schools ( 1987 ) ( ISBN 0-16-004284-4 )

Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 1987.

* United Nations Convention Against Torture ( CAT ) ( adopted 1984, entry into force: 1987 )

Fluent in English, Klestil was the Austrian Ambassador to the United Nations ( 1978 – 1982 ) and Ambassador to the United States ( 1982 – 1987 ) prior to his election as president.

In May 1987, as an invited lecturer, she was the first ever Buddhist nun to address the United Nations in New York on the topic of Buddhism and World Peace.

In 1987 he was among those selected for the United Nations Environment Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honour, in the first year that award was established.

* Directory of women experts in Asia and the Pacific, United Nations, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1987

Sustainability, itself, was first defined by the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations in 1987.

The following year he founded the period orchestra Les Nations de Montréal, which he directed in 1987 in the 20th Century premiere of the opera Amadis de Gaule for the tricentenary of Lully with soloists and choir of the Atélier de l ' Opéra de l ' Université Laval.

* United Nations Environment Programme – the Environmental Leadership Award ( 1987 )

According to testimony at a United Nations Security Council meeting, on 15 December 1987, Kim was transferred to Seoul, where she recovered from the poison and, initially, said she was a Chinese orphan who grew up in Japan, and said that she was not connected to the attack.

His third son, the fourth Baron ( who succeeded his half-brother in 1987, who in his turn had succeeded his brother in 1974 ), was a United Nations official for many years.

* List of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 601 to 700 ( 1987 – 1991 )