* Des Hasler – Former Rugby league player, NSW & Australian representative player, 1987 & 1996 Manly Sea Eagles premiership player, 2008 & 2011 Manly Sea Eagles premiership coach

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

The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup.

In 1987 the first Rugby World Cup was held in New Zealand and Australia, and the inaugural winners were New Zealand.

The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board and held every four years since 1987.

* Women's Rugby Bundesliga ( founded 1987 ), women's rugby union

They also provided a level of cosmopolitan international competition, which tended not to exist in rugby before the first Rugby World Cup in 1987, especially since was not seen as one of the " Big Eight ", and other than some involvement with, the Commonwealth teams tended to be notoriously clannish.

* 1987 – 88 Rugby Football League season / 1988 – 89 Rugby Football League season

* 1986 – 87 Rugby Football League season / 1987 – 88 Rugby Football League season

The tour has been credited with leading to a decline in the popularity of Rugby Union in New Zealand, until the 1987 Rugby World Cup.

On 24 October 2011, at the IRB Awards in Auckland, Johnson was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame alongside all other Rugby World Cup-winning captains and head coaches from the tournament's inception in 1987 through 2007 ( minus the previously inducted John Eales ).

Cockermouth Rugby Football Club is based at the former Cockermouth Grammar School site and can boast that in 1987 it played the first ever rugby union league match when they played Kirby Lonsdale when the Rugby Union formed national and regional leagues, the precursors of what have now become the national and premier leagues.

The 2007 Rugby World Cup was the sixth Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987.

Although South Africa was instrumental in the creation of the Rugby World Cup competition, the Springboks did not compete in the first two World Cups in 1987 and 1991 because of anti-apartheid sporting boycotts of South Africa.

On 24 October 2011, Woodward was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame, alongside all other Rugby World Cup-winning head coaches and captains from the tournament's inception in 1987 through 2007 ( minus the previously inducted John Eales ).

In 1987, once again primarily for monetary considerations, Botha moved to the Italian club Rugby Rovigo, where he played 119 games and helped them win two National Championships ( in 1988 and 1990 ).

He led Ireland to the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup, but that joy was tinged with sadness as he suffered a heart attack at the opening dinner.

* 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.

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 ).

Between 1977 and 1987, the Australian Football Council ( AFC ) in conjunction with the VFL ran a night series, which invited clubs and representative sides from around the country to participate in the " National Football League " for the Wills Cup, however Victorian sides still dominated.

In 1987 Charlton also returned to Wembley for the first time since the 1947 FA Cup final for the Full Members Cup final against Blackburn.

In the winter of 1987 Hagi was transferred to Romanian giants Steaua București as the team prepared for their European Super Cup final against FC Dynamo Kyiv.

Hagi and Steaua were the champions of Romania in 1987, 1988 and 1989 and as well as winning the Romania Cup in 1987, 1988 and 1989.

* 1987 – 88-NHL-Stanley Cup ( Edmonton )

Gretzky's international career highlight arguably came three years later at the 1987 Canada Cup.

* Śląsk Wrocław — men's football team ( Polish Championship in Football 1977, 2012 ; Polish Cup winner 1976, 1987 ; Polish SuperCup winner 1987, 2012 ; Polish League Cup winner 2009 ) ( Now in Ekstraklasa ( Polish Premier League ).

* Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky's rise to fame in the NHL would coincide with the Edmonton Oilers ' first 4 Stanley Cup championships ( 1984, 1985, 1987, & 1988 ) and becoming the second NHL dynasty team of the 1980s.

He also scored the winning goal in the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup final against Lokomotive Leipzig in 1987.

The Flyers had eliminated the Islanders in the Patrick Division Finals in 1985 and 1987 ( the Flyers went on to the Stanley Cup finals both years ).

During the 1987 and 1988 Stanley Cup playoffs, Global aired NHL games syndicated by Carling O ' Keefe.

In the late 1980s, the Penguins finally gave Lemieux a strong supporting cast, trading for superstar defenseman Paul Coffey from the Edmonton Oilers ( after the Oilers ' 1987 Stanley Cup win ) and bringing in young talent such as scorers Kevin Stevens, Rob Brown and John Cullen from the minors.

* Ferdinand-1986 Kentucky Derby & 1987 Breeders ' Cup Classic, United States Horse of the Year