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1987 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1987 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1987

• January 29, 1987 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
• March 19, 1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
• April 11, 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
• April 13, 1987 – Portugal and the People’s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
• April 19, 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
• July 27, 1987 – RMS Titanic Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
• August 14, 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.
• September 10, 1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
• October 15, 1987 – The Great Storm of 1987 hits France and England.
• November 25, 1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.

Who Were Born On 1987?

• February 6, 1987 – Hayato Ichihara, Japanese actor
• March 17, 1987 – Ryan Parent, Canadian ice hockey player
• April 5, 1987 – Sergei Lepmets, Estonian footballer
• May 1, 1987 – Amir Johnson, American basketball player
• May 13, 1987 – Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
• June 24, 1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer
• July 17, 1987 – Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
• July 26, 1987 – Fredy Montero, Colombian footballer
• September 16, 1987 – Travis Wall, American dancer and choreographer
• September 21, 1987 – Marcelo Estigarribia, Paraguayan footballer