1987 in India

Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India.

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See also:List of years in India
Timeline of Indian history

Incumbents
  • President of India – Zail Singh until 25 July, R. Venkataraman
  • Prime Minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi
  • Vice President of India – R. Venkataraman until 24 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
  • Chief Justice of India – Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Governors
  • Andhra Pradesh – Kumud Ben Joshi
  • Arunachal Pradesh –
    • 20 February-18 March: Bhishma Narain Singh
    • starting 18 March: R. D. Pradhan
  • Assam – Bhishma Narain Singh
  • Bihar – P. Venkatasubbaiah
  • Goa – Gopal Singh (starting 30 May)
  • Gujarat – Ram Krishna Trivedi
  • Haryana – Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
  • Himachal Pradesh – R. K. S. Ghandhi
  • Jammu and Kashmir – Jagmohan Malhotra
  • Karnataka – Ashoknath Banerji (until 26 February), Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (starting 26 February)
  • Kerala – P. Ramachandran
  • Madhya Pradesh –
    • until 30 November: K.M Chandy
    • 30 November-29 December: Narayan Dutta Ojha
    • starting 29 December: K.M Chandy
  • Maharashtra – Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 3 September), vacant thereafter (starting 3 September)
  • Manipur – K. V. Krishna Rao
  • Meghalaya – Bhishma Narain Singh
  • Mizoram – Hiteswar Saikia
  • Nagaland – K. V. Krishna Rao
  • Odisha – Bishambhar Nath Pande
  • Punjab – Siddhartha Shankar Ray
  • Rajasthan – Vasantdada Patil (until 15 October), vacant thereafter (starting 15 October)
  • Sikkim – T.V. Rajeswar
  • Tamil Nadu – Sundar Lal Khurana
  • Tripura – K. V. Krishna Rao
  • Uttar Pradesh – Mohammed Usman Arif
  • West Bengal – Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events
  • National income - ₹3,618,647 million

January - June
  • January – Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction set up and became operational with effect from May reflecting concerns related to Industrial Sickness and republic day
  • 17 January - Rajiv Gandhi laid the foundation stone for Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kannur.
  • 7 March - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket.[1]
  • 19 March - 1987 Opera House heist
  • 23 March - Controversial 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election held.
  • March – Magnetic ink character recognition technology introduced for cheque clearing.
  • March - June - 1987 Meerut riots
  • 12 April - V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India following his disclosure about kickbacks in defense deals by predecessors.[2][3]
  • May - 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish the second such conflict between China and India ended.
  • 22 May - Hashimpura massacre.[4]
  • 30 May – The Union territory was split, and Goa was elevated as India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining Union Territories
  • 4 June - Operation Poomalai by India in Jaffna.
  • June - Minister of External Affairs N. D. Tiwari visits North Korea as part of ministerial conference of Non-Aligned Movement.

July - December
  • 29 July - Indo-Sri Lanka Accord to restore peace in the island signed.
  • 30 July - Assault on Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi by a Sri Lanka Navy sailor named Vijitha Rohana during Guard of honour at Colombo.[5]
  • October – ICC Cricket World Cup (Reliance Cup 1987)
  • 11 - 12 October - Jaffna University Helidrop by Indian Peace Keeping Force
  • 20 November–27 November – The South Asian Games are held in Calcutta.[6]
  • 28 December - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research was established by RBI as an advanced studies institute to promote research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view.

Law

Births
  • 1 January – Neha Sharma, actress and model.
  • 3 March – Shraddha Kapoor, actress.
  • 31 March – Janani Iyer, actress.
  • 18 February – Mahat Raghavendra, actor
  • 24 April – Varun Dhawan, actor
  • 25 April – Mallika Kapoor, actress.
  • 28 April – Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actress.
Rohit Sharma
  • 30 April – Rohit Sharma, cricketer.
  • 4 May – Charmy Kaur, actress.
  • 7 May – Sundeep Kishan, actor, producer
  • 2 June – Santhosh Prathap, actor
  • 13 June – G. V. Prakash Kumar, film composer, singer and actor.
  • 25 June – Anil Shetty, entrepreneur, author, activist and motivational speaker
  • 3 July – Arjai, actor
  • 1 August – Taapsee Pannu, actress.
  • 5 August – Genelia D'Souza, actress.
    Genelia Deshmukh
  • 6 August – Aditya Narayan, actor, singer and television host.
  • 25 October – Umesh Yadav, cricketer.
  • 1 November – Ileana D'Cruz, actress.
  • 20 November – Sukirti Kandpal, actress.
  • 18 December – Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu, politician, member of parliament from Srikakulam.
  • 28 December – Diganth Manchale, actor

Deaths
  • 13 March – Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi, Islamic scholar, jurist and literary critic. (born 1910)
  • 1 June – Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1914).
  • Kishore Kumar
    13 October – Kishore Kumar, playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (born 1929).
  • 27 October – Vijay Merchant, cricketer (born 1911).
  • 24 December – M. G. Ramachandran, Actor, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born 1917).

Full date unknown
  • Dasaradhi, poet and political activist (born 1925).

See also
  • Bollywood films of 1987

References
  1. "March 7, 1987: Sunil Gavaskar becomes 1st batsman to score 10,000 Test runs in Ahmedabad". India Today. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  2. Wariavwalla, Bharat (1988). "India in 1987: Democracy on Trial". Asian Survey. 28 (2): 119–125. doi:10.2307/2644813. ISSN 0004-4687.
  3. "HT This Day: April 13, 1987 -- V. P. Singh resigns". Hindustan Times. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  4. "Hashimpura massacre: Here is what happened". The Indian Express. 31 October 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  5. "HT This Day: July 31, 1987 -- Rajiv hurt in rifle-butt attack by Lanka sailor". Hindustan Times. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2023.
  6. Bell, Daniel (17 March 2016). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland. p. 511. ISBN 978-1-4766-1527-1.
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