1987 in India explained

Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India.

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.

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.

• 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.
• 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).
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: March 7, 1987: Sunil Gavaskar becomes 1st batsman to score 10,000 Test runs in Ahmedabad . 2023-08-31 . India Today . en.
2. Wariavwalla . Bharat . 1988 . India in 1987: Democracy on Trial . Asian Survey . 28 . 2 . 119–125 . 10.2307/2644813 . 0004-4687.
3. Web site: 2022-04-11 . HT This Day: April 13, 1987 -- V. P. Singh resigns . 2023-08-31 . Hindustan Times . en.
4. Web site: 2018-10-31 . Hashimpura massacre: Here is what happened . 2022-05-22 . The Indian Express . en.
5. Web site: 2022-07-28 . HT This Day: July 31, 1987 -- Rajiv hurt in rifle-butt attack by Lanka sailor . 2023-02-20 . Hindustan Times . en.
6. Book: Bell . Daniel . Encyclopedia of International Games . 17 March 2016 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-1527-1 . 511 . en.