1987 in India

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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

• 15 July - Neerukonda massacre of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh.
• 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]

• 4 September - Roop Kanwar case - last known incident of Sati in India, occurred at Sikar district. ^[6]
• 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. ^[7]
• 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.

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).

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  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. "Death By Fire by Mala Sen: The story of Roop Kanwar and other victims". India Today. 26 March 2001. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
7. Bell, Daniel (17 March 2016). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland. p. 511. ISBN   978-1-4766-1527-1.