1987 Valencian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The Corts Valencianes were the devolved, unicameral legislature of the Valencian autonomous community, having legislative power in regional matters as defined by the Spanish Constitution and the Valencian Statute of Autonomy, as well as the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a President of the Government. Voting for the Corts was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen, registered in the Valencian Community and in full enjoyment of their political rights.


1987 Valencian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The 89 members of the Corts Valencianes were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia. Each constituency was entitled to an initial minimum of 20 seats, with the remaining 29 allocated among the constituencies in proportion to their populations on the condition that the seat to population ratio in any given province did not exceed three times that of any other.


1987 Valencian regional election, Overview, Electoral system
The electoral law provided that parties, federations, coalitions and groupings of electors were allowed to present lists of candidates. However, groupings of electors were required to secure the signature of at least 1 percent of the electors registered in the constituency for which they sought election. Electors were barred from signing for more than one list of candidates. Concurrently, parties and federations intending to enter in coalition to take part jointly at an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election being called.


1987 Valencian regional election, Overview, Election date
The term of the Corts Valencianes expired four years after the date of their previous election. The election Decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of parliament and published on the following day in the Official Journal of the Valencian Community, with election day taking place between the fifty-fourth and the sixtieth day from publication. The previous election was held on 8 May 1983, which meant that the legislature's term would have expired on 8 May 1987. The election Decree was required to be published no later than 14 April 1987, with the election taking place no later than the sixtieth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Corts on Saturday, 13 June 1987.


1987 Valencian regional election, Overview, Election date
The Corts Valencianes could not be dissolved before the date of expiry of parliament.


1987 Valencian regional election, Opinion polls
The table below lists voting intention estimates in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a given poll. When available, seat projections are also displayed below the voting estimates in a smaller font. 45 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Corts Valencianes.


1987 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1987 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Commodores were led by head coach Watson Brown in his second season and finished with a record of four wins and seven losses (4–7 overall, 1–5 in the SEC).


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation
The 1987 Vanniyar reservation protest was week-long a protest organized by the Vanniyar Sangham headed by S. Ramadoss in Tamil Nadu in September 1987 demanding 20 percent reservation for Vanniyars in education and employment in the state and 2 percent in education and employment in the Union government. The agitation turned very violent and destructive, the protestors damaged roadways and reportedly cut down lakhs of trees to block roadways and destroyed public properties. The activists of the Vanniyar Sangham attacked Dalit settlements  and burned down more than 1,400 Dalit houses in numerous villages. At least 21 people were shot dead in firing by the Tamil Nadu police to suppress the agitators.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation
The incident forced the DMK government led by M. Karunanidhi to create a Most backward class (MBC) quota  with 108 castes, including Vanniyars which granted them 20 per cent reservation in education and employment in 1989.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Background and causes
The Vanniyars are Tamil Nadu's second-largest community, after the scheduled caste. They mostly work as agricultural labourers and are concentrated in the northern Tamil Nadu towns of Cuddalore, Vellore, Tiruvallur, Ranipet, Chengalpet, Villupuram and Kancheepuram where they make up a sizable vote bank. The Ambashankar Commission, established in 1982 to investigate the Vanniyar quota claim, assessed their population to be at 13%.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Background and causes
The Vanniyars had already campaigned for more reservations twice in the previous year. However, the MGR government ignored their plea.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Background and causes, Caste identity and Vanniyar sangham
Vanniyars have a lengthy history of strong caste assertion dating back over a century. They were formerly referred to as the "pallis," and opposed to being classified as a low caste as early as 1833 by attempting to get a decree in Pondicherry. The community requested the census authorities in 1871 to be classified as Kshatriya. Vanniyars attempted to establish their status and identity by fusing actual history with mythology and claimed to be the AgniKula (fire race), kshatriyas, and the Pallava dynasty's descendants. In 1888, the Chennai Vanniyakula Kshatriya MahaSangam was founded. Many vanniyars began referring to themselves as vanniyakula kshatriya in an effort to enhance their identity and status.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Background and causes, Caste identity and Vanniyar sangham
The communities caste organizations began taking economic concerns in order to help the group move up the social ladder. The vanniyars founded their own party, the Tamil Nadu Toilers Party during the 1952 general elections, which eventually separated to form the Common Weal Party. In 1980, S. Ramadoss was able to bring together 27 caste organisations to create the Vanniyar Sangham. From the inception, the Vanniyar Sangham lobbied for a greater share of education, jobs, and power.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Background and causes, Caste identity and Vanniyar sangham
The Dalits are seen by Vanniyars as potential competition for employment and other economic opportunities. The majority of individuals from both the Vanniyar and Dalit communities are poor laborer who compete for employment opportunities, which frequently resulted in clashes between them.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Background and causes, Reservations
S. Ramadoss claimed that among the 213 castes listed as backward in Tamil Nadu, just a few dominating castes have reaped the majority of the advantages of the 50% backward class reservation. According to the Tamilnadu Backward Class Commission's report, the representation of the backward and most backward classes in education is extremely low in comparison to their numbers. In 1970, merely 33.33 percent of the total number of pupils who took the SSLC test were from backward or most backward areas.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Background and causes, Reservations
Vanniyars, who made up around 12% of the population in 1970, accounted for 3.28 percent of students who took the SSLC in 1970 and 1.74 percent of students accepted to engineering institutions in July 1970. According to R Vidyasagar, when multiple castes are grouped together in the list of backward castes, existing social and economic imbalances amongst those backward class allow some influencing groups to take away a large share of the benefits, and the Vanniyar's demand for exclusive reservation proportionate to their population must be seen in this context. Minority castes, on the other hand, reject proportional reservation, claiming that it would severely limit their accessibility to reservation advantages, and instead seek rotational reservation.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Protests
A week of protests was organised by the Vanniyar Sangham from September 17 to September 23, 1987 across the state to urge its demand for a separate 20% reservation quota for Vanniyars in state government jobs and educational institutions, as well as a 2% quota in the union government. The rasta roko (obstruction) agitation halted daily activities in the state's northern regions. Stones and trees were dumped over the roadways in Chengalpattu and South Arcot which served as effective roadblocks. Trenches were constructed across the highways in several areas. Vanniyar Sangam protesters reportedly blocked important highways by reportedly felling lakhs of trees, as well as telephone poles and lamp posts. They littered pieces of glass over roads and rolled huge rocks across them, creating holes in important roadways. Furthermore, the protestors blew up culverts with crude homemade explosives.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Protests
Thousands of cadres of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) who were returning to their home after the inauguration of Anna Arivalayam (a temple of Knowledge dedicated to C.N. Annadurai) in Madras were stopped and the buses and lorries they travelled were set on fire after doused in kerosene by the agitators. There were also clashes between the two groups. The police eventually offered armed protection to large truck convoys. The DMK function which originally scheduled on September 15, was rescheduled for September 16 because the government did not want it to coincide with MGR's expected return from the United States.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Protests
The agitation which was planned for 6 a.m on September 17 at was pushed it back six hours to midnight by pro-All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam agitators with an intent to stir up unrest. The DMK workers on their way home from the inauguration were confronted by the rampaging agitators. Thousands of travellers were stuck by the side of the road, without enough food or drink. In neighbouring areas, Vanniyar Sangam activists assaulted people who had been requested by police to clear roadways, resulting in a police shooting that killed 11 protestors during the first day of the agitation.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Protests
State officials issued “shoot on sight” orders, allowing officers to open fire on anybody found destroying public property or assisting the roko. Fleets of public buses were escorted to their destination by armed police convoys. Following the late-night burning of a milk truck in Chennai's Ambattur, security precautions were expanded to vehicles carrying food grains and essential suplies. During the protest, limited road traffic combined with increased security threats resulted in acute shortages of basic commodities within Chennai. The traffic in the south of Madras came to a complete stop.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Protests, Violence against Dalits
Violence against Dalits began on the first day when members of the Dalit community joined policemen in cleaning up the debris left by the protests. The activists of the Vanniyar Sangam allegedly warned the Dalits not to obstruct their agitation. When some Dalits refused, numerous Dalit settlements were destroyed. The rioting began with the burning of 100 Dalit homes in Sundaripalayam. Clashes escalated between both the communities on many villages where local scores were settled.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Protests, Violence against Dalits
Vanniyar Sangham activists targeted Dalit communities who had impeded their agitation by burning Dalit hamlets in the northern districts in the following days, including around 80 houses in Chitharasoor and Mazhavaranoor, more than 75 houses in Nellikuppam, and an uncertain number of houses in Kandarakottai. On September 21, 1987, about 1,000 Vanniyar Sangam activists set fire to Endathur hamlet near Uttiramenur. On September 23, 1987, Vanniyar Sangam agitators went to four villages in Alampakkam, near Cuddalore and burned approximately 1,200 Dalit homes which displaced an estimated 5,000 Dalit inhabitants.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Detentions and casualties
During the unrest, the police took 20,461 people into custody, including about 2,500 people who were detained as a preventive measure. During the course of the week-long protests, police shooting killed an estimated 23 Vanniyars.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Aftermath
Chief minister, MGR, was in a hospital in the United States at the time of the  protests. After returning to India, he met with the community but was unable to reach an agreement. MGR died within a couple of days.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Aftermath
The incident forced the DMK government led by M. Karunanidhi to create a Most backward class (MBC) quota with 108 castes, including Vanniyars which granted them 20 per cent reservation in education and employment in 1989.


1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation, Memorial Day
The Pattali Makkal Katchi marked September 17 as Veera Vanakka Naal every year to honour the members who died in the demonstrations.


1987 Vanuatuan general election
General elections were held in Vanuatu on 30 November 1987. Ni-Vanuatu voters were invited to elect the 46 members of an expanded national Parliament, which had previously held 39 seats.


1987 Vanuatuan general election
The ruling Vanua'aku Pati maintained its absolute majority, with 26 seats, while the Union of Moderate Parties obtained 19. The Vanua'aku Pati received slightly less than 50% of the popular vote, while the UMP received 40%. Walter Lini of the Vanua'aku Pati remained Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 71.6%.


1987 Vietnamese legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Vietnam on 19 April 1987, with a second round in eleven constituencies on 3 May. The Vietnamese Fatherland Front was the only party to contest the election, and nominated 829 candidates for the 496 seats. Voter turnout was reported to be 98.8% in the first round.


1987 Viking Sally murder
The 1987 Viking Sally murder is a homicide which took place on 28 July 1987, aboard the cruiseferry MS Viking Sally, in Finnish waters en route from Stockholm, Sweden, to Turku, Finland. An assailant attacked two West German tourists, Klaus Schelkle (aged 20) and Bettina Taxis (aged 22), killing the former and seriously injuring the latter. In September 2020, Finnish police announced charges against a suspect and passed the case on to prosecutors. In June 2021, the suspect was acquitted. The crime remains unsolved.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Background
Klaus Schelkle (born 1967) and Bettina Taxis (born 1965) were students from West Germany, who had met earlier in 1987 and become romantically involved. Together with Schelkle's friend, Thomas Schmid, they had decided to tour the Nordic countries on an Interrail rail pass, with the aim of travelling from West Germany to Stockholm, crossing over on a ferry to Turku, continuing up through Finland to Lapland, and returning south along the coast of Norway.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Background
They sailed from Stockholm in the late evening of 27 July. They became acquainted with a number of their fellow passengers that night, including a young British man on his way to meet a Finnish woman he had met earlier, and a Finnish car parts dealer returning from a business trip in Germany. Schelkle and Taxis were social and outgoing; Schmid was more reserved. The three had limited funds, which explains why on the night of the incident they did not have cabins, instead sleeping in a public area.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Background
The ship, MS Viking Sally, was part of the Viking Line ferry fleet, which provides daily cruiseferry services between Sweden, Finland and the Åland islands. It had capacity for c. 2,000 passengers and 400 vehicles, and a crew of approximately 200. The previous year, a passenger had been murdered on the same ship. Viking Sally later became MS Estonia, which in 1994 sank in the Baltic Sea, claiming hundreds of lives.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Night of the incident
In the early hours of 28 July, around 01:00, Schelkle and Taxis fetched their sleeping bags from inside the ship, where Schmid was asleep in a public area with the backpacks and other belongings of all three. The couple headed for the open-air 9th deck at the rear of the ship, where they had earlier identified a sheltered spot next to the ship's helipad. Their chosen location was dimly lit, due to a broken lamp.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Night of the incident
At approximately 03:45, a group of three Danish boy scouts, on their way to a jamboree in Finland, were wandering around the ship's decks, and chanced upon the victims' sleeping area. According to their witness statements they saw two people, whom they first thought were heavily intoxicated, as they seemed to struggle to stand up, before realising that both had serious head injuries and were barely conscious, and the whole area surrounding them was covered in blood. One of the boy scouts approached them, intending to provide first aid, but soon realised that their injuries were far too serious.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Night of the incident
The boy scouts alerted the ship's front desk, which ordered the ship's on-call nurse and security operative to the site of the incident. The nurse immediately recognised the severity of the injuries, and asked the ship's captain, also in attendance, to request a Finnish Coast Guard rescue helicopter to be dispatched to carry the victims to the Turku University Hospital ahead of the ship's arrival in port later that morning.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Night of the incident
At 05:48, the victims reached the hospital, where Schelkle was pronounced dead on arrival from massive injuries to the head, despite attempts by the ship's nurse to resuscitate him during the flight. Taxis was in critical condition with similar injuries, apparently resulting from heavy blows to the head. A chief investigator later described the attack as "especially ferocious".


1987 Viking Sally murder, Investigation
The crime almost certainly took place within the jurisdiction of the Åland Islands, but the Ministry of Interior decided that due to the significant investigative resources required, the Turku regional police force would investigate the matter instead, assisted by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Investigation
The first police investigators and crime scene technicians arrived on the ship at 06:30, while still at sea, on the same helicopter that had transported the victims to hospital. When the ship docked in Turku at 08:10, the police had it surrounded, aiming to seal in the perpetrator who was still thought to be aboard.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Investigation
The police initially planned to interview and video-record all passengers as they disembarked, but soon realised this was not possible due to the sheer numbers involved, with c. 1,400 passengers on board that day, and decided to exclude families with children and the elderly. They had also detained certain persons of interest including the victims' friend Schmid, as well as the young British man they had associated with, who was found in the morning with his clothes stained in blood, which he claimed was the result of a nose-bleed. Schmid was soon ruled out, but the British man was interviewed repeatedly, until forensic studies confirmed that the blood in his clothing was indeed almost certainly his, although due to the 1980s forensic technology this was not wholly conclusive.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Investigation
In August 1987, shortly after the incident, local fishermen discovered a plastic bag full of clothes on the uninhabited skerry of Lilla Björnholm, outside Korpo in the Turku archipelago, only some 200 metres (660 ft) from the sea lane used by the ferries to and from Turku. They left it there, but when they returned a year later and found the bag still there, they passed it on to the police. The investigators published the bag's contents, including the fact that a glove found in the bag was monogrammed with initials 'H.K. ', and stated that some forensic evidence suggested that the clothes originated from Viking Sally, but this did not lead to a break in the case.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Investigation
Over the next several years, investigators traced and interviewed as many of the video-recorded passengers as possible; some could never be identified. The investigators sailed on the same ship several times, hoping to find clues, to no avail. As forensic technology advanced, the evidence gathered provided some clues, but ultimately not enough to solve the mystery. There were no eyewitnesses to the incident, no useful CCTV footage, and no apparent motive, and Taxis has no recollection of the incident, all of which made solving the crime particularly difficult. Despite the unprecedented scale of the police effort, the investigation was discontinued as fruitless in the 1990s.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Murder trial and aftermath
In 2019, the police revealed that they had a prime suspect for the crime, but would not reveal the suspect's age, sex or nationality, confirming only that the person was alive, and thought to have acted alone. They later added that the perpetrator is thought not to have known the victims.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Murder trial and aftermath
In September 2020, the Turku police department finally announced that they had solved the case, and were passing it on to prosecutors. In December 2020 a district prosecutor announced that homicide charges have been filed against a Danish man born in 1969, one of the former boy scouts who discovered the victims. The trial started on 24 May 2021 in the District Court of Turku.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Murder trial and aftermath
The case had originally been investigated as a manslaughter, which has a statutory limit of 20 years; this would have meant that the case could no longer be brought to court. Instead, the charges were murder and attempted murder, which do not expire, and can be brought even after more than 30 years. The prosecutors justified the enhanced charges by noting the exceptionally cruel nature of the act.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Murder trial and aftermath
In June 2021, the suspect was acquitted on all charges. Had the charges resulted in a conviction, they would have represented the longest offence-to-conviction lead time in Finnish judicial history.


1987 Viking Sally murder, Murder trial and aftermath
In October 2021, it was reported that the accused had in 2016 allegedly confessed the murder to two Finnish police investigators, as well as providing details of the weapon used, although he subsequently recanted this under formal questioning. The alleged confession was made without a defence lawyer or witnesses being present, and was therefore ruled inadmissible by the court hearing the case.


1987 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1987 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cavaliers were led by sixth-year head coach George Welsh and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in second. Virginia was invited to the 1987 All-American Bowl in Birmingham, Alabama, where they defeated BYU.


1987 Virginia House of Delegates election
The Virginia House of Delegates election of 1987 was held on Tuesday, November 3. Primary elections were held on June 9, 1987.


1987 Virginia Senate election
All 40 seats in the Senate of Virginia were up for election on November 3, 1987, alongside the Virginia House of Delegates election.


1987 Virginia Slims Championships
The 1987 Virginia Slims Championships were the seventeenth WTA Tour Championships, the annual tennis tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the 1987 WTA Tour. It was held from November 16 through November 23, 1987, in Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States. Steffi Graf won the singles title.


1987 Virginia Slims Championships, Finals, Doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver defeated  Claudia Kohde-Kilsch /  Helena Suková, 6–1, 6–1


1987 Virginia Slims Championships – Doubles
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions and successfully defender their title, by defeating Claudia Kohde-Kilsch and Helena Suková 6–1, 6–1 in the final.


1987 Virginia Slims Championships – Doubles
It was the 8th Tour Championships title, 9th title of the year and 135th overall title for Navratilova, and the 7th Tour Championships title, 8th title of the year and 86th doubles title for Shriver, in their respective doubles careers. It was also the 7th title for the pair, following the conclusion of the 1987 season.


1987 Virginia Slims Championships – Singles
Martina Navratilova was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Gabriela Sabatini.


1987 Virginia Slims Championships – Singles
Steffi Graf won in the final 4–6, 6–4, 6–0 6–4 against Sabatini. This also marked the eleventh time Graf and Sabatini faced each other, with Graf winning all eleven matches.


1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series
The 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the 15th season of the tennis circuit since the foundation of the Women's Tennis Association. It commenced in January, 1987, and concluded in December, 1987 after events.


1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series
The Virginia Slims World Championship Series was the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). It was held in place of the WTA Tour from 1983 until 1987 and featured tournaments that had previously been part of the Toyota Series and the Avon Series. It included the four Grand Slam tournaments and a series of other events. ITF tournaments were not part of the tour, although they awarded points for the WTA World Ranking.


1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series, Schedule
The table below shows the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series schedule.


1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series, Rankings, WTA
Below are the 1987 WTA year-end rankings (December 20, 1987) in both singles and doubles competition:


1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series, Statistical information, Titles won by player
These tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series: the Grand Slam tournaments, the Year-end championships and regular events. The players/nations are sorted by:


1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series, Statistical information, Titles won by player
1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title); 3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).


1987 Virginia Slims of Arizona
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Arizona was a women's  tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Registry Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona in the United States and was part of the Category 1+ tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from March 9 through March 15, 1987. Fifth-seeded Anne White won the singles title and earned $15,000 first-prize money.


1987 Virginia Slims of Arizona, Finals, Doubles
Penny Barg /  Beth Herr defeated  Mary-Lou Piatek /  Anne White 2–6, 6–2, 7–6(7–2)


1987 Virginia Slims of California
The 1987 Virginia Slims of California was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in San Francisco, California in the United States and was part of the Category 3 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held from February 9 through February 15, 1987. Third-seeded Zina Garrison won the singles title.


1987 Virginia Slims of California, Finals, Doubles
Hana Mandlíková /  Wendy Turnbull defeated  Zina Garrison /  Gabriela Sabatini 6–4, 7–6(7–4)


1987 Virginia Slims of Chicago
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Chicago was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois in the United States and was part of the Category 3 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held from November 9 through November 15, 1987. First-seeded Martina Navratilova won the singles title, her second consecutive and eighth in total at the event.


1987 Virginia Slims of Chicago, Finals, Doubles
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch /  Helena Suková defeated  Zina Garrison /  Lori McNeil 6–4, 6–3


1987 Virginia Slims of Dallas
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Dallas was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas in the United States and was part of the Category 4 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the 17th edition of the tournament and ran from March 16 through March 22, 1987. First-seeded Chris Evert-Lloyd won the singles title.


1987 Virginia Slims of Dallas, Finals, Doubles
Mary-Lou Piatek /  Anne White defeated  Elise Burgin /  Robin White 7–5, 6–3


1987 Virginia Slims of Florida
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Florida was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at The Polo Club in Boca Raton, Florida in the United States and was part of the Category 4 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from February 16 through February 22, 1987. Second-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $50,000 first-prize money.


1987 Virginia Slims of Florida, Finals, Doubles
Svetlana Parkhomenko /  Larisa Savchenko defeated  Chris Evert-Lloyd /  Pam Shriver 6–0, 3–6, 6–2


1987 Virginia Slims of Houston
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Houston was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Westside Tennis Club in Houston, Texas in the United States and was part of the Category 3 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the 17th edition of the tournament and was held from April 20 through April 26, 1987. Third-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title and earned $30,000 first-prize money.


1987 Virginia Slims of Houston, Finals, Doubles
Kathy Jordan /  Martina Navratilova defeated  Zina Garrison /  Lori McNeil 6–2, 6–4


1987 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Indianapolis Racquet Club in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States and was part of the Category 1+ tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and ran from October 25 through November 1, 1987. Unseeded Halle Cioffi won the singles title.


1987 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis, Finals, Doubles
Jenny Byrne /  Michelle Jaggard defeated  Beverly Bowes /  Hu Na 6–2, 6–3


1987 Virginia Slims of Kansas
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Kansas was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita, Kansas in the United States and was part of the Category 1+ tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the seventh edition of the tournament and ran from February 2 through February 28, 1987. First-seeded Barbara Potter won the singles title and earned $15,000 first-prize money as well as 190 ranking points.


1987 Virginia Slims of Kansas, Finals, Doubles
Svetlana Parkhomenko /  Larisa Savchenko defeated  Barbara Potter /  Wendy White 6–2, 6–4


1987 Virginia Slims of Los Angeles
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Los Angeles was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Manhattan Beach Club in Manhattan Beach, California in the United States and was part of the Category 4 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. The tournament ran from August 10 through August 16, 1987. Second-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $50,000 first-prize money. As a result of her tournament win she became the world No. 1 ranked player for the first time in her career.


1987 Virginia Slims of Los Angeles, Finals, Doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver defeated  Zina Garrison /  Lori McNeil 6–3, 6–4


1987 Virginia Slims of New England
The 1987 Virginia Slims of New England was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States and was part of the Category 4 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from November 2 through November 8, 1987. Pam Shriver won the singles title.


1987 Virginia Slims of New England, Champions, Doubles
Elise Burgin /  Rosalyn Fairbank defeated  Bettina Bunge /  Eva Pfaff 6–4, 6–4


1987 Virginia Slims of New Orleans
The 1987 Virginia Slims of New Orleans was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States that was part of the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from September 28 through October 4, 1987. First-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title, her second at the event after 1985, and earned $30,000 first-prize money.


1987 Virginia Slims of New Orleans, Finals, Doubles
Zina Garrison /  Lori McNeil defeated  Peanut Louie-Harper /  Heather Ludloff 6–3, 6–3


1987 Virginia Slims of Newport
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Newport was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States that was part of the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the ninth edition of the tournament and was held from July 13 through July 19, 1987. First-seeded Pam Shriver won her second consecutive singles title at the event and earned $30,000 first-prize money.


1987 Virginia Slims of Newport, Finals, Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Lori McNeil defeated  Anne Hobbs /  Kathy Jordan 7–6(7–5), 7–5


1987 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States and was part of the Category 1+ tier of the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and ran from February 9 through February 15, 1987. Fourth-seeded Elizabeth Smylie won the singles title.


1987 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma, Finals, Doubles
Svetlana Parkhomenko /  Larisa Savchenko defeated  Lori McNeil /  Kim Sands 6–4, 6–4


1987 Virginia Slims of San Diego
The 1987 Virginia Slims of San Diego was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the San Diego Tennis & Racquet Club in San Diego, California in the United States and was part of the Category 1+ tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and ran from August 3 through August 9, 1987. Third-seeded Raffaella Reggi won the singles title.


1987 Virginia Slims of San Diego, Finals, Doubles
Jana Novotná /  Catherine Suire defeated  Elise Burgin /  Sharon Walsh 6–3, 6–4


1987 Virginia Slims of Washington
The 1987 Virginia Slims of Washington was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Virginia in the United States and was part of the Category 3 tier of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was held from March 23 through March 29, 1987. First-seeded Hana Mandlíková won the singles title and earned $30,500 in first-prize money.


1987 Virginia Slims of Washington, Finals, Doubles
Elise Burgin /  Pam Shriver defeated  Zina Garrison /  Lori McNeil 6–1, 3–6, 6–4


1987 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
The 1987 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the first season for College Football Hall of Fame coach, Frank Beamer.


1987 Virginia Tech Hokies football team, Game summaries, at Miami (FL)
The Hurricanes, a 38-point favorite, broke a 13-13 tie with 4:51 remaining on a 1-yard TD run by Melvin Bratton. Miami put the game out of reach by scoring the final touchdown with 34 seconds left to win 27-13.


1987 Virginia ballot measures
The 1987 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 3, 1987, the same day as the elections to the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate, which are always held in off-years. The only statewide election on the ballot was one referendum, which was referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.


1987 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1
This referendum asked voters to approve the creation of a state-sponsored lottery. The revenue generated would be controlled by the Virginia General Assembly.


1987 Volta a Catalunya
The 1987 Volta a Catalunya was the 67th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 9 September to 17 September 1987 with a total of 8 stages. The race started in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia and finished in Platja d'Aro. The race was won by Galician Álvaro Pino from the BH team. Ángel Arroyo from Reynolds-Seur team and Iñaki Gastón from Kas team were second and third in the race.


1987 Volta a Catalunya
The eighth stage, divided in two sectors, had two individual Time Trials, one in San Sadurní de Noya and the other in Bañolas.


1987 Volta a Catalunya
Álvaro Pino won his only lap when he was going through a tendinitis.


1987 Volvo Classic
The 1987 Volvo Classic  was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet court at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England that was part of the 1987 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 10th edition of the tournament and was held from 19 October until 25 October 1987. Second-seeded Gabriela Sabatini won the singles title and earned $40,000 first-prize money.


1987 Volvo Classic, Finals, Doubles
Kathy Jordan /  Helena Suková defeated  Tine Scheuer-Larsen /  Catherine Tanvier 7–5, 6–1


1987 Volvo International
The 1987 Volvo International was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Stratton Mountain Resort in Stratton Mountain, Vermont, United States, and was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 15th edition of the tournament and was held from August 3 through August 10, 1987.


1987 Volvo International, Finals, Singles
No Winner as the final was abandoned  Ivan Lendl and  John McEnroe both received runners-up finishes.


1987 Volvo International, Finals, Doubles
Paul Annacone /  Christo van Rensburg vs.  Ken Flach /  Robert Seguso


1987 Volvo International – Doubles
Peter Fleming and John McEnroe were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Fleming with Gary Donnelly and McEnroe with his brother Patrick.


1987 Volvo International – Doubles
Donnelly and Fleming lost in the first round to Brad Drewett and Wally Masur, as did the McEnroes to Brad Pearce and Jim Pugh.


1987 Volvo International – Doubles
There was no result for the tournament due to rain. The final would have seen Paul Annacone and Christo van Rensburg take on Ken Flach and Robert Seguso.


1987 Volvo International – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1987 Volvo International – Singles
Ivan Lendl was the defending champion and was one of the finalists along with John McEnroe.


1987 Volvo International – Singles
There was no result for the tournament due to rain.


1987 Volvo International – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1987 Volvo Tennis Los Angeles
The 1987 Volvo Tennis Los Angeles was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California in the United States that was part of the 1987 Volvo Grand Prix circuit. It was the 61st edition of the Pacific Southwest tournament and was held from September 21 through September 27, 1987. Third-seeded David Pate won the singles title and earned $50,000 first-prize money.


1987 Volvo Tennis Los Angeles, Finals, Doubles
Kevin Curren /  David Pate defeated  Brad Gilbert /  Tim Wilkison 6–3, 6–4


1987 Vuelta a España
The 42nd Edition Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from 23 April to 15 May 1987. It consisted of 22 stages covering a total of 3,921 km, and was won by Luis Herrera of the Café de Colombia cycling team. It was the first win of a Grand Tour by a Colombian and also the first of a South American.


1987 Vuelta a España
With the 1986 Vuelta Champion, Álvaro Pino was absent due to health problems, the principal favourites for the overall classification were Laurent Fignon, Pedro Delgado and Sean Kelly. Jean Luc Vandenbroucke won the prologue and wore the first leader's jersey. Kelly who was in form after winning Paris–Nice for the sixth time won the first stage and took the jersey. The sixth stage saw the beginning of the fight for the overall classification. Luis Herrera in the company of Ángel Arroyo and Vicente Belda attacked several times on the final ascent of the stage.


1987 Vuelta a España
However Kelly was still able to ride into the leader's jersey again. On the following stage to Cerler which was won by the Spaniard Laudelino Cubino, Herrera put time into Kelly and Dietzen finished ahead of Kelly and took the leader's jersey. Herrera took the jersey after the 11th stage that finished on the Lagos de Covadonga. However Kelly retook the leader's jersey in the stage 18 time trial and with four stages to go it looked as if he was going to win his first grand tour.


1987 Vuelta a España
However Kelly was forced to withdraw from the race the following day due to a saddle boil. Fignon won the following stage and moved up to third place overall ahead of Delgado. Herrera took back the jersey which he kept to the end to win the race. It was the first win of a Grand Tour by a Colombian and also the first of a South American.


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11
The 1987 Vuelta a España was the 42nd edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in Benidorm, with a prologue individual time trial on 23 April, and Stage 11 occurred on 4 May with a stage to the Lakes of Covadonga. The race finished in Madrid on 14 May.


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Prologue
23 April 1987 — Benidorm to Benidorm, 6.6 km (4.1 mi) (ITT)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 1
24 April 1987 — Benidorm to Albacete, 219 km (136 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 2
25 April 1987 — Albacete to Valencia, 217 km (135 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 3
26 April 1987 — Valencia to Valencia, 34.8 km (21.6 mi) (ITT)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 4
27 April 1987 — Valencia to Villarreal, 169 km (105 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 5
28 April 1987 — Salou to Barcelona, 165 km (103 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 6
29 April 1987 — Barcelona to Grau Roig, 220 km (140 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 7
30 April 1987 — La Seu d'Urgell to Cerler, 186 km (116 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 8
1 May 1987 — Benasque to Zaragoza, 219 km (136 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 9
2 May 1987 — Zaragoza to Pamplona, 180 km (110 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 10
3 May 1987 — Miranda de Ebro to Alto Campoo, 213 km (132 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 11
4 May 1987 — Santander to Lakes of Covadonga, 179 km (111 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22
The 1987 Vuelta a España was the 42nd edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in Benidorm, with a prologue individual time trial on 23 April, and Stage 12 occurred on 5 May with a stage from Cangas de Onís. The race finished in Madrid on 15 May.


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 12
5 May 1987 — Cangas de Onís to Oviedo, 142 km (88 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 13
6 May 1987 — Luarca to Ferrol, 223 km (139 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 14
7 May 1987 — Ferrol to A Coruña, 220 km (140 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 15
8 May 1987 — A Coruña to Vigo, 185 km (115 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 16
9 May 1987 — Ponteareas to Ponferrada, 237 km (147 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 17
10 May 1987 — Ponferrada to Valladolid, 221 km (137 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 18
11 May 1987 — Valladolid to Valladolid, 24 km (15 mi) (ITT)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 19
12 May 1987 — El Barco de Ávila to Ávila, 213 km (132 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 20
13 May 1987 — Ávila to Palazuelos de Eresma (Destilerías DYC), 183 km (114 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 21
14 May 1987 — Palazuelos de Eresma (Destilerías DYC) to Collado Villalba, 160 km (99 mi)


1987 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 22
15 May 1987 — Alcalá de Henares to Madrid, 173 km (107 mi)


1987 Vuelta a Murcia
The 1987 Vuelta a Murcia was the third edition of the Vuelta a Murcia cycle race and was held on 3 March to 8 March 1987. The race started in Águilas and finished in Murcia. The race was won by Pello Ruiz Cabestany.


1987 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 5–8 at the Pit at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico.


1987 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Wyoming defeated tournament hosts New Mexico in the championship game, 64–62, to clinch their first WAC men's tournament championship.


1987 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The Cowboys, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Tournament. The tournament's top two seeds, UTEP and BYU, also earned at-large bids to the tournament.


1987 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The tournament field remained fixed at nine teams, and teams were again seeded based on regular season conference records. All teams were entered into the quarterfinal round with the exception of the two lowest-seeded teams, who played in the preliminary first round to determine who would then play against the tournament's top seed.


1987 WAFL season
The 1987 WAFL season was the 103rd season of the West Australian Football League in its various incarnations. This season saw a Western Australia-based team, West Coast, was one of two interstate teams (along with the Gold Coast-based Brisbane Bears) to make their debut in the Victorian Football League (VFL), which had profound effects on the WAFL competition. The Eagles took away thirty-five of the competition's best players, severely reducing attendances and club revenue, the latter of which was further affected by the payment of the Eagles’ licence fee to the VFL. The WAFL budgeted for a 30 percent decline in attendances, but the observed decline was over fifty percent, and they were also hit by Channel Seven telecasting the Round 17 Hawthorn versus Footscray match, breaching agreements to not telecast non-Eagles VFL matches to Perth.


1987 WAFL season
As small compensation, Claremont under captain-coach Gerard Neesham developed an innovation possession-oriented “chip and draw” style of football that allowed the Tigers to achieve the best record of any WA(N)FL team since East Fremantle's unbeaten season of 1946. Claremont lost only its second game, finishing the season with twenty-one consecutive undefeated matches – Peter Melesso getting the Tigers out of its only two possible defeats by after-the siren kicks.


1987 WAFL season
An outstanding defence led by future Eagle champion Guy McKenna permitted the fewest points against any WA(N)FL team since the wet 1973 season, whilst utility Derek Kickett polled 46 Sandover Medal votes but was ineligible due to suspension and the return of Warren Ralph made the attack the best in the league. Over the three grades, Claremont amassed a record total of 53 wins and three draws from 63 matches.


1987 WAFL season
South Fremantle, who appeared revitalised early in the season, suffered a crippling injury and suspension toll plus the walkout of returning star “Jacko” Jackson and the elevation to West Coast of early-season stars Hart and Worsfold. This left the Bulldogs with twenty-five senior players unavailable mid-season, and the club consequently suffered eighteen consecutive losses to take the wooden spoon for the first time since 1972 and the last to date. In the middle of the season South Fremantle were fielding twelve or more first-year players.


1987 WAFL season
Although coach Magro admitted many were not up to league standard in 1987, some of these like Peter Matera were to be decisive in returning the red and whites to prominence the following season. Perth, league finalists in 1986 for the first time since 1978, fell from twelve wins to six as the Demons were severely affected by the loss of key players Wiley and Yorgey to the VFL, and dynamic forward Wayne Ryder with a series of knee injuries that never allowed him two games in succession.


1987 WAFL season
Major innovations were the pre-season ‘Kresta Cup’ night competition, in which the Tigers showed traces of their devastating form during the winter, the return of Perth to the WACA Ground after twenty-eight seasons playing at Lathlain Park, and the first night matches for premiership points in WA(N)FL history. Improved drainage and a drier climate in Perth completely eliminated problems experienced at the WACA in the 1940s and 1950s; nonetheless the move was not regarded as a success and the Demons returned to Lathlain in 1989.


1987 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13
Brian Peake played his 250th game for East Fremantle, but struggling WAFL chief executive Peter Cumminsky gains a wish as West Perth challenge the top four by scoring 10.7 (67) to 0.5 (5) in the forty minutes either side of half-time, with future Essendon star Darren Bewick beating Peake in the centre.


1987 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, State-of-Origin Match
In a dour struggle in slippery conditions, West Australia’s weakness in the key forward positions ensures they never heads the Victorians. Western Australia had only three players in the ‘All-Australian’ team selected after the match.


1987 WAFL season, Finals, First semi-final
Despite losing Peake to a calf strain, East Fremantle – underdogs after losing seven of their last twelve matches – upset the fancied Swans, who lose all control after an inaccurate 3.7 (25) when they dominated play in the opening quarter.


1987 WAFL season, Finals, Preliminary final
With Peake back, East Fremantle fall into their 1986 Grand Final trap of excessively physical and undisciplined play – the Lions score nine goals in the first quarter and East Fremantle never get into the match, with veteran Featherby scoring five goals.


1987 WAFL season, Finals, Grand Final
Claremont complete a record season with a crushing win, producing ultimately fulfilled expectations of a “golden era” under Neesham.


1987 WAFL season, Notes
Since the WAFA expanded to six clubs in 1901, the only other clubs to have bettered Claremont's 1987 record are East Perth with a perfect season of 21 wins in the 1944 under-age competition, and Subiaco with 21 wins and a one-point loss in 2008. Moylan acted as coach for the Round 19 match against East Fremantle as Brown was so ill at midday he had to leave the coach's box.


1987 WAFL season, Notes
All Eagles matches in Victoria from the club's formation were broadcast live to Perth, and despite the time difference with eastern Australia this broadcast still overlapped with playing times for WAFL matches. No AFL player was ever charged with biting any part of an opponent until Chris Lewis was charged with biting Todd Viney in the sixteenth round of 1991.


1987 WAFU Club Championship
The 1987 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Africa Sports after defeating Asante Kotoko from Ghana 6-5 in penalty shootouts as both clubs had two goals each in its two matches. A total of 45 goals were scored, a second consecutive one. Originally a 24 match season, as Sport Bissau e Benfica withdrew, Africa Sports automatically qualify in the quarterfinals. Imraguens de Nouadhibou started from the semis and lost to Africa Sports there in two matches.


1987 WAFU Club Championship
Not a single club from the Gambia and Niger participated.


1987 WAFU Club Championship, Finals
The matches took place on September 27 and October 11


1987 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1987 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 28th conference playoff in league history and 35th season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between February 27 and March 14, 1987. First round and semifinal games were played at home team campus sites while the championship match was held, for the final time, at the Winter Sports Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. By winning the tournament, North Dakota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1987 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
All member teams were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The top four seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams. As a result of their being the regular season champion, North Dakota's home venue, Winter Sports Center, served as the site for the Championship game regardless of which teams qualified for the penultimate match.


1987 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
Each series were two-game matchups with the team that scored the most goals advancing to the succeeding round. The teams that advanced to the semifinal were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top remaining seed matched against lowest remaining seed in one semifinal game while the two other semifinalists meeting with the winners advancing to the championship round. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1987 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1987 WCT Finals
The 1987 WCT Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 17th edition of the WCT Finals and was part of the 1987 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was played at the Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas in the United States from April 7 through April 13, 1987.


1987 WCT Scottsdale Open
The 1987 WCT Scottsdale Open was a men's WCT and Nabisco Grand Prix tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Scottsdale, Arizona in the United States. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from October 5 through October 12, 1986. Third-seeded Brad Gilbert won the singles title.


1987 WCT Scottsdale Open, Finals, Doubles
Rick Leach /  Jim Pugh defeated  Dan Goldie /  Mel Purcell 6–3, 6–2


1987 WCT Scottsdale Open – Doubles
Leonardo Lavalle and Mike Leach were the defending champions, but Lavalle did not participate this year. Leach partnered Gary Donnelly, losing in the first round.


1987 WCT Scottsdale Open – Doubles
Rick Leach and Jim Pugh won the title, defeating Dan Goldie and Mel Purcell 6–3, 6–2 in the final.


1987 WCT Scottsdale Open – Singles
John McEnroe was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1987 WCT Scottsdale Open – Singles
Brad Gilbert won in the final 6–2, 6–2 against Eliot Teltscher.


1987 WCT Tournament of Champions
The 1987 WCT Tournament of Champions, also known by its sponsored name Shearson Lehman Brothers Tournament of Champions,  was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City in the United States. The event was part of the 1987 Grand Prix circuit and was organized by World Championship Tennis (WCT). It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held from May 4 through May 10, 1987. Fourth-seeded Andrés Gómez won the singles title.


1987 WCT Tournament of Champions, Finals, Doubles
Guy Forget /  Yannick Noah defeated  Gary Donnelly /  Peter Fleming 4–6, 6–4, 6–1


1987 WITA Championships
The 1987 Women's International Tennis Association (WITA) Championships, also known as the Bausch & Lomb / WITA Championships,  was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Amelia Island Plantation on Amelia Island, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1987 WTA Tour. It was the eighth edition of the tournament and was held from April 13 through April 19, 1987. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $40,000 first-prize money.


1987 WITA Championships, Finals, Doubles
Steffi Graf /  Gabriela Sabatini defeated  Hana Mandlíková /  Wendy Turnbull 3–6, 6–3, 7–5


1987 WNBL season
The 1987 WNBL season was the seventh season of competition since its establishment in 1981. A total of 11 teams contested the league.


1987 WTA Argentine Open
The 1987 WTA Argentine Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was part of the Category 1 tier of the 1988 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament ran from 30 November until 6 December 1987. First-seeded Gabriela Sabatini won the singles title.


1987 WTA Argentine Open, Leaders, Doubles
Mercedes Paz /  Gabriela Sabatini defeated  Jill Hetherington /  Christiane Jolissaint 6–2, 6–2


1987 WTA Argentine Open – Doubles
Lori McNeil and Mercedes Paz were the defending champions but only Paz competed that year with Gabriela Sabatini.


1987 WTA Argentine Open – Doubles
Paz and Sabatini won in the final 6–2, 6–2 against Jill Hetherington and Christiane Jolissaint.


1987 WTA Argentine Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All eight seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1987 WTA Argentine Open – Singles
Gabriela Sabatini was the defending champion and won in the final 6–0, 6–2 against Isabel Cueto.


1987 WTA Argentine Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1987 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1987 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its first season under head coach Bill Dooley, the team compiled a 7–4 record and finished in a tie for third place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


1987 Walker Cup
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1987 Walker Cup
The 1987 Walker Cup, the 31st Walker Cup Match, was played on 27 and 28 May 1987, on the Old course at Sunningdale Golf Club, Sunningdale, Berkshire, England. The event was won by the United States 16½ to 7½, their eighth successive win.


1987 Walker Cup
The match was one-sided. The United States led 12–4 after the second day foursomes, already having retained the cup. They won 4 and halved one of the 8 remaining singles for their biggest win since 18 holes matches were introduced in 1963.


1987 Walker Cup, Format
The format for play on Wednesday and Thursday was the same. There were four matches of foursomes in the morning and eight singles matches in the afternoon. In all, 24 matches were played.


1987 Walker Cup, Format
Each of the 24 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. Rather, each side earned ½ a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 12½ points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.


1987 Walker Cup, Teams
Ten players for the United States and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team.


1987 Wansdyke District Council election
The 1987 Wansdyke Council election was held on Thursday 7 May 1987 to elect councillors to Wansdyke District Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom.


1987 Wansdyke District Council election
The 1987 election saw the Conservatives win the largest number of seats and maintain majority control.


1987 Wansdyke District Council election, Ward results
The ward results listed below are based on the changes from the 1983 elections, not taking into account any party defections or by-elections. Sitting councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).


1987 Washington Commandos season
The 1987 Washington Commandos season was the first season for the Commandos.


1987 Washington Commandos season
The Commandos had the honor of playing in the first AFL regular season game on June 19, 1987, losing to the Pittsburgh Gladiators 46-48 at the Civic Arena. The Commandos picked up their first win in franchise history the following week, when they defeated the Denver Dynamite, by a score of 36-20 in their home opener. The Commandos finished the season with a 2-4 record, a disappointment, but the team was in every game except one, losing 3 games by a total of 6 points.


1987 Washington Commandos season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated February 4, 201318 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


1987 Washington Huskies football team
The 1987 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its 13th season under head coach Don James, the team compiled a 7–4–1 record, finished in third place in the Pacific-10 Conference, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 295 to 254. David Rill was selected as the team's most valuable player. Rill, Chris Chandler, Darryl Franklin, Brian Habib were the team captains.


1987 Washington Redskins season
The 1987 season was the Washington Redskins' strike-shortened 56th season in the National Football League (NFL), their 52nd in Washington, D.C. and their seventh under head coach Joe Gibbs. The season was a shortened due to the 1987 NFL strike.


1987 Washington Redskins season
The team had finished second in the NFC East the previous season with a 12–4 record. Games to be played during the third week of the season were canceled, and replacement players were used to play games from weeks 4 through 6.


1987 Washington Redskins season
The Redskins won the NFC East with an 11–4 record. The Redskins defeated the Denver Broncos 42–10 to win Super Bowl XXII. It was the Redskins' second Super Bowl win in six seasons, and coincidentally, their second Super Bowl win in a strike-season.


1987 Washington Redskins season
Redskins quarterback Doug Williams became the first black quarterback to start in a Super Bowl and was the only one to have emerged victorious until Russell Wilson won Super Bowl XLVIII with the Seattle Seahawks.


1987 Washington Redskins season
By virtue of the Redskins' 17-10 victory over Minnesota in the NFC title game, head coach Joe Gibbs earned his 10th playoff victory. He surpassed the legendary Vince Lombardi, who had retired after his 9th playoff victory and (coincidentally) later coached the Redskins for one season. Also ironic was the rumor that, following a disastrous 5-9-1 season, Green Bay would hire Gibbs to replace the dismissed Forrest Gregg. However, after the game, Gibbs would deny that he was interested.


1987 Washington Redskins season
On March 8, 2018,  the Redskins announced that they would honor the replacement players from the 1987 team with Super Bowl XXII rings.


1987 Washington Redskins season, Personnel, NFL replacement players
After the league decided to use replacement players during the NFLPA strike, the following team was assembled:


1987 Washington Redskins season, Regular season
In 1987, Redskins starting QB Jay Schroeder got injured early in the opening game against the Eagles and was replaced by Williams, who led the team to victory. In his NFL debut, replacement player Ed Rubbert passed for 334 yards. Rubbert also threw three touchdown passes to Anthony Allen. Allen would have 255 receiving yards.


1987 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1987 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Dennis Erickson, the Cougars compiled a 3–7–1 record (1–5–1 in Pac-10, ninth), and were outscored by their opponents 356 to 238.


1987 Washington State Cougars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Timm Rosenbach with 2,446 passing yards, Richard Calvin with 822 rushing yards, and Steve Broussard with 701 receiving yards.


1987 Washington State Cougars football team
After nine years as WSU head coach, Jim Walden departed for Iowa State in the Big Eight Conference in late 1986, and was succeeded by Erickson, who returned to the Palouse in January 1987 after just one season at Wyoming; he had led neighboring Idaho for the previous four years.


1987 Wellington 500
The 1987 Nissan Mobil 500 was the tenth round of the inaugural World Touring Car Championship. The race was held for cars eligible for Group A touring car regulations. It was held on October 26, 1987, at the Wellington Street Circuit in the docks area of Wellington, New Zealand.


1987 Wellington 500, Official results
Italics indicate driver practiced this car but did not race.


1987 Welsh Professional Championship
The 1987 Matchroom Welsh Professional Championship was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament, which took place in February 1987.


1987 Welsh Professional Championship
Doug Mountjoy won the tournament defeating Steve Newbury 9–7 in the final.


1987 West African Nations Cup
The 1987 West African Nations Cup was the 5th and the last edition of the tournament. It was held in Liberia between 30 January and 8 February. All matches were played in the capital city Monrovia.


1987 West African Nations Cup
After this edition, between 1988–2000, the tournament was never played again. It was unsuccessfully revived in 2001 as WAFU Championship. However, it was not clear whether this is a proper successor of the West African Nations Cup.


1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1987. The election was mainly a clash between the Left Front led by Chief Minister Jyoti Basu and the Indian National Congress(I) led by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The former held the state government and the latter the national government. The election was won by the Left Front, for the third time in a row.


1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Contestants, Left Front
The governing Left Front denied tickets to 62 sitting legislators. In many cases CPI(M), the dominant force in the Left Front, was seeking to rejuvenate the legislature and fielded 35 student leaders as new candidates.


1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Contestants, Left Front
The star campaigner of the Left Front was Chief Minister Jyoti Basu of CPI(M), who had pledged to visit all constituencies where CPI(M) had fielded candidates. During the campaign Basu claimed that the Delhi government discriminated against West Bengal in allocation of resources.


1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Contestants, Congress(I)
'Natun Bangla' ('New Bengal') was the key slogan of the Congress(I) campaign. The star campaigner of Congress(I) was Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was flown in from Delhi and toured the state. At the time Gandhi enjoyed significant popularity, especially amongst urban upper-middle class sectors. Gandhi was accompanied by West Bengal Congress(I) chief Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi on the campaign trail. Striking a populist tone, Gandhi promised development in West Bengal and to create a million new jobs.


1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Contestants, Congress(I)
The Congress(I) campaign, whilst being boosted by Gandhi, suffered from internal dissent in party ranks. Congress(I) heavy-weights Subrata Mukherjee and Soumen Mitra led a revolt against the party leadership. And Pranab Mukherjee had floated his Rashtriya Samajbadi Congress, breaking away from Congress(I).


1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Gorkhaland issue
Whilst an accord had been struck between Gandhi and Gorkha National Liberation Front leader Subhash Ghisingh ahead of the polls, violence escalated in the Darjeeling hills. In the run-up to the polls, several policemen were killed in the area.


1987 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Results
The Left Front won 251 out of 294 seats. It obtained 13,918,403 votes (52.96% of the statewide vote).


1987 West Coast Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1987 West Coast Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now West Coast Conference) was held from February 28 to March 7, with the semifinals and finals at the War Memorial Gymnasium at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This was the first edition of the conference tournament and included all eight teams.


1987 West Coast Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The first round quarterfinals were held on the home courts of the top four seeds, and two of the hosts were defeated. In the semifinals on a neutral court in San Francisco, the lower seeds won both semifinals; both had losing conference records.


1987 West Coast Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Fifth-seeded Santa Clara defeated #7 Pepperdine in the championship game 77–65 to gain the automatic bid to the 64-team NCAA Tournament, and were seeded fifteenth in the West regional. Regular season champion San Diego, upset by a point in the conference semifinals, received an at-large bid and were the ninth seed in the Midwest regional; both WCAC teams lost in the first round.


1987 West Coast Eagles season
The 1987 VFL season was the West Coast Eagles' inaugural season in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The club was introduced to the competition as part of the VFL's expansion. Ron Alexander was appointed coach of the team and Ross Glendinning was appointed captain. The Eagles played 22 games, winning 11 and losing 11 to finish 8th on the ladder.


1987 West Coast Eagles season, Pre-season, National Panasonic Cup
West Coast played their first match against another AFL club during the 1987 National Panasonic Cup, the VFL's night series at the time, defeating Footscray by 29 points at Waverley Park after trailing by 28 points at three-quarter time.


1987 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
Steve Malaxos won the inaugural Club Champion Award, polling 229 votes to finish ahead of Ross Glendinning and Chris Mainwaring:


1987 West Coast Eagles season, Awards
Glen Bartlett won the award for Best Clubman and Chris Mainwaring was named Rookie of the Year.


1987 West Dorset District Council election
The 1987 West Dorset District Council election was held on Thursday 7 May 1987 to elect councillors to West Dorset District Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom. The entire council was up for election as West Dorset returned to whole councils elections, after previously having been elected in thirds.


1987 West Dorset District Council election
The 1987 election saw the Independent councillors lose their majority they had held since the formation of the Council in 1974.


1987 West German federal election
Federal elections were held in West Germany on 25 January 1987 to elect the members of the 11th Bundestag. This was the last federal election held in West Germany before German reunification.


1987 West German federal election, Issues and campaign
The SPD nominated Johannes Rau, their vice chairman and the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, as their candidate for Chancellor. However, the SPD suffered from internal divisions and competition with the Greens. It was also unclear as to how they would form a government, as the Greens were divided over whether to take part in governments.


1987 West German federal election, Issues and campaign
One of the major issues in this election was the environment, after the Chernobyl disaster and other accidents.


1987 West German federal election, Post-election
The coalition between the CDU/CSU and the FDP returned to government, with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor. The Greens came into parliament for the second time and seemed to be established on federal level.


1987 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1987 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Mountaineers' 95th overall season and they competed as a Division I-A Independent. The team was led by head coach Don Nehlen, in his eighth year, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of six wins and six losses (6–6 overall), and with a loss against Oklahoma State in the 1987 Sun Bowl.


1987 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team
The 1987 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team represented Western Kentucky University in the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season and were led by head coach Dave Roberts. The team earned the school’s first NCAA Division I-AA Playoff berth, their previous playoff appearances had been at the NCAA Division 2 level. Lights were installed at L. T. Smith Stadium prior to the season and Western Kentucky hosted their first night game this season, a victory over rival Murray State. The Hilltoppers finished the season ranked 11th in final 1AA national poll. Western Kentucky’s roster included future NFL players Tony Brown, Malcolm Darden, James Edwards, Glenn Holt, David Smith, Steve Walsh, Harold Wright, Xavier Jordan, and Dean Tiebout. Edwards, Walsh, and Dewayne Penn were named to the AP All American team.


1987 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 1987 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first season under head coach Al Molde, the Broncos compiled a 5–6 record (4–4 against MAC opponents), finished in fifth place in the MAC, and were outscored by their opponents, 240 to 218. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.


1987 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Dave Kruse with 1,592 passing yards, Robert Davis with 477 rushing yards, and Jamie Hence with 858 receiving yards.


1987 Western Michigan Broncos football team
On December 17, 1986, Molde was named as Western's new head football coach. He had been head football coach at Eastern Illinois from 1983 to 1986 and led that team to an 11–2 record in 1986.


1987 Western Soccer Alliance
Final league standings for the 1987 Western Soccer Alliance season.


1987 Western Soccer Alliance, History
Prior to the season, the Edmonton Brick Men left the league to join the new Canadian Soccer League. This left the Alliance with six teams, which retained its regular season single table standings, but added a post-season playoff to determine the league champion for 1987. The San Diego Nomads won both the regular season and playoff titles.


1987 Whitbread Awards
The Whitbread Awards (1971-2005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1987.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake
The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake occurred in the southern San Gabriel Valley and surrounding communities of southern California, United States, at 7:42 a.m. PDT on October 1. The moderate 5.9 magnitude blind thrust earthquake was centered several miles north of Whittier in the town of Rosemead, had a relatively shallow depth, and was felt throughout southern California and southern Nevada. Many homes and businesses were affected, along with roadway disruptions, mainly in Los Angeles and Orange counties. Damage estimates ranged from $213–358 million, with 200 injuries, three directly-related deaths, and five additional fatalities that were associated with the event.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake
Mercalli intensity values for the greater Los Angeles area varied with ranges from VI (Strong) to VII (Very strong). Only Whittier experienced a level of VIII (Severe), the highest experienced during the event, with the historic uptown area suffering the greatest damage. A separate M5.2 strike-slip event occurred three days later and several kilometers to the northwest that also caused damage and one additional death. Because of the earthquake activity in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, buildings and other public structures had been equipped with accelerometers, and both the mainshock and the primary aftershock provided additional data for seismologists to analyze and compare with other southern California events.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Tectonic setting
Beginning with the 1983 Coalinga earthquake, a blind thrust event in the central coast ranges of California, a change in perspective was brought about regarding these types of (concealed) faults. The October 1987 shock occurred on a previously unrecognized blind thrust fault that is now known as the Puente Hills thrust system. The fault was delineated by the mainshock and aftershock focal mechanisms, fault plane reflection studies, and high resolution seismic profiles, which also revealed that the fault runs from downtown Los Angeles to near Puente Hills. The system is considered one of the highest-risk faults in the United States due to its moderate dip and its location under a large metropolitan area.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake
The main shock occurred near the northwestern border of Puente Hills 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) north of the Whittier Narrows at a depth of 14 kilometers (8.7 mi). First motion polarities, along with modelling of teleseismic P and S-waves, established that the thrust fault responsible for the shock strikes east-west with a dip of 25° dip to the north. The shock was located adjacent to the west-northwest striking Whittier fault, which is primarily a strike-slip fault, but also has a minor thrust component.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake
Although most of the Los Angeles metropolitan area saw shaking in line with Mercalli Intensity values of VI (Strong) or VII (Very strong), Whittier experienced effects consistent with MMI values of VIII (Severe). The old commercial district saw the worst damage, as these were the oldest buildings, and were also heavily damaged in the 1929 Whittier earthquake, a shock may have been a result of movement on the Norwalk Fault.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
The 7:42 a.m. shock was the strongest in the Los Angeles area since the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and was felt as far as San Diego and San Luis Obispo, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. Communication systems and local media were temporarily impaired and power was cut, leaving numerous early morning workers stranded in disabled elevators. Other minor disruptions included a number of water and gas main breaks, shattered windows and some ceiling collapses.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
Like the San Fernando earthquake, transportation systems were again affected, but this time it was only the Santa Ana Freeway and San Gabriel River Freeways that were closed near Santa Fe Springs after pieces of concrete were dislodged and cracks were observed in the roadway. Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center took many of the injured, whose injuries were summarized by an emergency room spokesman as very bad to minor, and three people died as a direct result.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Damage
While total casualties amounted to eight, the destruction of homes was significant. Throughout Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties, 123 homes and 1,347 apartments were destroyed, and an additional 513 homes and 2,040 apartments were damaged. An inspection of a highway bridge on Interstate 605 revealed that there were fractures on the support columns, which resulted in a temporary closure, and minor damage affected 28 other bridges. Other typical failures included more than 1,000 gas leaks, with many resulting in fire, ceramic elements on high-voltage substation equipment breaking, and phone systems becoming overwhelmed.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion
Caltech scientists recorded the events on a cluster of twelve strong motion sensors that were placed throughout the region with a total of 87 channels of recorded data. Nine of these instruments were located on the Caltech campus, two were at the nine story Jet Propulsion Laboratory building 180 (ten miles northwest of the campus) and the final device was placed on a hillside 5 km to the west. Investigation of the accelerograms from these units revealed the strongest shaking lasted 4–5 seconds. The vertical accelerations were considered relatively high and early analysis (pre-digitilization) indicated that the mainshock was complex, with a double train of P-waves arriving with a 1.4–1.8 second interval.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion
The National Strong-Motion Instrumentation Network (NSMIN) (a cooperative effort including the United States Geological Survey and other organizations) also monitored a set of 52 strong motion stations in the Los Angeles area. Most of the stations successfully captured the event, and the closest unit to the mainshock, a rock site at Garvey Reservoir, recorded a peak horizontal acceleration of .47g. A twelve-story steel frame building in Alhambra was outfitted with accelerographs in the basement, at mid-level, and at the top of the structure.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion
The top floor instruments recorded a peak acceleration of .18g during the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and instruments on the sixth floor recorded a peak acceleration of .47g at the time of the Whittier mainshock. A ten-story reinforced concrete building in Whittier (7215 Bright Ave.) saw a peak horizontal reading of .63g in the basement.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
A magnitude 5.2 event occurred three days later on October 4, causing additional damage in Alhambra, Pico Rivera, Los Angeles, and Whittier. The shock's effects were assessed at VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli Intensity Scale with damaged chimneys, broken windows, and the collapse of two bell towers at the San Gabriel Civic Auditorium. This event was also responsible for several injuries and one additional death. On February 11 of the following year another small aftershock again damaged chimneys, broke windows, cracked drywall and some homes' foundations in Pico Rivera, Pasadena, and Whittier.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
The October 4 aftershock struck 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) to the northwest of the mainshock, and was primarily a strike-slip event on a steeply dipping, northwest-striking fault. The origin of faulting for this event was at a depth of 12 km (7.5 mi), which places it within the hanging wall of the thrust fault that was responsible for the main shock.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Earthquake, Aftershocks
This aftershock was recorded on thirty of the NSMIN stations at distances of up to 57 kilometers (35 mi). The majority of the stations were located in buildings, but nine were located at dams or reservoirs, and four were at Veterans Administration buildings. Lighter accelerations were observed than the main shock, with peak accelerations in the range of .15g–.33g, all occurring at six stations that were within 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) of the epicenter.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Other events
The 1929 Whittier earthquake occurred on July 8 with a local magnitude of 4.7 and maximum perceived intensity of VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli Intensity scale. The shock occurred at a depth of 13 kilometers (8.1 mi) and was most intense to the southwest of the city, where a school and two homes were heavily damaged and other homes sustained chimney collapses. In Santa Fe Springs, oil towers were damaged and some short cracks appeared in the ground. This earthquake was felt from Mount Wilson to Santa Ana, and from Hermosa Beach to Riverside. Numerous aftershocks occurred in the first several hours and persisted through early 1931.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Aftermath
In order to gather funds to help the rebuilding effort, the city of Whittier approved the establishment of a 521-acre earthquake recovery redevelopment area. Through this initiative, property tax revenue is directed to the city rather than to the county and schools, the originally designated recipients. The arrangement will remain in effect until the year 2037.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Aftermath
A nonprofit organization called the Whittier Conservancy was formed shortly after the Whittier Narrows earthquake. The group aids in the preservation of the city's historical style of construction. During the earthquake, several notable buildings were destroyed, including the Harvey Apartments. They were built with bricks that appeared to have been made by hand during the 19th century; the mud used to make them came from the San Gabriel River. The Conservancy felt that these bricks were worth saving, not only for the historical value, but also for their aesthetics.


1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, Aftermath
Some effort was made to save and use the bricks for rebuilding the historic apartment on the corner of  Greenleaf Avenue and Hadley Street. They spent $15,000 to prevent the usable bricks from being taken during the final demolition of the building. The bricks were then cleaned, then stored until they could be used in the rebuilding of the apartment. The Whittier Conservancy also collaborated in the rezoning of the Hadley neighborhood and was able to help control the rate of new multiple-family dwelling construction.


1987 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to the Wigan council were held on Thursday, 7 May 1987, with one third of the council up for election. Previous to the election there had been two by-elections held, resulting in a Labour gain of the seat being fought in Swinley from the Conservatives and Labour retaining one of their Hindley Green seats. Participation for this election increased substantially from the previous year's lows.


1987 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
Only one ward went unopposed (Leigh Central) as Labour reliably provided a full-slate of candidates, the Alliance all but Atherton and the Conservatives up from 16 to 18, by way of fielding candidates in the Labour strongholds of Abram and Worsley Mesnes this time around. An Independent Labour candidate also fought and won Hindley, with an Independent victory last seen in 1976, and Independent representation in 1980, when that same victor failed to survive the re-warding.


1987 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
The results seen an end to four years of consecutive increases in Labour's share, peaking with last year's all-time high, as they slipped back into a respectable high-fifties and their loss dispersing to each of the opposition parties. Labour lost four seats in total, with the aforementioned Independent Labour loss in Hindley, an Alliance casualty from last year's elections re-elected in Winstanley, another loss to Alliance in Aspull-Standish and the Conservatives comfortable retaking the seat in Swinley they'd lost in the earlier mentioned by-election. These losses were offset somewhat by a gain from Alliance in Tyldesley East, returning the ward to entire Labour representation. Overall turnout rose to an above-average 37.1%.


1987 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:


1987 Wightman Cup
The 1987 Wightman Cup was the 59th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia in the United States.


1987 William & Mary Tribe football team
The 1987 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as an independent during the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by Jimmye Laycock in his eighth year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season with a record of 5–6.


1987 Wimbledon Championships
The 1987 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 101st edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 22 June to 5 July 1987.


1987 Wimbledon Championships, Prize money
The total prize money for 1987 championships was £2,119,780. The winner of the men's title earned £155,000 while the women's singles champion earned £139,500.


1987 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles
Ken Flach /  Robert Seguso defeated  Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez, 3–6, 6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–3), 6–1, 6–4


1987 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch /  Helena Suková defeated  Betsy Nagelsen /  Elizabeth Smylie, 7–5, 7–5


1987 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Jeremy Bates /  Jo Durie defeated  Darren Cahill /  Nicole Provis, 7–6(12–10), 6–3


1987 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Juniors, Boys' Doubles
Jason Stoltenberg /  Todd Woodbridge defeated  Diego Nargiso /  Eugenio Rossi, 6–3, 7–6(7–2)


1987 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Juniors, Girls' Doubles
Natalia Medvedeva /  Natasha Zvereva defeated  Kim Il-soon /  Paulette Moreno, 6–2, 5–7, 6–0


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles
Jason Stoltenberg and Todd Woodbridge defeated Diego Nargiso and Eugenio Rossi in the final, 6–3, 7–6(7–2) to win the Boys' Doubles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Diego Nargiso defeated Jason Stoltenberg in the final, 7–6(8–6), 6–4 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles, Seeds
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1987 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles
Natalia Medvedeva and Natasha Zvereva defeated Kim Il-soon and Paulette Moreno in the final, 6–2, 5–7, 6–0 to win the Girls' Doubles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Natasha Zvereva successfully defended her title, defeating Julie Halard in the final, 6–4, 6–4 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles, Seeds
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1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Joakim Nyström and Mats Wilander were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Carl Limberger and Mark Woodforde.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Ken Flach and Robert Seguso defeated Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez in the final, 3–6, 6–7(6–8), 7–6(7–3), 6–1, 6–4 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd's semi-final loss to Casal and Sanchez was Järryd's only Grand Slam loss of 1989, as he won the Australian Open and US Open with Edberg and the French Open with Seguso.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Pat Cash defeated Ivan Lendl in the final, 7–6(7–5), 6–2, 7–5 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Boris Becker was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the second round to Peter Doohan.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Andre Agassi made his first appearance in the main draw at Wimbledon, losing in the first round to Henri Leconte. Agassi would not compete at Wimbledon again until 1991 due to his disagreement with the All England Club's dress code.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
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1987 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Ken Flach and Kathy Jordan were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Andy Kohlberg and Patty Fendick.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Jeremy Bates and Jo Durie defeated Darren Cahill and Nicole Provis in the final, 7–6(12–10), 6–3 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
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1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Svetlana Parkhomenko and Larisa Savchenko.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch and Helena Suková defeated Betsy Nagelsen and Elizabeth Smylie in the final, 7-5, 7-5 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
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1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
First-seeded Martina Navratilova successfully defended her title, defeating Steffi Graf in the final, 7–5, 6–3 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1987 Wimbledon Championships, her 6th consecutive title.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
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1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
Hana Mandlíková was originally seeded #4 but withdrew due to injury before the tournament draw was made. All original seeds from 5-16 moved up one place, and a new #16 seed was added.


1987 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


1987 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season
The 1987 Winnipeg Blue Bombers finished in 1st place in the East Division with a 12–6 record. They hosted the East Final, but lost to the Toronto Argonauts. This was the Blue Bombers first season in the East Division, having been moved from the West Division to replace the Montreal Alouettes, who folded just prior to the regular season.


1987 Winston 500
The 1987 Winston 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on May 3, 1987, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama. The race was a turning point in the balance between stock car speed and safety in NASCAR.


1987 Winston 500
Davey Allison was the winner of the race, cut ten laps short due to darkness. It was Allison's first win in his career.


1987 Winston 500
Allison's victory was overshadowed by a lap 22 crash in which the car of his father, Bobby Allison went airborne near the track's start/finish line, ripping down almost 100 feet of protective catch fence. Two large steel cables backing the fence managed to deflect Allison's car and prevent it from spearing unabated into the spectator grandstands. If this had happened, the accident had the potential to be a disaster on the scale of the 1955 Le Mans disaster.


1987 Winston 500
Unrestricted high-speed races at Talladega Superspeedway ended after the 1987 Winston 500 because of the lap 22 crash. While the summer race (Talladega 500) would be run with a smaller carburetor, restrictor plates would end up being compulsory by the end of the year.