Being born under the Chinese Zodiac Sign Rabbit people have ambition and good articulation. This year is considered to be a lucky year and people born in it will be have many talents. Virtuous yet reserved with wonderfull taste. Rabbits are trusted and often get admiration from those around them. Usually doing good financially. Sometimes gossiping too much but being tactful most of the time. Being kind is maybe the reason why they almost never lose their temper. Business is one are where Rabbits excell. Sticking to their word plays great importance all around. Gambling is not a thing you would find a conservative and wise rabbit be doing.
Astrology character and traits of Rabbit sign: Pleasant, articulate, talented, discerning, psychic, conservative, successful, ambitious and sensitive.
1987 Zodiac Sign Rabbit Compatibility
Chinese Zodiac Signs are based upon a twelve year lunar cycle. Your zodiac animal sign is determined by your birthday year. If you were born in 1987 then your astrological sign is Rabbit. There are twelve animal signs. Each animal has it's own attributes and personality traits the Chinese believe comprise the nature of each particular animal.
Best matches for Zodiac Sign Rabbit are: Dog, Pig, Tiger, Goat
Bad matches for Zodiac Sign Rabbit are: Rooster, Rat
Historical Events for the Year 1987
1st January Star Sign » A value added tax is introduced in Greece for the first time.
4th January Star Sign » The 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train 'en route' to Boston named Boston, Massachusetts from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, killing 16 people.
22nd January Star Sign » Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
22nd January » Philippines or Philippine security forces Mendiola massacre named open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañan Palace, Manila, killing 13.
2nd February Star Sign » After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new Constitution of the Philippines e.g constitution.
6th February Star Sign » Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
16th February Star Sign » The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazism named Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
20th February Star Sign » Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, a bomb explodes in a computer store.
26th February Star Sign » Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
6th March Star Sign » The British ferry MS known as Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
19th March Star Sign » Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
20th March Star Sign » The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, Zidovudine known as AZT.
8th April Star Sign » Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over Racism or racially charged remarks he had made while on 'Nightline (US news program) known as Nightline'.
11th April Star Sign » The Peres-Hussein London Agreement named London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
19th April Star Sign » 'The Simpsons' premieres as a short cartoon on 'The Tracey Ullman Show'.
21st April Star Sign » The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam called Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
27th April Star Sign » The United States Department of Justice or U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim from entering the United States, saying he had aided in the deportation and execution of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer duri
28th April Star Sign » American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by U.S.-funded Contra (guerrillas) called Contras in northern Nicaragua.
1st May Star Sign » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelites called Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz concentration camp known as Auschwitz.
3rd May Star Sign » A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
5th May Star Sign » Iran–Contra affair: start of Congress of the United States or Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
8th May Star Sign » The Loughgall Ambush: The Special Air Service or SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
9th May Star Sign » An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin Il-62 named Ilyushin IL-62M, 'Tadeusz Kościuszko' (SP-LBG), LOT Flight 5055 or crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
11th May Star Sign » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
11th May » In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart–lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
15th May Star Sign » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus (spacecraft) known as Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
17th May Star Sign » An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet USS Stark incident fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USS Stark FFG-31 6, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
22nd May » First ever 1987 Rugby World Cup Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand Rugby Union New Zealand playing Italy national rugby union team Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
28th May Star Sign » 19-year-old West Germany known as West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.
11th June Star Sign » Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black Parliamentarians in Great Britain.
12th June Star Sign » Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate President of the United States or U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down this wall! e.g tear down the Berlin Wall.
17th June Star Sign » With the death of the last individual of the species, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.
28th June Star Sign » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for Sulfur mustard or chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan or Sardasht.
4th July Star Sign » In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
5th July Star Sign » The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam e.g LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers were born and, in the following years, continued to kill with the tactic.
14th July Star Sign » Montreal, Canada, is hit by a series of thunderstorms causing the Montreal Flood of 1987.
27th July Star Sign » Premier Exhibitions RMS Titanic Inc. named RMS Titanic Inc. begins the first expedited salvage of wreckage of the RMS e.g Titanic.
29th July Star Sign » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
29th July » Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
4th August Star Sign » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
7th August Star Sign » Lynne Cox becomes first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union
14th August Star Sign » All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the The Family (Australian New Age group) known as Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
16th August Star Sign » Northwest Airlines Flight 255 a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 MD-82 called McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashes after take off in Detroit or Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
19th August Star Sign » Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
23rd August Star Sign » The American male basketball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis. The final score was 120–115 and triggered changes in this sport basis in USA, resulting in the "Dream Team".
31st August Star Sign » Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Phuket Province named Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
10th September Star Sign » Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
13th September Star Sign » Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
14th September Star Sign » The Toronto Blue Jays set a record for the most home runs in a single game, hitting 10 of them.
15th September Star Sign » United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.
16th September Star Sign » The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from Ozone depletion known as depletion.
17th September Star Sign » Pope John Paul II embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting San Francisco.
18th September Star Sign » Jerzy Kukuczka becomes the second mountaineer to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
1st October Star Sign » The 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake or Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as Richter magnitude scale or magnitude 5.9.
7th October Star Sign » Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
11th October Star Sign » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed thousands of ethnic Tamil people called Tamil civilians and hundreds of Tamil Tigers & Indian Army soldiers.
19th October Star Sign » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
19th October » Black Monday (1987) or Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
21st October Star Sign » Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil people e.g Tamil patients, physician called doctors and nurses.
30th October Star Sign » In Japan, NEC releases the first History of video game consoles (fourth generation) known as 16-bit (fourth generation) video game console, the PC Engine, which is later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.
5th November Star Sign » Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years of a life sentence for terrorism and treason.
7th November Star Sign » In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
8th November Star Sign » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional Irish Republican Army e.g Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wound
15th November Star Sign » In Brașov, Socialist Republic of Romania named Romania, Braşov Rebellion or workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
22nd November Star Sign » Two Chicago television stations are Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion named hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom (character) called Max Headroom.
25th November Star Sign » Typhoon Nina (1987) called Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale called category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
28th November Star Sign » South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
29th November Star Sign » Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai–Burmese border, killing 115.
7th December Star Sign » Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.
8th December » Frank Vitkovic Queen Street Massacre e.g shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, Australia or Melbourne, before jumping to his death.
8th December » The 1987 Alianza Lima air disaster called Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
8th December » An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip barrier named Israel–Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
9th December Star Sign » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
18th December Star Sign » Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
20th December Star Sign » In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry 'MV Doña Paz called Doña Paz' sinks after colliding with the oil tanker 'Vector ' in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).