About the day » Wednesday May 20, 1987Calender converter

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• Charlotte FRANKEN, Antwerpen,2000,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1988)
• Adam Kees Koster, Edmonton Canada,, Canada
• Jared Ross Rispens, Munster, IN
• Charissa Bos, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1987)

• Aloys Dewulf (78), Roeselare
• Adriana Jozepha Maria Haarbosch (51), Tilburg
• Aaltje Huizing (65)
• Alma Augusta ULLRICH (93), Louisville,Kentucky,Amerca
• Cornelis Jacobus Clement (68), Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Johanna Verkerk (85), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Antonij Christiaan Soeters (64), Vollenhove, Stad
• Aleida Engelbertha(Lida) Jannink (79), Enschede,Gemeente Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Billie C Baker (72), Girard, Erie County, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• antoon arie Westmaas (77), bennebroek

• 1984 » Mauro Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer
• 1985 » Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist
• 1986 » Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
• 1986 » Jiřina Svobodová, Czech pole vaulter
• 1986 » Stéphane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer
• 1987 » Julian Wright, American basketball player
• 1987 » Mike Havenaar, Japanese footballer
• 1988 » Joel Moon, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player

• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (b. 1946)
• 1989 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1995 » Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)
• 1996 » Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (b. 1919)
• 1998 » Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1916)
• 2000 » Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)

1. Michael
2. Jan
3. Thomas
4. Mark
5. Kevin
6. Jeroen
7. Johannes
8. Joshua
9. David
10. Dennis
11. Pieter
12. Peter
13. Robert
14. Sander
15. Tim
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Laura
4. Sarah
5. Linda
6. Anna
7. Kim
8. Esther
9. Sanne
10. Nicole
11. Johanna
12. Amanda
13. Anne
14. Michelle
15. Chantal
16. Marieke

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
• April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
• May 5 » Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
• May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• September 13 » 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.
• October 19 » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
• October 21 » The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.

The temperature on May 20, 1987 was between 5.2 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.