January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of American troops.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of death February 16, 1987
The temperature on February 16, 1987 was between -1.8 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
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.
March 6 » The British ferry MSHerald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
October 11 » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
October 19 » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
November 15 » In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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