April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
June 19 » Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
October 13 » The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
Day of death December 15, 1987
The temperature on December 15, 1987 was between -3.8 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 19 » Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
March 20 » The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
October 11 » The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
November 7 » In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
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