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Events in the year 1987 in the Republic of India .

Incumbents [ edit ]

• President of India ? Zail Singh until 25 July, R. Venkataraman
• Prime Minister of India ? Rajiv Gandhi
• Vice President of India ? R. Venkataraman until 24 July, Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Chief Justice of India ? Raghunandan Swarup Pathak

Governors [ edit ]

• Andhra Pradesh ? Kumud Ben Joshi
• Arunachal Pradesh ?
  • 20 February-18 March: Bhishma Narain Singh
  • starting 18 March: R. D. Pradhan
• Assam ? Bhishma Narain Singh
• Bihar ? P. Venkatasubbaiah
• Goa ? Gopal Singh (starting 30 May)
• Gujarat ? Ram Krishna Trivedi
• Haryana ? Saiyid Muzaffar Husain Burney
• Himachal Pradesh ? R. K. S. Ghandhi
• Jammu and Kashmir ? Jagmohan Malhotra
• Karnataka ? Ashoknath Banerji (until 26 February), Pendekanti Venkatasubbaiah (starting 26 February)
• Kerala ? P. Ramachandran
• Madhya Pradesh ?
  • until 30 November: K.M Chandy
  • 30 November-29 December: Narayan Dutta Ojha
  • starting 29 December: K.M Chandy
• Maharashtra ? Shankar Dayal Sharma (until 3 September), vacant thereafter (starting 3 September)
• Manipur ? K. V. Krishna Rao
• Meghalaya ? Bhishma Narain Singh
• Mizoram ? Hiteswar Saikia
• Nagaland ? K. V. Krishna Rao
• Odisha ? Bishambhar Nath Pande
• Punjab ? Siddhartha Shankar Ray
• Rajasthan ? Vasantdada Patil (until 15 October), vacant thereafter (starting 15 October)
• Sikkim ? T.V. Rajeswar
• Tamil Nadu ? Sundar Lal Khurana
• Tripura ? K. V. Krishna Rao
• Uttar Pradesh ? Mohammed Usman Arif
• West Bengal ? Saiyid Nurul Hasan

Events [ edit ]

• National income - ? 3,618,647 million

January - June [ edit ]

• January ? Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction set up and became operational with effect from May reflecting concerns related to Industrial Sickness and republic day
• 17 January - Rajiv Gandhi laid the foundation stone for Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kannur.
• 7 March - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket . ^[1]
• 19 March - 1987 Opera House heist
• 23 March - Controversial 1987 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election held.
• March ? Magnetic ink character recognition technology introduced for cheque clearing.
• March - June - 1987 Meerut riots
• 12 April - V. P. Singh resigns as Defence Minister of India following his disclosure about kickbacks in defense deals by predecessors. ^{[2] [3]}
• May - 1987 Sino-Indian skirmish the second such conflict between China and India ended.
• 22 May - Hashimpura massacre . ^[4]
• 30 May ? The Union territory was split, and Goa was elevated as India's twenty-fifth state, with Daman and Diu remaining Union Territories
• 4 June - Operation Poomalai by India in Jaffna .
• June - Minister of External Affairs N. D. Tiwari visits North Korea as part of ministerial conference of Non-Aligned Movement .

July - December [ edit ]

• 29 July - Indo-Sri Lanka Accord to restore peace in the island signed.
• 30 July - Assault on Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi by a Sri Lanka Navy sailor named Vijitha Rohana during Guard of honour at Colombo . ^[5]

• October ? ICC Cricket World Cup (Reliance Cup 1987)
• 11 - 12 October - Jaffna University Helidrop by Indian Peace Keeping Force
• 20 November?27 November ? The South Asian Games are held in Calcutta . ^[6]
• 28 December - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research was established by RBI as an advanced studies institute to promote research on development issues from a multi-disciplinary point of view.

Law [ edit ]

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Births [ edit ]

• 1 January ? Neha Sharma , actress and model.
• 3 March ? Shraddha Kapoor , actress.
• 31 March ? Janani Iyer , actress.
• 18 February ? Mahat Raghavendra , actor
• 24 April ? Varun Dhawan , actor
• 25 April ? Mallika Kapoor , actress.
• 28 April ? Samantha Ruth Prabhu , actress.

• 30 April ? Rohit Sharma , cricketer.
• 4 May ? Charmy Kaur , actress.
• 7 May ? Sundeep Kishan , actor, producer
• 2 June ? Santhosh Prathap , actor
• 13 June ? G. V. Prakash Kumar , film composer, singer and actor.
• 25 June ? Anil Shetty , entrepreneur, author, activist and motivational speaker
• 3 July ? Arjai , actor
• 1 August ? Taapsee Pannu , actress.
• 5 August ? Genelia D'Souza , actress.

  

• 6 August ? Aditya Narayan , actor, singer and television host.
• 25 October ? Umesh Yadav , cricketer.
• 1 November ? Ileana D'Cruz , actress.
• 20 November ? Sukirti Kandpal , actress.
• 18 December ? Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu , politician, member of parliament from Srikakulam.
• 28 December ? Diganth Manchale , actor

Deaths [ edit ]

• 13 March ? Hafizur Rahman Wasif Dehlavi , Islamic scholar, jurist and literary critic. (born 1910)
• 1 June ? Khwaja Ahmad Abbas , film director, novelist, screenwriter and journalist (born 1914).

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  13 October ? Kishore Kumar , playback singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (born 1929).
• 27 October ? Vijay Merchant , cricketer (born 1911).
• 24 December ? M. G. Ramachandran , Actor, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (born 1917).

Full date unknown [ edit ]

• Dasaradhi , poet and political activist (born 1925).

See also [ edit ]

• Bollywood films of 1987

References [ edit ]