1987 in the Philippines

1987 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1987.

1987 in the Philippines

Decades:
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
See also:

Incumbents

Events

January

  • January 22Mendiola massacre takes place when peasant farmers rallied against President Aquino and for land reform, and ended in a bloody shooting killing 13 and 74 others injured.
  • January 2729 – Mutinous rebels seized GMA Network compound in Quezon City, leaving its employees and the network's President and CEO and his family as hostages which lasted for two days as a reward for Marcos' return. The two-day plot ended in a skirmish, killing a rebel soldier and 35 others were hurt.

February

March

  • March 1ABS-CBN launches the Star Network for the relaunch of Channel 2 after six months and the first white tri-ribbon 2 logo laced with a rhomboidal star came to be.
  • March 2TV Patrol was launched as its first flagship evening newscast replacing the former flagship national news program Balita Ngayon.

April

May

June

  • June 26Philippine Airlines PR 206 crashes into Mt. Ugo in Itogon, Benguet with all 50 people on board killed. It is then the country's worst air accident since 1969.[1] The air crash is also the second worst air disaster at that time.

July

August

  • August 2829Coup attempt takes place when rebel soldiers made a threatened reprisal against Aquino and ended in a gunfight with 50 people killed and 200 wounded as Government troops fizzled the plot.

September

  • September 06 – Almost one platoon also tagged as the Lason Batch in Zamboanga where victimized by rebels of mass poisoning wherein 19 government soldiers died and 140 had fallen ill as casualty.[2][3]

October

  • October 18 – Canonization of San Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino saint.

November

Nina at peak intensity while approaching landfall in the Philippines.

December

President Corazon Aquino chairs the 3rd ASEAN Summit on December 14, 1987

Television

Sports

Births

Deaths

National holidays

See also

References

  1. "RP's worst air accidents" (April 20, 2000). Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. 13. (Link) Retrieved August 16, 2019.
  2. ""REMEMBERING THE LASON BATCH DEATH". Ikkis Ti Candon - BETA. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
  3. "Nineteen Military Recruits Dead In Mass Poisoning, Sabotage Suspected With AM-Philippines". AP NEWS. Retrieved June 25, 2020.
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