1987

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June 12, 1987 - President Ronald Reagan in Berlin: "Mr. Gorbacheck, tear down this wall!"

July 8, 1987 - Iran-Contra hearings involving Col Oliver North.

Aug 17, 1987 - Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolph Hitler's inner circle, died at a Berlin hospital near Spandau Prison at age 93, having apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical cord. His family claims that he was murdered.

Sept

Oct 20, 1987 - Ten people were killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying to make an emergency landing,

Nov

Dec 8, 1987 - President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty, Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, under which the superpowers agreed to destroy their arsenals of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.