Timeline July 1987

Events in July 1987 9

• 1987 Releases debut single "Locomotion" Australian chart-topping debut single Minogue released her debut single, a cover of "The Loco-Motion," in Australia, where it became the best-selling single of the decade. The unexpected success prompted producers Stock Aitken Waterman in London to bring her into the studio, launching her recording career in earnest.
• 1987 Wimbledon 1987 Men: Pat Cash · Women: Martina Navratilova
• 1987 Charlene and Scott's wedding episode airs One of the most-watched TV episodes in Australian history The wedding of Charlene and Scott Robinson (played by Jason Donovan) aired on Neighbours, drawing an enormous audience in Australia and later in the UK. The episode became a defining pop-culture moment of the 1980s and cemented Minogue's star status ahead of her transition into music.
• 1987 – present Sebastian Vettel Baby Schumi Four-time consecutive World Champion with Red Bull Racing (2010-2013).
• 1987 Klaus Barbie convicted of crimes against humanity "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life imprisonment in France Former Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity for deporting Jews and torturing resistance members in Lyon during the Second World War. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial was one of the first to bring extensive video testimony of Holocaust survivors before the public.
• 1987 Grateful Dead release In the Dark Touch of Grey Their only top-ten single, after 22 years.
• 1987 Oliver North testifies in Iran-Contra hearings Congressional hearings expose secret US arms-for-hostages deal Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North testified before Congress about the secret sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of funds to Nicaraguan Contra rebels. The televised hearings revealed a covert Reagan-administration operation that violated a congressional arms embargo. The scandal damaged the credibility of the Reagan presidency.
• 1987 Billy Joel tours the Soviet Union Moscow and Leningrad One of the first American rock tours of the USSR.
• 1987 India deploys peacekeeping force to Sri Lanka Indo-Sri Lanka Accord sends Indian troops to disarm Tamil rebels India and Sri Lanka signed an accord under which India deployed an Indian Peace Keeping Force to help disarm Tamil separatist militants in northern Sri Lanka. The intervention was intended to end the Sri Lankan Civil War but instead drew Indian troops into years of fighting with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. A grenade attack at the signing ceremony narrowly missed Sri Lanka's president.