Events
- 2 March: Edgecumbe earthquake in the Bay of Plenty.
- 22 May–20 June: Inaugural Rugby World Cup hosted by both New Zealand and Australia, and won by New Zealand.
- June: The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act is passed.
- 19 June: 6 year old Teresa Cormack murdered.
- July: The Māori Language Act makes Māori an official language.
- 1 August: The first Lotto draw.
- 15 August: The 1987 election is held.
- 20 October: The New Zealand stock market crashes following Black Monday on Wall Street. Share prices fell by 59 percent over four months.
- December: New Zealand's first heart transplant takes place at Greenlane Hospital, for Brian Lindsay.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)