Unix Timestamp: 565833600
Monday, December 7. 1987, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Queen Street massacre: In Melbourne, Australia, 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic kills 8 and injures another 5 in a Post Office building before committing suicide by jumping from the eleventh floor.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

Microsoft releases Windows 2.0.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Alianza Lima air disaster: A Peruvian NavyFokker F27 crashes near Ventanilla, Peru, killing 43.

General Rahimuddin Khan retires from the Pakistan Army, along with the cabinet of the country's military dictatorship.