Year in a Minute: 1987

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1987.

President Ronald Reagan in Berlin (Photo by Thierlein/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Dirty dancing gets toned down, as the Grim Reaper warns us about AIDS,

In Melbourne, mass shootings in Hoddle and Queen Streets claim 15 lives.

While a new mass-marketed anti-depressant became available.

Colonel Rabuka led a bloodless coup in Fiji.

Palestinians rise up against Israeli occupation.

The Iran-Contra affair, the US caught funding a secret war in Nicaragua.

Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess found hanging in his prison cell, Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie gets life.

While Reagan challenges...

Mr Gorbachev. Tear down this wall

Ronald Regan