What Was Going On When This Vehicle Was New?
The following events happened in the period when this vehicle was registered.
One person a day in Britain is now reported to be dying of AIDS
Monday the 10th of August, 1987
Michael Ryan shoots dead 14 people in the Berkshire town of Hungerford before taking his own life with a rifle.[21] 16 people are injured, some of them seriously.
Wednesday the 19th of August, 1987
Ford completes its takeover of the luxury sports car company Aston Martin
Monday the 7th of September, 1987
The government bans automatic weapons of the type used by Hungerford killer Michael Ryan
Tuesday the 22nd of September, 1987
An Australian court lifts the ban on the publication of Spycatcher
Wednesday the 23rd of September, 1987
Swedish home product retailer IKEA opens its first British store at Warrington in Cheshire
Thursday the 1st of October, 1987
£1 million pound Operation Deepscan in Loch Ness fails to locate the legendary Loch Ness Monster
Sunday the 11th of October, 1987
Black Monday: Wall Street crash leads to £50 billion being wiped of the value of shares on the London stock exchange
Monday the 19th of October, 1987
Retired English jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for 3 years after being convicted of tax evasion
Friday the 23rd of October, 1987
British Rail establishes a world speed record for diesel traction, 238.9 km/h (148.4 mph) with a test InterCity 125 formation between Darlington and York
Sunday the 1st of November, 1987
London City Airport opens
Thursday the 5th of November, 1987
Enniskillen bombing: Eleven people are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb at a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen
Sunday the 8th of November, 1987
The national unemployment rate is now below 10 percent for the first time since the summer of 1982, with the current total of unemployed people at just over 2,700,000 – the lowest for six years
Thursday the 12th of November, 1987
A fire at Kings Cross on the London Underground kills 31 people
Wednesday the 18th of November, 1987
Channel Tunnel construction is initiated, with completion targeted within seven years
Tuesday the 15th of December, 1987
ITV enjoys a record breaking audience when more than 26,000,000 viewers tune in for the Christmas Day episode of Coronation Street, in which Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander) makes her last appearance in the show after 23 years
Friday the 25th of December, 1987
PWL release the Kylie Minogue single I Should Be So Lucky
Tuesday the 29th of December, 1987
Margaret Thatcher becomes the longest serving British prime minister this century, having been in power for eight years and 244 days
Sunday the 3rd of January, 1988
Actor Rowan Atkinson launches the new Comic Relief charity appeal
Tuesday the 5th of January, 1988
The first BBC Red Nose Day raises £15 million for charity
Friday the 5th of February, 1988
British Aerospace launches a takeover bid for the government-owned Rover Group, the largest British-owned carmaker
Tuesday the 1st of March, 1988
Halifax Building Society reveals that year-on-year house prices rose by 16.9% last month
Friday the 4th of March, 1988
It is revealed that the average price of a house in Britain reached £60,000 at the end of last year, compared to £47,000 in December 1986
Wednesday the 9th of March, 1988
Plans are unveiled for Europe's tallest skyscraper to be built at Canary Wharf. The office complex will cost around £3 billion to build and is set to open in 1992
Tuesday the 29th of March, 1988
Graeme Hick makes English cricket history by scoring 405 runs in a county championship match
Friday the 6th of May, 1988
Unemployment is now below 2,500,000 for the first time since early 1981
Thursday the 19th of May, 1988
The BBC controversial film, Tumbledown is broadcast despite Ministry of Defence concern
Tuesday the 31st of May, 1988
Some 80,000 people attend a concert at Wembley Stadium in honour of Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid campaigner who turned 70 on that day and has been in prison since 1964
Saturday the 11th of June, 1988
Three gay rights activists invade the BBC television studios during the six o'clock bulletin of the BBC News
Thursday the 23rd of June, 1988
Piper Alpha disaster oil rig in the North Sea explodes and results in the death of 167 workers
Wednesday the 6th of July, 1988
A contractor's relief driver pours 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the wrong tank at a water treatment plant near Camelford in Cornwall, causing extensive pollution to the local water supply
Wednesday the 6th of July, 1988
Paul Gascoigne, 21-year-old midfielder, becomes the first £2 million footballer signed by a British club when he leaves Newcastle United and joins Tottenham Hotspur
Monday the 18th of July, 1988