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April 1987

Extracted from the Wikipedia article 1987.

April 5 – Schoharie Creek Bridge Collapse: I-90 bridge collapse near Fort Hunter leaves 10 people dead. Investigators conclude that the bridge's piers had been weakened by structural flaws and significant scour. The accident leads to stricter safety standards in bridge design and inspection. The body of the 10th victim will ultimately be recovered from the Mohawk River more than two years later.
April 13 – The governments of the Portuguese Republic and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau will be returned to China in 1999.
April 14 – Turkey applied for membership to the European Economic Community (now the European Union).
April 15 – An insurrection in Sri Lanka by the Marxist–Leninist group, JVP, begins.
April 19 – The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
April 21 – In Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Central Bus Station Bombing kills 113 civilians.
April 27 – The United States Department of Justice declares incumbent Austrian president Kurt Waldheim an "undesirable alien".
April 30 – Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the Provincial Premiers agree in principle to the Meech Lake Accord which would bring Quebec into the constitution.