Timeline November 1987

Events in November 1987 5

• 1934 – 1987 Jacques Anquetil Maître Jacques The first to win the Tour de France five times; a master of the time trial. Winner: 5x Tour de France.
• 1987 Enniskillen Remembrance Day bombing IRA bomb kills 11 at a war memorial service in Northern Ireland The Provisional IRA detonated a bomb at a Remembrance Day ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 11 civilians and injuring dozens more. The attack caused widespread revulsion and was widely seen as a turning point that weakened public support for the IRA. It became one of the most notorious incidents of the Troubles.
• 1987 King's Cross fire kills 31 Fire beneath a London Underground station spreads via an escalator A fire broke out on a wooden escalator at King's Cross St Pancras Underground station in London and spread rapidly, killing 31 people. Investigators identified the previously unknown "trench effect" as the cause of the escalator's sudden acceleration. The disaster led to a ban on smoking and wooden escalators across the Underground.
• 1987 Lee Byung-chul dies — Lee Kun-hee takes over Samsung founder Lee Byung-chul dies on 19 November 1987, aged 77. His third son Lee Kun-hee succeeds him as chairman. Under Lee Kun-hee, Samsung will be transformed from a budget electronics manufacturer into a premium global technology brand — arguably the most successful corporate transformation in Asian industrial history. Lee Kun-hee's 27-year chairmanship will take Samsung from a regional copycat to the world's most valuable consumer electronics company.
• 1987 Korean Air Flight 858 bombed North Korean agents blow up a passenger jet, killing all 115 aboard North Korean agents planted a bomb aboard Korean Air Flight 858, which exploded over the Andaman Sea near Myanmar, killing all 115 people on board. The attack was intended to discourage foreign participation in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. One of the two agents, Kim Hyon-hui, was captured and confessed after a failed suicide attempt.