1987

The following events occured in the year 1987:

Events

 * Percy Weasley and Oliver Wood begin attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
 * Ginny Weasley turns 6 years old in August and presumabably starts to take each of her brothers Broomsticks out in turn and ride them secretly.
 * Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles by Wilhelm Wigworthy, is published by Little Red Books.

Births

 * Gabrielle Delacour to French couple Apolline and Monsieur Delacour.

Deaths

 * Roderick Plumpton

Muggle events

 * The stock market crashes on Black Monday.
 * INF agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union eliminates an entire class of nuclear weapons.
 * Irish band U2 releases the album The Joshua Tree.
 * Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) opens from Yio Chu Kang to Toa Payoh, as a first section.
 * King's Cross fire