Editing 1987 (section)

=== September ===
* [[September 1]] – [[Honda]] announces plans to build a second U.S. assembly plant, the [[East Liberty Auto Plant]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ross |first=Philip E. |date=September 18, 1987 |title=Honda Expansion: U.S. Exports a Goal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/business/honda-expansion-us-exports-a-goal.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] – In Moscow, [[USSR]], the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot [[Mathias Rust]], who flew his [[Cessna]] airplane into [[Red Square]] in May.
* [[September 3]] – In a [[1987 Burundian coup d'état|coup d'état in Burundi]], President [[Jean-Baptiste Bagaza]] is deposed by Major [[Pierre Buyoya]].
* [[September 4]] – In a village in [[Rajasthan]], an 18-year-old widow, [[Roop Kanwar|Roop Kanwar]] is burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre, in a banned practice known as [[Sati (practice)|Sati]]. Though the woman's father-in-law is arrested by authorities, thousands of Hindu pilgrims travel to the cremation site in support of the act.<ref name=":0" />
* [[September 7]]–[[September 21|21]] – The world's first conference on [[artificial life]] is held at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] in the United States.
* [[September 7]] – [[Erich Honecker]] makes a visit to [[Bonn]], the first (and last) visit by an East German head of state to [[West Germany]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schmemann |first=Serge |date=September 13, 1987 |title=Honecker Visit To The West Stirs More Curiosity Than Passion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/13/weekinreview/honecker-visit-to-west-stirs-more-curiosity-than-passion.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[September 11]] – [[Chadian–Libyan War]]: Chad and Libya sign a ceasefire under supervision of the [[Organisation of African Unity]], officially ending the 14-year territorial conflict. Sporadic fighting will continue.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Greenhouse |first=Steven |date=September 12, 1987 |title=Chad and Libya in Pact but Clash Anew |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/12/world/chad-and-libya-in-pact-but-clash-anew.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[September 13]] – [[Goiânia accident]]: Metal scrappers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in [[Goiânia]], Brazil, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an urban area.
* [[September 23]] – The [[Poland–United States relations|United States and Poland]] agree to exchange ambassadors after a four-year break in relations.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sciolino |first=Elaine |date=September 23, 1987 |title=Poland and U.S. to Exchange Envoys |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/23/world/poland-and-us-to-exchange-envoys.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>