Editing 1987 (section)

=== December ===
* [[December 1]]
** [[NASA]] announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build [[Space Station Freedom]]: [[Boeing|Boeing Aerospace]], [[General Electric]]'s Astro-Space Division, [[McDonnell Douglas]], and the [[Rocketdyne]] Division of [[Rockwell International|Rockwell]].
* [[December 7]] – [[Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771]] crashes near [[Paso Robles, California]], United States, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots.
* [[December 8]]
** [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]]: The [[First Intifada]] begins in the [[Gaza Strip]] and [[West Bank]].
** The [[Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty]] is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] and Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]]. It expires in [[2019]].
** [[Alianza Lima air disaster]]: A [[Peruvian Navy]] [[Fokker F27]] crashes near [[Ventanilla District|Ventanilla]], [[Peru]], killing 43.
* [[December 9]] – General [[Rahimuddin Khan]] retires from the [[Pakistan Army]], along with the cabinet of the country's [[military dictatorship]].
* [[December 15]] – [[Production I.G]] is founded by [[Mitsuhisa Ishikawa]] and Takayuki Goto.
* [[December 17]] – [[Gustáv Husák]] resigns as [[General Secretary]] of the [[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]].
* [[December 20]] – In history's worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry [[MV Doña Paz|MV ''Doña Paz'']] sinks after colliding with the oil tanker ''Vector 1'' in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
* [[December 21]] – [[Turgut Özal]] of [[Motherland Party (Turkey)|ANAP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (46th government).
* [[December 22]] – In Zimbabwe, the political parties [[Zimbabwe African National Union|ZANU]] and [[Zimbabwe African People's Union|ZAPU]] reach an agreement that ends the violence in the [[Matabeleland]] region known as the [[Gukurahundi]].
* [[December 23]] – [[Nikki Sixx]], [[Mötley Crüe]]'s bassist overdoses on heroin and is declared clinically dead for two minutes before a paramedic revives him with two syringes full of adrenaline.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newsweek.com/motley-crue-nikki-sixx-overdose-dirt-1368786|title=Mötley Crüe and the Real Story of Nikki Sixx's Overdose: Going Beyond 'The Dirt'|first=Andrew|last=Whalen|magazine=[[Newsweek]]|date=2019-03-22|access-date=2019-03-31}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] – [[Pope John Paul II]] issues the [[encyclical]] ''[[Sollicitudo rei socialis]]'' (''On Social Concern'').