Editing 1987 (section)

=== May ===
* [[May 4]] – The [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] rules in ''Rotary Int'l v. Rotary Club of Duarte'' that local [[Rotary Clubs]] do not have a constitutional right to deny membership to women. Other clubs thereafter comply with the ruling: [[Lions Clubs International|Lions International]] begins admitting women in June, and [[Kiwanis|Kiwanis Club]] in July.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rotary Club Int'l v. Rotary Club of Duarte 481 U.S. 537 (1987) |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/481/537/}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] – [[Loughgall ambush]]: A 24-man unit of the [[British Army]] [[Special Air Service]] (SAS) ambushed eight members of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] (IRA) as they mounted an attack on a [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]] (RUC) barracks. All IRA members were killed as well as one civilian.
* [[May 9]] – A Soviet-made [[Ilyushin Il-62]] airliner, operated by [[LOT Polish Airlines]], [[LOT Flight 5055|crashes into a forest]] just outside [[Warsaw]], killing all 183 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-62M SP-LBG Warszawa-Okecie Airport (WAW)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19870509-0|access-date=2020-07-12|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
* [[May 11]] – [[Klaus Barbie]] goes on trial in [[Lyon]] for [[war crime]]s committed during World War II.
* [[May 14]] – Lieutenant Colonel [[Sitiveni Rabuka]] executes a bloodless coup in [[Fiji]].
* [[May 17]] – {{USS|Stark|FFG-31|6}} is [[USS Stark incident|hit]] by two [[Iraq]]i-owned [[Exocet]] AM39 air-to-surface missiles killing 37 sailors.
* [[May 22]] 
** The [[Hashimpura massacre]] occurs in [[Meerut]], India.
** The inaugural [[1987 Rugby World Cup|Rugby World Cup]] hosted by both New Zealand and Australia kicks off. In the opening match of the new tournament, [[New Zealand national rugby union team|New Zealand]] beat [[Italy national rugby union team|Italy]] in the pool stage.
* [[May 27]] 
** At the [[Ernst-Happel-Stadion|Prater Stadium]] of [[Vienna]], [[FC Porto|Porto]] of [[Portugal]] defeats [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern München]] of [[West Germany]] 2–1 and wins its first European Cup.
** In one of the densest concentrations of humanity in history, a crowd of 800,000+ packed shoulder-to-shoulder onto the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] and its approaches for its 50th Anniversary celebration.
* [[May 28]] – Eighteen-year-old West German pilot [[Mathias Rust]] evades [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] air defenses and lands a private plane on [[Red Square]] in Moscow. He is immediately detained (released on August 3, 1988).