| May 11, 1987 | | After a 3-months interruption, Beirut Airport is open again to the traffic and the MEA flights resume.
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| May 18, 1987 | | The Minister of Labour Selim Hoss signs the decree for the reajustment of salaries. The minimum salary is fixed at 4500 LBP.
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| May 19, 1987 | | A dilapidated building in Abu-Shaker district in the Mazraa cornice collapses, killing 11 persons.
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| May 21, 1987 | | The abrogation by the Parliament of the Cairo Agreement was voted unanimously by the attending 45 deputies. Moreover, the abolition of May 17th Israeli-Arab Agreement was confirmed.
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| May 31, 1987 | | The Islamic resistance integrists lead an offensive against the Army of South-Lebanon and the Israeli Army.
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| June 1, 1987 | | The Prime Minister Rachid Karameh was assassinated, torn to shreds by the explosion on the helicopter that was supposed to take him from Tripoli to West-Beirut. However, his post as Chief of the Cabinet did not remain vacant: Selim Hoss was designated by presidential decree as the interim Chief of Government.
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| June 3, 1987 | | A Syrian delegation led by Abdel-Halim Khaddam, the Syrian Republic's Vice-President attend the national funerals of Karame in Tripoli.
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| June 5, 1987 | | The President of the National Assembly, Hussein Husseini, announces his resignation, thus increasing the institutional gap.
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| June 17, 1987 | | Walid Joumblatt, leader of the PSP, and Nabih Berri, leader of the Amal militia, become reconciled under the aegis of the Syrian Vice-President Abdel-Halim Khaddam, and publish an agreement for fighting in 7 points.
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| June 18, 1987 | | An American journalist, Charles Glass, accompanied by the son of the Minister of Defense Ali Adel Osseirane, are kidnapped in Ouzaï.
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| June 19, 1987 | | The price of fuel goes up from 190 LBP to 290 LBP for 20 litres while the gas demijohn goes up from 110 LBP to 155 LBP. The index of livelihood cost has increased by 82,8 % since January.
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| June 24, 1987 | | While Ali Adel Osseirane is set free, hope for the quick release of the American journalist fades.
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| July 1, 1987 | | The American Ambassador in Lebanon confirms to President Gemayel that the policy of his country towards Lebanon hasn't changed.
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| July 2, 1987 | | Lebanon has just lost in Kesrouan, Labaki, one of its best journalists and most fervent defenders.
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| July 3, 1987 | | An Israeli raid against a PSNS base in Ammik in the Bekaa injures 13 persons.
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| July 6, 1987 | | The high depreciation of the Lebanese Pound breks, in the beginning of the week, all historical drop records and provokes panic on the exchange market. The national currency breaks the plateau of 162 LBP for 1 American Dollar.
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| July 11, 1987 | | Walid Joumblatt, Minister of Tourism and Leader of the Progressist Socialist Party, presides this evening, the opening ceremony of the Emir Amin's Palace. Closed down since the first years of the war, this edifice, that used to belong to the Intercontinental chain of hotels, resumes its vocation as a prestigious palace.
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| July 17, 1987 | | The Minister of Finance, President Camille Chamoun, publishes a decision ordering the Governor of the Central Bank, Edmond Naïm, not to intervene to stabilize the exchange market before contacting him..
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| July 24, 1987 | | A Lebanese, Ali Mohamad Hariri, hijacks an Air Africa plane in Geneva and demands the release of the hamade brothers held captive in the German Federal Republic. The operation ends with the arrest of the hijacker, killing 1 person and injuring 31.
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| July 27, 1987 | | The Israeli attack against the APL (Maarouf Saad's Forces in Saida ) kills 7 persons and wounds 3.
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| July 31, 1987 | | The Security Coucil renews the mandate of the FINUL.
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| August 2, 1987 | | The President of the Republic's Councillor, Mohamed Choucair, who was a mediator between the Chief of State and the Muslim Opposition, is assassinated in West-Beirut.
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| August 7, 1987 | | President Camille Chamoun dies from a heart attack. In a communiqué, The American Department of State emphasizes that 'Camille Chamoun was the most eminent politician in Lebanon'.
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| August 9, 1987 | | Lebanon reunites around the national funerals of President Camille Chamoun.
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| August 14, 1987 | | The Central Bank decides to grant, exceptionally, credits for 4 million dollars to the EDL (Electricity of Lebanon) and to bakeries.
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| August 16, 1987 | | A fire ravages the forest in Naccache and its surroundings destroying in its wake the olive and pine fields.
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| August 18, 1987 | | The hostage Charles Glass is set free. When will the other hostages be released?
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| August 19, 1987 | | The Interim Finance Minister arbitrates a meeting of explanation between the Association of Banks and the Bank of Lebanon. This meeting results in a freezing of the application of the circular 739 (that forces private banks to block 93% of their deposits by the Central Bank).
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| August 20, 1987 | | Holding hands, all dressed in white, hundreds of Lebanese, Christian and Muslim, said no to the war and to the demarcation line that had been parting the country in two for 12 years.
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| September 1, 1987 | | President Gemayel arrives in Quebec to request, in front of the Francophony Summit, the creapour demander, the creation of Special Support Funds in Lebanon.
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| September 5, 1987 | | The Israeli Airforce conducts a murderous raid on sur Ain el-Heloueh, killing 41 persons and injuring 40.
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| September 7, 1987 | | Alfred Schmidt, a West-German hostage, is released.
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| September 20, 1987 | | 700 PSP combattants PSP and about 100 activists from the Communist Party get ready to go to Lybia in order to fight with the Lybians against the Army of Tchad.
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| September 23, 1987 | | As the Minister of Education, Selim Hoss asks universities to organize admission competotion and exams since the Baccalaureat exams couldn't be presented.
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| September 24, 1987 | | Father Andre Masse is assassinated close to Saida. He was head of the USJ (Saint-Joseph University) section in South-Lebanon.
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| October 4, 1987 | | Fouad Lahoud, deputee of North Metn and President of the Parliamentary Commission of Defense, dies.
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| October 6, 1987 | | A wild race starts between the Preliminary Reajustment of Salaries and an obvious inflation. The Lebanese, despite a minimum salary raised to 8.500 LBP, already seem to be paying an increase they haven't perceived yet.
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| October 12, 1987 | | The dollar goes up again, which leads to another rising of the price of fuel..
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| October 13, 1987 | | While the price of bread is following the rising of the price of fuel, its price going up to 50 LBP per bread bag, handicaps on crutches and in wheelchairs go from Akkar to Beirut to express their wish to live in peace.
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| October 17, 1987 | | Torrential rain provokes catastrophic floods in Baalbeck and Hermel. 24 villages are considered as disaster-stricken zones, and the Temple of Venus is drowned under a thick layer of mud.
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