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LEAD: The special state prosecutor for criminal justice in New York City appealed yesterday to lawyers for black victims of the Howard Beach attack to substantiate their charges that the police and the Queens District Attorney had mishandled the investigation.
LEAD: Penn State Is No. 1 Penn State halted a late Miami drive to win the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl, 14-10, and the unofficial national championship in college football. Page 41.
LEAD: The Congressional Budget Office said today that the Government would run deficits of $174.5 billion this year and $169.2 billion next year if Congress took no action to change current law.
LEAD: At the airport, the hot wind coming off the savanna whistles among rows of small private planes that have not flown in several months, having been grounded by the authorities.
LEAD: As 1,200 theatergoers watched in horror, a man armed with a dagger rushed the stage of the Town Hall theater in Manhattan Thursday night, bowed before the star of a benefit variety show and then stabbed him in the chest.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 31, 1986, covering January 3, 1987.
Bruce Springsteen
Bon Jovi
Boston
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Huey Lewis & The News
1987Adrián, Spanish footballer[†]
Adrián San Miguel del Castillo, known as Adrián, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Real Betis.
1987Reto Berra, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender[†]
Reto Berra is a Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently playing for HC Fribourg-Gottéron of the National League (NL). Berra played seven seasons in Switzerland's National League A, spending time with the GCK Lions, HC Davos and SCL Tigers before joining EHC Biel in 2009 where he was the team's starting goaltender for four years. He was an NHL draft pick of the St. Louis Blues, selected in the fourth round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft and was traded to the Calgary Flames, with whom he made his NHL debut in 2013–14. Internationally, Berra has played with the Swiss National Team on several occasions; he has appeared in two World Championships. At the 2013 tournament, he shared goaltending duties with Martin Gerber and helped lead Switzerland to a silver medal, the nation's first medal in 60 years.
1987Kim Ok-vin, South Korean actress and singer[†]
Kim Ok-vin, also known as Kim Ok-bin, is a South Korean actress. She made her debut in an online beauty contest in 2004, and began her acting career with a role in the 2005 film Voice. She appeared in the television drama series Over the Rainbow, and in films such as Dasepo Naughty Girls, The Accidental Gangster and the Mistaken Courtesan and The Villainess. She has received several award nominations, and won Best Actress at the 2009 Sitges Film Festival for her role in Thirst.
1987Varig Flight 797 crashes near Akouré in the Ivory Coast, resulting in 50 deaths.[†]
Varig Flight 797 was a flight from Abidjan, Ivory Coast to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On 3 January 1987, the Boeing 707-320C crashed while landing, killing all 12 crew members and 38 of the 39 passengers. After an engine failure, the pilot decided to return but misjudged the approach and stalled the aircraft. It crashed onto a rubber plantation in the midst of the jungle, 18 kilometres from the airport at a speed of 400 kilometres per hour. Many passengers who survived the initial crash died in the fire that followed.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]