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LEAD: The Supreme Court cleared the way today for national banks to establish or acquire discount brokerage outlets anywhere in the country without regard to Federal geographical restrictions on bank branches.
LEAD: Union officials here said today that they had been vindicated by the results of the investigation into the fire that took 96 lives at the Dupont Plaza Hotel.
LEAD: UNLESS they happen to have been designed for Hadrian's villa or Monticello, floors have generally ranked fairly low on home decorating lists. But as imaginative treatments and new materials have appeared, floors are attracting the interest of designers and homeowners.
LEAD: State officials said today that Governor Cuomo had set three final conditions for appointing a special prosecutor in the Howard Beach case - that the Queens District Attorney publicly call for one, that witnesses who had previously refused to testify now agree to come forward and that the appointment have the public support of black leaders as an acceptable handling of the case.
LEAD: The board of CBS Inc. has cemented the triumph achieved by William S. Paley and Laurence A. Tisch in a board room coup last fall.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 14, 1987, covering January 15, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Boston
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Bangles
1987Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player[†]
Gregory Paul Inglis, also known by the nickname of "G.I.", is a retired Indigenous Australian professional rugby league footballer, who regularly played as a centre, fullback, five-eighth and wing.
1987Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian runner[†]
Tsegaye Kebede Wordofa is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in road running events, including marathons. He quickly rose to become a prominent distance runner after his international debut at the Amsterdam Marathon in 2007. In his second year of professional running, he won the Paris Marathon, the Fukuoka Marathon and the marathon bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
1987Kelly Kelly, American wrestler and model[†]
Barbara Jean Blank Coba, known professionally as Barbie Blank and by her ring name Kelly Kelly, is an American model and former professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE under a legends contract.
1987David Knight, English footballer[†]
David Sean Knight is an English footballer who last played for Spennymoor Town as a goalkeeper.
1987Kelleigh Ryan, Canadian fencer[†]
Kelleigh Ryan is a Canadian Olympic fencer.
1987Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1904)[†]
Raymond Wallace Bolger was an American actor, dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and stage performer who started his movie career in the silent-film era.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]