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LEAD: Rupert Murdoch appears to have won his $1.5 billion bid to control Australia's largest newspaper group by making a dramatic last-minute deal with his rival, Robert Holmes a Court, the Perth entrepreneur.
LEAD: The Government said today that a cease-fire was in effect around Afghanistan, the first in the seven-year-old war, but Western diplomats questioned the claim.
LEAD: Uncertainty about the political fate of the Communist Party chief, Hu Yaobang, increased today amid reports that China's senior leaders were meeting secretly this week to consider major changes in the party's ruling circle.
LEAD: The West German authorities have arrested a Lebanese whom they believe to be one of two men who hijacked a Trans World Airlines plane to Beirut in June 1985. After the hijacking, 39 Americans were held hostage for 17 days.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 14, 1987, covering January 16, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Boston
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Bangles
1987Jake Epstein, Canadian actor[†]
Jacob Lee Epstein is a Canadian actor and singer. He is known for playing Craig Manning, a musician with bipolar disorder, on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He has also had recurring roles in the television series Designated Survivor and The Hardy Boys.
1987Charlotte Henshaw, English swimmer[†]
Charlotte Sarah Henshaw is a British Paralympic full-time athlete across multiple disciplines. Originally a swimmer, she changed to canoeing from 2017, becoming the reigning World champion in the KL2 (six-time) and VL3 (four-time) 200m events. In September 2021, at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, she became a Paralympic champion at her fourth games, winning the Women's KL2 event. In Paris at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Henshaw was the only Paracanoe athlete to win double gold - winning the inaugural VL3 event and retaining her KL2 title.
1987Greivis Vásquez, Venezuelan basketball player[†]
Greivis Josué Vásquez Rodríguez is a Venezuelan former professional basketball player, who spent six seasons in the NBA. He is currently a coach, most recently working as the associate head coach for the Erie BayHawks of the NBA G League. Vásquez also represented the Venezuela national team in international competitions, as he was born in Caracas and moved to the United States to attend high school at Montrose Christian School in Rockville, Maryland in 2004.
1987Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist (born 1928)[†]
Bertram Barney Wainer was an Australian doctor who successfully campaigned for legal access to abortion for women in the state of Victoria. In the process he received multiple death threats from Victoria Police and survived at least three attempts on his life, including shootings and arson. He was also to uncover political and police corruption.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]