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LEAD: Republican senators, reaffirming the principle of seniority, today rejected the choice made by their party's members of the Foreign Relations Committee and elected Senator Jesse Helms to be the committee's ranking Republican.
LEAD: Citicorp yesterday reported a healthy 25.9 percent increase in fourth-quarter net income, to $306 million, from $243 million. It was buoyed by strong profits from its consumer and business banking operations, which more than offset flat results in its investment bank.
LEAD: Snugly ensconced in one chair, Helmut Kohl reached out with a long arm and dragged an empty one to him in a kind of half-embrace. ''I have been underestimated for decades,'' the West German Chancellor said with a big smile. ''I've done very well that way.''
LEAD: A senior Central Intelligence Agency official helped Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North begin the network to supply weapons to the Nicaraguan rebels three years ago, even as Congress moved to prohibit military assistance to them, according to a former senior rebel official and other sources.
LEAD: Ending one of the most dismal years in its history, the International Business Machines Corporation said yesterday that its fourth-quarter profits fell by nearly half, to $1.39 billion.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 1987, covering January 21, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Boston
The Bangles
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Oskars Bārtulis, Latvian ice hockey player[†]
Oskars Bārtulis is a Latvian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played parts of two seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers. In 2018, Bartulis became a Russian citizen and initially ineligible to play for Latvia at national level.
1987Brandon Crawford, American baseball player[†]
Brandon Michael Crawford is an American former professional baseball shortstop. He spent 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), playing all but his last season for the San Francisco Giants. Crawford played college baseball for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was selected in the fourth round of the 2008 MLB draft by the Giants, and played his final season in 2024 with the St. Louis Cardinals. Internationally, Crawford represents the United States. In the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC), he helped win Team USA's first gold medal in a WBC tournament.
1987Aida Hadzialic, Swedish politician[†]
Aida Hadžialić is a Bosnian-born Swedish politician and a member of the Social Democrats. She served as Minister for Upper Secondary School, Adult Education and Training from 3 October 2014 until her resignation on 15 August 2016. Prior to joining the government she served as deputy mayor 2010–2014 in Halmstad, Halland.
1987Darren Helm, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Darren Helm is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played for the Detroit Red Wings and the Colorado Avalanche, winning the Stanley Cup in 2008 and again in 2022.
1987Shaun Keeling, South African rower[†]
Shaun Keeling is a South African rower. He won a silver medal in the men's coxless pair event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He also competed in the men's coxless pair event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
1987Will Johnson, Canadian soccer player[†]
William David Johnson is a Canadian soccer player who plays for Central Florida Panthers in the National Premier Soccer League and the Central Florida Crusaders in the National Indoor Soccer League. A versatile midfielder, Johnson has represented Canada internationally.
1987Dominik Roels, German cyclist[†]
Dominik Roels is a former German professional road bicycle racer, who previously rode for German Team Milram. He announced his retirement in January 2011.
1987Maša Zec Peškirič, Slovenian tennis player[†]
Maša Zec Peškirič is a Slovenian former tennis player.
1987Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Japanese actress[†]
Ikumi Yoshimatsu is a Japanese actress, stunt woman, book author, opinion leader, social activist and beauty queen who was crowned Miss International 2012 in Okinawa. It was Japan's first Miss International win in the 52-year history of the pageant.
1987Charles Goodell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (born 1926)[†]
Charles Ellsworth Goodell Jr. was an American politician who represented New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1968 and the United States Senate from 1968 to 1971. In both cases, he took office following the deaths of his predecessors, first in a special election and second as a temporary appointee succeeding Robert F. Kennedy.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]