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LEAD: Mayor Sharpe James signed a contract today for the construction of 650 moderately priced town houses, the largest addition to the city's housing stock in decades.
LEAD: Canadian officials, in an unusually fractious mood, met today with Vice President Bush today and demanded that the Reagan Administration make greater efforts to fulfill commitments on trade, acid rain and other issues.
LEAD: There were signs today that the West German Government was hesitating to extradite an accused Lebanese terrorist being sought by the United States.
LEAD: IN 1986, period decorative arts commanded million-dollar prices at auction more often than they ever had before - not once or twice, but six times. Remarkable seven-figure prices were paid for an American table and a wing chair, a German jeweled box, a British silver epergne, a French drop-front secretary and a Chinese porcelain dish.
LEAD: Negotiators for the Long Island Rail Road reported progress last night with 3 of 11 striking unions -reaching a tentative agreement with one. But a quick end still seemed unlikely for the walkout that has inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers all week.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 1987, covering January 22, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Boston
The Bangles
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian skier[†]
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen is a Norwegian former cross-country skier and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She skied with the IL Heming club in Oslo, near Holmenkollen. Her greatest achievement is winning the gold medal in sprint at the 2007 World Championships. On 22 April 2020, she announced her retirement from cross-country skiing in favour of medical studies.
1987Shane Long, Irish footballer[†]
Shane Patrick Long is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1987Ray Rice, American football player[†]
Raymell Mourice Rice is an American former professional football player who was a running back for six seasons with the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, earning first-team All-American honors in 2007. He was selected by the Ravens in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft. During his career, Rice was named to three Pro Bowls and was a member of the team that won Super Bowl XLVII. He is second in franchise rushing yards, rushing attempts, and rushing touchdowns, and is third in the franchise in combined touchdowns.
1987R. Budd Dwyer, American educator and politician, 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania (born 1939)[†]
Robert Budd Dwyer was an American politician who served as the 70th Treasurer of Pennsylvania from January 20, 1981 until his suicide on January 22, 1987. He previously served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state's 50th district. On January 22, 1987, Dwyer committed suicide during a press conference.
1987Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.[†]
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 110 million, it is the world's twelfth-most-populous country.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]