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LEAD: Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued today that it was too late to reform the country's main welfare program and proposed replacing it with something entirely different.
LEAD: At 1:30 yesterday afternoon, Mark Loehr, a stock trader, was feeding orders into a record-trampling surge in the market. Just 15 minutes later, he was scrambling to stay in control as prices suddenly were sucked into a free fall - and it dawned on him that he was in for a day unlike any other in his experience.
LEAD: The President of Iran said today that the Foreign Ministry had rebuffed a final effort by the Reagan Administration to maintain contacts with his Government.
LEAD: Transit police officers used excessive restraint during the 1983 arrest of Michael Stewart, according to a report released yesterday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
LEAD: The Department of Transportation today imposed one of the smallest fines possible against a state where too many motorists fail to comply with the 55 mile-an-hour speed limit.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 1987, covering January 24, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Boston
The Bangles
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Brian Cushing, American football player[†]
Brian Patrick Cushing is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for the Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the USC Trojans, and was selected by the Texans in the first round of the 2009 NFL draft. He played his entire nine-year career with Houston from 2009 to 2017 and became the team's all-time leading tackler.
1987Wayne Hennessey, Welsh footballer[†]
Wayne Robert Hennessey is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Wales national team.
1987Luis Suárez, Uruguayan footballer[†]
Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami. Known for his goal scoring ability, movement, and clinical finishing, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time. Nicknamed "El Pistolero", individually, he has won two European Golden Shoes, an Eredivisie Golden Boot, a Premier League Golden Boot and a Pichichi Trophy. He has scored over 500 career goals for club and country. Suárez is Uruguay's all-time leading goalscorer.
1987Davide Valsecchi, Italian racing driver[†]
Davide Valsecchi is an Italian former racing driver and the 2012 GP2 Series champion.
1987Kia Vaughn, American-Czech basketball player[†]
Kia Vaughn is an American-born former professional basketball player. She last played for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) She attended high school at St. Michael's All Girls High School in New York, and later went on to star at Rutgers University.
1987Guan Xin, Chinese basketball player[†]
Guan Xin is a basketball player for the China women's national basketball team. She was part of the squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
1987About 20,000 protestors march in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.[†]
The 1987 Forsyth County protests were a series of civil rights demonstrations held in Forsyth County, Georgia, in the United States. The protests consisted of two marches, held one week apart on January 17 and January 24, 1987. The marches and accompanying counterdemonstrations by white supremacists drew national attention to the county. The second march was attended by many prominent civil rights activists and politicians, including both of Georgia's U.S. senators, and attracted about 20,000 marchers, making it one of the largest civil rights demonstrations in United States history.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]