On this day
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LEAD: WHEN Eileen Fink, an investment broker in Westfield, N.J., leaves her well-kept suburban home for the office each morning she carries a list of local agencies that will perform the jobs she would have done a decade ago when she was a full-time homemaker.
LEAD: American and European negotiators are close to an agreement that should keep a damaging trans-Atlantic trade war from breaking out this weekend, officials of both sides said today.
LEAD: The chairman of the State Commission of Investigation said today that the Suffolk County Police Department had displayed a ''startling lack of professionalism.'' A 14-month investigation, he said, has found evidence of perjury and fabrication of evidence by the police.
LEAD: Dissident soldiers agreed this morning to end their two-day occupation of a broadcast station, but hours later armed troopers, standing on rooftops, said they were refusing to leave.
LEAD: The letter to Pope John Paul II, dispatched from this upstate village, contains a two-part appeal: please bless our effort to become a New York State Economic Development Zone, and please send a copy to Albany.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 1987, covering January 29, 1987.
Bon Jovi
The Bangles
Boston
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987José Abreu, Cuban baseball player[†]
José Dariel Abreu Correa is a Cuban-born professional baseball first baseman who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros.
1987Alex Avila, American baseball player[†]
Alexander Thomas Avila is an American former professional baseball catcher. Between 2009 and 2021 he played for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, Arizona Diamondbacks and Minnesota Twins and Washington Nationals. Avila is the son of former Tigers general manager Al Avila.
1987Jessica Burkhart, American author[†]
Jessica Ashley, better known by her pen name Jessica Burkhart, is an American author. Burkhart works primarily in the tween fiction genre, and is the writer of the Canterwood Crest series of novels.
1987Vladimír Mihálik, Slovak ice hockey player[†]
Vladimír Mihálik is a Slovak professional ice hockey defenceman who currently playing for HC Prešov of the Slovak 1. Liga.
1987Vincent R. Impellitteri, American politician and judge, 101st Mayor of New York City (born 1900)[†]
Vincent Richard Impellitteri was an Italian-American politician and judge who served as the 101st Mayor of New York City from 1950 to 1953. He was elected as a Democrat and president of the City Council in 1945 and reelected in 1949. When Mayor William O'Dwyer resigned in 1950, he became acting mayor. He lost the Democratic primary for the nomination for the rest of the term but was subsequently elected mayor on a new ticket, the "Experience Party". He lost the Democratic primary when he ran for a full term in 1953 and became a judge in 1954.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]