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LEAD: A week after his release from the Second Moscow Provincial Psychiatric Clinic, Serafim Yevsyukov's muscles still ache so badly he cannot put on his overcoat without help. His fingers tremble slightly, he has lost 25 pounds and he walks with evident discomfort.
LEAD: Dennis Conner steered Stars & Stripes to victory in the second race of the America's Cup final today, leaving little doubt that the trophy he lost is within reach.
LEAD: The Group of Five leading industrial nations have decided to put off a meeting they were considering to negotiate a solution for the fallen dollar.
LEAD: ''You and I,'' the Wall Street arbitrager said last week to the takeover reporter, ''are out of business.''
LEAD: They are not sure when they will fly, or how long it will to take to qualify the redesigned booster rockets for the space shuttle, but today astronauts begin months of intensive training for the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 1987, covering February 2, 1987.
Bon Jovi
The Bangles
Boston
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player[†]
Anthony Fainga'a is an Australian former professional rugby union footballer. His usual position is centre.
1987Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player[†]
Saia Fainga'a is an Australian professional rugby union footballer.
1987Faydee, Australian singer[†]
Fady Fatrouni, best known by his stage name Faydee, is an Australian singer. He is best known for his 2013 single "Can't Let Go", as well his international hit "Habibi " credited to Shaggy, Mohombi, Faydee and Costi.
1987Athena Imperial, Filipino journalist, Miss Earth-Water 2011[†]
Athena Mae Duarte Imperial-Rodriguez is a Filipino news field reporter, communication researcher and beauty pageant titleholder. She competed in the eleventh edition of the national Miss Philippines Earth beauty pageant where she emerged as the winner and was crowned Miss Philippines Earth 2011. She was crowned Miss Earth-Water 2011 during the coronation night of the Miss Earth 2011 pageant held in the Philippines.
1987Mimi Page, American singer-songwriter and composer[†]
Mimi Page is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and composer.
1987Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer[†]
Gerard Piqué Bernabeu is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is considered to be one of the best defenders of his generation.
1987Javon Ringer, American football player[†]
Javon Eugene Ringer is an American former professional football player who was a running back for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans, earning consensus All-American honors in 2008. He was selected in the fifth round of the 2009 NFL draft.
1987Jill Scott, English footballer[†]
Jill Louise Scott is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. The FIFA technical report into the 2011 Women's World Cup described Scott as one of England's four outstanding players; "[an] energetic, ball-winning midfielder who organises the team well, works hard at both ends of the pitch and can change her team's angle of attack."
1987Martin Spanjers, American actor and producer[†]
Martin Brian Spanjers is an American actor. He played Rory Hennessy on the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules from 2002 to 2005, for which he won a Young Artist Award in 2004, and as Justin in Good Luck Charlie (2010–2014).
1987Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (born 1927)[†]
Carlos José Castilho was a Brazilian football goalkeeper. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and played for Fluminense from 1947 to 1964 and for Brazil. He was a member of the Brazil squad in four World Cups: 1950, 1954, 1958 and 1962. Castilho has the all-time record of matches played in Fluminense FC history, with 699 appearances.
1987Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist and screenwriter (born 1922)[†]
Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably The Guns of Navarone (1957) and Ice Station Zebra (1963). In the late 1960s, encouraged by film producer Elliott Kastner, MacLean began to write original screenplays, concurrently with an accompanying novel. The most successful was the first of these, the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, which was also a bestselling novel. MacLean also published two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. His books are estimated to have sold over 150 million copies, making him one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time.
1987After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.[†]
The People Power Revolution, also known as the EDSA Revolution or the February Revolution, were a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines, mostly in Metro Manila, from February 22 to 25, 1986. There was a sustained campaign of civil resistance against regime violence and electoral fraud. The nonviolent revolution led to the departure of Ferdinand Marcos, the end of his 20-year dictatorship and the restoration of democracy in the Philippines.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]