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LEAD: Moments after Stars & Stripes won the America's Cup today, the crew of the 12-Meter yacht was celebrating with shouts and champagne in the sunny dazzle of the Indian Ocean when Dennis Conner turned to his tactician, Tom Whidden.
LEAD: The American Home Products Corporation has offered to buy the A. H. Robins Company and take on the huge legal liabilities of Robins's Dalkon Shield birth-control device, the two health-care companies said yesterday.
LEAD: The Reagan Administration is close to a decision on whether to put into effect an interpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty that would allow extensive testing of ''Star Wars'' systems, Government officials said today.
LEAD: Saudi Arabia wants oil prices to remain at $18 a barrel for the foreseeable future, senior officials of the Saudi Government said today.
LEAD: The USX Corporation said today that it would ''indefinitely idle'' three steelmaking operations and part of a fourth. The action reduces USX's steelmaking capacity by more than a fourth and trims its work force by about 3,700 employees.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 4, 1987, covering February 5, 1987.
Bon Jovi
The Bangles
Cinderella
Beastie Boys
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Darren Criss, American actor, singer, and entrepreneur[†]
Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He rose to fame starring on the television series Glee (2010–2015) and received a Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for his leading role as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018). He has also appeared on Broadway and in film and has released several musical albums.
1987Curtis Jerrells, American basketball player[†]
Curtis Louis Jerrells Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at 1.85 m, he plays at the point guard position.
1987Alex Kuznetsov, Ukrainian-American tennis player[†]
Alex Kuznetsov is a retired professional tennis player. He is a former hitting partner of Maria Sharapova.
1987Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Linus Karl Heimer Omark is a Swedish professional ice hockey left winger currently with Luleå Hockey of the SHL. Omark has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Buffalo Sabres and Edmonton Oilers. He was drafted into the NHL by the Edmonton Oilers in the fourth round, 97th overall, of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft.
1987Donald Sanford, American-Israeli sprinter[†]
Donald Eugene Blair-Sanford is an American-Israeli Olympic sprinter, who specialises in the 400 metre dash.
1987William Collier Jr., American actor and producer (born 1902)[†]
William Collier Jr. was an American stage performer, producer, and a film actor who in the silent and sound eras was cast in no fewer than 89 motion pictures.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]