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LEAD: Markets The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 2,200 in a surge of trading that also lifted broader-based market indicators to new highs. In a day marked by sharp price swings, the Dow added 10.26 points to close at 2,201.49. Volume was 256.7 million shares, the second-busiest session on record.
LEAD: Greater-than-expected demand from speculators and solid buying by foreign investors at the Treasury's 30-year bond auction yesterday caused prices of outstanding issues to rise sharply.
LEAD: The chief executive of CBS Inc. has asked CBS News to cut its budget up to $50 million, or 17 percent, prompting a drastic reassessment of the worldwide CBS News operations.
LEAD: Corporations have given almost everything imaginable to nonprofit groups at one time or another. Now an internationally famous research center can be added to the list.
LEAD: The takeover of the Harris Graphics Corporation last year and a $5.3 million invoice to Ivan F. Boesky from Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. are turning out to be key tests of the theories behind the Government inquiry into Drexel's takeover practices, according to legal and Wall Street sources familiar with the case.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 4, 1987, covering February 6, 1987.
Bon Jovi
The Bangles
Cinderella
Beastie Boys
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Pedro Álvarez, Dominican-American baseball player[†]
Pedro Manuel Álvarez Jr., nicknamed "El Toro", is a Dominican-American former professional baseball designated hitter and infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles.
1987Travis Wood, American baseball player[†]
Travis Alan Wood is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, and San Diego Padres.
1987Julien Chouinard, Canadian lawyer and jurist (born 1929)[†]
Julien Chouinard, was a Canadian lawyer and civil servant who served as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1979 to 1987. He was the sole Clark appointee to serve as a justice of the Supreme Court.
1987Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.[†]
Mary Genevieve Gaudron is an Australian lawyer and judge, who was the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia. She was the Solicitor-General of New South Wales from 1981 until 1987 before her appointment to the High Court. After her retirement in 2002, she joined the International Labour Organization, serving as the President of its Administrative Tribunal from 2011 until 2014.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]