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LEAD: Syrians Enter West Beirut The Syrian Army moved in force into West Beirut, vowing to disband the warring militias there. An uneasy calm prevailed in the city. Page A11. Albany Outlook Changes Governor Cuomo, by announcing that he will not run for President, has dramatically changed the political prospects in Albany.
LEAD: David Susskind, the television producer and one of the country's earliest and best-known television talk-show hosts, was found dead, apparently of natural causes, yesterday afternoon in his hotel suite in midtown Manhattan. He was 66 years old. Although Mr. Susskind had given up ''The David Susskind Show'' last September after nearly 30 years on the air, he was still active and had produced four television specials in the last year.
LEAD: Andy Warhol, a founder of Pop Art whose paintings and prints of Presidents, movie stars, soup cans and other icons of America made him one of the most famous artists in the world, died yesterday. He was believed to be 58 years old.
LEAD: She was 14 when she became pregnant. She told her mother, and her mother called the clinic to set up an abortion. That was where the law came in, about the same time as the morning sickness. A bundle of nausea, anger and fear, she went to the same state court that handles juvenile delinquents, with braces on her teeth and a fullness in her womb.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 18, 1987, covering February 23, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Bangles
1987Ab-Soul, American rapper[†]
Herbert Anthony Stevens IV, better known by his stage name Ab-Soul, is an American rapper. Raised in Carson, California, he signed to indie record label Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) in 2007, where he eventually formed West Coast hip hop group Black Hippy, alongside fellow California-based rappers Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q. He is perhaps most known for his introspective lyrics and his six independent albums under TDE, Longterm Mentality, Control System, These Days..., Do What Thou Wilt., Herbert, and Soul Burger, which were all released to positive reviews and commercial success.
1987Malik Hairston, American basketball player[†]
Malik Samory Hairston is an American former professional basketball player. A shooting guard-small forward from the University of Oregon's Ducks, he was chosen in the 2008 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns, who then traded him to the San Antonio Spurs. Hairston has also played with the San Antonio Spurs, the Austin Toros, Montepaschi Siena and Olimpia Milano of the Italian League, and Galatasaray of the Turkish League. He was born in Detroit, Michigan.
1987Theophilus London, Trinidadian-American singer-songwriter and producer[†]
Theophilus Musa London is an American rapper, singer, and record producer. He is best known for his guest appearance alongside Allan Kingdom and Paul McCartney on Kanye West's 2015 single "All Day", which peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and received two Grammy Award nominations. London has also worked on West's demo album Donda 2 (2022), as well as several of his unreleased projects.
1987Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.[†]
SN 1987A was a type II supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It occurred approximately 51.4 kiloparsecs from Earth and was the closest observed supernova since Kepler's Supernova in 1604. Light and neutrinos from the explosion reached Earth on February 23, 1987, and it was designated "SN 1987A" as the first supernova discovered that year. Its brightness peaked in May of that year, with an apparent magnitude of about 3, brighter than the constellation's brightest star, Alpha Doradus.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]