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LEAD: Tow trucks speeding to crash sites in New York City contributed to 7 deaths, 800 personal injuries and 1,200 collisions from 1983 through 1986, Mayor Koch said yesterday.
LEAD: Howard H. Baker Jr. said today that he was on the verge of deciding to run for the Presidency when President Reagan asked him to take charge of the beleaguered White House staff. Putting aside his own White House ambitions, he agreed to take the job.
LEAD: Members of the Tower Commission said today that they were surprised and dismayed by President Reagan's lack of knowledge about the Iran-contra affair during their two lengthy discussions last month.
LEAD: President Reagan moved dramatically today to revive his troubled Presidency by replacing Donald T. Regan with former Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. as the White House chief of staff.
LEAD: Remember all that talk about darkened theaters and shuttered restaurants when Congress was voting last year to restrict the deduction for business entertainment and meals, the corporate world's everyday tax break?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 25, 1987, covering February 28, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Georgia Satellites
1987Akito, Japanese professional wrestler[†]
Akito Nishigaki is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Akito . He is working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).
1987Antonio Candreva, Italian footballer[†]
Antonio Candreva is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a right midfielder or right winger.
1987Michelle Horn, American actress[†]
Michelle Horn is an American actress. She is best known for her voice acting role as young Kiara in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.
1987Josh McRoberts, American basketball player[†]
Joshua Scott McRoberts is an American former professional basketball player who played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). McRoberts, a 6-foot-10-inch (2.08 m) power forward, played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils. He was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 37th overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]