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LEAD: The Government has subpoenaed or requested information from more than a dozen financial institutions that were among the largest ''junk bond'' clients of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., a number of sources with knowledge of the investigation said yesterday.
LEAD: The Environmental Protection Agency disclosed today that it had found high levels of toxic PCB's in wells for drinking water near a pipeline company dump near Lambertville, N.J.
LEAD: For 50 years during Labor Day week, the Italian community here has paraded through the streets, celebrating the Feast of Madonna dei Martiri. Fireworks explode on feast week from morning to night.
LEAD: Pawnshops, the latest business to discover the benefits of upscale marketing, are shedding their dingy image for a place on Wall Street and a hold on the middle class.
LEAD: President Reagan's speech Wednesday night elicited sedate applause at the elite River Oaks Country Club, conflicting views from the younger white-collar crowd at the Texas Club and a sense of quiet relief from half a dozen people watching television at Carol Standish's house in an affluent neighborhood.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 4, 1987, covering March 6, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Genesis
Janet Jackson
1987Mário Bližňák, Slovak ice hockey player[†]
Mário Bližňák is a Slovak former professional ice hockey center. He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). After playing in the Slovak Extraliga, Bližňák was selected by the Canucks in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, and moved to North America, joining the Vancouver Giants of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) in 2005. Bližňák played three seasons with the Giants, helping them win the Memorial Cup, the national championship for major junior hockey in Canada, in 2007, before joining the Moose in 2008. He is best known as a defensive forward.
1987Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer[†]
Kevin-Prince Boateng is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward. Born in Germany, he played for the Ghana national team.
1987Chico Flores, Spanish footballer[†]
José Manuel Flores Moreno, commonly known as Chico Flores, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
1987The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.[†]
MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]