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LEAD: President Reagan is expected to announce on Friday that the United States will act against Japan for its failure to comply with a semiconductor agreement between the two Governments.
LEAD: Nicholas A. Bartlett, a street vendor who was shot and killed Feb. 28 by the police, after he was said to have attacked a police officer with a pipe, had a history of cocaine use and had been admitted to hospitals three times in 1983 for what a police report described as extremely violent behavior, senior law-enforcement officials said yesterday.
LEAD: IT is midnight on a recent Saturday. Outside the unmarked black entrance at 246 West 14th Street are about 100 people standing in silence, eyes fixed ahead on the cadre of bouncers who hold their fate.
LEAD: In recent years, the Standard Oil Company came to be considered a stodgy giant, an especially cruel blow for the company founded by John D. Rockefeller in the early days of the oil industry.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 25, 1987, covering March 27, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Paul Simon
Genesis
1987Jefferson Bernárdez, Honduran footballer[†]
Jefferson Jair Bernárdez Bennett is a Honduran football forward who currently plays for Parrillas One.
1987Samuel Francis, Nigerian-Qatari sprinter[†]
Samuel Adelebari Francis is a sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He was born in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, Nigeria. He is a naturalized Qatari and has competed for Qatar from July 2007. His personal best of 9.99 seconds is the former Asian record for the 100 m.
1987Polina Gagarina, Russian singer-songwriter[†]
Polina Sergeyevna Gagarina is a Russian singer, songwriter and propagandist. She represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with "A Million Voices" where she finished second with 303 points. In doing so, she became the first second-placed finisher to exceed 300 points. Gagarina also participated in the Chinese reality-competition Singer in 2019, where she was one of the finalists.
1987Buster Posey, American baseball player[†]
Gerald Dempsey "Buster" Posey III is an American baseball executive and former professional baseball catcher. He is currently the president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent his entire 12-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the Giants, from 2009 until his retirement at the conclusion of the 2021 season. Internationally, Posey represented the United States. In the 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC), he helped win Team USA's first gold medal in a WBC tournament.
1987William Bowers, American journalist and screenwriter (born 1916)[†]
William Bowers was an American reporter, playwright, and screenwriter. He worked as a reporter in Long Beach, California and for Life magazine, and specialized in writing comedy-westerns. He also turned out several thrillers.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]