On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Every Sunday morning, an old-time preacher ascends to the pulpit of the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica, Queens.
LEAD: Simon J. Milde came to the United States from England in 1976 with a few hundred thousand dollars, not much of it his. In the following decade, he made himself, his partners and his real estate company, Jones Lang Wootton, very rich by brokering and managing billions of dollars worth of New York property.
LEAD: Burglars rested on weekends, while murderers worked overtime. About $911 million worth of merchandise and money was reported stolen; $200 million was recovered.
LEAD: The foreign exchange market is calling the shots for interest rates, with weakness in the dollar leading to higher yields on short and long-term debt securities.
LEAD: The innovative plan by the Philippines to service its foreign debt in the form of notes that are essentially i.o.u.'s has raised a host of issues -accounting, economic, and political -that threaten to doom the plan even before it gets started, financial experts said over the weekend.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 25, 1987, covering March 30, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Paul Simon
Genesis
1987Trent Barreta, American wrestler[†]
Gregory Marasciulo, better known by the ring name Trent Beretta, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of the Don Callis Family and one-half of Roppongi Vice with Rocky Romero. He is also known for his time with WWE as Trent Barreta and New Japan Pro-Wrestling and Ring of Honor under the ring name Beretta. As part of Roppongi Vice, Beretta is a former four-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion. He is also known for his tenures with Pro Wrestling Guerilla and various independent promotions.
1987Calum Elliot, Scottish footballer[†]
Calum Elliot is a Scottish former professional footballer who was most recently manager of Scottish League Two club Bonnyrigg Rose.
1987Kwok Kin Pong, Hong Kong footballer[†]
Kwok Kin Pong is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a defender or a midfielder. As he resembles Hong Kong artist and singer Edison Chen, he was given the nickname 'Edison'.
1987Marc-Édouard Vlasic, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Marc-Édouard Vlasic is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Vlasic holds the team record for most games played by a Sharks defenseman and the NHL record for blocked shots.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]