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LEAD: Vigilantes in Philippines Right-wing vigilante groups are spreading through the Philippines in a new approach to counterinsurgency endorsed by many officials. Page 5.
LEAD: A sweeping revision of the New York State tax code -lowering the maximum tax rate on wages to 7 percent from the current 9 percent - was agreed to today by leaders of the State Legislature and appeared virtually certain to become law.
LEAD: The rush was on yesterday to raise highway speed limits to 65 miles an hour, but New York, New Jersey and Connecticut seem unlikely to join the stampede.
LEAD: The United States is using monitoring devices in China to improve estimates of the size of Soviet nuclear tests, according to Defense Department documents and interviews with Administration officials.
LEAD: New Jersey has replaced Massachusetts as the major industrial state with the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, according to the United States Department of Labor.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 1, 1987, covering April 4, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Paul Simon
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Janet Jackson
1987Sami Khedira, German footballer[â ]
Sami Khedira is a German former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
1987McDonald Mariga, Kenyan footballer[â ]
McDonald Mariga Wanyama is a Kenyan politician and former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. In 2010, he became the first Kenyan footballer to play in and win the UEFA Champions League for Inter Milan.
1987Cameron Maybin, American baseball player[â ]
Cameron Keith Maybin is an American professional baseball broadcaster and former center fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Florida / Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, Houston Astros, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, and New York Mets. He was the tenth overall pick in the 2005 MLB draft by the Tigers and debuted with them in 2007. With the Astros, he won the 2017 World Series.
1987Marcos Vellidis, Greek footballer[â ]
Markos Vellidis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1987Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress[â ]
Sarah Lynn Gadon is a Canadian actress. She began her acting career guest-starring in a number of television series, such as Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1999), Mutant X (2002), and Dark Oracle (2004). She also worked as a voice actress on various television productions. Gadon gained recognition for her roles in David Cronenberg's films A Dangerous Method (2011), Cosmopolis (2012), and Maps to the Stars (2014). She also starred in Denis Villeneuve's thriller Enemy (2013), the period drama Belle (2013), and the action horror film Dracula Untold (2014).
1987C. L. Moore, American author and academic (born 1911)[â ]
Catherine Lucille Moore was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in the science fiction and fantasy genres. Moore's work paved the way for many other female speculative fiction writers.
1987Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan guru, poet, and scholar (born 1939)[â ]
Chögyam Trungpa, formally named the 11th Zurmang Trungpa, Chokyi Gyatso, was a Tibetan Buddhist master and holder of both Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He was recognized by both Tibetan Buddhists and other spiritual practitioners and scholars as a preeminent teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. He was a major figure in the dissemination of Buddhism in the West, founding Vajradhatu and Naropa University and establishing the Shambhala Training method. The 11th of the Trungpa tĂŒlkus, he was a tertön, supreme abbot of the Surmang monasteries, scholar, teacher, poet, artist, and originator of Shambhala Buddhist tradition.
1987Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian journalist and author (born 1911)[â ]
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan, popularly known by his pen name Agyeya, was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction, criticism and journalism. He is regarded as the pioneer of the Prayogavaad (experimentalism) movement in modern Hindi literature.
1987Garuda Indonesia Flight 032 crashes at Medan Airport, killing 23.[â ]
Garuda Indonesia Flight 035 was a domestic Garuda Indonesia flight that struck a pylon and crashed on approach to Medan-Polonia Airport on 4 April 1987. Out of the 45 passengers and crew on board, 23 were killed in the accident.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]