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LEAD: The United States trustee in the Texaco Inc. bankruptcy case today appointed 26 Texaco creditors, including the Pennzoil Company, to monitor the activities of Texaco. These creditors, along with Texaco, will help decide on a plan of reorganization for it.
LEAD: When Nikita Sifonis heard that his mother was driving here to pick up trees for everyone at the Lincoln School, he thought it was going to be a lot of stuff.
LEAD: Princeton University will announce Tuesday that Harold T. Shapiro will resign as president of the University of Michigan to become the next president of Princeton.
LEAD: Just five days after a broad state income-tax cut became law, Governor Cuomo announced today that he would propose an increase in other taxes or fees.
LEAD: ONE hundred years ago this month, two experimenters in an Ohio basement gently rotated a carousel of mirrors floating in a tub of mercury and inadvertently smashed the reassuring vision of a clockwork cosmos that had prevailed since the time of Sir Isaac Newton.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 22, 1987, covering April 28, 1987.
U2
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Poison
Paul Simon
1987Daequan Cook, American basketball player[†]
Daequan Cook is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Ironi Nes Ziona of the Israeli Premier League. He was taken 21st overall in the 2007 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers then subsequently traded to the Miami Heat.
1987Drew Gulak, American wrestler[†]
Drew Gulak is an American professional wrestler currently performing on the independent circuit. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he was a former one-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion and eight-time WWE 24/7 Champion.
1987Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian actress and model[†]
Samantha Ruth Prabhu is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu and Tamil films. One of South India's highest-paid actresses, Samantha is the recipient of several accolades, including four Filmfare Awards South, two Nandi Awards and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award.
1987Bradley Johnson, English footballer[†]
Bradley Paul Johnson is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.
1987Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer[†]
Zoran Tošić is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a winger. He built a reputation as a free-kick specialist and a tricky dribbler.
1987Ben Linder, American engineer and activist (born 1959)[†]
Benjamin Ernest Linder, was an American engineer. While working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua, Linder was killed with two of his colleagues by the Contras, a loose confederation of rebel groups funded by the U.S. government.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]