On this day
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LEAD: When a tap dancer named Charles B. Lawlor and a hat salesman named James W. Blake composed ''The Sidewalks of New York,'' they immortalized the city's pedestrians in waltz tempo. That was in 1894. Try waltzing along the sidewalks today.
LEAD: Merrill Lynch & Company announced yesterday a high-level shake-up in the management of its securities trading in an effort to recover from last month's loss of $250 million in its mortgage-bond trading.
LEAD: To foreign business executives, the Chinese banking giant Citic sometimes seems to be everything that the country is not: capitalist, bold, efficient, profitable.
LEAD: Not long before last week's vote on the House trade bill, the chairman of the Chrysler Corporation, Lee A. Iacocca, told Democratic leaders here, ''A member of Congress would rather be called a pervert than a protectionist.''
LEAD: Churches, neighborhood groups and government agencies in the New York region are scrambling to set up counseling networks that will guide aliens through the amnesty program established under the nation's new immigration law, which takes effect tomorrow.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 29, 1987, covering May 4, 1987.
U2
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Poison
Paul Simon
1987Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer and manager[†]
Francesc Fàbregas Soler is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who played as a central midfielder. He is currently the head coach of Serie A club Como.
1987Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer[†]
Jorge Lorenzo Guerrero is a Spanish former professional motorcycle racer. He is a five-time World Champion, with three MotoGP World Championships and two 250cc World Championships.
1987Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (born 1942)[†]
Paul Vaughn Butterfield was an American blues harmonica player, singer, and bandleader. After early training as a classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored the blues scene in his native Chicago, where he met Muddy Waters and other blues greats, who provided encouragement and opportunities for him to join in jam sessions. He soon began performing with fellow blues enthusiasts Nick Gravenites and Elvin Bishop.
1987Cathryn Damon, American actress (born 1930)[†]
Cathryn Lee Damon was an American actress known for her roles in sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s. She was best known as Mary Campbell in Soap, for which she was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, winning in 1980.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]