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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Kendrick Lamar, American rapper[†]
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time, he was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, becoming the first musician outside of the classical and jazz genres to receive the award.
1987Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer and actress[†]
Nozomi Sugiura , known professionally by her birth name Nozomi Tsuji is a Japanese media personality, singer, and blogger. In 2000, she began her career as a singer for Japanese girl band Morning Musume. Tsuji later found success with related groups Mini Moni and W. She has participated in the shuffle groups 10-nin Matsuri, Odoru 11, and 11Water, H.P. All Stars, as well as being a member of the Morning Musume splinter group Morning Musume Otomegumi
1987Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1936)[†]
Richard Dalton Howser was an American Major League Baseball shortstop, coach, and manager who was best known as the manager of the Kansas City Royals during the 1980s and for guiding them to the franchise's first World Series title in 1985.
1987With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.[†]
The dusky seaside sparrow was a non-migratory subspecies of the seaside sparrow, found in Florida in the natural salt marshes of Merritt Island and along the St. Johns River. The last definite known individual died on Walt Disney World's Discovery Island in 1987, and the subspecies was officially declared extinct in December 1990.
LEAD: IT has been 10 years since an innovative behavioral psychologist set out to make life more bearable for a quadriplegic friend. With a grant of $2,000 from the Tufts New England Medical Center, Mary Jane Willard began training capuchins - organ-grinder monkeys - to become the arms and legs of quadriplegics, disabled people who have lost significant use of all four limbs.
LEAD: ''Welcome to the Undersea World of the Bronx.'' That's what the man said, and the people went inside, a few of them half expecting to see aquariums filled with rusty oil drums, assorted garbage and muggers wearing snorkels, masks and swim fins.
LEAD: The Nicaraguan soldiers arrived without warning last month and were not in the mood to give explanations.
LEAD: Three more global financial institutions - Manufacturers Hanover, Bankers Trust and National Westminster of Britain - said yesterday that they would set aside additional reserves for loan losses.
LEAD: The Justice Department, with White House approval, said today that it regarded the law on special prosecutors as unconstitutional and asserted that it would advise President Reagan to veto any Congressional extension of it as now drafted.
LEAD: WHEN President Reagan took office, high on his agenda was reducing the Government's deficit and its regulatory powers. To that end, budgets for most Federal agencies were cut and regulatory activities reduced. The Food and Drug Administration and the Agriculture Department have issued fewer regulations on health and nutrition than in previous Administrations.
LEAD: In an appearance before JWT Group Inc.'s board in January, Joseph W. O'Donnell, then the recently appointed chairman of JWT's J. Walter Thompson Company, presented a letter with a list of 10 suspected financial irregularities he had found in the operation.
LEAD: A New Jersey greasy spoon is about to slide into the Smithsonian Institution.
LEAD: It was almost 11 P.M. The streets in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn were dark and quiet as Jackie, who had recently been evicted, moved her belongings into her sister's apartment in a public-housing project.
LEAD: American naval forces escorting merchant ships in the Persian Gulf are operating under hair-trigger rules of engagement, with the crews often manning battle stations and prepared to shoot before they come under fire, the Pentagon said in a report to Congress that was made public today.
LEAD: The judge who is under investigation for her ruling in a divorce case in which Bess Myerson had an interest is suffering from a heart ailment and has stepped down from the bench temporarily, the judge's lawyer said yesterday.