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June 19, 1987

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Headlines from June 19, 1987

BUYOUT PIONEER QUITTING FRAY

By James Sterngold

LEAD: Jerome Kohlberg Jr., whose name has become synonymous with one of the most important financial developments of the last decade, the leveraged buyout, has withdrawn from active participation in the firm he helped found and build into the industry's leader, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company.

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SECORD DENIES LINK TO DISLOYAL AGENT

By Fox Butterfield, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord denied today that he had had any financial connection with Edwin P. Wilson, the renegade C.I.A. operative convicted of smuggling arms to Libya, and charged that Congressional committees were conducting a ''continuing campaign'' to discredit him.

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ACCOUNTING FIRM PLANS TO LEAVE MANHATTAN

By Douglas Martin

LEAD: Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, one of the nation's largest accounting firms, said yesterday that it was moving its national headquarters out of Manhattan because of the shortage of affordable housing for its staff.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 17, 1987, covering June 19, 1987.

  1. 1
    Album cover for The Joshua Tree by U2

    The Joshua Tree

    U2

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    12
  2. 2
    Album cover for Whitesnake by Whitesnake

    Whitesnake

    Whitesnake

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    10
  3. 3
    Album cover for Girls; Girls; Girls by Motley Crue

    Girls; Girls; Girls

    Motley Crue

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    2
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    Album cover for Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi

    Slippery When Wet

    Bon Jovi

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    3
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    41
  5. 5
    Album cover for Look What The Cat Dragged In by Poison

    Look What The Cat Dragged In

    Poison

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    3
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    47

Notable Births

Rashard Mendenhall

1987Rashard Mendenhall, American football player[†]

Rashard Jamal Mendenhall is an American former football running back who played for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 2008 NFL draft. He won Super Bowl XLIII with the Steelers against the Arizona Cardinals, for whom he later played one season.

Notable Deaths

1987Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (born 1896)[†]

Margaret Carver Leighton was an American children's author.

Historical Events

ETA (separatist group)

1987Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.[†]

ETA, an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018. The group was founded in 1959 during the era of Francoist Spain, and later evolved from a pacifist group promoting traditional Basque culture to a violent paramilitary group. It engaged in a campaign of bombings, assassinations, and kidnappings throughout Spain and especially the Southern Basque Country against the regime, which was highly centralised and hostile to the expression of non-Castilian minority identities. ETA was the main group within the Basque National Liberation Movement and was the most important Basque participant in the Basque conflict.

Aeroflot Flight N-528

1987Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.[†]

Aeroflot Flight N-528 was a regular commercial flight from Odesa to Berdyansk that crashed at 11:22 local time while attempting to land in poor weather conditions.

Historical Context for June 19, 1987

In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]