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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Six years ago Eugene Lang, a millionaire industrialist, offered 61 sixth-grade students in East Harlem a chance to reach an impossible dream. If they stuck to their school work, he said, he would guarantee them a college education.
LEAD: AS municipalities on Long Island and across the country continue to move toward garbage-to-energy incineration as a solution to their mounting solid-waste problems, a debate is emerging over whether the ash produced by incinerators is toxic enough to be classified as hazardous waste.
LEAD: AFTER six weeks of hearings into the Iran-contra affair, the members of the joint Congressional committees have begun to emerge as familiar personalities. Some have been eloquent, like Representative Lee H. Hamilton, the chairman of the House panel. Some have proved to be doughty defenders of the Reagan Administration, like Senator Orrin G.
LEAD: To those major borrowers of mortgage money who think that interest rates will soon tumble, a new financing product called the Tokyo Takeout might be appealing.
LEAD: MANY years and housing trends ago, well-off Manhattan families lived primarily in established residential areas and the less-well-off lived on the fringes.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 17, 1987, covering June 21, 1987.
U2
Whitesnake
Motley Crue
Bon Jovi
Poison
1987Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer[†]
Pablo Edson Barrera Acosta is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Querétaro.
1987Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer[†]
Sebastian Prödl is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. A full international from 2007 to 2018, he represented the Austria national team at UEFA Euro 2008 and UEFA Euro 2016.
1987Dale Thomas, Australian footballer[†]
Dale Robert Jordan “Daisy” Thomas is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Thomas was a priority pick in 2005, where he then played with the Collingwood Football Club from 2006 to 2013 before transferring to Carlton in 2014.
1987Kim Ryeo-wook, South Korean singer[†]
Kim Ryeo-wook, better known by the mononym Ryeowook, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and musical actor. He is best known as a member of boy group Super Junior and its subgroups, Super Junior-K.R.Y. and Super Junior-M. Along with four other Super Junior members, he is one of the first Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps. He began a solo career in 2016 with his first EP The Little Prince.
1987Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (born 1914)[†]
Earl William "Madman" Muntz was an American businessman and engineer who sold and promoted cars and consumer electronics in the United States from the 1930s until his death in 1987. He was a pioneer in television commercials with his oddball "Madman" persona; an alter ego who generated publicity with his unusual costumes, stunts, and outrageous claims. Muntz also pioneered car stereos by creating the Muntz Stereo-Pak, better known as the 4-track cartridge, a predecessor to the 8-track cartridge developed by Lear Industries.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]