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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 1, 1987, covering July 7, 1987.
Whitney Houston
U2
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
Heart
Bon Jovi
Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam
Kenny G
Ozzy Osbourne/Randy Rhoads
Poison
1987Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (born 1902)[†]
Germaine Thyssens-Valentin was a Dutch-born classical pianist of Franco-Dutch parentage, noted for her performances of French music. She studied under Gabriel Fauré at the Paris Conservatoire, and in the 1950s, after a long absence from performing while she raised a family of five children, she recorded a series of discs of Fauré's music that have been reissued on compact disc to considerable acclaim.
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LEAD: By Christmas David Sole expects to lose the job he has held for 16 years at the General Motors Corporation's antiquated Fleetwood plant in southwest Detroit. G.M. is closing the 70-year-old auto plant and laying off 3,000 workers as part of its effort to eliminate older, inefficient factories.
LEAD: The four Soviet doctors were wearing their formal clothes when J. W. Canty, their American host, drove them to Tompkins Square Park. Mikhail S. Gorbachev's search for solutions to alcoholism in the Soviet Union - in the form of the first delegation sent to study drinking and drug abuse in the United States - was headed for the outdoor flophouse of the Lower East
LEAD: Last month's sales of new cars fell 10.2 percent from the June 1986 level, on a daily rate basis, American manufacturers and importers said today.
LEAD: The ZZZZ Best Company said today that it would seek bankruptcy protection, and it accused its 21-year-old founder and former chairman of misappropriating $23 million of company funds.
LEAD: Guan Guangmei, former peasant and former meat counter clerk, is a ''phenomenon'' to her fellow Chinese.
LEAD: A busy week for Superior Judge Paul R. Huot. The judge has been sentencing teachers to jail, about 30 a day. He is doing it for the children, he says.
LEAD: On a recent Thursday morning, the Rev. Dr. Tony Evans stood before his congregation - 100 adolescent boys wearing Jams and high-top leather sneakers - in the gymnasium chapel at the Camp-of-the-Woods basketball clinic.
LEAD: The Federal Government today fined the Chrysler Corporation more than $1.5 million, the largest penalty it has ever imposed for job health and safety violations.
LEAD: Samuel Belzberg, the Canadian investor, touched off the $5.1 billion offer from Southland Corporation senior executives to buy the company, Wall Street professionals said yesterday.
LEAD: Over the last year a sudden - and dangerous - nursing shortage has begun to hamper hospitals all over the country.
LEAD: That most elusive of urban quarries, the rush-hour taxicab, may soon be more common.