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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player[†]
Darius Boyd is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a fullback for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League (NRL) and has played for Australia at international level and State of Origin for Queensland. Boyd captained the Brisbane Broncos from 2017 to 2019.
1987Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer[†]
Jeremy Phillip Felton, known professionally as Jeremih, is an American R&B singer. He embarked on a musical career after meeting record producer Mick Schultz in 2008, and signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings the following year.
LEAD: Hundreds of the aging and once stately houses of worship that helped give Brooklyn the name ''City of Churches'' are in severe disrepair, with many congregations closing off parts of the buildings because they are unsafe.
LEAD: FRIDAY STEPPING OUT IN BROOKLYN Celebrate Brooklyn, the spirited summerlong festival of the performing arts in Prospect Park, turns to dance this weekend. Several renowned companies, presenting works ranging from classical ballet to Irish step-dancing, will take the stage tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at 8 P.M.
LEAD: The seven candidates seeking their parties' nominations in primary elections next Tuesday in the Fourth Congressional District are fighting summer more than each other.
LEAD: THE outdoor sculpture season has begun to reflect the state of sculpture in general. The amount of outdoor sculpture continues to increase: there are currently four large shows. But as the cost of living and working in Manhattan continues to rise, more outdoor sculpture is being made and exhibited elsewhere: this season there is a significant shift toward other boroughs, particularly Queens.
LEAD: Mayor Koch said yesterday that the city plans to end its year-old contract with a private concrete company and seek a new supplier to start producing reduced-cost concrete to break a monopoly in Manhattan.
LEAD: IS it outrageous? Imaginative? Unexpected? Then it's probably part of Serious Fun!, a distinctly offbeat festival that begins tonight at Alice Tully Hall and runs through Aug. 2.
LEAD: A high-ranking Afghan diplomat on his way to buy an air-conditioner at an appliance store in Queens has been accused of ramming a woman in a dispute over a parking space.
LEAD: On Wall Street, where quick action now rules over measured deliberation, and a meritocracy has replaced the gentleman's club, one of the last guardians of the old style has finally joined the fray.
LEAD: Up and down these suburban streets the friendly developers go, knocking on doors. They want to buy three or four nice homes in a row, tear them down and squeeze in a condominium. It's very profitable.
LEAD: Lee Alexander, a Democrat who ruled Syracuse as Mayor for 16 years while earning a national reputation as a spokesman for the nation's cities, was indicted today on charges that he masterminded a scheme that brought him $1.5 million in kickbacks from city contractors.
LEAD: Administration officials, frustrated and disappointed by recent Soviet attitudes toward arms control talks, say prospects for a fall meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, are fading.
LEAD: British Airlines to Merge British Air is to take over a rival, strengthening its position against the huge American airlines formed by mergers. But some discount fares could be lost. Page D1. Takeover String Continues Kohlberg, Kravis, which has spent $30 billion on companies, offered to buy Jim Walter, a builder of low-cost houses, for $2.03 billion.