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LEAD: Allegations that a high-level carpenters' union official extorted more than $200,000 from contractors have been presented to a New York State grand jury that is hearing evidence about widespread corruption in Manhattan's construction industry, according to law-enforcement investigators.
LEAD: Nick Faldo of England, who turned 30 Saturday, today received the finest gift a golfer could imagine when Paul Azinger of the United States, who led by three shots at the turn, virtually handed over the 116th British Open title.
LEAD: A prominent Republican Senator on the Iran-contra committees said today that he would support a Presidential pardon for both Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North and Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter before any possible criminal prosecution was announced.
LEAD: The charges evoked the specter of treason among the elite Marine Corps guard in Moscow: two marines escorting K.G.B. spies through recesses of the United States Embassy, silencing alarms as they went.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 15, 1987, covering July 20, 1987.
Whitney Houston
U2
Whitesnake
Heart
Motley Crue
1987Nicola Benedetti, Scottish violinist[†]
Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti is a Scottish classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She works with orchestras in Europe and America as well as with Alexei Grynyuk, her regular pianist. Since 2012, she has played the Gariel Stradivarius violin.
1987Niall McGinn, Irish footballer[†]
Niall McGinn is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward. McGinn has also played for Dungannon Swifts, Derry City, Celtic, Brentford, Aberdeen, Gwangju, Dundee, Glentoran and Greenock Morton. He made his debut for Northern Ireland in 2008 and has gone on to make over sixty international appearances.
1987Richard Egan, American soldier and actor (born 1921)[†]
Richard Egan was an American actor. After beginning his career in 1949, he subsequently won a Golden Globe Award for his performances in the films The Glory Brigade (1953) and The Kid from Left Field (1953). He went on to star in many films such as Underwater! (1955), Seven Cities of Gold (1955), The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956), Love Me Tender (1956), Tension at Table Rock (1956), A Summer Place (1959), Esther and the King (1960) and The 300 Spartans (1962).
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]