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LEAD: A thunderous explosion, triggered when workers dropped a propane tank down a basement stairwell, tore through three buildings in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn yesterday morning, killing 4 men, injuring 11 other people and setting off a frenzied hunt for trapped survivors.
LEAD: A convoy of three Navy warships and two Kuwaiti tankers stood ready today to enter the Strait of Hormuz and traverse the Persian Gulf, inaugurating an expanded and more active American military presence.
LEAD: MOST fishermen know that no fish tastes finer than the one you have caught yourself, whether it's a trout from a mountain stream, mackerel off a dock in Maine or a fighting bluefish like those John Hersey catches off Martha's Vineyard and describes in his fine new book ''Blues.''
LEAD: Four more New York-based money-center banking companies - Citicorp, Manufacturers Hanover, Bankers Trust and Irving Bank - reported yesterday that they had huge second-quarter losses following their previously announced decisions to set aside additional reserves for losses on Latin American loans.
LEAD: In one of his last appearances before Congress as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Paul A. Volcker today again sounded the alarm on a theme that has made him famous - the possibility of renewed inflation in the United States economy.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 1987, covering July 22, 1987.
Whitney Houston
U2
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
Heart
1987Denis Gargaud Chanut, French slalom canoeist[†]
Denis Gargaud Chanut is a French slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level in C1 since 2004. Between 2009 and 2011 he also competed in the C2 category alongside Fabien Lefèvre. He won a gold medal in the C1 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
1987Charlotte Kalla, Swedish skier[†]
Marina Charlotte Kalla is a Swedish retired cross-country skier. A four-time Olympian, Kalla won three golds and nine medals overall at the Olympics between 2004 and 2022. She holds the joint record as Sweden's most decorated Olympic competitor and is the all-time leader among Swedish female athletes. She is also a 13-time medalist at the World Championships, including a gold medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 10 km freestyle event in Falun. This made Kalla the first Swedish female cross-country skier to win individual golds in both the Olympics and World Championships. In 2008, Kalla won the Jerring Award for her Tour de Ski win.
1987Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (born 1900)[†]
Fahrettin Kerim Gökay was a Turkish politician, civil servant, professor ordinarius and physician. He served as government minister, and is well known for his long-term position as governor of Istanbul.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]