On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Sri Lanka Peace Plan Tamil guerrillas ''agreed in principle'' to a proposal that could end Sri Lanka's bitter ethnic conflict, Indian and Sri Lankan officials said. The moves, which reportedly came after intense negotiations, meant an accord could be signed next week, people close to the talks said.
LEAD: A Kuwaiti tanker under American naval escort hit a mine today just west of an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf.
LEAD: In a rare twist of nature, a massive, shifting sand bar has paralyzed traffic on the Mississippi River, stalling hundreds of barges here with millions of tons in cargo in a nautical gridlock on the nation's busiest inland waterway.
LEAD: The man President Reagan selected today to be the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Judge William Steele Sessions of San Antonio, is a minister's son who is known as a stern but scrupulously fair judge.
LEAD: The cabin crew of a hijacked Air Afrique jet overpowered and captured a lone Lebanese gunman today after he killed a French passenger and critically wounded a steward while the plane was on the tarmac at Cointrin Airport, witnesses and Swiss officials said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 1987, covering July 25, 1987.
Whitney Houston
U2
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
Heart
1987Richard Bachman, American ice hockey player[†]
Richard Harrison Bachman is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently the goaltending coach for the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL). He played two seasons of college ice hockey at Colorado College before enjoying a career in the National Hockey League with the Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks. Bachman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, but grew up in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
1987Mitchell Burgzorg, Dutch footballer and rapper[†]
Mitchell Burgzorg is a Dutch former professional footballer and a rapper under the name Priester.
1987Fernando, Brazilian footballer[†]
Fernando Francisco Reges, known simply as Fernando, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Internacional.
1987Jax Jones, English DJ, singer and songwriter[†]
Timucin Lam, known professionally as Jax Jones, is an English DJ, record producer and remixer. He rose to prominence in 2014 by featuring on Duke Dumont's number-one single "I Got U". He followed this with his own singles, "You Don't Know Me" featuring Raye in 2016, and "Instruction" featuring Demi Lovato and Stefflon Don in 2017. Jax's debut studio album, Snacks (Supersize) was released in 2019.
1987Eran Zahavi, Israeli footballer[†]
Eran Zahavi is an Israeli professional footballer who plays as a forward.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]