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LEAD: Kidder, Peabody & Company has asked Richard B. Wigton, who was indicted in the Wall Street insider trading scandal, to rejoin the firm, people close to Kidder said yesterday.
LEAD: President Reagan's new peace initiative for Central America immediately ran into trouble today, as the Administration and the Sandinista Government in Nicaragua openly differed on procedures for a negotiated settlement.
LEAD: The Reagan Administration today raised its estimate of the 1987 inflation rate to 4.8 percent, a full point higher than the 3.8 percent it estimated in January.
LEAD: Women and minority-group members employed by New York City suffer pay discrimination, have been virtually shut out of certain jobs and lack promotion opportunities, a study commissioned by a labor union charged yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 1987, covering August 7, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Heart
Whitesnake
U2
LL Cool J
1987Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Sidney Patrick Crosby is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Sid the Kid" and dubbed "The Next One", he was selected first overall by the Penguins in the 2005 NHL entry draft. Born and raised in Halifax, Crosby was considered one of the most lauded prospects in ice hockey history and is widely regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time.
1987Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer[†]
Mustapha Sima Michael Dumbuya is a Sierra Leonean former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1987Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player[†]
Ryan Cole Lavarnway is an American-Israeli former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds, Miami Marlins, and Cleveland Indians. In international competition, he plays for Team Israel, and competed for them in the World Baseball Classic and in the Olympics.
1987Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer[†]
Rouven Kai Sattelmaier is a German former professional footballer who played as goalkeeper.
1987Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (born 1900)[†]
Camille Nimr Chamoun was a Lebanese politician who served as the 2nd president of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958. He was one of the country's main Christian leaders during most of the Lebanese Civil War.
1987Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]