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LEAD: The presidents of five Central American countries today signed a preliminary accord intended to resolve conflicts in the region.
LEAD: President Reagan announced new procedures today that he said he would follow for informing Congress about covert operations, including a commitment to notify legislators within 48 hours in most cases after a new operation is started.
LEAD: A public relations consultant was found guilty yesterday of collaborating with Donald R. Manes, the Queens Borough President, in soliciting a $250,000 bribe for the awarding of a cable-television franchise in Queens.
LEAD: Taking issue with an earlier state report, the New York State Commission of Investigation said today that the collapse of a bridge on the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway that claimed 10 lives could have been avoided with proper inspections and maintenance.
LEAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission, ending years of vagueness, today spelled out a definition of insider trading.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 1987, covering August 8, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Heart
Whitesnake
U2
LL Cool J
1987Pierre Boulanger, French actor[†]
Pierre Boulanger is a French actor. He is known for the 2003 film Monsieur Ibrahim, where he played a young Jewish boy, Moises "Momo" Schmidt and for 2008 film Nos 18 ans where he played Richard. The young actor was then reported to be concentrating on his studies, and thus was not able to do movies. After two years, he did TV appearances and minor roles in movies. He is best known for his first major English film in 2011, Monte Carlo with Selena Gomez.
1987Katie Leung, Scottish actress[†]
Katie Leung is a Scottish actress. She first gained fame for playing Cho Chang, Harry Potter's first love interest in the Harry Potter film series, and subsequently for her roles as Caitlyn Kiramman in the Netflix animated series Arcane and Ash in the Amazon Prime Video sci-fi series The Peripheral. Among British television audiences, Leung is known for her lead roles in the miniseries dramas One Child and Strangers and her supporting role in the police dramedy Annika.
1987Tatjana Maria, German tennis player[†]
Tatjana Maria is a German professional tennis player. In January 2024 she reached her career-best singles ranking of world No. 42, and in June 2016, she peaked at No. 54 in the doubles rankings.
1987Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (born 1903)[†]
Danilo Blanuša was a Croatian mathematician, physicist, engineer and a professor at the University of Zagreb.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]