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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: A special religious court has begun deliberations on a sentence for Mehdi Hashemi, a radical cleric whose arrest last October was believed to have led to the revelation of American arms sales to Iran.
LEAD: Ronald O. Perelman, the chairman and chief executive of the Revlon Group Inc., revived his pursuit of the Gillette Company yesterday, but once again was immediately rebuffed.
LEAD: The pilots of the Northwest Airlines jetliner that crashed in Detroit Sunday evidently had no indication of trouble until a computer voice intoning ''stall, stall'' told them they were flying too slowly, officials close to the inquiry said yesterday.
LEAD: Senior United States envoys to the five Central American nations were told at a meeting here today that they should convey Washington's deep concern about a regional peace plan adopted this month, Administration officials said.
LEAD: Here in the North Country, the truth is not cloaked in fancy rhetoric. So when the Federal Government announced it wanted to build a $6 billion superconducting supercollider, people did not pretend their enthusiasm for supercolliders was based on a sudden interest in particle physics.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 1987, covering August 18, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Heart
Whitesnake
LL Cool J
U2
1987Joanna Jędrzejczyk, Polish mixed martial artist[†]
Joanna Jędrzejczyk is a Polish former professional mixed martial artist, Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer. Jędrzejczyk competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she holds several records and is a former UFC Women's Strawweight Champion, including most successful strawweight title defenses (5), most consecutive wins at strawweight (8), and is the first Polish champion and first female European champion. She has been called the greatest female strawweight mixed martial artist of all time, including by Daniel Cormier, who credited her with putting the weight class "on the map".
1987Justin Wilson, American baseball player[†]
Justin James Wilson is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets, and Cincinnati Reds. Prior to his professional career, Wilson played college baseball for the Fresno State Bulldogs, where he was a member of the 2008 College World Series champions.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]