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LEAD: Recent efforts to improve the quality of American public elementary and secondary schools may fall short of the expectations of educators and political leaders, the Congressional Budget Office warned yesterday.
LEAD: The surge in the value of the Japanese yen is changing economies throughout Asia, altering longtime alliances and endowing new prosperity on nations from Taiwan to Thailand.
LEAD: The A. H. Robins Company, which has agreed to merge with Rorer Group Inc., said yesterday that it had filed a new reorganization plan to emerge from bankruptcy.
LEAD: Governor Cuomo called today for a ''new realism'' in American foreign policy and said that now was the time to bring about an end to the cold war.
LEAD: The dollar has taken another clobbering in the foreign exchange markets following the Government report a week ago of unexpected deterioration in the United States foreign trade accounts.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 19, 1987, covering August 24, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Heart
LL Cool J
U2
1987Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player[†]
Anže Kopitar is a Slovenian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). The 11th overall pick in the 2005 NHL entry draft, Kopitar became the first Slovene to play in the NHL upon making his debut in 2006. Kopitar has spent his entire NHL career with the Kings, has led the team in scoring in all but four seasons and is second in franchise history in points, third in goals, and first in assists. He scored his 1,000th career point in 2021. Following the 2015–16 season, he was named the Kings' captain. Noted for both his offensive and defensive play, Kopitar was awarded the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the best defensive forward in the NHL in 2016, as well as the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for gentlemanly play the same year. He won the Selke Trophy a second time in 2018 and the Lady Byng Trophy in 2023 and 2025.
1987Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (born 1936)[†]
Malcolm Kirk was an English professional wrestler who went by the ring name of "King Kong" Kirk as well as Kojak Kirk, Killer Kirk and "Mucky" Mal Kirk. He started as a professional rugby league player before becoming a professional wrestler. Kirk died of a heart attack on 23 August 1987 after collapsing in the ring during a tag team match at the Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. The wrestling event was run by Joint Promotions with the main event being a tag team match between Kirk and King Kendo against Big Daddy and Greg Valentine in front of 1,500 people.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]