On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 26, 1987, covering August 27, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
LL Cool J
Soundtrack
Heart
Grateful Dead
U2
Motley Crue
Def Leppard
Soundtrack
1987Darren McFadden, American football player[†]
Darren McFadden is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the first round with the fourth overall pick of the 2008 NFL draft. He also played three seasons for the Dallas Cowboys.
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LEAD: Nearly a month after a broken water main created an instant river south of Union Square Park in Manhattan, crews are still trying to reconstruct one of New York's busiest intersections, hampered by the unexpected discovery of the remains of a turn-of-the-century streetcar system.
LEAD: Japanese banks have agreed to buy more than half of a $250 million debt offering that the BankAmerica Corporation has been trying to sell in Japan for several months, according to Japanese press reports.
LEAD: The number of women in New York City who are infected with the AIDS virus but free of the symptoms of the disease has now reached 50,000. Eighty percent are black or Hispanic.
LEAD: Leaders of 300,000 black miners on strike at South Africa's economically vital gold and coal mines voted today to reject an offer from employers and decided to continue the 17-day-old nationwide strike.
LEAD: Prices of oil futures rose sharply today after Saudi Arabia staged a bitterly anti-Iranian news conference.
LEAD: A Federal appeals court today reversed a trial judge's order that had banned 44 textbooks from the Alabama public schools on the ground that they promoted a godless, humanistic religion.
LEAD: The stock market yesterday gave up virtually all the ground it won on Tuesday. Many traders said that weakness in the Dow's bellwether issue, International Business Machines, sent a chill through the market.
LEAD: The White House kept alive an effort in 1986 to ransom the American hostages in Lebanon even though the Central Intelligence Agency believed the intermediaries were trying to steal the money, according to testimony and documents made public today by the Iran-contra committees.
LEAD: A year ago Alex Kelly -a former drug addict and juvenile offender who became an honors student in high school and a top athlete here -was charged with the rapes of two teen-age girls.
LEAD: The Federal Government, for the first time, has filed a civil racketeering suit against an organized-crime family to prevent it from enrolling new members and to stop it from reaping ''enormous financial windfalls'' through unlawful and even legal business activities.
LEAD: Chancellor Helmut Kohl announced today that if the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap all their medium- and shorter-range nuclear missiles, West Germany would get rid of its Pershing 1A missiles.
LEAD: Mayor Koch had been demanding it for months. William J. Grinker, the Mayor's Human Resources Administrator, responded by drafting a specific plan. Finally, on June 30, the Board of Estimate approved it: an imaginative jobs program to get up to 3,000 people off welfare without government subsidies.