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LEAD: The armed forces Chief of Staff said today that the mutiny last week had worsened factionalism in the armed forces and warned that further uprisings were possible unless the Government acts to resolve military grievances.
LEAD: The children of an heiress to the Rockefeller oil fortune have gone to court in Manhattan to try to overturn a will that disenherits them in favor of her last husband, whom she married in the late 1970's when she was 80 years old and he was 42.
LEAD: Vertical integration once provided the General Motors Corporation with a powerful economic advantage over other American car makers. But acknowledging that times have changed, the new president of the automotive giant says his No. 1 priority is to dispose of unprofitable components-manufacturing operations.
LEAD: TAKE some old Yankee farmers, the stubborn kind determined to make a go of things where others have failed. Now add a few former schoolteachers, some antiwar radicals and a computer specialist or two - not a New Englander or farmer in the lot. The result: a new breed of entrepreneur, a revolutionary armed with farmstead cheeses and farm-raised oysters, hand-pressed cider syrup and hydroponic spinach who is changing the face of New England agriculture.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 2, 1987, covering September 2, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Scott Moir, Canadian ice dancer[†]
Scott Patrick Moir is a Canadian retired ice dancer and coach. With ice dance partner Tessa Virtue, he is the 2010 and 2018 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medallist, a three-time World champion, a three-time Four Continents champion, the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final champion, an eight-time Canadian national champion, the 2006 World Junior champion and the 2006 Junior Grand Prix champion. Moir and Virtue are also the 2018 Olympic gold medallists in the team event and the 2014 Olympic silver medallists in the team event. Upon winning their third Olympic gold medal, they became the most decorated Canadian ice dance team of all time and the most decorated Olympic figure skaters of all time. Widely regarded as one of the greatest ice dance teams of all time, they are the only ice dancers in history to achieve a Super Slam, having won all major international competitions in their senior and junior careers. Virtue and Moir are holders of the world record score for the now-defunct original dance.
1987Spencer Smith, American musician[†]
Spencer James Smith is an American talent agent and former musician and songwriter. He is best known as a co-founding member and the former drummer of the rock band Panic! at the Disco. He recorded four studio albums with the band: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005), Pretty. Odd. (2008), Vices & Virtues (2011), and Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (2013). The band's debut album went triple platinum and charted at No. 13 on the US Billboard 200, spearheaded by the hit single "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", which peaked at No. 7 in the Billboard Hot 100.
1987Brian Clay, Australian rugby league player (born 1935)[†]
Brian Joseph 'Poppa' Clay (1935–1987) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a five-eighth with the St. George Dragons during their 11-year consecutive premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966. He was a representative in the Australian national team in 1957 and from 1959 to 1960 earning five Test caps plus three World Cup appearances. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century.
1987In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.[†]
Mathias Rust is a German aviator known for his flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. Then a teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization. According to Russian claims he was tracked several times by Soviet Air Defence Forces and civilian air traffic controllers, as well as Soviet Air Force interceptor aircraft. The Soviet fighters did not receive permission to shoot him down, and his aeroplane was mistaken for a friendly aircraft several times. Also, 28 May 1987 was Border Guards Day, leaving many guards distracted. He landed on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, next to Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the USSR.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]