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LEAD: James Vermilya, a struggling but profitable hog farmer, would like to buy a neighboring bankrupt farm, but his hopes are not high. The obstacle, he said, is not in obtaining the money or credit, but a new Minnesota law that is intended to help bankrupt farmers hold onto their land.
LEAD: THEY are where the newly crowned Miss America sleeps, where Elvis and Priscilla honeymooned, where stars like Frank Sinatra luxuriate when not lighting up the stage. They are what heaven would look like if Liberace had been a decorator.
LEAD: Mathias Rust told a Soviet court today that he had made his audacious flight to Red Square to talk to Mikhail S. Gorbachev about world peace and to dramatize his utopian goals.
LEAD: The New York State official who monitors mental health care said yesterday that some hospital emergency rooms in New York City are already overburdened, with some psychiatric patients waiting ''days on end'' to be admitted after sleeping in chairs, being strapped to stretchers or, in the case of prisoners, being handcuffed to wheelchairs.
LEAD: A 16-year-old Queens youth described by neighbors as a ''good guy'' was charged last night with the fatal stabbing Monday of a high school football star and honor student during a dispute over a girl's complaint of having been slapped.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 2, 1987, covering September 3, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Allie, Canadian wrestler[†]
Laura Dennis, better known by the ring names Allie and The Bunny, is a Canadian professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in Impact Wrestling from 2013 to 2019, where she is a former two-time Impact Knockouts Champion and All Elite Wrestling (AEW) from 2019 to 2023. She has also competed for Great Canadian Wrestling, NCW Femmes Fatales, Shimmer Women Athletes, Shine Wrestling, Women Superstars Uncensored (WSU) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) under the ring name Cherry Bomb. With tag team partner Kimber Lee, collectively known as The Kimber Bombs, they have held the Shine Tag Team Championship and the Shimmer Tag Team Championship both once. She is also a former 1 time WSU Champion.
1987Modibo Maïga, Malian footballer[†]
Modibo Maïga is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a striker.
1987Dawid Malan, English cricketer[†]
Dawid Johannes Malan Jnr is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire in English domestic cricket. He previously played for Middlesex, and has also played in multiple Twenty20 leagues, including for Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League. He played for England in all formats from 2017 until his retirement from international cricket in 2024.
1987James Neal, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
James Neal is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger. He played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Dallas Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, Nashville Predators, Vegas Golden Knights, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, and St. Louis Blues.
1987Morton Feldman, American composer and educator (born 1926)[†]
Morton Feldman was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman's works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration.
1987In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.[†]
A bloodless military coup took place in Burundi on 3 September 1987. Tutsi president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed whilst traveling abroad and succeeded by Tutsi Major Pierre Buyoya.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]