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September 8, 1987

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Headlines from September 8, 1987

Beneath Smithsonian, Debut for 2 Museums

By Michael Brenson, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: In a pink and gray complex beneath the National Mall, on both sides of an underground street lined with the most modern of offices, classrooms and lecture halls, two new museums are waiting to open, their plain, almost neutral spaces inhabited by guardians and effigies of altogether different worlds, some of them awakened from the earth in which these museums reside.

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New Theory On Homers

By James Gleick

LEAD: FOR those who do not believe in bouncier baseballs, stronger sluggers, feebler pitchers or hotter weather, aerodynamics is offering a provocative new theory to explain the latest outbreak of home runs.

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AIDS Virus: Always Fatal?

By Lawrence K. Altman, M.d

LEAD: EXPERTS are split in their views on one of the most crucial questions of the AIDS epidemic: how many of those who are infected with the AIDS virus will eventually develop the fatal disorder.

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Surgeons Hopeful as Saga Of Siamese Twins Continues

By Jane E. Brody

LEAD: THE HISTORIC surgery last weekend that successfully separated 7-month-old Siamese twins joined at the head actually began in West Germany five months ago. Last spring, a team of physicians from Johns Hopkins Hospital visited the infants and devised a unique operative plan that they thought could divide them without causing lasting brain damage.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 2, 1987, covering September 8, 1987.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Whitney by Whitney Houston

    Whitney

    Whitney Houston

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    Peak
    1
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    11
  2. 2
    Album cover for Whitesnake by Whitesnake

    Whitesnake

    Whitesnake

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    Peak
    2
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    21
  3. 3
    Album cover for La Bamba by Soundtrack

    La Bamba

    Soundtrack

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    Peak
    3
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    7
  4. 4
    Album cover for Hysteria by Def Leppard

    Hysteria

    Def Leppard

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    Peak
    4
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    3
  5. 5
    Album cover for Bad Animals by Heart

    Bad Animals

    Heart

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    Peak
    2
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    13

Notable Births

Alexandre Bilodeau

1987Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian skier[†]

Alexandre Bilodeau is a Canadian retired freestyle skier from Rosemere, Quebec, Bilodeau currently resides in Montreal, Quebec. Bilodeau won a gold medal in the men's moguls at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, becoming the first Canadian to win a gold medal at an Olympic Games held in Canada. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he became the first Olympian in history to defend his gold medal in any freestyle skiing event as well as the first Canadian to defend an individual title since Catriona Le May Doan at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Bilodeau is a three-time FIS World Champion in dual moguls, and is also a two-time Worlds silver medallist in moguls. He was the FIS World Cup champion for the 2008–09 season winning the moguls and overall freestyle skiing title that season. In his final World Cup race, he retired with a win, and in doing so, surpassed Jean-Luc Brassard for the most World Cup medals by a Canadian.

Derrick Brown (basketball, born 1987)

1987Derrick Brown, American basketball player[†]

Derrick Paul Brown is an American former professional basketball player. Standing at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), he plays at the power forward position.

Danielle Frenkel

1987Danielle Frenkel, Israeli high jumper[†]

Danielle Frenkel is an Israeli high jumper. She was the first female Israeli to clear 1.90 meters, and the only woman who cleared more than 1.90 meters in international competition.

Wiz Khalifa

1987Wiz Khalifa, American rapper and actor[†]

Cameron Jibril Thomaz, better known by his stage name Wiz Khalifa, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and actor. Raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he signed with the local independent label Rostrum Records to release his debut studio album, Show and Prove (2006). His contract entered a short-lived joint venture with Warner Bros. Records the following year. His Eurodance-influenced 2008 single, "Say Yeah" received urban radio airplay and entered both the Rhythmic Top 40 and Hot Rap Songs charts, becoming his first minor hit.

Illya Marchenko

1987Illya Marchenko, Ukrainian tennis player[†]

Illya Vasylovych Marchenko is a Ukrainian tennis player. He has a career high in singles of World No. 49 achieved on 26 September 2016 and of No. 268 in doubles achieved on 25 August 2014. On the ATP Tour, Marchenko reached the semifinals of Moscow in 2009, the 2010 St. Petersburg Open and Doha in 2016.

Marcel Nguyen

1987Marcel Nguyen, German gymnast[†]

Marcel Van Minh Phuc Long Nguyen is a retired German artistic gymnast and three-time Olympian, having represented Germany at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 Olympic Games. He is the 2012 Olympic silver medalist in the all-around and on parallel bars as well as the 2011 and 2012 European Champion on the latter. He has been a soldier in the Bundeswehr since July 2007, beginning when he was training in the Bundeswehr Sports Development Group in Munich.

Historical Context for September 8, 1987

In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]