On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: William Dean Singleton, a Texas-based newspaper entrepreneur whose rapidly expanding holdings include The Dallas Times Herald, announced yesterday that he would add The Houston Post to his chain of 27 dailies.
LEAD: Sitting at the controls of a plane several thousand feet above the San Joaquin Valley, discussing strategic planning, cost centers and the latest uses of technology on his family's vast farm below, Scott Salyer paints a portrait of an agricultural company at the vanguard of sophisticated management.
LEAD: New York is a city in constant transformation, and a summertime can bring a host of changes big and small. Sculptures are installed in various and unexpected places, old clubs have moved and new ones opened up, venturesome performing spaces have been created, and familiar landmarks have received glossy refurbishings.
LEAD: Two months before this city's municipal elections, the question asked most often here is not whether Biagio (Ben) DiLieto will win a fifth term as Mayor, but by how large a landslide.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 1987, covering September 11, 1987.
Soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Robert Acquafresca, Italian footballer[†]
Robert Acquafresca is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a former Italy under-21 international and represented Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
1987Elizabeth Henstridge, English actress[†]
Elizabeth Frances Henstridge is an English actress, model and director. She starred as Jemma Simmons in the ABC superhero action drama series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020), set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
1987Tyler Hoechlin, American actor[†]
Tyler Lee Hoechlin is an American actor. He initially earned recognition for starring as Michael Sullivan Jr. in the 2002 film Road to Perdition. In television, Hoechlin starred as Martin Brewer on 7th Heaven from 2003 to 2007, and also became known for portraying Derek Hale on Teen Wolf, Superman in The CW's Supergirl (2016–2019) and Superman & Lois (2021–2024), and for voicing Sephiroth in the Final Fantasy VII Remake franchise.
1987Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (born 1915)[†]
Lorne Hyman Greene was a Canadian actor, singer, and radio personality. His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western Bonanza and Commander Adama in the original science-fiction television series Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980. He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary series Lorne Greene's New Wilderness and in television commercials.
1987Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1944)[†]
Winston Hubert McIntosh, professionally known as Peter Tosh, was a Jamaican reggae musician. Along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, he was one of the core members of the band the Wailers (1963–1976), after which he established himself as a successful solo artist and a promoter of Rastafari. He was murdered in 1987 during a home invasion.
1987Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and educator (born 1907)[†]
Mahadevi Varma was an Indian Hindi-language poet, essayist, short story writer, and an eminent personality of Hindi literature. She is considered one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. She has also been addressed as the modern Meera. Poet Nirala once called her "Saraswati in the vast temple of Hindi Literature". Varma witnessed India before and after its independence. She was one of those poets who worked for the wider society of India. Her work towards social upliftment and women's welfare was depicted in her writings. These works, especially her anthology Deepshikha, greatly influenced both readers and critics.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]