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LEAD: A community of 189 two-story town houses called Bishop's Cove is under development in Mystic, Conn., near the Rhode Island border, and it should appeal to people who like to gaze at stars; each of the units will have 11 skylights. Thirty-six of the units have been completed, and the others are to be ready by 1990.
LEAD: THE start of the college football season is always a happy time for Jack Garbrick. Not that the games themselves mean a whole lot to him. He never watches them. He flies over them.
LEAD: Not many hours after they blew a lead in the ninth inning and a game in the 10th, the Mets were struck by the ultimate and maybe even the unthinkable shock yesterday: Dwight Gooden was knocked out in two innings, and the Mets lost for the second straight time to the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-1.
LEAD: THE Torrington Police Department is making available to its officers full bodysuits, masks and gloves to use if they are exposed to people they think might have AIDS.
LEAD: THE MORNING HAD JUST BEGUN AND DON Hewitt was already quite agitated, which drew no special notice, as agitation is Mr. Hewitt's natural state. On this particular morning, the executive producer of ''60 Minutes'' was aroused by a splashy magazine advertisement trumpeting the new fall schedule of the CBS television network.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 1987, covering September 13, 1987.
Soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Edenilson Bergonsi, Brazilian footballer[†]
Edenilson Bergonsi, sometimes known as just Edenilson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Gibraltar National League side Bruno's Magpies. He also holds Italian nationality.
1987Jonathan de Guzmán, Canadian-Dutch footballer[†]
Jonathan Alexander de Guzmán is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Sparta Rotterdam.
1987Luke Fitzgerald, Irish rugby player[†]
Luke Matthew Fitzgerald is a former rugby union player. He played at winger or fullback for Leinster. He retired in June 2016. Having previously studied at Blackrock College he won two Leinster Schools Senior Cups, in 2004 and 2006. He won his first cap for Ireland in November 2006. Fitzgerald earned the nickname "Pivot" from Leinster and Irish rugby fans due to his exciting runs and sidesteps from broken play.
1987Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgarian tennis player[†]
Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova is a Bulgarian former tennis player. Considered to be one of the best grass court players of her generation, she has been noted for her "cerebral" skills on the surface, reaching the semifinals at the Wimbledon Championships. Pironkova also found success playing on the quick hardcourts throughout her career, winning a title in Sydney and reaching the quarterfinals of the US Open.
1987Mervyn LeRoy, American actor, director, and producer (born 1900)[†]
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. During the 1930s, he was one of the two great practitioners of economical and effective film directing at Warner Brothers studios, the other being his colleague Michael Curtiz. LeRoy's most acclaimed films of his tenure at Warners include Little Caesar (1931), I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) and They Won't Forget (1937). LeRoy left Warners and moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1939 to serve as both director and producer. He is best known for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
1987Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.[†]
The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil, after an unsecured radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people were examined for radioactive contamination and 249 of them were found to have been contaminated.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]