On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 1987, covering September 14, 1987.
Soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Heart
LL Cool J
Soundtrack-Madonna
Fat Boys
Grateful Dead
U2
1987Jessica Brown Findlay, English actress[†]
Jessica Rose Brown Findlay is an English actress. She played Lady Sybil Crawley (2010–2012) in the ITV television period drama series Downton Abbey and Emelia Conan Doyle in the 2011 British comedy-drama feature film Albatross.
1987Michael Crabtree, American football player[†]
Michael Alex Crabtree Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, twice earning unanimous All-American honors. He was selected 10th overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2009 NFL draft. Crabtree was a member of the 49ers for six seasons and spent the remainder of his career with the Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Ravens, and Arizona Cardinals.
1987Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian-English rapper and producer[†]
Kwasi Esono Danquah III, better known by his stage name Tinchy Stryder, is a British rapper, singer, songwriter, entrepreneur and investor.
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LEAD: When Brooklyn Technical, one of New York City's showcase high schools in science, opens for the first day of school today, the students will find a new principal - a man whose specialty is physical education. The former principal, a highly respected mathematician and administrator, left after three years to take a better-paying job in a Long Island suburb.
LEAD: Rainy Day in Flushing The rain put off the men's final at the United States Open between Mats Wilander and Ivan Lendl until today, but the Mets waited it out and finally salvaged a victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-2. The Jets went to sunny Buffalo to open the National Football League season and defeated the Bills, 31-28.
LEAD: Nine months after she killed her husband, Karen Straw goes on trial for murder this week in Queens. What's curious is not that it has taken so long but why the prosecution is still pursuing the case.
LEAD: Pope John Paul II today praised the courage of Catholics who have helped refugees from Latin America, and said that the treatment of immigrants posed a test of the United States commitment to the principles of justice and freedom.
LEAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to take a step this week toward abolishing a controversial tactic used in corporate takeovers.
LEAD: The Senate battle over the confirmation of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, which formally begins Tuesday when Judge Bork goes before the Judiciary Committee, holds the potential for enormous political gain or peril for many of those involved.
LEAD: Despite the efforts last week of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to urge its members to curb overproduction, many analysts predict that oil prices will weaken in the next few weeks because the group's two-day meeting in Vienna produced such meager results.
LEAD: From its founding five years ago, the Compaq Computer Corporation has been plagued by predictions of imminent disaster.
LEAD: The mayoral race here this year is not your usual ho-hum civics lesson. The Republican candidate has virtually refused to speak. The two Democrats have taken drug tests, and one of them is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. State election officials, sensing a possible smear campaign, are snooping around, too.
LEAD: At the center of Mayor Koch's plan to remove severely mentally ill homeless people from the streets of Manhattan is a new psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital Center that will for the first time bring homeless people together for treatment in a single ward.
LEAD: After more than a decade of conflict, anti-Communist rebels, armed with American anti-aircraft missiles and backed by South Africa, continue to frustrate the well-equipped Angolan Army and its Soviet-bloc military advisers.
LEAD: Perhaps too many people had washed their cars. Maybe it was all those end-of-season picnics - or the well-dressed crowds at the United States Open - inviting a prank of nature.