On this day
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LEAD: At Thanksgiving a special homecoming awaits Steven McDonald, the New York City police officer who was paralyzed from the neck down by an assailant's bullet in the summer of 1986.
LEAD: The Reagan Administration said tonight that a United States helicopter gunship had fired on an Iranian vessel laying mines in the path of American ships in the Persian Gulf, setting the craft afire.
LEAD: Even in an industry known for its eccentric entrepreneurs, Philippe Kahn has stood out - for his loud Hawaiian shirts, for his impromptu saxophone solos at news conferences, and last, but certainly not least, for the success of the microcomputer software company he founded.
LEAD: On the surface, the months of embarrassing feuding between New York City's police and fire agencies is a dispute over departmental jurisdiction at emergencies.
LEAD: The judge in the Howard Beach murder trial ruled yesterday that the defense lawyers were seeking to exclude blacks from the jury and said he would curb the lawyers' challenges against prospective black jurors.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 16, 1987, covering September 22, 1987.
Soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Derick Brassard, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Derick Brassard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Pittsburgh Penguins, Florida Panthers, Colorado Avalanche, New York Islanders, Arizona Coyotes, Philadelphia Flyers and Edmonton Oilers. The Blue Jackets selected him in the first round, sixth overall, of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.
1987Stefan Denifl, Austrian cyclist[†]
Stefan Denifl is an Austrian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2018 for seven different professional teams. In 2019, Denifl confessed to doping during a five-year period in his career, and was given a four-year ban from the sport; as a consequence of this, Denifl received a two-year sentence in 2021 for serious commercial fraud.
1987Tom Felton, English actor[†]
Thomas Andrew Felton is an English actor. Born in Surrey, Felton began appearing in commercials and made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in The Borrowers (1997). He portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in Anna and the King (1999) before being cast as Draco Malfoy in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and finishing with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). Felton appeared in the sci-fi film Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). He was subsequently cast in indie films From the Rough (2011) and The Apparition (2012).
1987Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer[†]
Zdravko Kuzmanović is a former Serbian footballer who played as a defensive or central midfielder. He last played for FC Basel. He represented Serbia in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
1987Teyonah Parris, American actress[†]
Teyonah Parris is an American actress. A graduate of Juilliard School, she began acting in 2010. Her first prominent roles were in the drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) and in the independent film Dear White People (2014). She then appeared in the drama series Empire (2014), Spike Lee's crime comedy Chi-Raq (2015), and the drama film If Beale Street Could Talk (2018).
1987Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1908)[†]
Hákun Djurhuus was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands from 1963 to 1967. He was born in Tórshavn.
1987Dan Rowan, American actor, comedian, and producer (born 1922)[†]
Daniel Hale Rowan was an American actor and comedian. He was featured in the television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, in which he played straight man to Dick Martin and won the 1969 Emmy for Outstanding Variety or Musical Series.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]