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LEAD: A three-member panel of United States Supreme Court Justices ruled today that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, or at least that it would have to be presumed that he did until a better claimant came along.
LEAD: A Federal judge ruled yesterday that New York City is violating the constitutional rights of hundreds of foster children who are kept in offices during the day and moved to temporary beds night after night because no permanent homes can be found for them.
LEAD: The five permanent members of the Security Council said today that they had agreed on new instructions to Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar for continuing efforts to secure a cease-fire in the Iran-Iraq war.
LEAD: Every schoolchild in the United States and Mexico should know that the Rio Grande forms the longest section of the border between the two countries. But what happens to that border when the river itself changes course?
LEAD: In a move that surprised the banking industry, the Bank of New York Company made an unwelcome $1.4 billion takeover offer for the Irving Bank Corporation yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 23, 1987, covering September 26, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
1987Cyril Gautier, French road bicycle racer[†]
Cyril Gautier is a French road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2007 to 2022. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.
1987Rosanna Munter, Swedish singer-songwriter[†]
Rosanna Bella Victoria Eriksdotter Munter is an actress and recording artist from Sweden. She is best known as a member of the Swedish girl group Play, and she was in a collaborative project with White Lies bassist Charles Cave titled K.I.D.S.
1987Vladimir Niculescu, Romanian footballer[†]
Vladimir Niculescu is a Romanian professional football player, who plays as a goalkeeper. He is a free agent.
1987Ramang, Indonesian footballer and manager (born 1928)[†]
Andi Ramang was an Indonesian football forward, considered one of the most influential players in the country in the 1950s and 60s. He was also referred to as Rusli Ramang in official FIFA documents.
1987Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, journalist, and mountaineer (born 1912)[†]
Herbert Tichy was an Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and climber.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]