On this day
October 13, 1987
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Headlines from October 13, 1987
Trade Gap With Japan Gets Wider
LEAD: Japan's surplus in trade with the United States grew in September despite a 10.5 percent increase in Japanese imports of American goods and a decline in Japan's overall trade surplus.
Gold Called Aid to New Economic Order
LEAD: Despite the turbulence in the financial markets and the barbs of skeptics, many economists find that the United States and other leading countries are making headway in a fit-and-start effort to regain control of the world economy.
Concern for Rain Forest Has Begun to Blossom
LEAD: THE movement to save the richest ecosystem in the world - the tropical rain forest - is making slow but certain progress as forest dwellers and local activists join with international conservation groups to halt projects that would destroy these wet jungles along with the diverse human cultures they sustain.
Specter Haunts the Ukraine: The Church That Isn't There
LEAD: ''Yes, I saw it, around there,'' said the young man, standing in the courtyard of the Church of the Nativity and pointing up. ''It was a mist - well, more of a shadow, something dark'' that flickered along the gray stones of the wall.
Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 7, 1987, covering October 13, 1987.
- 1
Bad
Michael Jackson
- Last week
- 1
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 3
- 2
Whitesnake
Whitesnake
- Last week
- 2
- Peak
- 2
- Weeks
- 26
- 3
Whitney
Whitney Houston
- Last week
- 3
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 16
- 4
La Bamba
Soundtrack
- Last week
- 4
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 12
- 5
Hysteria
Def Leppard
- Last week
- 5
- Peak
- 4
- Weeks
- 8
Notable Births
1987Adrian Poparadu, Romanian footballer[†]
Adrian Poparadu is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for ACS Dumbrăvița.
1987Tochinoshin Tsuyoshi, Georgian sumo wrestler[†]
Tochinoshin Tsuyoshi is a Georgian former professional sumo wrestler from Mtskheta. He was a member of the Kasugano stable and made his professional debut in March 2006. He reached the top makuuchi division just two years later in May 2008. After a long hiatus due to injury, he began his comeback from the rank of makushita 55 in March 2014, logging four championships in a row in lower divisions on his way back to the top division in November 2014. In January 2018 he took his first and only top-division championship. In May 2018, after finishing as runner-up with a 13–2 record and a total of 37 wins in his last three tournaments, he was promoted to ōzeki. He received eleven special prizes, six for Fighting Spirit, three for Technique, and two for Outstanding Performance, as well as two kinboshi for defeating yokozuna. Tochinoshin was demoted to sekiwake after posting losing records in the first two tournaments of 2019, but returned to ōzeki after winning ten matches at the May 2019 tournament. He lost the ōzeki rank again after the September 2019 tournament, and lost his top division status after he was sidelined with a shoulder injury during the January 2023 tournament. He retired from sumo on 19 May 2023.
Notable Deaths

1987Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1902)[†]
Walter Houser Brattain was an American solid-state physicist who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and William Shockley for their invention of the point-contact transistor. Brattain devoted much of his life to research on surface states.
1987Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director (born 1929)[†]
Kishore Kumar was an Indian playback singer, musician and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most influential and dynamic singers in the history of modern Indian music. Kumar was one of the most popular singers in the Indian subcontinent, notable for his yodelling and ability to sing songs in different voices. He used to sing in different genres but some of his rare compositions, considered classics, were lost in time. In 2013, Kumar was voted "The Most Popular Male Playback Singer" in a poll conducted by the Filmfare magazine.
1987Nilgün Marmara, Turkish poet and author (born 1958)[†]
Nilgün Marmara was a Turkish poet.
Historical Context for October 13, 1987
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]