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LEAD: President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, says Nicaragua's Government must end its refusal to negotiate a cease-fire with rebel guerrilla leaders.
LEAD: Proposing a sharp break from established policy and state regulations, New York City's top health official said yesterday that physicians and public health authorities should warn the sex partners of people infected with the AIDS virus of their substantial risk of infection.
LEAD: For Dawn Crowe and her family, home has been a cruel place these last few years.
LEAD: The 20th anniversary reunion of the graduates of Clown College may not have been the world's most distinguished alumni celebration, but it could have been the funniest.
LEAD: The Colgate-Palmolive Company yesterday announced several actions it would take in an effort to increase profitability, decentralize decision making and focus on its consumer products business.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 14, 1987, covering October 15, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Whitney Houston
Def Leppard
Pink Floyd
1987Ott Tänak, Estonian racing driver[†]
Ott Tänak is an Estonian rally driver and the 2019 World Rally Champion. He is currently teamed with Martin Järveoja and is competing for Hyundai Motorsport in the World Rally Championship.
1987Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (born 1949)[†]
Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabè military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist revolutionary who served as the President of Burkina Faso from 1983, following his takeover in a coup, until his assassination in 1987.
1987Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (born 1908)[†]
Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei. He had fourteen stories in Weird Tales, another sixteen in Astounding Stories, plus a few in other magazines including Esquire. Wandrei was the co-founder of the prestigious fantasy/horror publishing house Arkham House.
1987Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.[†]
Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 was a scheduled passenger flight between Milan Linate Airport in Milan, Italy and Cologne Bonn Airport in Cologne, Germany on 15 October 1987. The flight was operated by Aero Trasporti Italiani (ATI), a subsidiary of Alitalia, using an ATR-42 turboprop aircraft.
1987A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.[†]
The 1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état was a bloody military coup in Burkina Faso, which took place on 15 October 1987. The coup was organized by Captain Blaise Compaoré against incumbent far-left President Captain Thomas Sankara, his former friend and associate during the 1983 upheaval.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]