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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 14, 1987, covering October 17, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Whitney Houston
Def Leppard
Pink Floyd
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
John Mellencamp
U2
Heart
1987Bea Alonzo, Filipino actress and singer[â ]
Phylbert Angelli Ranollo Fagestrom, known professionally as Bea Alonzo, is a Filipino actress, singer and Youtuber. She is best known for playing dramatic roles in romantic drama films. Her notable films include The Mistress (2012), A Second Chance (2015) and The Love Affair (2015). Alonzo's films have grossed â±3.15 billion, making her one of the highest-grossing Filipino box office stars of all time.
1987JarosÅaw Fojut, Polish footballer[â ]
JarosÅaw Fojut is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He currently serves as the sporting director of Stal Rzeszów.
1987Elliot Grandin, French footballer[â ]
Elliot Grandin is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Championnat National 3 club Cannet Rocheville.
1987Hideto Takahashi, Japanese footballer[â ]
Hideto Takahashi is a Japanese footballer who plays for Auckland United FC.
1987Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (born 1925)[â ]
Abdul Malek Ukil was the president of Bangladesh Awami League, speaker of parliament, home minister, health minister, a member of parliament for many years and a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He was one of the drafters of the Constitution of Bangladesh and also one of the founding members of East Bengal Muslim Students League.
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LEAD: Under a hail of criticism, the Administration quickly retreated today from its policy of reducing welfare benefits for elderly, blind and disabled people who receive free food, clothing or shelter from churches and charities.
LEAD: An American-registered tanker was hit by a missile, apparently Iranian, in Kuwaiti waters this morning, Kuwaiti and American officials said.
LEAD: On May 27, Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, one of the key Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned that ''the environment surrounding our Navy in the Persian Gulf is as dangerous as the exposure of our Marines in Beirut.''
LEAD: For more than five years, millions of individual investors have enjoyed one of the most prolonged bull markets in history. Even if they did not cash in their chips, they spent more freely and helped lift the economy, thanks to their new-found sense of wealth.
LEAD: Nancy Reagan will undergo a biopsy Saturday morning to determine whether a ''suspicious lesion'' on her left breast is cancerous, the White House said today.
LEAD: Youngest Heart Patient A boy became the youngest person to undergo a heart transplant just hours after he was delivered by Caesarean section. Page 9. Storm Kills 13 in England The worst storm in decades raked southern England, killing at least 13 people and paralyzing business in much of London.
LEAD: Stock prices collapsed across the board yesterday in record-breaking sales volume, as waves of orders from nervous investors pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a stunning 108.36-point loss.
LEAD: An extraordinary drama in this West Texas oil town came to a joyous conclusion tonight when rescue workers pulled an 18-month-old girl to safety 58 1/2 hours after she tumbled into an abandoned water well.
LEAD: Administration officials say intelligence has established that the Stinger missile parts found on an Iranian attack boat in the Persian Gulf this month were part of a batch supplied by the United States to Afghan guerrillas, who lost them to Iranian forces in June.
LEAD: The Reagan Administration has spurned a Soviet proposal to negotiate the scope of ''Star Wars'' tests, a senior Administration official said today.
LEAD: Caught in a battle between Indian forces and ethnic Tamil guerrillas, residents of a northern town are trying to flee by any means possible, refugees reaching here said in interviews today. They told of hunger verging on starvation and of the killings of civilians by Indian troops.