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LEAD: BIRDS, beasts and bigness characterize much of the Americana at the Fall Antiques Show, a bazaar abundant with carved plumage and palatial cages, with giant-sized tennis rackets and a rocking chair, and with hand-crafted Noah's Ark creatures and a fun-house gorilla. But some of the show's finds - fish decoys, rare spoons, Mickey
LEAD: Norwegian authorities disclosed today that Norway's state-owned arms company, Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, had shipped to the Soviet Union more than 140 computers capable of running sophisticated machine tools and had cooperated with nearly a half-dozen NATO countries in shipping other high-technology equipment to the
LEAD: Three men were arrested today and charged with planning to sell designs for an extremely powerful supercomputer to the Soviet Union for $4 million.
LEAD: In a bid to calm the frenzy in the world's financial markets, President Reagan announced today that he would meet with Congressional leaders to negotiate ways to reduce the budget deficit, with ''everything on the table,'' including possible tax increases.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 21, 1987, covering October 23, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1987Carmella, American wrestler[â ]
Leah Van Dale is an American professional wrestler, dancer and model. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she performed under the ring name Carmella. She is a former WWE SmackDown Women's Champion, WWE Women's Tag Team Champion and WWE 24/7 Champion.
1987Robin Copeland, Irish rugby player[â ]
Robin Copeland is an Irish rugby union player for Soyaux AngoulĂȘme. He plays primarily as a number 8, but has occasionally played as a flanker and lock.
1987FĂ©lix Doubront, Venezuelan baseball player[â ]
FĂ©lix Antonio Doubront [doo-bront'] is a Venezuelan pitcher for the Caliente de Durango of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Toronto Blue Jays and Oakland Athletics in a span of six seasons from 2010 through 2015. He has also pitched in the KBO League for the Lotte Giants and in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Uni-President Lions.
1987Faye, Swedish singer-songwriter[â ]
Fanny Matilda Dagmar Hamlin, known professionally as Faye, is a former Swedish singer, songwriter, and model. She was the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Play in the early 2000s. In 2012, she debuted as a solo artist. Hamlin quit the music industry in 2014.
1987Kyle Gibson, American baseball player[â ]
Kyle Benjamin Gibson is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, and St. Louis Cardinals. The Twins selected Gibson in the first round of the 2009 MLB draft, and he made his MLB debut in 2013.
1987Seo In-guk, South Korean singer and actor[â ]
Seo In-guk is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He launched his singing career after winning the talent reality show Superstar K in 2009, and made his acting breakthrough in Reply 1997 (2012). Since then, he has starred in television series Master's Sun (2013), High School King of Savvy (2014), Hello Monster (2015), Shopping King Louie (2016), The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (2018), Doom At Your Service (2021), Café Minamdang (2022) and Death's Game (2023).
1987Miyuu Sawai, Japanese model and actress[â ]
Miyuu Sawai is a Japanese actress, model, and gravure idol. Her best-known role was Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon in the live-action adaptation of Sailor Moon which ran from 2003 to 2004.
1987Naomi Watanabe, Japanese actress[â ]
Naomi Watanabe is a Japanese comedian, actress, and fashion designer. She rose to fame in 2008 for her imitation of Beyoncé, after which she was given the title "the Japanese Beyoncé".
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]