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LEAD: Reagan Administration and Congressional negotiators started discussions today over a budget compromise aimed at soothing agitated financial markets, but their initial sparring produced few conclusive results.
LEAD: For the students in Saul Bruckner's advanced course at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, American history is an odyssey in ideas, current events, language and, least of all, facts.
LEAD: The world's financial markets, and those whose economic well-being depends upon them, are clamoring for political leadership in their time of travail. So far, the response has disappointed them.
LEAD: Past midnight on Wall Street, long after most traders and brokers have gone home, all is calm and quiet, the tension of the working day seeming to dissipate into the cool morning air.
LEAD: The stock market absorbed new pressures without losing its balance yesterday - on the 58th anniversary of the market crash of 1929 - and the Dow Jones industrial average managed to close with a slight gain.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1987, covering October 29, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Bruce Springsteen
Soundtrack
Pink Floyd
1987Andy Dalton, American football player[†]
Andrew Gregory Dalton is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). Nicknamed "the Red Rifle", he played college football for the TCU Horned Frogs, where he became the school's leader in quarterback wins and won the 2011 Rose Bowl. He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2011 NFL draft.
1987Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater[†]
Jessica Dubé is a Canadian former competitive figure skater who is best known for her pairs career with Bryce Davison. They are the 2008 World bronze medallists, the 2009 Four Continents silver medallists, and three-time Canadian national champions. They represented Canada at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics. With later partner Sébastien Wolfe, Dubé is the 2012 Canadian national silver medallist.
1987Tove Lo, Swedish singer[†]
Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, known professionally as Tove Lo, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She is known for her raw, grunge-influenced take on pop music. Referring to her autobiographical lyrics, Out called Lo "the saddest girl in Sweden", while Rolling Stone called her "Sweden's darkest pop export".
1987Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress[†]
Makoto Ogawa is a Japanese singer and actress, best known as a former member of Japanese girl group Morning Musume. She joined the group in August 2001 along with fellow fifth generation members Ai Takahashi, Risa Niigaki, and Asami Konno. On March 31, 2009, she graduated from Hello! Project with the rest of the Elder Club. Ogawa is currently a member of idol band Dream Morning Musume.
1987Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (born 1913)[†]
Woodrow Charles Herman was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading groups called "The Herd", Herman came to prominence in the late 1930s and was active until his death in 1987. His bands often played music that was cutting edge and experimental; their recordings received numerous Grammy nominations.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]