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LEAD: The New York State Department of Health has rejected competing applications by the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan and the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx to become the state's second heart transplant center.
LEAD: NEW YORK Polls: Open 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. Parking: Alternate-side parking rules suspended. Sanitation: No collection or street cleaning. Governmental offices: Federal offices open; state and municipal offices closed. Post offices: Regular deliveries. Banks: Option to close. Financial markets: Open.
LEAD: Paul A. Bilzerian, a Florida investor with a history of unsuccessful takeover bids, offered $50 a share yesterday for the Singer Company. Analysts and some arbitragers said they believed that Mr. Bilzerian's aim was to elicit a higher bid, enabling him to make a big profit on the 9.99 percent he already owns.
LEAD: Like many of the merchants and residents along Washington Avenue's commercial corridor in Brooklyn, Gus Vlahavas waits eagerly for the economic revitalization that has already come to the surrounding communities.
LEAD: TEN years after smallpox ceased to exist as a human disease, virus experts and public health officials are in a strange and unprecedented quandary: what to do with the last surviving smallpox viruses.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1987, covering November 3, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Bruce Springsteen
Soundtrack
Pink Floyd
1987Courtney Barnett, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist[â ]
Courtney Melba Barnett is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her deadpan singing style and witty, rambling lyrics, she attracted attention with the release of her debut EP I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris in 2012. International interest came with the release of her EP The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas in 2013.
1987Colin Kaepernick, American football player[â ]
Colin Rand Kaepernick is an American civil rights activist and former professional football quarterback. He played six seasons for the San Francisco 49ers in the National Football League (NFL). In 2016, he gained national attention for kneeling during the national anthem at the start of NFL games in protest of police brutality and racial inequality in the United States.
1987Ty Lawson, American basketball player[â ]
Tywon Ronell Lawson is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels where he won the 2009 national championship his junior year.
1987Felix SchĂŒtz, German ice hockey player[â ]
Felix SchĂŒtz is a German former professional ice hockey player who played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
1987Kyle Seager, American baseball player[â ]
Kyle Duerr Seager is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played his entire career for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2011 to 2021. He was selected by the Mariners in the third round of the 2009 MLB draft, and made his MLB debut in 2011. In 2014, Seager was an All Star and won a Gold Glove Award.
1987Elizabeth Smart, American kidnapping victim, activist, and journalist[â ]
Elizabeth Ann Gilmour is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She gained national attention at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, held Smart captive for nine months until she was rescued by police officers on a street in Sandy, Utah.
1987Gemma Ward, Australian model and actress[â ]
Gemma Louise Ward is an Australian model and actress. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Ward was first scouted at the age of 14, and made her Australian Fashion Week debut aged 15. She later became one of the youngest models to appear on the cover of the American edition of Vogue, subsequently appearing on the covers of both Teen Vogue and Time. Vogue Paris would later declare her as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. Ward is widely considered to be a supermodel.
1987Mary Shane, American sportscaster and educator (born 1945)[â ]
Mary Shane was the first full-time female play by play broadcaster for a Major League Baseball team in 1977.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]