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LEAD: With President Reagan's consent, Education Secretary William J. Bennett telephoned Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg today to urge him to withdraw from consideration for the Supreme Court, Administration officials said.
LEAD: On a typical day, two or three supplicants find their way to the unmarked apartment of Andrei D. Sakharov.
LEAD: A day after West Germany's central bank succumbed to international pressures and lowered interest rates, German and other European officials challenged Washington to make the next move to stabilize world financial markets.
LEAD: The disclosure by President Reagan's nominee for the Supreme Court, Douglas H. Ginsburg, that he smoked marijuana in the 1960's and the 1970's has caught the President in one of the most difficult of political snares: the conflict between rhetoric and reality.
LEAD: The Government today appointed Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, the Roman Catholic Primate of Nicaragua and a strong critic of Sandinista rule, to mediate in cease-fire talks between the Government and American-backed guerrillas.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 4, 1987, covering November 7, 1987.
Bruce Springsteen
Michael Jackson
Soundtrack
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
1987Mitch Brown, Australian rugby league player[†]
Mitchell Ronald Edwin Brown is a former Australian professional footballer who played for the Warrington Wolves in the Super League. He previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, the Leigh Centurions and the Wests Tigers. Has many a nickname.
1987Marek Semjan, Slovak tennis player[†]
Marek Semjan is a Slovak tennis player playing on the ATP Challenger Tour. On 30 August 2010, he reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 218.
1987In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.[†]
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares maritime borders with Italy through the islands of Sicily and Sardinia to the north and Malta to the east. It features the archaeological sites of Carthage dating back to the 9th century BC, as well as the Great Mosque of Kairouan. Known for its ancient architecture, souks, and blue coasts, it covers 163,610 km2 (63,170 sq mi), and has a population of 12.1 million. It contains the eastern end of the Atlas Mountains and the northern reaches of the Sahara desert; much of its remaining territory is arable land. Its 1,300 km (810 mi) of coastline includes the African conjunction of the western and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Basin. Tunisia is home to Africa's northernmost point, Cape Angela. Located on the northeastern coast, Tunis is the capital and largest city of the country, which is itself named after Tunis. The official language of Tunisia is Modern Standard Arabic. The vast majority of Tunisia's population is Arab and Muslim. Vernacular Tunisian Arabic is the most spoken and French serves as an administrative and educational language in some contexts, but it has no official status.
1987The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service.[†]
The Mass Rapid Transit system, locally known by the initialism MRT, is a rapid transit system in Singapore and the island country's principal mode of railway transportation. After two decades of planning the system commenced operations in November 1987 with an initial 6 km (3.7 mi) stretch consisting of five stations. The network has since grown to span the length and breadth of the country's main island – with the exception of the forested core and the rural northwestern region – in accordance with Singapore's aim of developing a comprehensive rail network as the backbone of the country's public transportation system, averaging a daily ridership of 3.41 million in 2024.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]