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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Édgar Benítez, Paraguayan footballer[†]
Édgar Milciades Benítez Santander, nicknamed Pájaro, is a Paraguayan footballer who plays as a midfielder for Rubio Ñu. He also holds Mexican citizenship. A Paraguayan international on 56 occasions since 2008, he represented his country at the FIFA World Cup 2010 and two Copa América tournaments. In 2006, he won the Milk Cup with Paraguay's under-20 team.
1987Sam Bradford, American football player[†]
Samuel Jacob Bradford is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
1987Mohd Faiz Subri, Malaysian footballer[†]
Mohd Faiz bin Subri is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or forward for Malaysia Super League side Penang. He is best known for his free-kick goal which won him the 2016 FIFA Puskás Award.
1987Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.[†]
The Remembrance Day bombing took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. A Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) bomb exploded near the town's war memorial (cenotaph) during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony, which was being held to commemorate British military war dead. Eleven people were initially killed, many of them elderly. A twelfth man was fatally wounded, entering a coma from which he would later die, and 63 were injured. The IRA said it had made a mistake and that its target had been the British soldiers parading to the memorial.
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LEAD: THE holidays are coming and children across the state are making up their Christmas lists. The state's agencies are making up lists, too, although Christmas won't come for them until February, when Governor O'Neill submits his 1988 budget to the General Assembly.
LEAD: FOR the third consecutive year, Westchester County Executive Andrew P. O'Rourke is expected next week to propose a county budget with a sharp increase in property taxes, cutbacks in some county services and few, if any, new programs.
LEAD: Officials of the Komsomol, the 40-million member youth arm of the Soviet Communist Party, have drafted a proposal to assert control over independent political groups that have sprung up in answer to Mikhail S. Gorbachev's call for a measure of democracy.
LEAD: PERHAPS in deference to the state's natural grandeur, Oregonians tend not to build on a grand scale. But the Murrayhill project in this Portland suburb is an exception.
LEAD: THERE have been a lot of parties in South Norwalk in recent days, but not all the partygoers have been having a good time.
LEAD: AFTER setbacks in the early 1980's that included incessant equipment breakdowns, rising construction costs and charges of inadequate management, managers of the state's three nuclear power plants are seeking improvements.
LEAD: Arthur Miller has done it all wrong. He grew up white and Jewish in Harlem and went to college in Michigan He worked in a shipyard and wrote a full script with Ernie Pyle to redeem his 4-F status in World War II. ''Death of a Salesman'' dumped fame on him at the age of 34. He has never turned his back or his wrath on the Marxists and Communists he knew as a young man.
LEAD: Six horses trained by Peter Ferriola, Aqueduct Race Track's leading trainer, were ordered scratched by track stewards yesterday because of a state investigation involving the possible illegal medication of his horses.
LEAD: THERE was applause in Stockholm when Joseph Brodsky was named the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. There probably always is at these occasions, since applause is what they are all about, but this particular outbreak of handclaps was reported to have been more animated and partisan than usual.
LEAD: FOR the third consecutive year, Westchester County Executive Andrew P. O'Rourke is expected next week to propose a county budget with a sharp increase in property taxes, cutbacks in some county services and few, if any, new programs.
LEAD: PRESIDENT Reagan's reconstructed tax system is intact; he has won his big budgets for the Pentagon, although they are subject to raid; all his inveighing against other Government spending has paid off in the sense that even liberal Democrats advocate restraint. Last week, West Germany buckled to American pressure and cut interest rates, helping American banks to cut theirs.
LEAD: Prime Minister Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali took power in Tunisia today on grounds that Habib Bourguiba, its President for life, was too ill and senile to govern any longer.