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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Hatsune Matsushima, Japanese model and actress[†]
Hatsune Matsushima is a Japanese gravure model, talent and actress affiliated with Harmony Promotion. She was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name is Noriko Matsushima, and she goes by the nickname Hachu. She has starred in a number of TV dramas, films, and internet productions. She also co-authored a book.
1987Dana Vollmer, American swimmer[†]
Dana Whitney Vollmer is a former American competition swimmer, five-time Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the winning United States team in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay that set the world record in the event. Eight years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Vollmer set the world record on her way to the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly, and also won golds in the 4×100-meter medley relay and 4×200-meter freestyle relay. She won three medals including a gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
LEAD: HARDLY since the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 has an anniversary been as thoroughly celebrated as the 50th birthday of the Guggenheim Museum. People by the hundreds danced, dined, drank, talked, reminisced. The staff got to forget what day it was, and virtually every foreign artist who has ever shown at the Guggenheim flew in to pay tribute to Thomas M.
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company, which has been reluctant to spend much of its cash hoard on acquisitions, said today that it would repurchase up to $2 billion of its own shares after a current buyback program ends.
LEAD: How many times will Blanche Celestine have to die a thousand deaths? ''I'm dying now,'' she said. It's the maniac nonsmokers who are destroying her health.
LEAD: President Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua and the leaders of the American-backed rebels conferred separately today with the House Speaker, Jim Wright, as efforts to negotiate a cease-fire appeared to be stepping up.
LEAD: A judge has held that it is all right for a school principal to paddle a pupil but wrong for the pupil's mother to hit a principal.
LEAD: The rush to Europe is on. With the dollar sinking to postwar lows, making American products ever cheaper, United States companies are flocking across the Atlantic to cash in.
LEAD: After being badly hurt by last month's stock collapse, the investor Robert Holmes a Court is searching the world for buyers for his 9.6 percent stake in Texaco Inc. and his other holdings as well.
LEAD: The stock market surged yesterday, and analysts laid the stock rally firmly at the door of the September trade figures released by the Commerce Department.
LEAD: Richard and Mary Beth Whitehead were divorced here today, eight days after she formally revealed she was two months' pregnant by another man.
LEAD: Ken Hakuta used to export ironing board covers to Japan.