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LEAD: After four days of bitterness over the role of Jim Wright, the House Speaker, as a mediator in the Central American peace negotiations, Mr. Wright and Secretary of State George P. Shultz signed a six-point agreement today pledging to work together and not to ''create unnecessary problems.''
LEAD: Elizabeth Terry telephoned from the late James Beard's kitchen the other day. Mr. Beard, the chef and cookbook writer, once said that if he were forced to practice cannibalism, ''I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.'' Mrs. Terry, a fine Savannah chef, said it was ''definitely intimidating'' cooking at Mr.
LEAD: Senate Republicans today delivered a surprising and potentially fatal blow to major housing legislation that was expected to be passed and sent to the President.
LEAD: The Supreme Court decision in the Winans inside trading case is likely to discourage leaks of an array of corporate information, from product designs to financial projections, legal experts said yesterday.
LEAD: ''Once you pull the trigger, the party's over,'' Jim Alex said on a recent Sunday as the 130-pound buck shot by his hunting partner, John Walsh, was lifted off the scales at a deer check station here. ''It took seven guys three hours to drag it out of the woods.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 18, 1987, covering November 18, 1987.
Soundtrack
Bruce Springsteen
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
1987Jake Abel, American actor[†]
Jacob Allen Abel is an American actor. He has appeared in the film adaptations of the young adult novels Percy Jackson (2010–2013), I Am Number Four (2011), and The Host (2013), along with portraying musician Mike Love in the biographical drama Love & Mercy (2014). Outside of film, he appeared in the recurring role of Adam Milligan on the CW series Supernatural. Abel was also a series regular in the first season of the Netflix science fiction drama Another Life (2019).
1987Cal Clutterbuck, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Cal William Clutterbuck is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He was drafted 72nd overall by the Minnesota Wild in the 2006 NHL entry draft. He played for the Wild and New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). Clutterbuck holds the NHL record for most career hits.
1987Yoon Park, South Korean actor[†]
Yoon Park is a South Korean actor.
1987Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist (born 1934)[†]
Jacques Anquetil was a French road racing cyclist and the first cyclist to win the Tour de France five times, in 1957 and from 1961 to 1964.
1987King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.[†]
The King's Cross fire occurred in 1987 at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London, England, causing 31 fatalities. It began under a wooden escalator before spreading into the ticket hall in a flashover.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]