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LEAD: Last month's stock market collapse may have left a trail of walking wounded on Wall Street, but it pales when compared with the financial flops of Victorian times. A reminder of those freebooting, all-or-nothing days surfaced Tuesday at Sotheby's, the London auction house, when a huge cache of 75,000 antique bonds was sold for about $630,000.
LEAD: An emotional nine-month legal battle over stricter smoking regulations in New York State ended today as the state's highest court declared the regulations invalid because they had been issued without the approval of the Legislature.
LEAD: As election officials, hampered by violence and a lack of government support, struggled today to organize the presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, neighborhood defense groups lynched four men suspected of anti-election terrorism.
LEAD: The mutual fund industry absorbed, rather than increased, much of the pressure to liquidate giant holdings of stocks on Oct. 19 by using billions of dollars in cash reserves to meet shareholder redemptions, the industry's trade group said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 1987, covering November 26, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Bruce Springsteen
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
1987Kat DeLuna, American singer, songwriter and dancer[†]
Kathleen Emperatriz DeLuna is an American singer. DeLuna began pursuing a career as a singer when she was a teenager and later signed with Epic Records. Her debut single, "Whine Up", released in 2007, went on to become a commercial success, entering the Top 40 in numerous countries and topping the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Her debut studio album, 9 Lives (2007), failed to see the success of its lead single. The album's third single, "Run the Show", became a hit in various territories, and reached number two on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
1987Georgios Tzavellas, Greek footballer[†]
Georgios Tzavellas is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or a left-back. He is the current sporting director of Super League club Panathinaikos.
1987Thomas George Lanphier, Jr., American colonel and pilot (born 1915)[†]
Thomas George Lanphier Jr. was a Panama-born American colonel and fighter pilot during World War II who was first given sole credit, then later partial credit shared with Rex T. Barber, for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander in chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Most modern historians discount his version entirely, giving Barber the whole credit for the kill.
1987J. P. Guilford, American psychologist and academic (born 1897)[†]
Joy Paul Guilford was an American psychologist best known for his psychometric study of human intelligence, including the distinction between convergent and divergent production.
1987Peter Hujar, American photographer (born 1934)[†]
Peter Hujar was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white portraits. Hujar's work received only marginal public recognition during his lifetime, but he has since been recognized as a major American photographer of the 1970s and 80s.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]