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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Despite widespread support within the United States for a deeper and deeper depreciation of the dollar, many economists are beginning to warn that, along with the potential benefits, there are significant costs and some substantial risks.
LEAD: All those who have seen the blood-drenched bedroom at Olive Tree Farm - where eight people, missionaries and their children, were hacked to death - come away grim and tight-lipped.
LEAD: Consumer's World The cash register of the future is here in time for the Christmas rush. And a guide to holiday hours and services at major stores and malls. Page 48. Joyce Brown's Battle The debate over Joyce Brown, a homeless woman hospitalized against her will, moved into a New York appeals court.
LEAD: For decades real estate developers have played a catalytic, often decisive part in creating the economic character, social profile and sometimes even the government of much of metropolitan America.
LEAD: Two miles short of St.-Marc, a sleepy coastal town, traffic came to a screeching halt.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 1987, covering November 28, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Bruce Springsteen
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
1987Karen Gillan, Scottish actress[†]
Karen Sheila Gillan is a Scottish actress and filmmaker. She gained recognition for her work in British film and television, particularly for playing Amy Pond, a primary companion to the Eleventh Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who (2010–2013). Her early film roles include the thriller Outcast (2010) and romantic comedy Not Another Happy Ending (2013). She also worked on the stage while in Britain, appearing in John Osborne's play Inadmissible Evidence (2011).
1987Craig Kieswetter, South African-English cricketer and golfer[†]
Craig Kieswetter is an English professional golfer and former cricketer who appeared in 71 matches for the England cricket team between 2010 and 2013. Born and raised in South Africa, Kieswetter moved to England to complete his education, and began playing county cricket for Somerset in 2007. Three years later, he made his international debut in a One Day International (ODI) against Bangladesh. A wicket-keeper batsman, he was considered a one-day specialist, and all his international appearances came in ODIs or Twenty20 Internationals.
1987Choh Hao Li, Chinese-American biologist and chemist (born 1913)[†]
Choh Hao Li was a Chinese-born American biochemist who discovered in 1966 that human pituitary growth hormone (somatotropin) consists of a chain of 256 amino acids. In 1970, he succeeded in synthesizing this hormone, the largest protein molecule synthesized up to that time.
1987Kazuharu Sonoda, Japanese wrestler (born 1956)[†]
Kazuharu Sonoda also known under the ring names Haru Sonoda and Magic Dragon , was a Japanese professional wrestler. He was a former NWA Western States Tag Team Champion, NWA/WWC North American Tag Team Champion with Mitsu Ishikawa and the WCCW All Asia Tag Team Championship with the Great Kabuki in 1982.
1987South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.[†]
South African Airways Flight 295 (SA295/SAA295) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan, to Jan Smuts International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, with a stopover in Plaisance Airport, Plaine Magnien, Mauritius. On 28 November 1987, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 747-200 Combi named Helderberg, experienced a catastrophic in-flight fire in the cargo area, broke up in mid-air, and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board. An extensive salvage operation was mounted to try to recover the aircraft's flight recorders, one of which was recovered from a depth of 16,100 feet (4,900 m). The plane crash is also known as the Helderberg disaster.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]