On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Several members of the civilian Electoral Council disbanded by the Government after an abortive presidential election refused today to accept the Government action, heightening the conflict over Haiti's future.
LEAD: The United States sharply criticized France today for making what one official said was a deal with Iran to obtain the release of French hostages in Lebanon.
LEAD: Dragged down by the diving stock market, the Government index designed to predict the economy declined by two-tenths of 1 percent in October, the Commerce Department reported today.
LEAD: The committee of general creditors of Texaco Inc. yesterday approved an interim settlement proposal in the oil company's three-year battle with the Pennzoil Company, but it declined to disclose its terms until a crucial showdown in bankruptcy court today.
LEAD: In good weather there used to be an old man and an ancient woman sharing a stoop on West 11th Street, the man singing and the woman tapping in time. The man, dressed to the nines, would leave his rooming house and put his face to the sun, listening for the familiar sound of his companion's approach - the triple beat of a pair of feet and a cane coming down the walk.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 2, 1987, covering December 2, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
Bruce Springsteen
1987Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)[†]
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body. Although born in France, Leloir received the majority of his education at the University of Buenos Aires and was director of the private research group Fundación Instituto Campomar until his death in 1987. His research into sugar nucleotides, carbohydrate metabolism, and renal hypertension garnered international attention and led to significant progress in understanding, diagnosing and treating the congenital disease galactosemia. Leloir is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.
1987Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist (born 1914)[†]
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich, also known as YaB, D.S. was a leading Soviet physicist of Belarusian origin, who is known for his prolific contributions in physical cosmology, physics of thermonuclear reactions, combustion, and hydrodynamical phenomena.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]