On this day
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LEAD: On the eve of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's arrival in the United States, about 200,000 marchers streamed down Constitution Avenue to Capitol Hill today to send the message that Jewish emigration and human rights should figure prominently in the Soviet leader's meeting this week with President Reagan.
LEAD: Stop if you have heard these before: Mats Wilander of Sweden played his countryman, Stefan Edberg, in a matinee performance of the Nabisco Masters with only a handful of fans in attendance; Ivan Lendl gave Brad Gilbert a painful lesson in power tennis as practiced from the baseline; Lendl will play Wilander in the final of a major tournament, and one of the players had some unkind words for the
LEAD: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who makes his first visit to the United States Monday, is a product - even, it sometimes seems, a prisoner - of the system he is trying to change.
LEAD: If Joseph Baum's fantasy is fulfilled, lovely ladies in long gowns will step onto the maitre d'hotel's terrace, pause for a modest moment, place a hand on the burnished brass handrail with its lead-crystal balusters, and then, on the arm of an escort, flow down the stairs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 2, 1987, covering December 7, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
Bruce Springsteen
1987Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and actor (died 2022)[†]
Aaron Charles Carter was an American singer and rapper. He came to fame as a teen pop singer in the late 1990s, establishing himself as a star among preteen and teenage audiences during the first years of the 21st century, with his four studio albums.
1987Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.[†]
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to San Francisco. On December 7, 1987, the British Aerospace 146-200A, registration N350PS, crashed in San Luis Obispo County near Cayucos, after being hijacked by a passenger.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]