On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: SCIENTISTS struggling with the year's foremost problem in theoretical physics - how to explain the new high-temperature superconductivity - are focusing more and more on a peculiarly indestructible kind of wave known as a soliton.
LEAD: The child care industry has begun to turn to older Americans, a previously untapped labor pool, to help care for the nation's preschool children.
LEAD: Three years after legislation authorized it, one of the most ambitious waterfront-development projects in the country, a $1.4 billion complex at Hunters Point, Queens, has not begun to rise from the ground.
LEAD: MANY people occasionally turn off the drab or irksome realities of the day through fantasy. But some people, a fascinating minority, spend most of their waking lives lost in a fantasy world, leaving it to join the common reality almost as a visitor.
LEAD: Congress is on the verge of choosing Nevada as the leading candidate for disposal of the nation's most dangerous nuclear waste, thus abandoning a carefully fashioned procedure it approved five years ago for scientifically evaluating several locations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 9, 1987, covering December 15, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
George Michael
1987Josh Norman, American football player[†]
Joshua Ricardo Norman is an American professional football cornerback. He played college football for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers and was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the fifth round of the 2012 NFL draft. Norman has also played for the Washington Redskins, Buffalo Bills, and San Francisco 49ers, and was once considered to be among the best cornerbacks in the NFL. He also participated in the celebrity dancing competition show Dancing with the Stars, finishing as the runner-up of its 26th season in 2018.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]