On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: After a day and a half of freedom in the cold, wet mountains of southeastern West Virginia, Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme was recaptured yesterday, walking along a country road about two miles south of the Federal prison from which she escaped.
LEAD: Fast Food and Health Care A growing number of hospitals have fast-food restaurants, causing debate between approving administrators and disapproving doctors. Page 8. To Them, It's Tea Time After centuries of efforts to grow tea in the United States, two entrepreneurs in South Carolina are now raising the nation's only crop.
LEAD: The United States and the Soviet Union both suffered setbacks on matters of importance to them at the United Nations during the General Assembly session that ended this week, diplomats say.
LEAD: In 1985 Venezuela wanted to buy a fleet of construction vehicles called wheel loaders from the Caterpillar Tractor Company. Because the country's crushing debt burden was forcing it to curtail imports, Caterpillar was asked to take Venezuelan iron ore in payment.
LEAD: Since it opened in 1983, New York City's only publicly financed law school has won widespread national attention for its innovative curriculum, its efforts to bring underrepresented groups into the legal profession and its goal of training them for public-service careers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 23, 1987, covering December 26, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
George Michael
Whitesnake
Tiffany
1987Oskar Osala, Finnish ice hockey player[†]
Oskar Osala is a Finnish former professional ice hockey player. He played in three National Hockey League (NHL) games with the Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes and represented Finland in Olympic Winter Games 2018.
1987Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (born 1916)[†]
Dorothy Elizabeth Bliss was an American carcinologist and curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History, with which she was associated for over 30 years. She was known as a pioneer in the field of hormonal control in crustaceans. She was editor-in-chief of the 10-volume series The Biology of Crustacea and author of the popular book Shrimps, Lobsters and Crabs. She served as president of the American Society of Zoologists and was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]