On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: A report financed by the New York Stock Exchange concludes that trading in stock-index futures has contributed to excessive speculation in the market and should be curbed.
LEAD: FOR most of the years that Martin and Sandy Parker divided their time between a home in Queens and a house in the country, they dreaded the winding down of the weekend.
LEAD: A three-year struggle to save the Western Union Corporation has come to a successful end.
LEAD: ARNOLD COPPER walks - often coatless -through miles of auction houses every week.
LEAD: At 2 P.M. on most Saturdays, when Hermann Franzen is required by law to close his porcelain shop on Dusseldorf's fashionable Konigsallee, he ''almost has to push people out of the store,'' he said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 30, 1987, covering December 31, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
George Michael
Whitesnake
Tiffany
1987Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player[†]
Javaris Cortez Crittenton is an American former professional basketball player. During his four year career, Crittenton played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Memphis Grizzlies, and Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Zhejiang Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association, and the Dakota Wizards of the NBA D-League. He was previously the starting point guard for the Georgia Tech men's basketball team. On August 26, 2011, Crittenton was charged with the murder of Jullian Jones, a 22-year-old mother of four. After pleading guilty to manslaughter in 2015, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison, though it was later reduced to 10 years. He was released from prison on April 21, 2023.
1987Seydou Doumbia, Ivorian footballer[†]
Seydou Doumbia is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
1987Danny Holla, Dutch footballer[†]
Danny Holla is a former Dutch professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Sliema Wanderers in the Maltese Premier League.
1987Nemanja Nikolić, Hungarian footballer[†]
Nemanja Nikolić is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1987Jerry Turner, American journalist (born 1929)[†]
Jerry Turner was an American television news anchorman at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Maryland. He was from Meridian, Mississippi and began working at the Baltimore television station in August 1962, starting the 6PM Newscast with Al Sanders in 1977.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]