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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: As efforts to curb wine consumption gain momentum, American vintners are widely divided about how to combat the movement.
LEAD: A Soviet-backed military drive to lift the guerrilla siege of an Afghan garrison town is intended to strengthen Afghanistan's Communist Government in peace talks, Reagan Administration officials and other analysts say.
LEAD: The dollar ended a bleak year on a bleak note yesterday, falling to new lows against the Japanese yen and the West German mark. Trading was very light.
LEAD: The nation's biggest waste disposal company said today that it had abandoned plans to burn toxic wastes on ships off the United States coast, effectively ending the prospect of such waste disposal for the foreseeable future.
LEAD: The atmosphere's protective shield of ozone ebbed rapidly from 1979 through 1986, not just over Antarctica, where the depletion has been sharpest, but over nearly the whole globe, researchers said yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 30, 1987, covering January 1, 1988.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
George Michael
Whitesnake
Tiffany
Marcel Gecov, Czech footballer[†]
Marcel Gecov is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Dallas Keuchel, American baseball player[†]
Dallas Keuchel is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, and Milwaukee Brewers and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines.
1988Clementine Hunter, American folk artist (born 1886 or 1887)[†]
Clementine Hunter was a self-taught Black folk artist from the Cane River region of Louisiana, who lived and worked on Melrose Plantation.
1988The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.[†]
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2023, it has approximately 2.79 million baptized members in 8,498 congregations.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]