On this day
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LEAD: THE recently established National Bone Marrow Donor Registry has given new hope to thousands of people whose lives depend on finding genetically compatible strangers willing to donate some of the tissue that produces life-sustaining blood cells.
LEAD: Where does all the time go? David Roth knows.
LEAD: The deal was essentially done last month, but yesterday the Yankees finally announced the signing of Don Mattingly, their most valuable first baseman, to a guaranteed three-year contract after finding an insurance company to write a policy covering the player's back.
LEAD: The Sony Corporation, which popularized the home video cassette recorder with its Betamax in 1975, announced today that it would sell the rival VHS system that has come to dominate the market.
LEAD: Treasury note and bond prices rose modestly yesterday, recovering part of Friday's steep losses.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 6, 1988, covering January 12, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
Tiffany
Whitesnake
1988Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Claude Giroux is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and alternate captain for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Florida Panthers. Selected by the Flyers 22nd overall in the 2006 NHL entry draft, Giroux was named the Flyers' team captain in 2013, and became the longest-tenured captain in team history. Giroux played his 1,000th game with the Flyers on March 17, 2022. Giroux has been known to be a very flexible offensive player; capable of playing comfortably on both center and wing throughout his career.
1988Hyun-soo Kim, South Korean baseball player[†]
Hyun-soo Kim is a South Korean professional baseball outfielder for the LG Twins of the KBO League. He has previously played in the KBO League for the Doosan Bears, and in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles and Philadelphia Phillies.
1988Connie Mulder, South African politician (born 1925)[†]
Cornelius Petrus Mulder was a South African politician and cabinet minister.
1988Piero Taruffi, Italian racing driver and motorcycle racer (born 1906)[†]
Piero Taruffi was an Italian racing driver, motorcycle road racer, motorsport executive and engineer, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1956. Taruffi won the 1952 Swiss Grand Prix with Ferrari. In endurance racing, Taruffi won the Mille Miglia in 1957, also with Ferrari. In Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Taruffi won the 1932 European Championship in the premier 500cc class with Norton.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]