On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: It was a blind date. They decided to meet by the Dumpster in front of Jeremy's Ale House, a popular hangout at South Street Seaport. Expectations were low.
LEAD: Elizabeth Taylor swirled a carrot stick in a gray-colored dip made of yogurt, Roquefort cheese and spices. In ''Elizabeth Takes Off,'' the diet book just published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the actress recounts her five-year battle with fried chicken and fancy desserts, observing, rather wistfully, that her life has been perceived as black or white.
LEAD: In a multimillion dollar settlement, the State Farm Insurance Company has agreed to pay damages and back pay to women who were refused jobs as insurance sales agents in California over a 13-year period.
LEAD: Senator Sam Nunn said today that the United States should consider developing a limited anti-missile defense system to protect American territory from accidental missile launchings by other nations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 20, 1988, covering January 20, 1988.
Tiffany
George Michael
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
1988Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer[†]
Elderson Uwa Echiéjilé is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a left-back for Nigeria national team from 2009 until 2018.
1988Jan Muršak, Slovenian ice hockey player[†]
Jan Muršak is a professional Slovenian ice hockey player for Frölunda HC of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Muršak first played hockey in Slovenia as a member of HDK Maribor before he left to spend one season in the Czech junior league. He was then selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft and moved to the major junior Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and played for two teams, the Saginaw Spirit and Belleville Bulls. After finishing his junior career Muršak then joined the Red Wings American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins in 2008.
1988Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (born 1890)[†]
Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan or Badshah Khan was a Pathan activist and formerly an Indian independence activist from the North-West Frontier Province, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.
1988Dora Stratou, Greek dancer and choreographer (born 1903)[†]
Dora Stratou was a Greek actress and choreographer, with significant contributions to Greek Folk Dancing and Greek Folk Music. She issued one of the largest series of folk music in the world, with 50 records, and is the founder of the Greek Dances Theatre "Dora Stratou".
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]