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LEAD: The $150,000-a-year salary granted to New York City's new Schools Chancellor, Dr. Richard R. Green, apparently makes him the nation's highest paid public school administrator.
LEAD: The Mobil Corporation said yesterday that it was exploring the sale of its Montgomery Ward & Company subsidiary after having received inquiries from ''some sizable companies'' interested in acquiring the retailing chain.
LEAD: Federal officials meeting in Anchorage today began investigating evidence that foreign trawlers may have been fishing illegally in rich American waters off the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
LEAD: LET'S face it: a majority of gardeners - even the most acquisitive - will never own an elegant glass palm house. But the truth never stopped any horticulturist from dreaming, and with snow and slush a reality, thoughts of tropical species beckon. As indoor gardening has become more tempting, interest in the the city glass house for winter growing has increased, and the result is a variety of styles and prices for a variety of uses.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 20, 1988, covering January 21, 1988.
Tiffany
George Michael
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
1988Glaiza de Castro, Filipino actress and singer[†]
Glaiza Castro Galura-Rainey, professionally known by her stage name Glaiza de Castro, is a Filipino actress and singer. She is known for playing various roles in television and mainstream, independent, and sociopolitical films. Her performances have earned her accolades, including a Luna Award and a Facine Film Festival Award, as well as several FAMAS Awards and Gawad Urian Awards nominations.
1988Ashton Eaton, American decathlete[†]
Ashton James Eaton is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in the indoor heptathlon event. Eaton was the second decathlete to break the 9,000-point barrier in the decathlon, with 9,039 points, a score he bettered on August 29, 2015, when he beat his own world record with a score of 9,045 points, and remains the only person to exceed 9,000 points twice. His world record was broken on September 16, 2018, by Frenchman Kevin Mayer, who became the third man to pass the 9,000-point barrier, with a total of 9,126 points.
1988Rolands Freimanis, Latvian basketball player[†]
Rolands Freimanis is a Latvian professional basketball player who plays for the Rīgas Zeļļi of the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. He plays at the power forward and center positions.
1988Vanessa Hessler, Italian-American model and actress[†]
Vanessa Hessler is an Italian-American model and actress. A model since she was 15, Hessler has appeared in many publications throughout Italy, Germany, and France.
1988Aleksandar Lazevski, Macedonian footballer[†]
Aleksandar Lazevski is a professional footballer who plays for OFK Vršac. Born in Serbia, he represented the Macedonian national team.
1988Ángel Mena, Ecuadorian footballer[†]
Ángel Israel Mena Delgado is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Orense and the Ecuador national team.
1988Valérie Tétreault, Canadian tennis player[†]
Valérie Tétreault is a Canadian former professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 112 in February 2010, and peaked at No. 307 in the doubles rankings in April of the same year.
1988Pieter Timmers, Belgian swimmer[†]
Pieter Timmers is a Belgian retired competitive swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He won the silver medal in the 100 meter freestyle at the 2016 Olympics. Timmers currently holds nine Belgian records, and seven national titles in long and short course freestyle. Timmers is a resident athlete for Brabo Antwerp, and trains under his personal coach Ronald Gaastra. He stands 2.00 m, and weighs 89 kg (196 lb). He ended his career in Budapest in the second season of the International Swimming League in 2020.
1988Nemanja Tomić, Serbian footballer[†]
Nemanja Tomić is a Serbian former professional footballer. He has been described as a "tricky" winger with sublime dribbling skill.
1988Vincent Lingiari, Australian Aboriginal rights activist (born 1919)[†]
Vincent Lingiari was an Australian Aboriginal rights activist of the Gurindji people. In his early life he started as a stockman at Wave Hill Station, where the Aboriginal workers were given no more than rations, tobacco and clothing as their payment. After the owners of the station refused to improve pay and working conditions at the cattle station and hand back some of Gurindji land, Lingiari was elected and became the leader of the workers in August 1966. He led his people in the Wave Hill walk-off, also known as the Gurindji strike.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]