On this day
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LEAD: A man charged by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office with murdering a stranger beneath a highway overpass one year ago tomorrow was in an upstate prison at the time of the killing, state correctional officials said yesterday.
LEAD: Amid a tide of discrimination against homosexuals caused by the AIDS epidemic, gay men in New York City are beginning to discern a countervailing attitude - a new sense of openness and understanding on the part of some heterosexuals.
LEAD: Despite the jams and the jolts, a car culture flourishes in New York City, a survey of motorists commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority shows.
LEAD: The largest Government plant that makes plutonium for nuclear bombs, closed and under intense scrutiny in recent months because of its resemblance to the Chernobyl reactor in the Soviet Union, will not be reopened, the Department of Energy has told some legislators on Capitol Hill.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 3, 1988, covering February 4, 1988.
George Michael
Tiffany
Soundtrack
INXS
Michael Jackson
1988Charlie Barnett, American actor[†]
Charlie Barnett is an American actor. He is known for starring as firefighter/paramedic Peter Mills on the NBC drama Chicago Fire from 2012 to 2015 and Yord Fandar in The Acolyte on Disney+. Among his other starring roles are Alan Zaveri on the Netflix comedy series Russian Doll, Ben Marshall on the Netflix series Tales of the City, and Gabe Miranda in the Netflix thriller series You.
1988Carly Patterson, American gymnast and singer[†]
Carly Rae Patterson is an American singer, songwriter and former artistic gymnast. She was the all-around champion at the 2004 Olympics, the first all-around champion for the United States at a non-boycotted Olympics, and is a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Patterson frequently joins radio segments on 1310 AM and 96.7 FM The Ticket in Dallas Fort-Worth.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]