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LEAD: All right, you Americans mourning the lack of medals at the Winter Games, open the blinds, let in some daylight and repeat after me:
LEAD: T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman and corporate raider, has notified Texaco Inc. that he is seeking clearance from antitrust regulators to buy up to 15 percent of the company.
LEAD: The Reagan Administration and Democratic Congressional leaders agreed today to allow the White House more time to present the Canadian free-trade accord to Congress for final approval. The agreement assures that a vote will be taken this year.
LEAD: In keeping with a bipartisan agreement reached last year, President Reagan today sent Congress a $1.09 trillion budget devoid of the ideological fervor that enabled a small band of committed conservatives to reorder Federal spending priorities in the last seven years.
LEAD: For once, no one is calling President Reagan's budget ''dead on arrival,'' as Democrats in Congress described most of his earlier proposals and as indeed they turned out. The President and Congress have already agreed on the broad outlines of how much to tax and how much to spend, so the disputes this time are in the details.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 17, 1988, covering February 19, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Tiffany
INXS
Michael Jackson
1988Shawn Matthias, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Shawn Matthias is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. Matthias played in the NHL, making appearances with the Florida Panthers, Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Colorado Avalanche, and Winnipeg Jets. He was originally drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in the second round, 47th overall, at the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. Matthias was a natural centre early in his career; however, he made the transition to being able to play the wings as well.
1988Seth Morrison, American guitarist[†]
Skillet is an American Christian rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1996. The band currently consists of husband and wife John Cooper and Korey Cooper along with Jen Ledger and Seth Morrison. The band has released twelve studio albums, two of which, Collide and Comatose, received Grammy nominations. Two of their albums, Comatose and Awake, are certified Platinum and Double Platinum respectively by the RIAA, while Rise and Unleashed are certified Gold as of June 29, 2020. Four of their songs, "Monster", "Hero", "Awake and Alive", and "Feel Invincible", are certified Multi-Platinum, while another three, "Whispers in the Dark", "Comatose", and "The Resistance" are certified Platinum, and another five, "Rebirthing", "Not Gonna Die", "The Last Night", "Legendary", and "Stars" are certified Gold.
1988André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)[†]
André Frédéric Cournand was a French-American physician and physiologist.
1988A Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner operating as AVAir Flight 3378 crashes in Cary, North Carolina, killing 12.[†]
The Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner is a 19-seat, pressurized, twin-turboprop airliner first produced by Swearingen Aircraft and later by Fairchild Aircraft at a plant in San Antonio, Texas.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]