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LEAD: Georgetown ended Seton Hall's five-game winning streak this afternoon, but it took two overtimes, an outstanding effort by Jaren Jackson and perhaps the Hoyas' best game of the season to do it.
LEAD: The sponsors of the Towers at London Terrace in the Chelsea section of Manhattan are thinking of outfitting their doormen as turn-of-the-century English bobbies to recreate the atmosphere of the London Terrace apartment community when it opened in 1931. The lobby fashion statement is a small part of a large noneviction cooperative conversion.
LEAD: Television, a new section with program highlights, an alphabetical directory of the week's movies on television and expanded broadcast and cable schedules designed for quick reference, begins today.
LEAD: On a particularly eventful morning, chairs would be splintered, windows shattered, and traffic outside brought to an abrupt halt. Although they were hardly a rival for the civic disorder that would wrack Chicago a decade later, Bobby Hull remembers his demonstrations of the late 1950's as possessing an element of anarchy, a sense of revolution.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 1988, covering March 6, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Agnes, Swedish singer[†]
Agnes Emilia Carlsson, known mononymously as Agnes, is a Swedish singer. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series. She was then signed to Sony Music, through which she released her self-titled debut album, Agnes, and follow-up, Stronger, both of which topped the Swedish Top 60 Albums Chart. In early 2008, it was announced that Agnes had parted ways with her record label, and was now signed to small independent label Roxy Recordings. Released on 28 October 2008, her third album, Dance Love Pop, reached number five in Sweden, 70 in Austria, 38 in France, 45 in Switzerland and 13 in the United Kingdom. With 200,000 albums sold worldwide this is her most successful album, 50,000 albums were sold in France, 40,000 in Sweden. Its first two singles, "On and On" and "Release Me" became international hits, reaching the top-ten in charts worldwide. "Release Me" topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs and peaked at three in the United Kingdom, selling over 900,000 copies worldwide.
1988Marina Erakovic, New Zealand tennis player[†]
Marina Erakovic is a former tennis player from New Zealand. She achieved career-high rankings of 39 in singles and 25 in doubles, and won a singles title at Memphis in February 2013, and eight doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
1988Leonys Martín, Cuban-American baseball player[†]
Leonys Martín Tápanes, nicknamed "Ikadi", is a Cuban-American professional baseball center fielder for the Sultanes de Monterrey of the Mexican League. He signed with the Texas Rangers in 2011, and made his MLB debut later that season. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, and Cleveland Indians, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines.
1988Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer[†]
Simon Luc Hildebert Mignolet is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Belgian Pro League club Club Brugge.
1988Mairéad Farrell, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1957)[†]
Mairéad Farrell was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). She was shot and killed by the Special Air Service in Gibraltar during Operation Flavius.
1988Daniel McCann, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1957)[†]
Daniel McCann was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who was shot dead by the British Army on 6 March 1988 whilst being accused of attempting to plant a car bomb in Gibraltar.
1988Seán Savage, Provisional IRA volunteer (born 1965)[†]
Seán Savage was a member of the Provisional IRA who was shot dead by the British Army whilst being accused attempting to plant a car bomb in Gibraltar.
1988Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.[†]
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland. It was the most active republican paramilitary group during the Troubles. It argued that the all-island Irish Republic continued to exist, and it saw itself as that state's army, the sole legitimate successor to the original IRA from the Irish War of Independence. It was designated a terrorist organisation in the United Kingdom and an unlawful organisation in the Republic of Ireland, both of whose authority it rejected.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]