On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: As bank regulators searched for a bidder to take over the deeply troubled First Republicbank Corporation, many analysts said the nation's 13th-largest bank holding company is too large and too crippled by bad loans to attract any serious offers.
LEAD: Nearly a month after he forced President Eric Arturo Delvalle out of office, the Panamanian military strongman, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, is more besieged and isolated than ever. But he has shown no further willingness to end the 10-month political crisis in his country by voluntarily relinquishing power.
LEAD: The television advertisements seem simple enough: three well-known lawyers touting the divorce, bankruptcy and criminal work done by firms ''like Jacoby & Meyers,'' the cut-rate legal services chain.
LEAD: Industry in the United States and abroad is moving aggressively to curb uses of chemicals believed to be destroying the earth's ozone shield.
LEAD: With large real-estate development sweeping across the western half of midtown Manhattan, hundreds of small show business enterprises are being forced to close or move out of the nation's leading theater district.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 16, 1988, covering March 21, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
INXS
Michael Jackson
Tiffany
1988Solomon Alabi, Nigerian basketball player[†]
Makafan Solomon Alabi is a Nigerian former professional basketball player. He moved to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Montverde Academy. Alabi played college basketball for the Florida State Seminoles where he was a two-time Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) All-Defensive team selection in both his freshman and sophomore years. He was selected by the Dallas Mavericks as the 50th overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft and played two seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Toronto Raptors. Alabi played one season in the NBA Development League and finished his career overseas with stints in Greece, Taiwan, the Philippines and Japan.
1988Kateřina Čechová, Czech sprinter[†]
Kateřina Čechová is a Czech athlete who specialises in the 100 m and 200 m sprints.
1988Erik Johnson, American ice hockey player[†]
Erik Robert Johnson is an American ice hockey defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed the "Condor", Johnson previously played for the St. Louis Blues, who selected him with the first overall pick in the 2006 NHL entry draft, as well as the Buffalo Sabres and the Philadelphia Flyers. Additionally, he has represented the United States in numerous tournaments. Johnson won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2022.
1988Eric Krüger, German sprinter[†]
Eric Krüger is a German athlete who competes in the sprint with a personal best time of 45.77 seconds over 400 metres.
1988Michael Madl, Austrian footballer[†]
Michael Madl is an Austrian professional football coach and a former player who played as a defender. He works as a coach with the Austria Wien academy. He represented the Austria under-21 team.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]