On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: On a sunny, late-winter afternoon in Yuma, Ariz., in an otherwise forgettable intrasquad game at the remote training camp of the San Diego Padres, Dickie Thon doubled, and members of both teams joined the small crowd in its cheers.
LEAD: AT a bargain price, Nick and Suzanne Cooke control a nice piece of real estate. As they sit in their living room, they have views of this city's waterfront marinas and San Francisco Bay just east of the Golden Gate Bridge.
LEAD: Down by the old mill stream, Burton Handelsman is building colonial-style homes and mending a colonial mill. His seven-house project in Harrison, N.Y., at a bend in the Mamaroneck River will include the restoration of a 17th-century grist mill. Built in 1690, the stone-and-wood structure is the oldest mill in Westchester County, said Michael Cassarella, Harrison town historian.
LEAD: A plan to build the first new atomic weapons plant in a quarter of a century has ignited a major political struggle in the Northwest over jobs and nuclear disarmament.
LEAD: EIGHTEEN months after voters approved a $250 million bond act to buy open land and expand or improve parks, New York State has yet to make a single land acquisition on Long Island.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 23, 1988, covering March 27, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Jessie J, English singer-songwriter[†]
Jessica Ellen Cornish, known professionally as Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, she began her career on stage, aged 11, with a role in the West End musical Whistle Down the Wind. She later studied at the BRIT School, before signing with Gut Records and striking a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
1988Atsuto Uchida, Japanese footballer[†]
Atsuto Uchida is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
1988Brenda Song, American actress[†]
Brenda Song is an American actress of Hmong and Thai descent. Born in Sacramento, California, Song began her career at the age of six, working as a child model. She made her screen debut with a guest appearance on the sitcom Thunder Alley (1995), and went on to roles such as the children's television series Fudge (1995) and the Nickelodeon series 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (1999). She starred in the Disney Channel original film The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000), which won her a Young Artist Award. She subsequently signed a contract with Disney Channel and earned widespread recognition for playing the titular character in the action film Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior (2006), and London Tipton in The Suite Life franchise (2005–2011), earning her acclaim and two Young Hollywood Awards. She additionally played the recurring role of Tia in Phil of the Future (2004–2005), and had starring roles in the television film Get a Clue (2002), the sports comedy film Like Mike (2002) and the comedy film Stuck in the Suburbs (2004).
1988Mauro Goicoechea, Uruguayan footballer[†]
Mauro Daniel Goicoechea Furia is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Uruguayan Primera División team Danubio.
1988Holliday Grainger, English actress[†]
Holliday Clark Grainger, also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in the Strike series, DI/DCI Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One crime drama The Capture, and Estella in Mike Newell's 2012 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations.
1988Charles Willeford, American author, poet, and critic (born 1919)[†]
Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography and literary criticism, Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s on, but vaulted to wider attention with the first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of four of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, The Woman Chaser, and The Burnt Orange Heresy.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]