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March 30, 1988

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Headlines from March 30, 1988

AMERICAN BUILDERS WIN PARTICIPATION IN JAPAN PROJECTS

By Clyde H. Farnsworth, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: Ending one of their most contentious trade disputes, the United States and Japan completed an agreement today that would permit American construction companies to participate with Japanese contractors in building airport terminals, bridges, ports and other large public works projects in Japan.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 30, 1988, covering March 30, 1988.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Dirty Dancing by Soundtrack

    Dirty Dancing

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    29
  2. 2
    Album cover for Faith by George Michael

    Faith

    George Michael

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    20
  3. 3
    Album cover for Bad by Michael Jackson

    Bad

    Michael Jackson

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    28
  4. 4
    Album cover for Kick by INXS

    Kick

    INXS

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    21
  5. 5
    Album cover for Tiffany by Tiffany

    Tiffany

    Tiffany

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    28

Notable Births

Will Matthews (rugby league)

1988Will Matthews, Australian rugby league player[†]

Will Matthews is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer.

Thanasis Papazoglou

1988Thanasis Papazoglou, Greek footballer[†]

Athanasios Papazoglou, commonly known as Thanasis Papazoglou, is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a striker for Gamma Ethniki club Thermaikos.

Richard Sherman (American football)

1988Richard Sherman, American football player[†]

Richard Kevin Sherman is an American former professional football cornerback who played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Sherman played college football for the Stanford Cardinal, beginning his career as a wide receiver before moving to cornerback as a junior. He was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL draft. He was selected to the Pro Bowl five times and voted All-Pro five times, including three times to the first team, and led the NFL in interceptions in 2013, when he also helped the Seahawks win their first Super Bowl. Sherman is considered one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time.

Larisa Yurkiw

1988Larisa Yurkiw, Canadian alpine skier[†]

Larisa Yurkiw is a Canadian retired World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of downhill and super-G.

Notable Deaths

Edgar Faure

1988Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1908)[†]

Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.

Historical Context for March 30, 1988

In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]