On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: There was a time when a spring Sunday morning would find Thomas Dawson, a 37-year-old lawyer, having brunch in Manhattan. But that was before he and his family abandoned city life for the suburbs. Now he spends those mornings pricing new shrubs, spreading fertilizer or weeding the garden of his Westport, Conn., home.
LEAD: After a dramatic and abortive attempt to land at Beirut airport, a hijacked Kuwaiti airliner with more than 50 hostages aboard put down in Cyprus Friday night with its captain saying it was about to run out of fuel.
LEAD: After four months of intensive investigations, authorities say they have found no evidence to support charges and implications by lawyers for Tawana Brawley that three white law-enforcement officials brutalized the black teen-ager in a four-day kidnapping last fall.
LEAD: President Reagan, increasing the economic pressure on Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, ordered a halt today to all payments to the Government of Panama by American citizens or by United States corporations or their Panamanian subsidiaries.
LEAD: An Israeli girl whose death brought fierce cries for vengeance against Arabs was not stoned to death, but killed by a bullet from the rifle of a Jewish settler guarding her, the army said today. Senior army commanders said they believed that the guard fired the fatal shot in panic.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 6, 1988, covering April 9, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Jeremy Metcalfe, English race car driver[†]
Jeremy Metcalfe is a British motor racing driver who last competed in 2008 in the British GT Championship where he finished the season as Vice-Champion along with team-mate Luke Hines. Racing in the Formula Renault UK championship prior to his move into GT, Metcalfe enjoyed a good level of success. He also had a productive career in karting, taking the Parma Industrials Karting Championship, a championship that was previously won by Scuderia Ferrari reserve driver Giancarlo Fisichella.
1988Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1931)[†]
Benjamin Franklin Peay, known professionally as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter whose music transcended rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres in the 1950s and 1960s, with hits such as "It's Just a Matter of Time" and "Endlessly".
1988Hans Berndt, German footballer (born 1913)[†]
Hans "Hanne" Berndt was a German footballer who played for Tennis Borussia Berlin and VfB Königsberg. He was also capped three times for the Germany national team, scoring two goals.
1988Dave Prater, American singer (born 1937)[†]
David Prater Jr. was an American Southern soul and rhythm & blues singer and musician, who was the deeper baritone/tenor vocalist of the soul vocal duo Sam & Dave from 1961 until his death in 1988. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1992), the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame (1997), and he was a Grammy Award–winning (1967) and multiple Gold Record award-winning recording artist.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]