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LEAD: As the stock market went into its chaotic tailspin last Oct. 19, the New York Stock Exchange struggled to keep trading open and preserve a bedrock principle: that the exchange provides a marketplace where investors can always buy or sell stocks at fairly determined prices during operating hours.
LEAD: An accelerating exodus of pilots from Eastern Airlines is disrupting the carrier's schedules and causing it to cancel many flights.
LEAD: Top Defense Department officials told Congress today that the Reagan Administration had decided to revise the rules for American warships in the Persian Gulf to allow them in unspecified circumstances to protect neutral merchant ships under attack.
LEAD: ''You are hijacked,'' Capt. Sobhi Youssef said the three men told him after they forced the cockpit door open, brandishing hand grenades.
LEAD: A day after he was reported to have been all but removed from his position as the No. 2 Communist Party official and ordered to go on a long vacation, Yegor K. Ligachev appeared today in his accustomed place alongside his Politburo colleagues at a ceremony marking Lenin's birth.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 20, 1988, covering April 23, 1988.
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Michael Jackson
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George Michael
INXS
1988Victor Anichebe, Nigerian footballer[†]
Victor Chinedu Anichebe is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
1988Sandra Borch, Norwegian politician[†]
Sandra Konstance Nygård Borch is a Norwegian politician who served as the minister of research and higher education from 2023 to 2024 until her resignation over the extensive plagiarism in her master's thesis.
1988Alistair Brownlee, English triathlete[†]
Alistair Edward Brownlee is an English former triathlete. He is the only athlete to hold two Olympic titles in the individual triathlon event, winning gold medals in the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. He is also a four-time World Champion in triathlon being Triathlon World Champion twice and World Team Champion twice, a four-time European Champion, and the 2014 Commonwealth champion. Brownlee is the only male athlete,, to have completed a grand slam of Olympic, World, and continental championships. Brownlee is also a one-time world champion in aquathlon. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest male Triathletes ever.
1988Patrick Maroon, American ice hockey player[†]
Patrick Maroon is an American former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). Nicknamed "Big Rig", Maroon played for the Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers, New Jersey Devils, St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning, Minnesota Wild, Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks. Maroon is a three-time Stanley Cup champion, winning in three consecutive seasons.
1988Signe Ronka, Canadian figure skater[†]
Signe Ronka is a Latvian Canadian former competitive figure skater. She won three medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series and competed at the 2003 World Junior Championships.
1988Lenka Wienerová, Slovak tennis player[†]
Lenka Wienerová is a Slovak former tennis player.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]