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LEAD: The American Red Cross, hoping to prevent the spread of a cancer-causing virus that has begun to appear in a slight fraction of blood donations, said yesterday that it planned to begin testing donated blood for the virus.
LEAD: The Senate approved a $1 billion program to combat AIDS through education, treatment and research. Page B4.
LEAD: NEW YORK rockers have never had it easy. High rents, odd rehearsal conditions and daunting ambient noise levels are only the beginning; add the fierce local competition and the continual arrival of new contenders from out of town, and the city begins to sound like a musicians' decathlon. But there are potent attractions, too - New York's status as media and music-business center, and its concentration of clubs, listeners and fellow musicians, who are also likely to be fans.
LEAD: The United States and Panama have worked out the outline of an agreement by which Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the Panamanian leader, would relinquish power but might be allowed to continue to live in Panama, senior Administration officials said today.
LEAD: ''My work is not spontaneous,'' Dorothea Rockburne said. ''I learned to work from studying, and I am inspired by other people's work.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 27, 1988, covering April 29, 1988.
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George Michael
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Michael Jackson
INXS
1988Alfred Hui, Hong Kong singer[†]
Alfred Hui Ting Hang is a Hong Kong singer. He rose to prominence as the eleventh-place finalist in the first season of The Voice. His debut studio album Departure Trilogy earned gold certification. Hui won multiple best newcomer awards in 2011. He has since released more than ten studio albums.
1988Taoufik Makhloufi, Algerian athlete[†]
Taoufik Makhloufi is an Algerian athlete who specialises in middle-distance running. He became the 1500 metres Olympic champion at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. In 2016, Makhloufi took the silver medal in the 800m and 1500 m at the Summer Olympics in Rio, Brazil.
1988Jonathan Toews, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Jonathan Bryan Toews is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who last played for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), where he served as the team's captain between 2008 and 2023. Nicknamed "Captain Serious", Toews was selected by the Blackhawks with the third overall pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. He joined the team in 2007–08 and was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL Rookie of the Year. The following season he was named team captain, becoming the second-youngest captain in NHL history at the time. Toews won the Stanley Cup in 2010, along with the Conn Smythe Trophy for the most valuable player in the playoffs. After winning the Cup, Toews passed Peter Forsberg as the youngest player to join the Triple Gold Club. He won the Stanley Cup again in 2013 and 2015.
1988Younha, South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer[†]
Ko Younha, known mononymously as Younha, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and record producer. She began her career in 2004 in Japan, where she was nicknamed the "Oricon Comet" for her success on the Japanese music chart. In 2006, she debuted in South Korea, where she is regarded as one of the country's best singer-songwriters.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]