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LEAD: AT first glance, the furniture looks ordinary enough. The plain four-poster bed borders on dullness; the chests of drawers are understated and sober; the coffee tables need piles of magazines to relieve their bareness.
LEAD: Ending its bitter fight against a hostile takeover bid by Beazer P.L.C., the Koppers Company announced yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by the British-based company for $61 a share, or $1.8 billion.
LEAD: A committee of experts appointed by the National Academy of Sciences today strongly criticized ''the absence of strong Federal leadership'' in the fight against the AIDS epidemic, which was first recognized seven years ago.
LEAD: The index put together by the Government to forecast the economy edged up two-tenths of 1 percent in April, its third straight advance.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 1, 1988, covering June 2, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Poison
Michael Jackson
Scorpions
1988Sergio AgĂŒero, Argentine footballer[â ]
Sergio Leonel AgĂŒero del Castillo, also known as Kun AgĂŒero, is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and one of the greatest players in the history of the Premier League. He played for Manchester City from 2011 to 2021 and is the club's all-time top goalscorer and holds the record for most Premier League hat-tricks, with 12.
1988Awkwafina, American actress, rapper, and comedian[â ]
Nora Lum, known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, comedian and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, Yellow Ranger (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series Girl Code (2014â2015). She expanded to films with supporting roles in the comedies Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016), Ocean's 8 (2018), Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). For her starring role as a grieving young woman in The Farewell (2019), she won a Golden Globe Award.
1988Staniliya Stamenova, Bulgarian canoeist[â ]
Staniliya Stamenova is a Bulgarian sprint canoer and former athletics competitor. She won the gold medal in the C-1 200 m event at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan and has won the gold in the same event at the Canoe Sprint European Championships three times, in 2012, 2014, and 2015.
1988Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer (born 1924)[â ]
Raj Kapoor was an Indian actor, film director and producer, who worked in Hindi cinema. He is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors and filmmakers in the history of Indian cinema, and has been referred to as The Greatest Showman of Indian Cinema and as the Charlie Chaplin of Indian Cinema.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]