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LEAD: Kitty Dukakis, wife of the probable Democratic Presidential nominee, underwent surgery today to remove two herniated disks that had been pressing against her spinal cord.
LEAD: This is the centennial year of the Jack the Ripper murders. It seems a fair time to ask how the investigation is going.
LEAD: In an unprecedented step, the American League baseball umpires vowed yesterday that they would no longer tolerate Billy Martin's dirt-kicking, dirt-throwing antics, promising to ''take strong measures'' against the Yankee manager ''to curb his temper.''
LEAD: Andrei D. Sakharov spoke out today for his Government's new strivings and against its old and continuing repressions, using the auditorium, microphones and translating services of the Soviet Foreign Ministry for words that not long ago would have been cause for criminal action.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 1, 1988, covering June 4, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Poison
Michael Jackson
Scorpions
1988Matt Bartkowski, American ice hockey defenseman[†]
Matthew Richard Bartkowski is an American professional ice hockey defenseman who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL).
1988Kimberley Busteed, Australian model[†]
Kimberley Busteed is an Australian TV host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Australia 2007 and represented Australia in the 2007 Miss Universe pageant. She is from Gladstone in Central Queensland, Australia and is a former teen swimming champion and surf lifesaving competitor. In 2006 she was the Fashion on the Field winner at the Doomben races in Brisbane, following that she won the Melbourne Cup Fashions on the Field. In 2012 Busteed resumed her competitive swimming by competing in the Noosa Tri, swimming the 1500m ocean stretch for her team.
1988Tjaronn Chery, Dutch-born Surinamese footballer[†]
Tjaronn Inteff Chefren Chery is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Belgian Pro League club Antwerp. Born in the Netherlands, he represents the Suriname national team.
1988Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.[†]
RDX (Research Department Explosive or Royal Demolition Explosive) or hexogen, among other names, is an organic compound with the formula (CH2N2O2)3. It is white, odorless, and tasteless, widely used as an explosive. Chemically, it is classified as a nitroamine alongside HMX, which is a more energetic explosive than TNT. It was used widely in World War II and remains common in military applications.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]