On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Natan Sharansky, after nine years in Soviet prisons and labor camps, insisted to an audience of 900 people Sunday night that there was no special quality of heroism that separated him from them. But skeptical, like all New Yorkers, they refused to believe him, bathing him in the sort of adulation he likens to a more insidious prison.
LEAD: FOUR billion miles away, farther than any man-made object has ever traveled, Pioneer 10 has yet to find and cross the outer boundary of the solar system. Each day its instruments extend the known dimensions of the Sun's sphere of influence, with no end in sight.
LEAD: The Reagan Administration today announced the opening of formal investigations into charges that South Korea unfairly blocks imports of American wine and abuses American patents.
LEAD: Responding to a sudden wave of firebomb attacks, senior Israeli Government officials are advising civilians that members of the public are within their rights to shoot on sight anyone seen carrying a firebomb.
LEAD: American Brands Inc. said yesterday that it would sell the bulk of E-II Holdings Inc., a conglomerate it acquired only four months ago, for $1.2 billion.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 8, 1988, covering June 14, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Poison
Def Leppard
Michael Jackson
1988Adrián Aldrete, Mexican footballer[†]
Adrián Alexei Aldrete Rodríguez is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
1988Kevin McHale, American actor, singer, dancer and radio personality[†]
Kevin Michael McHale is an American actor and singer. Formerly one of the two lead vocalists of the boy band NLT, McHale is best known for his role as Artie Abrams in the Fox musical comedy-drama series Glee, for which he was nominated for a Grammy Award, three Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series and two Teen Choice Awards. From 2014 to 2016, he hosted the British panel show Virtually Famous on E4. In 2019, McHale and Glee co-star Jenna Ushkowitz began a podcast called Showmance, where they recap Glee episodes and interview Glee cast and crew members, as well as other people. The podcast was rebranded in 2022 as And That's What You Really Missed on iHeartRadio.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]