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LEAD: Anxious oil traders briefly pushed the price of oil up by nearly a dollar a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange early yesterday after news of an explosion and fire on a North Sea oil platform. New figures showing high demand for gasoline also bolstered prices.
LEAD: The Mexican Government today failed to release all but the most fragmentary results from the presidential election Wednesday, an action immediately interpreted here as indicating that the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and its candidate had been rejected by a larger proportion of the electorate than at any other time in the party's 59-year history.
LEAD: The day before the cruiser Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airbus, two Iranian F-14 fighter planes came as close as seven nautical miles to another American Navy ship, prompting it to go on combat alert and to fire a warning flare, Administration officials said today.
LEAD: The West German Government, which is struggling to contain a soaring deficit, announced its 1989 budget today amid heated controversy over planned tax increases. There is a widespread belief among economists that the increases will largely neutralize the reductions in personal income taxes that go into effect in 1990.
LEAD: Wrapping up an intense debate that has spanned five years, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted today to prevent public corporations from issuing new classes of stock that would diminish the voting power of their existing shareholders.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 1988, covering July 8, 1988.
Van Halen
Def Leppard
George Michael
Soundtrack
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1988Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (died 2012)[†]
Miguel "Miki" Roqué Farrero was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a central defender.
1988Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist[†]
Jesse Sergent is a retired New Zealand racing cyclist who rode professionally between 2011 and 2016 for Team RadioShack, Trek Factory Racing and AG2R La Mondiale.
1988Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (born 1905)[†]
Raymond James Barbuti was an American football player and sprint runner who won two gold medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Barbuti traveled to Amsterdam to initially only compete for the 400 meter sprint however the US medal position was meek and then US Olympic committee president, Major General Douglas MacArthur insisted after Barbuti won the 400 meter gold that he run in the 4 × 400 meter relay the next day. Barbuti was interrupted by MacArthur during his celebratory evening to start preparing to run the anchor for the event the next day. Barbuti initially, vehemently refused, claiming he would not displace a fellow US runner in search for further medals. However MacArthur was relentless and finally prevailed and history commenced with the team winning the gold.
1988The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, Kerala in India killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.[†]
The 16525 /16526 Island Express is an Indian Railways train running between Bengaluru City and Kanyakumari railway station, Kanyakumari. Train no. 16526 runs from Bengaluru to Kanyakumari, and Train No. 16525 runs in the reverse direction. The train runs daily through the state of Kerala and covers the 929 km journey.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]