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LEAD: Coleco Industries, the toy company that soared to wealth and renown five years ago as the maker of Cabbage Patch dolls, filed for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code late Monday.
LEAD: The House of Representatives, tackling one of the most politically sensitive issues in Congress, approved legislation today to expedite the process for closing obsolete military bases.
LEAD: By lashing out against its enemies Monday, the Government here was reacting to a political and economic situation that is deteriorating more rapidly than at any time since the Sandinista takeover nine years ago.
LEAD: In an acknowledgment of the declining popularity of the instant photography market that it pioneered, the Polaroid Corporation said yesterday that it would take on the Eastman Kodak Company and the Fuji Photo Film Company in the $7 billion world market for conventional color film.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 13, 1988, covering July 13, 1988.
Van Halen
Def Leppard
George Michael
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
1988Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, Brazilian-Italian footballer[†]
Marcos Paulo Gelmini Gomes, known as Marcos Paulo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga Portugal 2 club Paços de Ferreira. He also holds Italian nationality.
1988Colton Haynes, American actor, model and singer[†]
Colton Lee Haynes is an American actor and model. He is known for his starring role as Jackson Whittemore in the MTV supernatural drama series Teen Wolf and as Roy Harper / Arsenal in the CW superhero television series Arrow.
1988DJ LeMahieu, American baseball player[†]
David John LeMahieu is an American professional baseball infielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs and Colorado Rockies.
1988Steven R. McQueen, American actor and model[†]
Steven Chadwick McQueen, known professionally as Steven R. McQueen, is an American actor, best known for his role as Jeremy Gilbert in The CW fantasy supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries from 2009 to 2015 and in 2017, and its spin-off Legacies in 2018. He also starred as Jimmy Borrelli in the NBC dramas Chicago Fire from 2015 to 2016 and Chicago P.D. in 2016, part of the One Chicago franchise.
1988Raúl Spank, German high jumper[†]
Raúl Roland Spank is a retired German athlete who specialised in the high jump.
1988Tulisa, English singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Tula Paulinea Contostavlos, known professionally as Tulisa, is an English singer, songwriter, rapper, and television personality. As a part of the R&B/hip hop group N-Dubz with her cousin Dappy and friend Fazer, they gained four platinum-certified albums, five MOBO awards, a Brit Award nomination, thirteen top 40 singles, six silver-certified singles, three gold-certified singles, two platinum-certified singles, and three Urban Music Awards.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]