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LEAD: SHORTLY after George Herbert Walker Bush selected J. Danforth Quayle 3d as his running mate on the Republican ticket, Mr. Bush was asked why he had not picked someone more different from himself. ''He's different from me,'' Mr. Bush said of Mr. Quayle, ''I'm 64 and he's 41 and that's good.''
LEAD: JUST after she took the job last summer, Carri Lee Miller knew it was a mistake. Her hands would ache after every day at Morrell's meatpacking house here, where she sometimes had to make 1,900 cuts an hour on the hogs' heads that passed by her station. At night, she would wake up in pain with her fingers clenched in a fist that she could not open alone.
LEAD: At the conversion of 301 East 66th Street, the sponsor is offering outside buyers 22,000 possibilities. Only 22 apartments in the 202-unit building are for sale right now, but each is being offered with enough options to allow 1,000 combinations for the mathematically inclined and the choosy. While an option package is as common in new construction as in new cars, it is unusual in the conversion of older buildings.
LEAD: THE St. Croix, one of the newest of Tampa's upscale rental apartment communities, plans to lure young professionals with amenities that include a weight room, a whirlpool spa and a complimentary continental breakfast on weekdays.
LEAD: The bomb blast that killed eight British soldiers today in Northern Ireland is part of a stepped-up campaign by the Irish Republican Army in recent months to target British troops there and elsewhere in Europe.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 1988, covering August 21, 1988.
Steve Winwood
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Tracy Chapman
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer[†]
Robert Lewandowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Barcelona. Widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time, Lewandowski won the Best FIFA Men's Player Award in 2020 and 2021. Further awards include the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award in 2020, the IFFHS World's Best Player in 2020 and 2021, the European Golden Shoe for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons, and the Gerd Müller Trophy in 2021 and 2022. He was runner-up for the Ballon d'Or in 2021. He has scored over 700 senior career goals for club and country.
1988Joanna Mitrosz, Polish rhythmic gymnast[†]
Joanna Mitrosz-Cieślak, is a retired Polish rhythmic gymnast. She competed at two Olympics and is a seven-time consecutive Polish national champion (2006-2012).
1988Kacey Musgraves, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Kacey Lee Musgraves is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She began her career in the early 2000s, when she self-released three solo albums and recorded another album as a member of the duo Texas Two Bits. In 2007, Musgraves appeared on the fifth season of the USA Network singing competition Nashville Star, where she finished in seventh place. In 2012, she signed with Mercury Nashville and released the hit single "Merry Go 'Round". Her major-label debut studio album, Same Trailer Different Park (2013), won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.
1988Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (born 1963)[†]
Teodoro "Teddy" de Villa Diaz was a Filipino musician and songwriter, best known as the founder and original guitarist of the Dawn.
1988Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (born 1912)[†]
Charles Eames and Ray Eames were an American married couple of industrial designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture through the work of the Eames Office. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art, and film. Charles was the public face of the Eames Office, but Ray and Charles worked together as creative partners and employed a diverse creative staff. Among their most recognized designs is the Eames Lounge Chair and the Eames Dining Chair.
1988The 6.9 Mw Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.[†]
The 1988 Nepal earthquake occurred near the Nepal–India border on 20 August 1988 at 23:09:09 UTC. The epicenter was located in Udayapur District. Measuring Mw 6.9, it was the largest earthquake recorded in the country since 1934.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]