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LEAD: Over the last four years and as recently as last month, New York City police officers repeatedly raided a Bronx social club, where six people died in a fire on Sunday, but lacked the legal clout to force its permanent shutdown, a police official said yesterday.
LEAD: Moving cautiously into a new area of corporate responsibility, a growing number of companies have begun to treat family violence as a sickness undermining the health and performance of their employees.
LEAD: At first, Irv Klein hired a few retarded adults to work at his 13 McDonald's as a do-gooder thing. But soon he realized that the retarded handled Lot and Lobby, Happy Meals and Salad Bar beautifully and that they didn't go quitting on him in a few months, as teen-agers did.
LEAD: The Army Corps of Engineers is exploring a plan to use underwater pits near the shores of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and Monmouth County, N.J., to bury dredged material that does not meet Federal ocean dumping standards, and the plan has created a furor.
LEAD: After a ruling by the Federal Reserve Board that was believed to have set back Banca Commerciale Italiana's bid for the Irving Bank Corporation, the Italian Government agency that controls the bank said yesterday that it would ''provide all the information requested'' by the Fed.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 1988, covering August 23, 1988.
Steve Winwood
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Tracy Chapman
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player[†]
Olga Alekseyevna Govortsova is a Belarusian professional tennis player. On 23 June 2008, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 35. On 29 August 2011, she peaked at No. 24 in the doubles rankings.
1988Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Carl Oliver Hagelin is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New York Rangers, Anaheim Ducks, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, and Washington Capitals. Hagelin was drafted by the Rangers in the sixth round, 168th overall, of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, and won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Penguins in 2016 and 2017. Hagelin played the most playoff games of any NHL player in the 2010s decade, with 128. Prior to his professional career, Hagelin played four seasons NCAA Division I collegiate men's ice hockey with the University of Michigan Wolverines, serving as an alternate captain during his third year and a co-captain during his fourth year. Internationally, Hagelin won a silver medal with Sweden at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
1988Jeremy Lin, American basketball player[†]
Jeremy Shu-How Lin is a Taiwanese-American professional basketball player for the New Taipei Kings of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League (TPBL). He unexpectedly led a winning turnaround with the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) during the 2011–12 season, sparking a cultural phenomenon known as "Linsanity". Lin was the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA, and is one of the few Asian Americans to have played in the league. He is the first Asian American player to win an NBA championship, having done so with the Toronto Raptors in 2019.
1988Kim Matula, American actress[†]
Kim Matula is an American actress. She made her television debut playing Tara Conner in the teen comedy film Queen Sized (2008) and later starred as Hope Logan in the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2010 to 2016, receiving a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series nomination. Matula later starred in the second season of Lifetime comedy-drama series, Unreal, and played the leading role in the Fox comedy series LA to Vegas (2018). In 2024, Matula played Jane Curtin in the comedy-drama film Saturday Night.
1988Miles Mikolas, American baseball player[†]
Miles Tice Mikolas, is an American professional baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the San Diego Padres and Texas Rangers, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants. He was an All-Star in 2018, led the National League in wins that season, and finished sixth in NL Cy Young Award voting that year. He was also an All-Star in 2022.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]