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In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]
1988Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player[†]
Elvis Augusto Andrus Torres is a Venezuelan-American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago White Sox. He was a two-time All-Star.
1988Evan Ross, American actor[†]
Evan Olav Ross-Næss is an American actor and musician. He made his acting debut in the comedy-drama film ATL (2006), and has since starred in the films Pride (2007), According to Greta (2009), Mooz-lum (2010), 96 Minutes (2011), Supremacy (2014), and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and Part 2 (2015).
1988Danielle Savre, American actress[†]
Danielle Savre is an American actress. She is known for her television roles, such as her lead performances in the 2007 MTV music drama Kaya, the 2016 TLC drama Too Close to Home, and the ABC Grey's Anatomy spinoff Station 19, and for her roles in the films Wild About Harry and Boogeyman 2.
1988Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Wayne Simmonds is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers, Nashville Predators, New Jersey Devils, Buffalo Sabres, and Toronto Maple Leafs between 2008 and 2023. During the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Simmonds played in Europe with ETC Crimmitschau and HC Bílí Tygři Liberec. He is known to his teammates and fans by the nickname "Wayne Train".
1988Lars Stindl, German footballer[†]
Lars Edi Stindl is a German former professional footballer who played as a attacking midfielder. He could also play as a forward. During his career, Stindl played for Karlsruher SC, Hannover 96 and Borussia Mönchengladbach and also represented the Germany national team from 2017 to 2018. He scored the only goal in the final of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup against Chile to ensure Germany's first ever title in this tournament.
1988Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (born 1957)[†]
Carlos Manuel de Marques Paião was a singer and songwriter from Portugal. He represented Portugal at the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 with the song "Playback". Carlos Paião was also a doctor, having graduated in medicine in 1983, but his greatest passion was music.
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LEAD: As demonstrators confronted the police recently over the use of Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan's East Village, residents across the street in the Christadora House watched with the wariness of vulnerable strangers in their own neighborhood.
LEAD: West Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, led a series of Europe-wide interest rate increases today aimed at stopping the dollar's recent advance.
LEAD: The hot, stagnant air that engulfed the New York region for most of the summer created unusual amounts of smog and the highest levels of ozone, its main component, in a decade.
LEAD: Vice President Bush has spelled out a cautious approach to the Strategic Defense Initiative, adopting a position that made him a less ardent advocate of the missile defense program than either President Reagan or some Republican conservatives, including his own running mate, Senator Dan Quayle.
LEAD: New Jersey's system of financing public education was declared constitutionally flawed today by a state administrative law judge who said it failed to eliminate financing disparities between affluent suburban and poor urban school districts.
LEAD: AT Lincoln Center this weekend, applied musicology should yield jubilant results -not inside the concert halls, but at a pair of free American music festivals outdoors in Damrosch Park. Tomorrow at noon, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors will present its second annual Blues and Gospel Festival, with a set starting every hour from noon to 9 P.M.
LEAD: TRW Inc. ended a four-year grand jury investigation today by pleading guilty to Federal charges of conspiring to overcharge the Government on contracts involving military aircraft engines and parts for the M-1 tank.
LEAD: Thanks to an impressive international tour by the Islip garbage barge, followed by a summer of syringes in the sand, Long Island is now in a strong position to declare itself America's most interesting solid waste mess.
LEAD: Europe's staid industrialists long looked down on Wall Street's boisterous takeover scene as a financial Wild West. In recent months, however, Europe has been doing its best to imitate American merger mania.
LEAD: JOAN RIVERS prowls the stage of Michael's Pub and gleefully dishes the dirt. Narrowing her eyes and cackling with conspiratorial merriment, she pounces on flab, body hair and any possible blemishes on the perfect images of the rich and famous.