On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: ASK a New Yorker, ''My place or yours?'' and the reply often will be an emphatic ''Neither.'' The excuses given for not inviting people home are legion. Lack of space, a reality of New York living, is a principal one. A highly cultivated desire for privacy, for retiring to a hideaway, is another. Logistics - you are in TriBeCa, I am at 96th and Second
LEAD: Vartan Gregorian, the exuberant Armenian immigrant who restored the fading New York Public Library to its place at the heart of American intellectual life, was chosen yesterday as the 16th president of Brown University.
LEAD: The State Environmental Commissioner issued the state's first comprehensive set of solid-waste regulations today, calling them the most sweeping and among the toughest in the nation.
LEAD: Macmillan Inc., which previously rejected a $2.1 billion takeover bid from Robert Maxwell, has held discussions with the British publisher on a full or partial takeover of the company, both sides said yesterday.
LEAD: So many office buildings are being constructed or planned for the blocks around the theater district that the once-dormant neighborhood is likely to continue as New York City's hottest area for developers well into the 1990's, a new study says.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 31, 1988, covering September 1, 1988.
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Guns N' Roses
Steve Winwood
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Simona de Silvestro, Swiss racing driver[†]
Simona de Silvestro is a Swiss-Italian racing driver, who is currently employed by Porsche as a factory driver. She has previously driven for Amlin Andretti in the 2015/16 season of the FIA Formula E Championship as well as several years competing in the IndyCar Series. Her nicknames are the "Iron Maiden" and "Swiss Miss".
1988Miles Plumlee, American basketball player[†]
Miles Christian Plumlee is an American former professional basketball player. He played four years of college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, winning a national championship in 2010. He was selected with the 26th overall pick in 2012 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers and went on to have a seven-year NBA career. He won an NBL championship with the Perth Wildcats in 2020.
1988Chanel West Coast, American rapper-songwriter and model[†]
Chelsea Chanel Dudley, better known by her stage name Chanel West Coast, is an American television personality, music artist and actress. She came to prominence in pop culture for her roles in MTV's Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory and Ridiculousness.
1988Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)[†]
Luis Walter Alvarez was an American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber. In 2007 the American Journal of Physics commented, "Luis Alvarez was one of the most brilliant and productive experimental physicists of the twentieth century."
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]