On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: New Great Lakes Shoreline Sand that was under the Great Lakes a few months ago is turning to shoreline as lake levels drop because of the lack of rain. Page 6. Homeless on the Subways Transit officials are facing a problem - how to keep the subways attractive without being cruel to the homeless who sleep on them.
LEAD: These days, most of the things Michael S. Dukakis and George Bush do on the stump are carefully staged media events.
LEAD: The Irish Republican Army routinely advises its new recruits that service in the guerrilla organization will most likely lead them to one of two destinations: a prison cell or a cemetery plot.
LEAD: They were, they said, the fortunate ones, who had come from a land at war and survived. And their path, in flight from Iraq's elite forces, had brought them here, to a broad valley clustered with rocks and people and small cooking-fires - and a sense that, once more at history's turning, a Kurdish minority had been crushed by a hated foe.
LEAD: Lech Walesa, the Solidarity founder, took the offensive today against critics within his own ranks, rebuking them for accusations of softness toward Poland's Communist leaders and pledging to snuff out future wildcat strikes.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 31, 1988, covering September 5, 1988.
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Guns N' Roses
Steve Winwood
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer[†]
Denni Robin Avdić is a Swedish professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Vasalunds IF.
1988Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer[†]
Felipe Salvador Caicedo Corozo is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Barcelona S.C.
1988Emmy Raver-Lampman, American actress and singer[†]
Emmy Raver-Lampman is an American actress and singer. She began her career working in musical theater, and has performed in various Broadway and national touring productions such as Hair, Jekyll & Hyde, Wicked, and Hamilton. She played Allison Hargreeves in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.
1988Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (born 1913)[†]
Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe was a German actor. He was known in English-speaking countries for his work as the title character in the James Bond film Goldfinger, as Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, as Baron Bomburst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as Hotzenplotz in The Robber Hotzenplotz, General Dietrich von Choltitz in Is Paris Burning?, as Colonel Manfred von Holstein in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, and as Inspector Bauer in Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]