On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: Despite all the fanfare by Federal regulators over recent bailouts of sick savings institutions, evidence is mounting that the deals are merely papering over the severe problems plaguing the industry.
LEAD: Archeologists in Peru have uncovered what they describe as the richest cache of pre-Columbian artifacts ever found in the Americas, a burial site containing finely crafted gold jewelry and implements and a wealth of ceramics.
LEAD: From welfare offices to municipal ambulance services, New York City is feeling the pinch of expanding demands and increasingly limited resources.
LEAD: EVEN as South Korea modernizes and the people adopt Western dining habits - even with Wendy's and Burger Kings dotting Seoul - the native cuisine remains intact. Visitors to the Olympic Games, which open in Seoul Friday, will find that the dishes served in restaurants and homes are based on recipes hundreds of years old, the cuisine of a culture that dates back some 5,000 years.
LEAD: The Milstein Organization, one of New York City's largest residential and commercial developers, has agreed to build for very limited profit more than 1,000 apartments in the Clinton section of Manhattan, company representatives and city officials have said.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 14, 1988, covering September 14, 1988.
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Tracy Chapman
Steve Winwood
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Martin Fourcade, French biathlete[†]
Martin Fourcade is a retired French biathlete. He is a six-time Olympic champion, a thirteen-time World Champion and a seven-time winner of the Overall World Cup. As of February 2018, he is the most successful French Winter Olympian of all time. Fourcade is the all-time biathlon record holder of overall World Cup titles with seven big crystal globes and he's also the all-time record holder of the most consecutive Major Championships titles with at least one non-team gold medal in every major championship from 2011 to 2018.
1988Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer[†]
Diogo Ferreira Salomão is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]