On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: A DECADE ago, the sight of an osprey soaring above a bay in search of fish had become all too rare on Long Island. Conservationists feared this proud bird was headed for extinction, a forelorn symbol of the region's dwindling wildlife population.
LEAD: Time and distance are enemies of the inquiry into whether mustard gas was used on Kurds in Iraq. The chemical degrades rapidly in tissue samples, and the area of the supposed attacks is off-limits. Page 14.
LEAD: In New York's most ambitious cultural venture since Lincoln Center was built in the 1960's, city and state officials plan to transform six 42d Street theaters into what they call a ''populist'' theater complex for low-priced and widely divergent forms of live entertainment.
LEAD: For those who would like the 1988 campaign to be a broad debate between Michael S. Dukakis and George Bush about a wide range of tough issues, such as how they would close the budget deficit or what they would do about Nicaragua, the encounter so far has been a dud.
LEAD: BUILDERS have begun selling some houses for more than $500,000 here in far western Fairfax County, an area that many had considered lower-income. It lies 21 miles west of Washington on Interstate 66.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 14, 1988, covering September 18, 1988.
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Tracy Chapman
Steve Winwood
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan (born 1901)[†]
Sir Alan Stewart Watt was an Australian diplomat.
1988The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.[†]
The 8888 Uprising, also known as the People Power Uprising and the 1988 Uprising, was a series of nationwide protests, marches, and riots in Burma that peaked in August 1988. Key events occurred on 8 August 1988 and therefore it is commonly known as the "8888 Uprising". The protests began as a student movement and were organised largely by university students at the Rangoon Arts and Sciences University and the Rangoon Institute of Technology.
1988General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.[†]
Henri Namphy was a Haitian general and political figure who served as President of Haiti's interim ruling body, the National Council of Government, from 7 February 1986 to 7 February 1988. He served again as President of Haiti from 20 June 1988 after the June 1988 coup that he led, until his deposition on September 17, 1988 in the September coup.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]