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LEAD: After five firefighters died when the roof of a burning car dealership collapsed last July, John R. DeNoy, the owner of John's Coffee Shop near the Bergen County Courthouse, could not understand why the firemen had gone into the building in the first place.
LEAD: Secretary of State George P. Shultz opened two days of talks with the Soviet Foreign Minister today as American officials assessed a Soviet suggestion for an interim agreement to limit the number of warheads on ballistic missiles.
LEAD: ''THIS is the renaissance of the Middle Ages,'' proclaimed City Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern, whose department is co-sponsoring a fanciful foray into the 15th century on Sunday in Fort Tryon Park in upper Manhattan.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 21, 1988, covering September 23, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Steve Winwood
1988Juan Martín del Potro, Argentinian tennis player[†]
Juan Martín del Potro is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), in August 2018. Del Potro won 22 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2009 US Open, where he defeated Rafael Nadal and the five-time defending champion Roger Federer en route. Del Potro's other career highlights include reaching the 2018 US Open final, winning an Olympic silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics, winning Indian Wells in 2018, and leading Argentina to the 2016 Davis Cup title. Notably, his career was hampered by a succession of wrist and knee injuries.
1988Kairi Sane, Japanese wrestler[†]
Kaori Housako is a Japanese professional wrestler and actress. As of November 2023, she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Kairi Sane .
1988Yannick Weber, Swiss ice hockey player[†]
Yannick Cyril Weber is a Swiss professional ice hockey defenceman for the ZSC Lions of the National League (NL). He was selected in the third round, 73rd overall, by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2007 NHL entry draft. Weber has also previously played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Nashville Predators, and Vancouver Canucks.
1988Tibor Sekelj, Hungarian-Serbian explorer and author (born 1912)[†]
Tibor Sekelj, also known as Székely Tibor according to Hungarian orthography, was a Hungarian born polyglot, explorer, author, and 'citizen of the world.' In 1986 he was elected a member of the Academy of Esperanto and an honorary member of the World Esperanto Association. Among his novels, travel books and essays, his novella Kumeŭaŭa, la filo de la ĝangalo, a children's book about the life of Brazilian Indians, was translated into seventeen languages, and in 1987 it was voted best Children's book in Japan. In 2011 the European Esperanto Union declared 2012 "The Year of Tibor Sekelj" to honor the 100th anniversary of his birth.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]