On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: New York City's already bad air and traffic can withstand only a small fraction of the 1,800 new taxicabs authorized by the city last year, an environmental study has concluded.
LEAD: A city-owned wetland at the edge of Jamaica Bay in Queens - which has attracted abandoned cars and dumped garbage as well as hundreds of species of migrating birds - will be cleaned up and maintained as part of a renewed city effort to preserve ecologically significant sites, according to New York City officials.
LEAD: A Federal appeals court yesterday denied a motion by several defendants to disqualify the judge hearing the securities fraud case against Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., four executives and others.
LEAD: Concluding a seven-month investigation, a New York State grand jury reported an avalanche of evidence yesterday that Tawana Brawley had fabricated her tale of abduction and sexual assault in the hands of a gang of racist white men last year.
LEAD: New York City, acknowledging that many welfare recipients have unfairly been stripped of benefits, will no longer cut off those who fail to answer questionnaires they receive as often as nine times a year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 5, 1988, covering October 7, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin
1988Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer[†]
Diego da Silva Costa is a professional footballer who most recently played as a striker for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Grêmio.
1988A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.[†]
Operation Breakthrough was a US-Soviet effort to free three gray whales from pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska in 1988. The whales' plight generated media attention that led to the collaboration of multiple governments and organizations to free them. The youngest whale died during the effort and it is unknown if the remaining two whales ultimately survived.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]