On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: On weekday mornings across the country, the most saluted man in America, William Safire once wrote, is Richard Stans. But Friday morning Marilyn Meyer's 17 first graders at P.S. 142 placed their hands over their hearts and clearly enunciated their Pledge of Allegiance to the flag and to the republic, not for Richard Stans, but ''for which it stands.
LEAD: Confounding almost the entire investment community, the Japanese have continued to pour billions of dollars into United States real estate in 1988, a new study reported today.
LEAD: The fourth game of the National League playoff between the Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Islanders-Los Angeles Kings hockey game began too late to be included in this edition.
LEAD: After more than six months of intense negotiations, the First Boston Corporation, one of Wall Street's largest securities firms, and its London-based sister company, Financiere Credit Suisse-First Boston, agreed yesterday to merge.
LEAD: In a decision that could have a major impact on the National League championship playoff, the president of the league yesterday imposed a three-day suspension on Jay Howell of the Los Angeles Dodgers for having pine tar on his glove in Saturday's game against the Mets.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 5, 1988, covering October 10, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin
1988Luis Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer[†]
Luis Carlos Cardozo is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Paraguayan Primera División club Recoleta.
1988Shaun Fensom, Australian rugby league player[†]
Shaun Fensom is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a lock and second-row forward in the 2000s and 2010s.
1988Brown Ideye, Nigerian footballer[†]
Aide Brown Ideye is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Enyimba. He represented the Nigeria national team at international level, winning the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.
1988Rose McIver, New Zealand actress[†]
Frances Rose McIver is a New Zealand actress. She portrays Samantha Arondekar in the CBS supernatural sitcom Ghosts (2021–present), Olivia "Liv" Moore in The CW supernatural comedy-drama series iZombie (2015–2019), Summer Landsdown the Yellow Ranger in Power Rangers RPM (2009), and Amber Moore in the romantic comedy film A Christmas Prince (2017) and its two sequels, The Royal Wedding (2018) and The Royal Baby (2019).
1988Emmanuel Nwachi, Nigerian footballer[†]
Emmanuel Ikechukwu Nwachi is a Nigerian football forward.
1988Toby Smith, Australian-New Zealand rugby player[†]
Toby James Smith is a retired Australian rugby union player. He played prop for the Chiefs, Rebels and Hurricanes in Super Rugby, and for the Australian national rugby union team internationally.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]