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LEAD: WITHIN Manhattan's fiercely competitive cabaret world, this is the triple crown weekend. Simultaneously, Barbara Cook, Maureen McGovern and Andrea Marcovicci - three of cabaret's brightest stars - have arrived for extended engagements at, respectively, the Ballroom, Michael's Pub and the Oak Room at the Algonquin
LEAD: In a burst of energy created by its impending adjournment, Congress today approved in rapid succession bills to ban plastic weapons, assist the homeless, rewrite American trademark law and crack down on procurement fraud against the Government.
LEAD: A political impasse over where to ship its radioactive wastes threatens continued operation of the Government's Rocky Flats nuclear weapon plant, already partly shut because of safety problems, officials said today.
LEAD: Stock prices surged yesterday in heavy trading dominated by a stunning bid for RJR Nabisco Inc.
LEAD: Kraft Inc. is undertaking an intense review of all its options before deciding what to do about the Philip Morris Companies' $11.5 billion cash takeover bid it received on Monday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 19, 1988, covering October 21, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin
1988Ricki Olsen, Danish footballer[†]
Ricki Olsen is a Danish professional footballer. He is the son of the former Denmark national team player Lars Olsen.
1988Glen Powell, American actor[†]
Glen Thomas Powell Jr. is an American actor and screenwriter. He began his career with small roles on television and in films such as Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) and Fast Food Nation (2006). Powell acted in the action film The Expendables 3 (2014), the comedy-horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016), the teen comedy Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), the historical romance The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018), and the romantic comedy Set It Up (2018). He also portrayed astronaut John Glenn in Hidden Figures (2016) and aviator Tom Hudner in Devotion (2022).
1988Daniel Schorn, Austrian cyclist[†]
Daniel Schorn is an Austrian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2016 for the Elk Haus, Bora–Argon 18, and Team Felbermayr–Simplon Wels teams.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]