On this day
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LEAD: BONG! It usually takes the clock in the Great Court of Trinity College at Cambridge University in England about 46 seconds to strike all 24 chimes that mark high noon.
LEAD: Years of frustration against archrival Penn State were forgotten by exuberant West Virginia players and fans today when the undefeated Mountaineers trounced the Nittany Lions, 51-30, with a record-high score before a record Mountaineer Field crowd of 66,811. And it was all witnessed by a national television audience.
LEAD: The next President will have been chosen in a campaign dominated as never before by television.
LEAD: FOUR years ago, Yonkers voters narrowly defeated a proposal to change the city's government by strengthening the mayor's powers. In November, voters will once again be deciding whether the city government should undergo some sweeping changes.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 26, 1988, covering October 30, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
Bobby McFerrin
1988Janel Parrish, American actress and singer[†]
Janel Meilani Parrish is an American actress and singer. She starred as Mona Vanderwaal in the mystery-drama television series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017) and its spin-off Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (2019), and as Margot Covey in the To All the Boys film series (2018–2021). She also portrayed Young Cosette in the Broadway production of Les Misérables (1996), and Jade in the teen comedy film Bratz (2007). She finished in third place on the tenth season of Fox's The Masked Singer in 2023.
1988T. Hee, American animator and screenwriter (born 1911)[†]
Thornton Hee was an American animator, director, and teacher. He taught character design and caricature.
1988Florence Nagle, English trainer and breeder of racehorses (born 1894)[†]
Florence Nagle was a British trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist. Nagle purchased her first Irish Wolfhound in 1913, and went on to own or breed twenty-one United Kingdom Champions. Best in Show at Crufts in 1960 was awarded to Sulhamstead Merman, who was bred, owned and exhibited by Nagle. She also competed successfully in field trials with Irish Setters, from the 1920s until the mid-1960s resulting in eighteen Field Trial Champions. The male dog who was a linchpin in the 1970s revival of the Irish Red and White Setter breed was descended from one of Nagle's Irish Setters.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]