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LEAD: Four Israeli civilians were killed and eight were wounded Sunday evening when a passenger bus was attacked with firebombs during an ambush just outside the West Bank city of Jericho, the Israeli Army said early today.
LEAD: The Halloween parade will begin at 7 o'clock tonight on West Street between Houston and Christopher Streets, travel east on Houston Street to the Avenue of the Americas, north to 14th Street and east to Union Square. Because of All Saints Day, alternate-side parking rules are suspended in New York City tomorrow.
LEAD: The Koch administration, anticipating an acute need for housing for homeless people with AIDS, has decided on at least eight such sites, city officials said yesterday.
LEAD: In one of the biggest takeovers to date, two of the nation's best-known makers of consumer goods, Philip Morris Companies and Kraft Inc., yesterday agreed to merge in a deal valued at $13.1 billion in cash.
LEAD: The jeweled Christian Lacroix T-shirt on the cover of the new issue of Vogue costs at least $10,000. That may not be so surprising; Vogue has always gone gaga over expensive French couture. What is unusual is that a $50 pair of blue jeans accompanies the T-shirt. It may well be the first time blue jeans have appeared on a
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 26, 1988, covering October 31, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
Bobby McFerrin
1988Cole Aldrich, American basketball player[†]
Cole David Aldrich is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers and Minnesota Timberwolves. Aldrich played three seasons of college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks before being drafted by the New Orleans Hornets with the 11th overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft.
1988Sébastien Buemi, Swiss race car driver[†]
Sébastien Olivier Humbert Buemi is a Swiss racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota and in Formula E for Envision. In formula racing, Buemi competed in Formula One from 2009 to 2011, and won the 2015–16 Formula E Championship with Renault. In endurance racing, Buemi has won a joint-record four FIA World Endurance Championship titles—tied with Brendon Hartley—and is a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, all with Toyota.
1988Jack Riewoldt, Australian footballer[†]
Jack Riewoldt is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a three-time premiership player, a three-time Coleman Medallist, a three-time All-Australian, an 12-time Richmond club leading goalkicker, a two-time Jack Dyer Medallist and a Tasmanian Football Hall of Famer. He served as Richmond's vice captain during all three premiership seasons.
1988Lizzy Yarnold, British skeleton racer[†]
Elizabeth Anne Yarnold, OBE is a British former skeleton racer who joined the Great Britain national squad in 2010. With consecutive Olympic gold medals in 2014 and 2018, she is the most successful British Winter Olympian and the most successful Olympic skeleton athlete of all time from any nation. She won the 2013–14 Skeleton World Cup, followed by a gold in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Yarnold was selected to be one of the two women skeleton drivers representing Team GB at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, and went on to become the first person to defend an Olympic gold in skeleton and the first British athlete to defend a Winter Olympic title. Yarnold set the track record for women's skeleton at the Olympic venue in the final heat of the race with a time of 51.46 seconds, beating Jacqueline Lölling's pre-Olympic record by nearly 1.3 seconds and her own first-heat record by 0.2 second. Yarnold was also the flag bearer for Great Britain at the Pyeongchang opening ceremony.
1988John Houseman, Romanian-born American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1902)[†]
John Houseman was a Romanian-born British-American theatre and film producer, actor, director, and teacher. He became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane. He enjoyed a distinguished career as an influential producer of both the stage and screen, and was the founding director of the Juilliard School and co-founder of The Acting Company.
1988Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and academic (born 1906)[†]
Alfred Pellan was an important figure in twentieth-century Canadian painting.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]