On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: EVERY four years at about this time, some Americans sit back to ponder the system that has just produced their President, and ask themselves if it can be improved. The discussion seemed more ardent than ever this year, prompted by a campaign that was widely criticized for negativism and shallowness.
LEAD: The doctrine of natural childbirth, which once called for no medical intervention whatsoever in normal labor and delivery, is increasingly being bent to accommodate the advances in understanding and controlling pain.
LEAD: WITH the defeat Tuesday of United States Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr., the state's Republican Party lost not only its sole candidate to win a statewide election in almost two decades, but also its titular head.
LEAD: THROUGHOUT the long and persistently negative 1988 Presidential campaign, Americans said what they wanted - and were not getting - was a substantive debate on issues.
LEAD: EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD Dan shuffles through the home in western Morris County he once shared with his second wife, whose name he no longer remembers. Disoriented and in frail health, he is unable to feed or dress himself and depends on a live-in nurse for nearly every need.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 9, 1988, covering November 13, 1988.
U2
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1988Antal Doráti, Hungarian-American conductor and composer (born 1906)[†]
Antal Doráti was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer who became a naturalized American citizen in 1943.
1988Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech composer (born 1902)[†]
Jaromír Vejvoda was a Czech composer. He is best known as the author of the "Beer Barrel Polka".
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]