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Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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LEAD: For the people of Canarsie, their 100-year-old cemetery in southeastern Brooklyn is an ever-present reminder of what they were, who they are and where they are going. And in that, they say, there is a kind of serenity.
LEAD: Mayor Koch, who has preached fiscal restraint all year, said yesterday that more cuts in New York City services would be needed to balance next year's budget, and he warned that he planned no new spending programs, even though he would be up for re-election.
LEAD: Few Wall Street dramas have generated as much debate as the strenuous bidding for RJR Nabisco Inc., which culminated late Wednesday in a deal to sell the company to Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company for $25 billion.
LEAD: More than 100,000 people fearing further ethnic strife have fled their homes in the southern republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, finding shelter in dormitories, in private homes and even in a growing tent city on the shore of the Caspian Sea, Soviet officials reported today.
LEAD: The Government's predictive economic index edged up one-tenth of a percent in October, the sixth straight month in which it reversed direction.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 1988, covering December 2, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
1988Alfred Enoch, English actor[â ]
Alfred Lewis Enoch is a British and Brazilian actor. He is best known for playing Dean Thomas in the fantasy film series Harry Potter and Wes Gibbins in the legal thriller television series How to Get Away with Murder.
1988Stephen McGinn, Scottish footballer[â ]
Stephen McGinn is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the U18s coach at the St Mirren youth academy.
1988Karl-Heinz BĂŒrger, German colonel (born 1904)[â ]
Karl-Heinz BĂŒrger was a German SS functionary who held positions as SS and Police Leader during the Nazi era.
1988Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer-songwriter (born 1922)[â ]
Giovanni "Tata" Giacobetti was an Italian singer and jazz musician. He is mostly known for being a member of the vocal quartet Quartetto Cetra.
1988Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state.[â ]
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.
1988Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-27, a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense.[â ]
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in April 1985. Atlantis is the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]