On this day
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LEAD: ARTIST AND HUMANIST ROLLED into one, Alvin Ailey has been the great anomaly of American dance for the last 30 years. At a time when nearly all the arts turned toward abstraction, not to speak of inaccessibility via trendy minimalist and conceptualist currents, Mr. Ailey insisted on celebrating the human spirit.
LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev will address the United Nations this week, have lunch with President Reagan and President-elect Bush, tour a city swathed in Christmas glitter and hopelessly snarl traffic and block shoppers.
LEAD: Like a pot a feu that stews all winter on the back burner, the question of Shoeless Joe Jackson's guilt in the 1919 Black Sox scandal is a fixture of the Hot Stove League, the chit chat circuit that keeps baseball folk all asimmer from the World Series to spring training.
LEAD: WHEN THE SAXOPHONIST Steve Coleman performs with M-BASE, a 16-member avant-garde jazz collective, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival on Friday and Saturday, he'll be playing close to home.
LEAD: BEFORE the night was over and their wedding guests started to leave, Agatha and Robert Martino went through the customary receiving line at their reception. Relatives and friends wished them good luck and handed Aggie envelopes that she stuffed into a white satin sack.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 1988, covering December 4, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
1988Yeng Constantino, Filipina singer and songwriter[†]
Josephine "Yeng" Eusebio Constantino-Asuncion is a Filipino singer, songwriter, composer and guitarist. She is referred to as the Philippines Pop Rock Royalty and is regarded as one of the biggest hitmakers in Philippine music industry. In 2006, she won the title "Grand Star Dreamer" in the inaugural season of Pinoy Dream Academy, the Philippine edition of Endemol's reality TV show Star Academy.
1988Andriy Pylyavskyi, Ukrainian footballer[†]
Andriy Pylyavskyi is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
1988Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (born 1899)[†]
Osman Achmatowicz was a Polish chemist of Lipka Tatar descent, who studied alkaloid natural products. His son, Osman Achmatowicz Jr., is credited with the Achmatowicz reaction in 1971.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]