Monday, February 29, 1988

From the day

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The Headlines

Curtain Falls on a Hit Show in Calgary

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Father Figure

George Michael

#1 at the box office

$5,141,491

The must-have

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures

On This Day

• South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

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• Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Gioachino Rossini (1792)
• Pedro Sánchez (1972)
• Pope Paul III (1468)
• Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940)
• Morarji Desai (1896)

Slang

Tech Check

Fiber Optic Cables (Transatlantic), Doppler Radar & Digital Cellular.

Cost of Living (1985)