NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 28 April 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-15 Sharp differences over verification in the new treaty banning medium- and shorter-range missiles have emerged between American and Soviet officials. Page A1
Lizzo Birthday, Date of Birth
Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo (), is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, and actress. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she moved to Houston, Texas, with her family at the age of ten. After college, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she began her recording career in hip-hop. Prior to signing with Nice Life Recording Company and Atlantic Records, Lizzo released two studio albums, Lizzobangers (2013) and Big Grrrl Small World (2015). Her first major-label extended play (EP), Coconut Oil, was released in 2016 and pursued a pop career on her following albums.
Lizzo attained mainstream success with the release of her third studio album, Cuz I Love You (2019), which peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200. The album spawned the singles "Juice" and "Tempo". The deluxe version of the album included Lizzo's 2017 single "Truth Hurts", which became a viral sleeper hit two years after its initial release. It topped the US Billboard Hot 100 and became the longest-leading solo song by a female rapper. Around this time, her 2016 single "Good as Hell" also climbed the charts, reaching the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. Lizzo received eight nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards—the most for any artist that year—including nominations for each of the "Big Four" categories, and won the awards for Best Urban Contemporary Album, Best Pop Solo Performance for "Truth Hurts", and Best Traditional R&B Performance for the song "Jerome".
Her 2021 single, "Rumors" (featuring Cardi B), debuted within the Billboard Hot 100's top five. Her fourth studio album, Special (2022), was preceded by its lead single "About Damn Time", which peaked the Billboard Hot 100 and made Lizzo the first black female singer since Whitney Houston in 1994 to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Her mixtape My Face Hurts from Smiling (2025) marks a return to Lizzo's hip-hop roots.
Along with her recording career, Lizzo has also worked as an actress; she performed a voice role in the animated film UglyDolls (2019), and appeared in the crime comedy-drama film Hustlers (2019). She is also the host of the Amazon Prime Video reality television series Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Competition Program. In 2019, Time named Lizzo "Entertainer of the Year" for her meteoric rise and contributions to music. In addition to four Grammy Awards, she has also won a Billboard Music Award, a BET Award, and two Soul Train Music Awards.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Wednesday, April 27, 1988
- Place of Birth
- Detroit
- Age
- 37
- Star Sign
- ♉
The April 27, 1988 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 117 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 37 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, April 27, 2025, 188 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, April 27, 2026, in 176 days. You have lived for 13,702 days, or about 328,851 hours, or about 19,731,114 minutes, or about 1,183,866,840 seconds.
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27th of April 1988 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 27, 1988
News Summary
Date: 27 April 1988
LEAD: International A3-13 Attempts to close the P.L.O mission to the United Nations by the United States have created a dispute that must be submitted to arbitration, the World Court ruled in a setback for the Reagan Aministration. Page A1 Seoul's ruling party lost a majority in the National Assembly as the opposition made strong gains in the legislative elections despite bitter divisions.
Cronkite Weighing Other Offers
Date: 27 April 1988
By Peter J. Boyer
Peter Boyer
LEAD: As CBS News prepares for the political conventions and the Presidential election, it is faced with the awkward possibility of seeing Walter Cronkite, the longtime CBS anchor and for generations the face of CBS News, broadcasting for a competing organization.
Israel Withdraws Credentials of 2 Journalists
Date: 27 April 1988
By Joel Brinkley, Special To the New York Times
Joel Brinkley
LEAD: The Israeli Government today withdrew the press credentials of two foreign correspondents, from The Washington Post and NBC News, as punishment for reports that had not been submitted to a military censor.
South Africa Issues Warning It Will Close Liberal Weekly
Date: 27 April 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Government has given the country's independent liberal weekly newspaper, The Weekly Mail, a final warning that it intends to close it for three months.
Washington Talk: Briefing; Forbidden Cities
Date: 28 April 1988
LEAD: Valentin M. Falin, chief of the Novosti press agency, has advised Soviet leaders back to Nikita S. Khrushchev, apparently gave a little ground in a meeting with American officials on the issue of areas usually closed to the other country's journalists - for example, Gorky and Dallas.
Publishers Are Urged To Spur Minority Hiring
Date: 27 April 1988
By Alex S. Jones, Special To the New York Times
Alex Jones
LEAD: For the first time in its history, the American Newspaper Publishers Association today made work force diversity a centerpiece on the program of its annual convention.
Soviet TV Depicts Ethnic Rioting
Date: 27 April 1988
By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times
Bill Keller
LEAD: Soviet television broadcast its first extensive report tonight on the ethnic disturbances that shook two southern republics in February, including scenes of mass protest and rioting that Soviet viewers normally see only when they take place in other countries.
Dole Accuses Press and TV of Failing to Focus on Campaign Issues
Date: 27 April 1988
By Irvin Molotsky
Irvin Molotsky
LEAD: Senator Bob Dole, an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination this year, took the Senate floor today to criticize coverage of all the campaigns by television and the press, particularly The New York Times.
THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Reporter's Notebook; Phone Ruling Worries Newspaper Publishers
Date: 28 April 1988
By Alex S. Jones
Alex Jones
LEAD: A new competitive threat from the nation's telephone companies is creating considerable concern at the annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association here this week.