1988

· Summer Olympics in Seoul, South-Korea; Ben Johnson caught for steriods after setting a World Record in the 100 meter dash. · The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. · In Super Bowl XXII, the Washington Redskins defeated the Denver Broncos, 42–10. · Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup. · The Chicago Cubs play their first ever night game at home in Wrigley Field, defeating the New York Mets, 6-4. · The Summer Olympic Games are held in Seoul, South Korea. · Kirk Gibson, who could barely walk due to injuries, hits a dramatic homerun during Game 1 of the World Series to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 5-4 victory against the Oakland Athletics. The Dodgers went on to win the World Series. · Ted Turner Officially Buys Jim Crockett Promotions, known as NWA Crockett, and turns it into WCW or World Championship Wrestling. · Winning Colors wins the Kentucky Derby with a time of 2:02.20. · Rick Mears (for Penske Racing, Inc.) wins the Indy 500. · Stefan Edberg defeats Boris Becker to win Men's Singles & Steffi Graf defeats Martina Navratilova to win Lady's Singles at Wimbledon. · Pedro Delgado (Spain) wins the Tour de France. · Mats Wilander defeats Ivan Lendl to win Men's Singles & Steffi Graf defeats Gabriela Sabatini to win Women's Singles at the US Open. · Bill Elliott #9 won the NEXTEL Cup (formerly Winston Cup). o CDs outsell vinyl for the first time ever. o The first plutonium pacemaker is made. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Prozac is introduced as an anti-depresent. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Long Island beaches close due to medical waste coming ashore July 6th. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Earthquake in the USSR <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Soviets leave Afghanistan <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Jimmy Swaggart admits to being with prostitutes. ( ** February 21st ** - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert admits on live television that he has commited a sin but does not disclose what particular sin it is. It is later revealed that he had been having an affair with a prostitute.) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland; Lybian terrorists are suspected of planting the bomb ( ** December 21st **<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> – Pan Am 747 flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland from a terrorist bomb killing all 259 on board and 11 on ground.) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o World's longest undersea tunnel is completed. Work begins on the Chunnel which will then become the world's longest undersea tunnel. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Sonny Bono becomes Mayor in Palm Springs. (**April 12th** – Sonny Bono is elscted mayor of Palm Springs, California.) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Willie Horton ads during the '88 re-election <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o McDonalds in the USSR (might have been 1989) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Iran-Iraqi war ends in August. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Human Genome project begins. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Soviets withdraw from Afghanastan. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Supreme Court case, California v. Greenwood, tested the Bill of Rights 4th Amendment, addressing search and seizure in trash. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o ** November 8th ** - George Herbert Walker Bush wins the presidency over Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o The Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci) wins 9 Oscars. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War. United States Navy forces retaliate for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history (a fifth victim dies 2 days later). <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers in the American Northeast on record. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o The Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated 1 million lives lost. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;">o War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers. The Wonder Years Roseanne Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Looney Tunes Show China Beach Garfield & Friends [cartoon] Red Dwarf Rain Man Who Framed Roger Rabbit Coming to America Big Twins Crocodile Dundee II Die Hard The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! Cocktail Beetle Juice Working Girl A Fish Called Wanda Scrooged Willow Beaches Oliver & Company Bull Durham The Land Before Time Young Guns Biloxi Blues Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Great Outdoors Tequilla Sunrise Midnight Run Dangerous Liaisons Mississippi Burning Child's Play The Accidental Tourist The Accused Funny Farm Alien Nation Gorillas in the Mist License to Drive Short Circuit 2 Married to the Mob • Faith - George Michael • Need You Tonight - INXS • Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison • Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley • Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses • Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby • Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz • Seasons Change - Exposé Listen • Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car - Billy Ocean • Anything for You - Gloria Estefan, Miami Sound Machine • Hold on to the Nights - Richard Marx • Wild, Wild West - Escape Club • Flame - Cheap Trick • Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley (Free Baby) - Will to Power • Another Lover - Giant Steps • Under the Milky Way - Church • What I Am - Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians • Don't Worry Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin • It Takes Two - Rob Base & D.J. 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