1988
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See also: Events
- January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial day.
- February 3 - The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.
- February 11, Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- February 21 - On his own televangelism program being tapped in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jimmy Swaggart confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be will be temporarily leaving the pulpit.
- February 24 - The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation.
- March 8 - Two United States Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell[?], Kentucky killing 17 servicemen.
- March 9 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a Deaf university president.
- March 16 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
- May 16 - California v. Greenwood[?]: In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
- April 25 - In Israel John Demjanuk[?] is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused of being a notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible" by survivors.
- May 24 - Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
- May 15 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdraw from Afghanistan.
- May 16 - A report by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
- July 6 - The Piper Alpha[?] drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires killing 167 oil workers.
- September 29 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster
- November 2, The Morris worm is unleashed on the Internet
- November, George H. W. Bush defeats Michael S. Dukakis in the U.S. presidential election
- December 21, Pan AM flight 103 is blown up by terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland.
- Akira, anime film, released.
- Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea
- Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is elected as mayor of Palm Springs, California.
- Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is the focus of a sex scandal, and later admits to being with prostitutes and steps down from his television ministry.
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1988 in film
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Mississippi Burning
- Working Girl starring Harrison Ford
- Die Hard starring Bruce Willis
- Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise
- 1988 in literature
- 1988 in music
- N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton is the first hip hop album to achieve widespread mainstream success
- 1988 in sports
- January 16 - Sports commentator Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder[?] is fired by CBS a day after publicly stating that African Americans had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery.
- January 31 - Super Bowl XXII Washington Redskins (42) defeat Denver Broncos (10)
- February 13 - 1988 Winter Olympic Games[?] open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Summer: The Netherlands win the European Football Championships[?]
- 1988 in television
- February 29 - The soap opera Day by Day[?] premieres on NBC.
- October 4 - Following in the footsteps of Cher, Actress Shirley MacLaine calls David Letterman an "A**hole", on the air during a taping of Late Night
Births
- August 24, Rupert Grint, actor
- November 15, Zena Grey, actress
Deaths
- January 5 - Pete Maravich, baseball star
- January 7 - Trevor Howard, actor
- January 11 - Pappy Boyington[?], aviator
- January 14 - Georgi Malenkov[?], First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party
- January 22 - Parker Fennelly[?], comedian, actor
- February 15 - Richard Feynman, physicist
- March 7 - Divine, actor
- March 10 - Andy Gibb, singer
- April 3 - Milt Caniff[?], cartoonist
- April 22 - Irene Rich[?], actress
- May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author
- May 11 - Kim Philby, spy
- May 12 - Chet Baker[?], jazz trumpeter
- May 18 - Daws Butler[?], voice actor
- May 25 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize Physicist
- June - Hillel Slovak[?], Red Hot Chili Peppers, guitarist
- September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist
- October 19, Son House, blues musician
- Robert Heinlein, science fiction author
- December 6, Roy Orbison, singer
- Physics - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz[?], Jack Steinberger[?]
- Chemistry - Johann Deisenhofer[?], Robert Huber[?], Hartmut Michel[?]
- Medicine - Sir James W. Black[?], Gertrude B. Elion[?], George H. Hitchings[?]
- Literature - Naguib Mahfouz
- Peace - The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces[?], New York.
- Economics - Maurice Allais[?]
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