Events on the year of 1988 in history

Date	Type	Text
01 Jan 1988	event	Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen	0
01 Jan 1988	event	Miami beats Oklahoma for college football championship	0
01 Jan 1988	event	The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.	0
02 Jan 1988	event	Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn	0
02 Jan 1988	event	Mulroney and Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement	0
03 Jan 1988	event	Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut	0
03 Jan 1988	event	Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British Prime Minister this century	0
08 Jan 1988	event	9th largest NBA crowd 38,873 - Chicago at Detroit	0
08 Jan 1988	event	Dow Jones down 140.58 points	0
08 Jan 1988	event	Hewlett-Packard introduces HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator	0
08 Jan 1988	event	US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas	0
09 Jan 1988	event	English Earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli	0
09 Jan 1988	event	US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano	0
10 Jan 1988	event	"Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater New York City NY after 86 performances	0
11 Jan 1988	event	Test debut of Phil Simmons, West Indies vs India, Madras	0
11 Jan 1988	event	USSR announces it will participate in the Seoul Summer Olympics	0
12 Jan 1988	event	Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame	0
13 Jan 1988	event	LA Dodger / SD Padre Steve Garvey retires	0
13 Jan 1988	event	Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.	0
13 Jan 1988	event	Los Angeles Dodger/San Diego Padre Steve Garvey retires	0
13 Jan 1988	event	Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities	0
15 Jan 1988	event	Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes	0
15 Jan 1988	event	Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) vs West Indies on Test debut	0
15 Jan 1988	event	Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record	0
15 Jan 1988	event	Arab uprising in Israel begins	0
16 Jan 1988	event	Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks	0
16 Jan 1988	event	NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix	0
17 Jan 1988	event	"Teddy & Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 77 performances	0
17 Jan 1988	event	Leslie Manigay elected President of Haiti	0
17 Jan 1988	event	"Teddy & Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City NY after 77 performances	0
18 Jan 1988	event	Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board	0
19 Jan 1988	event	"48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV	0
19 Jan 1988	event	"48 Hours" premieres on CBS-TV	0
20 Jan 1988	event	Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Governor Evan Mecham	0
20 Jan 1988	event	Andr	0
21 Jan 1988	event	US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children	0
22 Jan 1988	event	1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad & Tobago vs Leeward Island	0
22 Jan 1988	event	1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS vs Transvaal	0
22 Jan 1988	event	Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title	0
23 Jan 1988	event	Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-point game in a televised title match	0
23 Jan 1988	event	45th Golden Globes Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas	0
23 Jan 1988	event	62nd Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)	0
23 Jan 1988	event	Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands	0
24 Jan 1988	event	1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins	0
24 Jan 1988	event	76th Australian Men's Tennis M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86)	0
24 Jan 1988	event	9th ACE Cable Awards	0
24 Jan 1988	event	Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup	0
24 Jan 1988	event	Cerebral Palsy telethon	0
25 Jan 1988	event	George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"	0
25 Jan 1988	event	Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)	0
25 Jan 1988	event	Vice President Bush & Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in the Iran-Contra affair	0
25 Jan 1988	event	15th American Music Award Anita Baker, Paul Simon & Whitney Houston	0
25 Jan 1988	event	Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname	0
26 Jan 1988	event	"Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 4,000+ performances	0
26 Jan 1988	event	Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor	0
26 Jan 1988	event	"Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City NY for 4,000+ performances	0
27 Jan 1988	event	Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court	0
28 Jan 1988	event	"Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 597 performances	0
28 Jan 1988	event	In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws, effectively allowing abortions in Canada in all 9 months of pregnancy.	0
28 Jan 1988	event	"Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater New York City NY for 597 performances	0
28 Jan 1988	event	Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional	0
29 Jan 1988	event	United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s	0
29 Jan 1988	event	Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15	0
29 Jan 1988	event	Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)	0
29 Jan 1988	event	Talks break down between Sandinistas and Contras	0
29 Jan 1988	event	Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers	0
29 Jan 1988	event	United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36 hours 54 minutes 15 seconds	0
30 Jan 1988	event	Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs N Tvl)	0
31 Jan 1988	event	Barge sinks near Anacortes WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil	0
31 Jan 1988	event	Super Bowl XXII Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego; Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams, Washington, Quarterback	0
02 Feb 1988	event	Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania	0
04 Feb 1988	event	Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges	0
05 Feb 1988	event	1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 yrs-Andre beats Hulk Hogan	0
05 Feb 1988	event	Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham	0
05 Feb 1988	event	Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs	0
05 Feb 1988	event	Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.	0
06 Feb 1988	event	Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.	0
07 Feb 1988	event	38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago	0
07 Feb 1988	event	Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens	0
07 Feb 1988	event	Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic	0
08 Feb 1988	event	NASA launches DOD-2	0
09 Feb 1988	event	39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis	0
09 Feb 1988	event	NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends February 1991)	0
10 Feb 1988	event	3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)	0
10 Feb 1988	event	Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails	0
11 Feb 1988	event	Anthony M Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court	0
13 Feb 1988	event	Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)	0
13 Feb 1988	event	15th Winter Olympics games open at Calgary, Canada	0
13 Feb 1988	event	Christine Wachtel runs world record 800 meter indoor (1 minute 56.40 seconds)	0
13 Feb 1988	event	European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992	0
13 Feb 1988	event	Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37 meters)	0
13 Feb 1988	event	Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18 minutes 11.41 seconds)	0
14 Feb 1988	event	Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500	0
14 Feb 1988	event	General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden	0
14 Feb 1988	event	49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Gary Player	0
14 Feb 1988	event	Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay	0
14 Feb 1988	event	Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic	0
15 Feb 1988	event	US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site	0
16 Feb 1988	event	1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador	0
17 Feb 1988	event	Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins	0
17 Feb 1988	event	US Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists & later killed	0
18 Feb 1988	event	Anthony M Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice	0
19 Feb 1988	event	Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200 meter (1:32.55)	0
20 Feb 1988	event	The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.	0
20 Feb 1988	event	500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil	0
20 Feb 1988	event	Brian Boitano wins Olympics gold medal in figure skating	0
20 Feb 1988	event	Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0	0
20 Feb 1988	event	Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million	0
20 Feb 1988	event	Andr	0
20 Feb 1988	event	Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50 meter (6.58 seconds)	0
20 Feb 1988	event	Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000 meter (2:16.2)	0
20 Feb 1988	event	Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 meters)	0
21 Feb 1988	event	Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation	0
21 Feb 1988	event	Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane	0
21 Feb 1988	event	During a live TV broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52) admitted to visiting a prostitute, then announced he would be leaving his ministry for an unspecified length of time. (Defrocked in April by the Assemblies of God, he was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months)	0
21 Feb 1988	event	Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13:48.20)	0
22 Feb 1988	event	Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 meter (39.10 seconds)	0
23 Feb 1988	event	15th Winter Olympics games opens in Calgary, Alberta	0
23 Feb 1988	event	Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games	0
23 Feb 1988	event	Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)	0
24 Feb 1988	event	Supreme Court votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody	0
24 Feb 1988	event	Matti Nykanen becomes winter Olympics 1st triple gold medalist	0
24 Feb 1988	event	South African apartheid regime bans the UDF	0
25 Feb 1988	event	Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour, " begins in Worcester, Massachusetts	0
25 Feb 1988	event	Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour" begins in Worcester MA	0
25 Feb 1988	event	South Korea adopts constitution	0
26 Feb 1988	event	Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1:17.65)	0
27 Feb 1988	event	Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community of Sumgait in Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent massacre.	0
27 Feb 1988	event	Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1	0
27 Feb 1988	event	Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating	0
27 Feb 1988	event	Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open	0
27 Feb 1988	event	Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34	0
28 Feb 1988	event	Pat Verbeek becomes 1st New Jersey Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game	0
28 Feb 1988	event	15th Winter Olympics games close at Calgary, Canada	0
28 Feb 1988	event	Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed	0
28 Feb 1988	event	Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)	0
29 Feb 1988	event	KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG	0
29 Feb 1988	event	New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs	0
29 Feb 1988	event	Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the Canadian House of Commons to come out as gay.	0
29 Feb 1988	event	South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.	0
29 Feb 1988	event	Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations	0
29 Feb 1988	event	NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs	0
29 Feb 1988	event	Mark Greatbatch scores 107 vs England on Test Cricket debut	0
01 Mar 1988	event	Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA	0
01 Mar 1988	event	Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran	0
01 Mar 1988	event	Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile	0
01 Mar 1988	event	Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist	0
02 Mar 1988	event	30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley	0
02 Mar 1988	event	Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP	0
06 Mar 1988	event	18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000	0
06 Mar 1988	event	3 IRA suspects were shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers	0
06 Mar 1988	event	Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)	0
06 Mar 1988	event	Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament	0
06 Mar 1988	event	Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.	0
07 Mar 1988	event	Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award	0
09 Mar 1988	event	President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp	0
10 Mar 1988	event	Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles	0
10 Mar 1988	event	New York Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night	0
11 Mar 1988	event	Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire	0
13 Mar 1988	event	The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.	0
13 Mar 1988	event	14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win	0
14 Mar 1988	event	Johnson South Reef Skirmish: Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in Johnson South Reef, disputed Spratly Islands.	0
15 Mar 1988	event	Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop	0
15 Mar 1988	event	NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK	0
15 Mar 1988	event	NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix	0
16 Mar 1988	event	Federal grand jury indicts North and Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair	0
16 Mar 1988	event	The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.	0
16 Mar 1988	event	Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.	0
16 Mar 1988	event	Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.	0
16 Mar 1988	event	Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North & Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair	0
16 Mar 1988	event	North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed	0
16 Mar 1988	event	US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras	0
17 Mar 1988	event	"Les Miserables, " opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo	0
17 Mar 1988	event	Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.	0
17 Mar 1988	event	A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.	0
17 Mar 1988	event	"Les Miserables" opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo Norway	0
17 Mar 1988	event	Highest scoring NCAA basketball game: Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 115	0
17 Mar 1988	event	Iran says Iraq uses poison gas	0
19 Mar 1988	event	2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast North Ireland	0
19 Mar 1988	event	Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15: 5.25)	0
20 Mar 1988	event	Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.	0
20 Mar 1988	event	David Henry Hwang's "M Butterfly" premieres in New York NY	0
20 Mar 1988	event	Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA Tucson Golf Open	0
20 Mar 1988	event	Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for heavyweight boxing title	0
21 Mar 1988	event	23rd Academy of Country Music Awards: Randy Travis & Hank Williams Jr	0
22 Mar 1988	event	Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill	0
22 Mar 1988	event	Western Australia beat Queensland by 5 wickets to win the Sheffield Shield Final	0
24 Mar 1988	event	"Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 performances	0
24 Mar 1988	event	Quarterback Dan Fouts retires	0
25 Mar 1988	event	"Les Miserables, " opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan	0
25 Mar 1988	event	The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.	0
25 Mar 1988	event	NASA launches space vehicle S-206	0
25 Mar 1988	event	Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money	0
26 Mar 1988	event	Janet B Evans swims 1500 meter freestyle female world record (15: 2.10)	0
27 Mar 1988	event	Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova and O Vasiliev (URS)	0
27 Mar 1988	event	Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)	0
27 Mar 1988	event	Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase	0
27 Mar 1988	event	Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament	0
27 Mar 1988	event	World Ice Dance Championship in Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)	0
27 Mar 1988	event	World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (USSR)	0
27 Mar 1988	event	World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)	0
27 Mar 1988	event	World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)	0
29 Mar 1988	event	"Oba Oba" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 46 performances	0
29 Mar 1988	event	US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras	0
30 Mar 1988	event	2nd Soul Train Music Awards	0
30 Mar 1988	event	Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy	0
31 Mar 1988	event	Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved"	0
31 Mar 1988	event	Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium	0
31 Mar 1988	event	New York Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night	0
03 Apr 1988	event	17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott	0
03 Apr 1988	event	New Jersey Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time	0
03 Apr 1988	event	Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert	0
04 Apr 1988	event	Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds Vs Cards)	0
04 Apr 1988	event	Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV	0
04 Apr 1988	event	Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs	0
04 Apr 1988	event	Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.	0
05 Apr 1988	event	Democratic Convention picks Michael Dukakis as their Presidential Candidate	0
06 Apr 1988	event	Black pole explorer M Henson buried next to R Peary in Arlington	0
07 Apr 1988	event	Devils 3-2 over Isles, 1st round tied 1-1	0
07 Apr 1988	event	Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested	0
07 Apr 1988	event	Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan	0
09 Apr 1988	event	"Les Miserables, " opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka	0
09 Apr 1988	event	Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round	0
09 Apr 1988	event	US imposes economic sanctions on Panama	0
10 Apr 1988	event	Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2	0
10 Apr 1988	event	The Ojhri Camp disaster: Killing more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast.	0
10 Apr 1988	event	Herschel Walker performs the Fort Worth Ballet	0
10 Apr 1988	event	New York Islanders beat New Jersey Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2	0
10 Apr 1988	event	8th Golden Raspberry Awards Leonard Part 6 wins	0
10 Apr 1988	event	Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic	0
11 Apr 1988	event	Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens	0
12 Apr 1988	event	Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round	0
12 Apr 1988	event	Sonny Bono elected Mayor of Palm Springs, California	0
12 Apr 1988	event	Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of the Baltimore Orioles	0
12 Apr 1988	event	New Jersey Devils 4-2 over New York Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round	0
12 Apr 1988	event	Harvard University patents genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life)	0
13 Apr 1988	event	Italy government of De Mita forms	0
14 Apr 1988	event	"Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances	0
14 Apr 1988	event	Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2	0
14 Apr 1988	event	USSR, US, Pakistan and Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty	0
14 Apr 1988	event	In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.	0
14 Apr 1988	event	The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.	0
14 Apr 1988	event	New Jersey Devils 6-5 over New York Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2	0
14 Apr 1988	event	USSR, US, Pakistan & Afgh	0
15 Apr 1988	event	Meteorite explode above Indonesia	0
15 Apr 1988	event	Wendy Wasserstein's "Heidi Chronicles", premieres in NYC	0
17 Apr 1988	event	Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50)	0
17 Apr 1988	event	Nancy Lopez wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic	0
18 Apr 1988	event	Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over"	0
18 Apr 1988	event	The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.	0
18 Apr 1988	event	Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over"	0
18 Apr 1988	event	17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30	0
18 Apr 1988	event	92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43	0
20 Apr 1988	event	Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)	0
20 Apr 1988	event	Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)	0
20 Apr 1988	event	New Jersey Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten	0
20 Apr 1988	event	New York Yankees homerun 9,999 (Dave Winfield) 10,000 (Claudell Washington) 10,001 (Jack Clark)	0
20 Apr 1988	event	US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians	0
21 Apr 1988	event	Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know"	0
21 Apr 1988	event	1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence	0
22 Apr 1988	event	Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)	0
22 Apr 1988	event	Women are allowed to compete in the Little 500 bicycle race in Bloomington IN, for the 1st time	0
22 Apr 1988	event	New Jersey Devil Patrik Sundstrom ties NHL playoff record of 8 points in a playoff game (hat trick & 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals	0
23 Apr 1988	event	A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles	0
23 Apr 1988	event	Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less	0
23 Apr 1988	event	Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47:06)	0
24 Apr 1988	event	Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic	0
25 Apr 1988	event	"Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel	0
25 Apr 1988	event	In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.	0
25 Apr 1988	event	NASA launches space vehicle S-211	0
25 Apr 1988	event	John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem	0
26 Apr 1988	event	1st TNN Viewers Choice Awards-Randy Travis wins in 5 categories	0
26 Apr 1988	event	NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in the 1988-89 season	0
26 Apr 1988	event	New York Mets' Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)	0
28 Apr 1988	event	"Chess" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 68 performances	0
28 Apr 1988	event	Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.	0
28 Apr 1988	event	Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess	0
28 Apr 1988	event	Baltimore Orioles lose American League record 21 games in a row	0
28 Apr 1988	event	New Jersey Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes	0
29 Apr 1988	event	"60 Minutes" newscaster Diane Sawyer weds Mike Nichols	0
29 Apr 1988	event	Baltimore Orioles beat Chicago White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 losses	0
29 Apr 1988	event	Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry	0
30 Apr 1988	event	New York Yank Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets AL and ties ML Rec	0
30 Apr 1988	event	New Jersey Devils beat Capitals 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final	0
30 Apr 1988	event	New York Knights 1st arena football game; beat Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in Los Angeles)	0
30 Apr 1988	event	New York Yankee Dave Winfield gets his 29th RBI of April-Sets American League & ties major league record	0
30 Apr 1988	event	World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia	0
30 Apr 1988	event	Baltimore Orioles win record 14th straight from beginning of season	0
30 Apr 1988	event	Largest banana split ever, at 4.55 miles long, is made in Selinsgrove PA	0
01 May 1988	event	"Romance / Romance" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 297 performances	0
01 May 1988	event	IRA attack in Roermond, kills 3	0
01 May 1988	event	Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic	0
02 May 1988	event	Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Baltimore and get a new park	0
02 May 1988	event	Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump	0
03 May 1988	event	4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida	0
04 May 1988	event	The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.	0
05 May 1988	event	Eugene A Marino installed as 1st black US Archbishop	0
06 May 1988	event	Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs vs. Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes	0
07 May 1988	event	114th Kentucky Derby: Gary Stevens on Winning Colors wins in 2:02.2	0
08 May 1988	event	"Oba Oba" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 46 performances	0
08 May 1988	event	Amateur referees work New Jersey Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils	0
08 May 1988	event	Francois Mitterrand elected President of France	0
08 May 1988	event	Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic	0
08 May 1988	event	Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St. in New York City	0
08 May 1988	event	A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".	0
09 May 1988	event	Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms	0
10 May 1988	event	Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000	0
11 May 1988	event	France performs nuclear test	0
11 May 1988	event	KV Mechelen wins 28th Europe Cup II	0
11 May 1988	event	Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)	0
12 May 1988	event	"Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 5 performances	0
14 May 1988	event	"Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances	0
14 May 1988	event	Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.	0
14 May 1988	event	1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cardinals lose to the Atlanta Braves 7-5 in 19 innings	0
15 May 1988	event	"Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances	0
15 May 1988	event	"Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 performances	0
15 May 1988	event	Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan	0
15 May 1988	event	Soviets begin withdrawal from Afghanistan	0
15 May 1988	event	Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.	0
15 May 1988	event	2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman	0
15 May 1988	event	Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic	0
15 May 1988	event	Soviets begin withdrawl in Afgh	0
16 May 1988	event	A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.	0
16 May 1988	event	Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin	0
16 May 1988	event	US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant	0
18 May 1988	event	Bayer Leverkusen wins 17th UEFA Cup at Leverkusen	0
18 May 1988	event	In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16	0
19 May 1988	event	"Red Sox" retire Bobby Doerr's #1	0
19 May 1988	event	Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medell	0
20 May 1988	event	Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR's & John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade	0
20 May 1988	event	Mike Schmidt hits his 535th homerun, moving into 8th place	0
21 May 1988	event	"Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99	0
21 May 1988	event	"Da'Butt" by EU hits #35	0
21 May 1988	event	"Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99	0
21 May 1988	event	114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2	0
21 May 1988	event	Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore	0
21 May 1988	event	US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site	0
22 May 1988	event	34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner	0
22 May 1988	event	K	0
23 May 1988	event	Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990	0
24 May 1988	event	Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.	0
24 May 1988	event	John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute	0
24 May 1988	event	Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe	0
24 May 1988	event	Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals	0
25 May 1988	event	PSV wins Europe Cup	0
26 May 1988	event	Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games	0
27 May 1988	event	Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles	0
28 May 1988	event	Genie Francis (General Hospital) weds Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek TNG)	0
29 May 1988	event	The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.	0
29 May 1988	event	Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season	0
29 May 1988	event	President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan	0
29 May 1988	event	Sherri Turner wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic	0
01 Jun 1988	event	"Les Miserables, " opens at Shubert Theatre, LA	0
01 Jun 1988	event	"Morton Downey Jr Show, " debuts in TV syndication	0
01 Jun 1988	event	Train crash in Zeeland Neth, kills 2	0
02 Jun 1988	event	61st National Spelling Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal	0
02 Jun 1988	event	Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile	0
03 Jun 1988	event	"Big, " premieres in US	0
03 Jun 1988	event	Margo Adams sues Red Sox 3rd baseman Wade Boggs for palimony	0
04 Jun 1988	event	"Cabaret" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 262 performances	0
04 Jun 1988	event	42nd Tony Awards: M Butterfly and Phantom of the Opera win	0
04 Jun 1988	event	58th French Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats N Zvereva (60 60)	0
04 Jun 1988	event	Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat New York 7-6)	0
04 Jun 1988	event	Rickey Henderson steals 2 bases for record 249 as a New York Yankee	0
04 Jun 1988	event	Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.	0
05 Jun 1988	event	58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61)	0
05 Jun 1988	event	Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic	0
05 Jun 1988	event	Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary	0
06 Jun 1988	event	22nd Music City News Country Awards: Randy Travis and Statler Brothers	0
06 Jun 1988	event	3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant	0
06 Jun 1988	event	George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WWII	0
06 Jun 1988	event	Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)	0
08 Jun 1988	event	Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%	0
09 Jun 1988	event	"Bloodsport (1987), " premieres in Germany	0
09 Jun 1988	event	Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK	0
10 Jun 1988	event	Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)	0
11 Jun 1988	event	"Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3	0
11 Jun 1988	event	"Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61	0
11 Jun 1988	event	"We All Sleep Alone" by Cher peaks at #14	0
11 Jun 1988	event	120th Belmont: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 2:26.6	0
11 Jun 1988	event	25th Curtis Cup: British Isles, 11-7	0
11 Jun 1988	event	Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London	0
11 Jun 1988	event	Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8	0
11 Jun 1988	event	Yanks' Rick Rhoden becomes 1st pitcher to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI)	0
12 Jun 1988	event	6th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Billy Casper	0
12 Jun 1988	event	Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy	0
12 Jun 1988	event	Mei-Chi Cheng wins LPGA Rochester Golf International	0
13 Jun 1988	event	45th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Mark Davis (Padres) / Mike Krukow	0
13 Jun 1988	event	Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of New Jersey woman of lung cancer	0
13 Jun 1988	event	George Harrison releases "This is Love"	0
13 Jun 1988	event	Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win the AL East	0
13 Jun 1988	event	George Harrison releases "This is Love"	0
13 Jun 1988	event	US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist	0
14 Jun 1988	event	Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her	0
15 Jun 1988	event	NASA launches space vehicle S-213	0
16 Jun 1988	event	Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home	0
16 Jun 1988	event	In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater	0
17 Jun 1988	event	Soyuz TM-5 launches	0
17 Jun 1988	event	Bruce Springsteen seperates from Juliette Phillips	0
17 Jun 1988	event	Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0	0
17 Jun 1988	event	The Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens	0
17 Jun 1988	event	Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case	0
18 Jun 1988	event	Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run	0
19 Jun 1988	event	88th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club, Massachusetts	0
19 Jun 1988	event	Namphy takes control of Haitian government	0
19 Jun 1988	event	Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open	0
19 Jun 1988	event	Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie	0
19 Jun 1988	event	In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers finish cycling underwater	0
20 Jun 1988	event	Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament	0
20 Jun 1988	event	New York City WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of New Jersey Devils	0
20 Jun 1988	event	Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities	0
20 Jun 1988	event	WABC officially becomes the New Jersey Devils new home radio	0
20 Jun 1988	event	NYC WABC-AM becomes the flagship radio station of the NJ Devils	0
20 Jun 1988	event	Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera	0
21 Jun 1988	event	42nd NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Detroit Pistons, 4 games to 3	0
21 Jun 1988	event	Many killed at demonstration against general Ne Win in Rangoon	0
21 Jun 1988	event	Rascals begin 1st tour in 20 years	0
21 Jun 1988	event	Los Angeles beats Detroit, for the NBA championship	0
23 Jun 1988	event	Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft	0
23 Jun 1988	event	Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager	0
24 Jun 1988	event	Cleveland pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves	0
24 Jun 1988	event	Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak	0
25 Jun 1988	event	"Chess" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 68 performances	0
25 Jun 1988	event	Cal Ripken Jr plays in his 1,000th consecutive game	0
25 Jun 1988	event	Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs	0
25 Jun 1988	event	Netherlands soccer team wins European Cup (2-0 against USSR)	0
25 Jun 1988	event	Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"	0
27 Jun 1988	event	Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning	0
27 Jun 1988	event	Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.	0
27 Jun 1988	event	Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)	0
28 Jun 1988	event	Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton	0
30 Jun 1988	event	"Sledge Hammer!" last aires on ABC-TV	0
30 Jun 1988	event	Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason	0
02 Jul 1988	event	95th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (57 62 61)	0
03 Jul 1988	event	16th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sally Little	0
03 Jul 1988	event	US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290	0
03 Jul 1988	event	United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.	0
03 Jul 1988	event	The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.	0
04 Jul 1988	event	102nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Becker (46 76 64 62)	0
04 Jul 1988	event	Kansas City releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the 4th most	0
04 Jul 1988	event	US navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290	0
05 Jul 1988	event	Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all out 93	0
06 Jul 1988	event	Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected President of Mexico	0
06 Jul 1988	event	North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha explodes, 166 die	0
06 Jul 1988	event	Wrestler Jake Roberts convicted of battery	0
06 Jul 1988	event	The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.	0
07 Jul 1988	event	Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)	0
08 Jul 1988	event	Miami Arena opens	0
08 Jul 1988	event	Rockers Jonathan "Chico" andRobert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking	0
08 Jul 1988	event	Stevie Wonder announces he will run for Mayor of Detroit in 1992	0
09 Jul 1988	event	"Facts of Life, " Lisa Whelchel weds Steve Cauble	0
09 Jul 1988	event	Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR	0
09 Jul 1988	event	Jessye Norman begins recording Bizets "Carmen"	0
09 Jul 1988	event	Nolan Ryan is 7th to win 100 game on 2 teams, as Astro beat Mets 6-3	0
10 Jul 1988	event	Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic	0
11 Jul 1988	event	Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor	0
12 Jul 1988	event	59th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-1 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin	0
12 Jul 1988	event	All star MVP: Terry Steinbach (Oakland Athletics)	0
12 Jul 1988	event	Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's "Delta Force" revenge plan	0
12 Jul 1988	event	USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit	0
13 Jul 1988	event	9th Emmy Sports Award presentation	0
13 Jul 1988	event	Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan	0
13 Jul 1988	event	Sting performs his 1st Rain Forest benefit concert	0
14 Jul 1988	event	WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive	0
14 Jul 1988	event	200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak	0
14 Jul 1988	event	Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place	0
16 Jul 1988	event	Wayne Gretzky (NHL) and Janet Jones (Police Academy 5) wed in Edmonton	0
16 Jul 1988	event	Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec	0
16 Jul 1988	event	Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds	0
16 Jul 1988	event	Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's hepathlete record of 7,215 pts	0
16 Jul 1988	event	Michael J Fox marries Tracy Pollan	0
16 Jul 1988	event	San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings	0
17 Jul 1988	event	117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham	0
17 Jul 1988	event	Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic	0
17 Jul 1988	event	Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 100m woman's record (10.49)	0
17 Jul 1988	event	Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103	0
18 Jul 1988	event	Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on City of Poros cruise ship	0
18 Jul 1988	event	Shooting begins on "License to Kill"	0
20 Jul 1988	event	Michael Dukakis selected Democratic presidential nominee	0
21 Jul 1988	event	Mass Gov Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for President	0
21 Jul 1988	event	ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)	0
22 Jul 1988	event	500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research	0
23 Jul 1988	event	General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.	0
23 Jul 1988	event	Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton	0
24 Jul 1988	event	US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup	0
25 Jul 1988	event	Mindy Duncan, 16, of Oregon, crowned 6th Miss Teen USA	0
25 Jul 1988	event	Pedro Delgado wins Tour de France	0
26 Jul 1988	event	Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies and New York Mets end that game at 2:13 AM	0
26 Jul 1988	event	Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as	0
27 Jul 1988	event	General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma	0
27 Jul 1988	event	Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3	0
27 Jul 1988	event	Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years	0
27 Jul 1988	event	Radio Shack announces the Tandy 1000 SL computer	0
28 Jul 1988	event	IBM announces price hike on older models	0
28 Jul 1988	event	Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years	0
28 Jul 1988	event	Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank	0
28 Jul 1988	event	Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson	0
28 Jul 1988	event	Yanks' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3	0
29 Jul 1988	event	Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling	0
29 Jul 1988	event	Last US Playboy Club (Lansing, Michigan) closes	0
29 Jul 1988	event	Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home	0
29 Jul 1988	event	South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"	0
29 Jul 1988	event	FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion	0
29 Jul 1988	event	Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989	0
29 Jul 1988	event	Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit	0
29 Jul 1988	event	South African govt bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"	0
30 Jul 1988	event	Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m	0
30 Jul 1988	event	James Ogilvy (under Engl Princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson	0
30 Jul 1988	event	John Franco saves record 13th game of July	0
30 Jul 1988	event	Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO	0
30 Jul 1988	event	Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)	0
30 Jul 1988	event	Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month	0
30 Jul 1988	event	Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada	0
31 Jul 1988	event	Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open	0
31 Jul 1988	event	Jose Canseco is 1st to hit 30 HRs in 1st 3 years	0
31 Jul 1988	event	Last Playboy club closes (Lansing, Michigan)	0
31 Jul 1988	event	32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.	0
31 Jul 1988	event	Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London	0
31 Jul 1988	event	Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame	0
01 Aug 1988	event	Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon	0
02 Aug 1988	event	Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo	0
02 Aug 1988	event	System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs. PKARC)	0
03 Aug 1988	event	Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City	0
04 Aug 1988	event	Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WWII	0
04 Aug 1988	event	Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case	0
05 Aug 1988	event	Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat	0
06 Aug 1988	event	Oakland Athletics Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases	0
06 Aug 1988	event	Rich Gossage 300th career save (beats Phillies)	0
06 Aug 1988	event	The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.	0
07 Aug 1988	event	Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament	0
07 Aug 1988	event	Writers guild end their 6 months strike	0
08 Aug 1988	event	9th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease fire treaty	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Cubs and Phillies attempt to play 1st night game ever at Wrigley Field but are rained out in 4th inning with Chicago leading, 3-1	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Goose Gossage registers career save #300	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Jose Canseco becomes 11th to get 30 HRs and 30 steals in a season	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Matt Biondi swims US record 200m freestyle (1:47.72)	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Minn Twins pull 2nd triple-play of year and beat Cleveland 6-2	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia	0
08 Aug 1988	event	South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola	0
08 Aug 1988	event	Temperature hits high of 88 on 8 / 8 / 88 in New York City	0
08 Aug 1988	event	The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.	0
09 Aug 1988	event	Cubs beat Mets 6-4 in their 1st official night game at Wrigley Field	0
09 Aug 1988	event	Edmonton Oilers trade Wayne Gretzky to LA Kings for $15-$20 millions	0
10 Aug 1988	event	Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style (48.42 seconds)	0
10 Aug 1988	event	Rodrigo Borja installed as President of Ecuador	0
10 Aug 1988	event	Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.	0
10 Aug 1988	event	UN estimates Asia's population hit 3 billion	0
11 Aug 1988	event	225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR	0
11 Aug 1988	event	Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens	0
11 Aug 1988	event	Gary Carter (NY Mets) became 59th player to hit 300 career HR	0
11 Aug 1988	event	Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament	0
12 Aug 1988	event	Movie "Last Temptation of Christ" is released	0
12 Aug 1988	event	Red Sox beat Tigers 9-4 for AL record 23rd consecutive win at home	0
12 Aug 1988	event	Boston Red Sox set AL consecutive home victories at 23	0
12 Aug 1988	event	Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital	0
12 Aug 1988	event	Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General	0
13 Aug 1988	event	Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens	0
13 Aug 1988	event	Boston Red Sox win AL record 24 straight home games	0
13 Aug 1988	event	US beats Jamaicia 5-1, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup	0
13 Aug 1988	event	Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min	0
14 Aug 1988	event	70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree Golf Club - Edmond	0
14 Aug 1988	event	Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24	0
15 Aug 1988	event	New York City begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments	0
15 Aug 1988	event	At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts	0
16 Aug 1988	event	IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence	0
16 Aug 1988	event	Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis	0
16 Aug 1988	event	Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers	0
17 Aug 1988	event	New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)	0
17 Aug 1988	event	Republicans nominate George Bush for President	0
17 Aug 1988	event	Butch Reynolds of USA sets the 400m record (43.29) in Zurich	0
17 Aug 1988	event	LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991	0
18 Aug 1988	event	FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment	0
18 Aug 1988	event	Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million	0
18 Aug 1988	event	Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket	0
19 Aug 1988	event	Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma	0
19 Aug 1988	event	New York Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer	0
19 Aug 1988	event	Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)	0
20 Aug 1988	event	6.5 earthquake strikes India / Nepal, 1,000s killed	0
20 Aug 1988	event	Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)	0
21 Aug 1988	event	Juli Inkster wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic	0
21 Aug 1988	event	Yordanka Donkova runs world record 100 m hurdles (12.21)	0
21 Aug 1988	event	Cease fire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war	0
22 Aug 1988	event	NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)	0
22 Aug 1988	event	Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)	0
23 Aug 1988	event	Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem	0
25 Aug 1988	event	Heavy fire destroys historic center of Lisbon	0
25 Aug 1988	event	Iran and Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war	0
25 Aug 1988	event	Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston	0
25 Aug 1988	event	NASA launches space vehicle S-214	0
27 Aug 1988	event	Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2	0
28 Aug 1988	event	40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley	0
28 Aug 1988	event	88th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Eric Meeks	0
28 Aug 1988	event	Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50	0
28 Aug 1988	event	Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open	0
28 Aug 1988	event	Rosie Jones wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship	0
28 Aug 1988	event	Ramstein airshow disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.	0
28 Aug 1988	event	70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany	0
29 Aug 1988	event	Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets Guiness record	0
29 Aug 1988	event	USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir	0
30 Aug 1988	event	Kent Tekulve is 2nd pitcher in majors to appear in 1,000 games	0
30 Aug 1988	event	Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen	0
30 Aug 1988	event	Tennis star Chris Everett weds skier Andy Mills	0
31 Aug 1988	event	Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents	0
31 Aug 1988	event	Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches	0
31 Aug 1988	event	5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins	0
04 Sep 1988	event	Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York	0
04 Sep 1988	event	Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game	0
05 Sep 1988	event	Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic	0
06 Sep 1988	event	Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 Cosmonauts aboard	0
06 Sep 1988	event	Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal	0
07 Sep 1988	event	Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito and Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame	0
07 Sep 1988	event	New York Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist	0
07 Sep 1988	event	Security and Exchange Comm accuses Drexel of violating security laws	0
07 Sep 1988	event	Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.	0
08 Sep 1988	event	Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation	0
08 Sep 1988	event	Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.	0
09 Sep 1988	event	Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers and Gossage to save 300 games	0
09 Sep 1988	event	Chris Evert defaults at US Open due to a stomach flu	0
10 Sep 1988	event	102nd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini (63 36 61)	0
10 Sep 1988	event	Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (Minn), 22, crowned 62nd Miss America 1989	0
10 Sep 1988	event	Steffi Graf wins US Open, 1st woman Grand Slam since Court (1970)	0
11 Sep 1988	event	1 / 3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy	0
11 Sep 1988	event	108th US Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Ivan Lendl (64 46 63 57 64)	0
11 Sep 1988	event	Betsy King wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship	0
11 Sep 1988	event	The St. Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.	0
11 Sep 1988	event	Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world	0
12 Sep 1988	event	Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.	0
12 Sep 1988	event	1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card	0
12 Sep 1988	event	Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica	0
13 Sep 1988	event	9 hard / software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York	0
13 Sep 1988	event	Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).	0
13 Sep 1988	event	10th time, 4 players hit baseball major-league record grand slams	0
13 Sep 1988	event	Hurricane Gilbert becomes strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere	0
15 Sep 1988	event	"Les Miserables, " opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna	0
15 Sep 1988	event	Museum of Moving Image in London opens	0
15 Sep 1988	event	Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics	0
16 Sep 1988	event	Cin Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0	0
16 Sep 1988	event	Fish leaves rock group Marillion	0
16 Sep 1988	event	Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series	0
16 Sep 1988	event	Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA Dodgers (1-0)	0
17 Sep 1988	event	24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea	0
17 Sep 1988	event	Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees	0
17 Sep 1988	event	Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL	0
18 Sep 1988	event	Burma suspends its constitution	0
18 Sep 1988	event	Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic	0
18 Sep 1988	event	End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.	0
19 Sep 1988	event	US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board	0
19 Sep 1988	event	Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance	0
20 Sep 1988	event	Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run	0
20 Sep 1988	event	Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving	0
20 Sep 1988	event	Wade Boggs is 1st player to get 200 hits for 6 consecutive seasons	0
21 Sep 1988	event	Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville New Jersey home	0
21 Sep 1988	event	Mike Tyson threatens a TV reporter in NJ	0
22 Sep 1988	event	Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin	0
22 Sep 1988	event	South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in	0
23 Sep 1988	event	Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39)	0
23 Sep 1988	event	José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40–40 club.	0
23 Sep 1988	event	Jose Canseco becomes baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs	0
24 Sep 1988	event	Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 seconds)	0
24 Sep 1988	event	Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th	0
24 Sep 1988	event	Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop	0
24 Sep 1988	event	Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec	0
24 Sep 1988	event	Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman's record (7,291)	0
25 Sep 1988	event	Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle (3:16.53)	0
25 Sep 1988	event	Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic	0
25 Sep 1988	event	Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s	0
26 Sep 1988	event	Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new Prime Minister	0
26 Sep 1988	event	Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test	0
26 Sep 1988	event	NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark	0
26 Sep 1988	event	US space shuttle STS-26 launched	0
27 Sep 1988	event	National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.	0
27 Sep 1988	event	Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story	0
27 Sep 1988	event	Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth	0
27 Sep 1988	event	Senate votes for major federal tax code changes	0
28 Sep 1988	event	Bronx Museum for the Arts opens	0
28 Sep 1988	event	LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns	0
29 Sep 1988	event	Union Station reopens in Washington DC	0
29 Sep 1988	event	Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.	0
29 Sep 1988	event	26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched	0
29 Sep 1988	event	Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 200m woman's record (21.34)	0
29 Sep 1988	event	UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize	0
30 Sep 1988	event	Dave Stieb, loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th	0
30 Sep 1988	event	Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.	0
30 Sep 1988	event	Andrei A Gromyko retires	0
30 Sep 1988	event	IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer	0
30 Sep 1988	event	Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win the Olympic gold medal	0
30 Sep 1988	event	Robin Givens & Mike Tyson appear on the Barbara Walters Show	0
30 Sep 1988	event	LA Dodger Orel Herschiser breaks former Dodger Don Drysdale mark by pitching 59 consecutive scoreless innings	0
01 Oct 1988	event	Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens	0
01 Oct 1988	event	Lowest batting average for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313)	0
01 Oct 1988	event	Mikhail Gorbachev became President of Soviet Union	0
01 Oct 1988	event	Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth	0
02 Oct 1988	event	24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea	0
02 Oct 1988	event	Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32)	0
02 Oct 1988	event	Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville New Jersey Mansion	0
02 Oct 1988	event	Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance	0
02 Oct 1988	event	Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens	0
03 Oct 1988	event	26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days	0
03 Oct 1988	event	Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th and 45th Sts, New York City	0
03 Oct 1988	event	Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)	0
03 Oct 1988	event	WBMW-FM, Washington DC changes calls to WJFK and begins airing Howard Stern	0
04 Oct 1988	event	Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid	0
04 Oct 1988	event	U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.	0
05 Oct 1988	event	Brazil adopts its Constitution	0
05 Oct 1988	event	Chilean population agrees at referendum against Pinochet regime	0
05 Oct 1988	event	The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.	0
05 Oct 1988	event	The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.	0
06 Oct 1988	event	Oakland Athletics sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant	0
07 Oct 1988	event	Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager	0
07 Oct 1988	event	Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox	0
07 Oct 1988	event	Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR	0
07 Oct 1988	event	Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time	0
07 Oct 1988	event	Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson	0
07 Oct 1988	event	WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 andWUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30pm (NYC radio)	0
07 Oct 1988	event	An Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.	0
08 Oct 1988	event	Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove	0
09 Oct 1988	event	17% vote extremely-right Flemish Block in Belgium	0
09 Oct 1988	event	Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series	0
10 Oct 1988	event	22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win	0
10 Oct 1988	event	Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989	0
12 Oct 1988	event	George Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate	0
12 Oct 1988	event	Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.	0
12 Oct 1988	event	Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.	0
12 Oct 1988	event	Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India	0
12 Oct 1988	event	Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations	0
13 Oct 1988	event	Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz	0
13 Oct 1988	event	Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest	0
14 Oct 1988	event	Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize	0
14 Oct 1988	event	New Jersey Devils raise their 1st pennant (Patrick Division Playoff Champs)	0
14 Oct 1988	event	Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment	0
15 Oct 1988	event	Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires	0
15 Oct 1988	event	NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)	0
15 Oct 1988	event	With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of 85th World Series	0
16 Oct 1988	event	"Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London	0
16 Oct 1988	event	Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff andWorld Series	0
16 Oct 1988	event	Orel Hirsheiser, 1st to pitch shutout in playoff & world series (World Series #85)	0
17 Oct 1988	event	31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome	0
17 Oct 1988	event	Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of the NY Yankees	0
17 Oct 1988	event	Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment	0
17 Oct 1988	event	Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft	0
17 Oct 1988	event	Rockin Robin beats "Sensational" Sherri Martel for WWF women's title	0
17 Oct 1988	event	Traveling Wilbury's 1st release "Handle With Care"	0
18 Oct 1988	event	Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist	0
19 Oct 1988	event	Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album	0
19 Oct 1988	event	South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize	0
19 Oct 1988	event	The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.	0
19 Oct 1988	event	3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel	0
19 Oct 1988	event	Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members	0
19 Oct 1988	event	Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border	0
19 Oct 1988	event	Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album	0
19 Oct 1988	event	Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows	0
20 Oct 1988	event	Dodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA and baseball champs as LA beats Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series	0
20 Oct 1988	event	Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"	0
20 Oct 1988	event	Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA	0
20 Oct 1988	event	LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in 85th World Series 4 games to 1	0
20 Oct 1988	event	Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC)	0
20 Oct 1988	event	Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated	0
20 Oct 1988	event	LA 1st to have both NBA & baseball champs as LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series	0
21 Oct 1988	event	Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid	0
21 Oct 1988	event	Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges	0
22 Oct 1988	event	Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time	0
22 Oct 1988	event	Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time	0
22 Oct 1988	event	Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery	0
23 Oct 1988	event	Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid	0
24 Oct 1988	event	NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires	0
24 Oct 1988	event	Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released	0
24 Oct 1988	event	Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown	0
25 Oct 1988	event	ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy porkers' popularity as pets	0
26 Oct 1988	event	US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, Alaska	0
26 Oct 1988	event	Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service	0
27 Oct 1988	event	"ET" released to home video (14 million presold)	0
27 Oct 1988	event	Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.	0
27 Oct 1988	event	Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra	0
28 Oct 1988	event	Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington Library	0
28 Oct 1988	event	Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister	0
29 Oct 1988	event	2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics	0
29 Oct 1988	event	China announces a herbal male contraceptive	0
29 Oct 1988	event	Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi	0
29 Oct 1988	event	Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)	0
30 Oct 1988	event	Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship	0
30 Oct 1988	event	New York Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time	0
30 Oct 1988	event	2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot	0
30 Oct 1988	event	Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi	0
31 Oct 1988	event	1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23	0
31 Oct 1988	event	Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia	0
01 Nov 1988	event	Actor Jeff Goldblum and actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas	0
01 Nov 1988	event	Chris Sabo, wins NL Rookie of Year award	0
01 Nov 1988	event	Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones	0
02 Nov 1988	event	1st Mrs America beauty pageant	0
02 Nov 1988	event	Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities	0
02 Nov 1988	event	Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash	0
02 Nov 1988	event	Walt Weiss wins AL rookie of year (3rd straight for Oakland Athletics)	0
02 Nov 1988	event	The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.	0
03 Nov 1988	event	Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane	0
03 Nov 1988	event	Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill	0
03 Nov 1988	event	Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew	0
03 Nov 1988	event	Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.	0
04 Nov 1988	event	1st NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum - Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93	0
05 Nov 1988	event	1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to LA Clippers	0
05 Nov 1988	event	1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers	0
05 Nov 1988	event	1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85	0
05 Nov 1988	event	Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage	0
05 Nov 1988	event	Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)	0
06 Nov 1988	event	19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20	0
06 Nov 1988	event	Japan and MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)	0
06 Nov 1988	event	Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic	0
07 Nov 1988	event	MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)	0
08 Nov 1988	event	900 die as earthquake hits China	0
08 Nov 1988	event	Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75	0
08 Nov 1988	event	George Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency	0
09 Nov 1988	event	"Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4 performances	0
09 Nov 1988	event	MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)	0
10 Nov 1988	event	Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award	0
10 Nov 1988	event	China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938	0
10 Nov 1988	event	MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7)	0
10 Nov 1988	event	NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes	0
10 Nov 1988	event	Orel Hershiser wins NL Cy Young award unanimously	0
11 Nov 1988	event	Oldest known insect fossils (390 million years) reported in Science	0
12 Nov 1988	event	Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)	0
15 Nov 1988	event	Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award	0
15 Nov 1988	event	91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses	0
15 Nov 1988	event	PLO proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence	0
15 Nov 1988	event	Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)	0
16 Nov 1988	event	Jose Canseco is 1st unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson	0
16 Nov 1988	event	Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years	0
16 Nov 1988	event	Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs	0
16 Nov 1988	event	Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel	0
17 Nov 1988	event	Linda Petursdottir of Iceland, 18, crowned 38th Miss World	0
17 Nov 1988	event	Benzir Bhutto wins election in Pakistan	0
19 Nov 1988	event	LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays	0
20 Nov 1988	event	"Les Miserables, " opens a Bus and Truck tour in Tampa	0
23 Nov 1988	event	South Africa: Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six	0
23 Nov 1988	event	Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal	0
23 Nov 1988	event	Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract	0
25 Nov 1988	event	US and Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya wed	0
25 Nov 1988	event	Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges	0
25 Nov 1988	event	Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed	0
25 Nov 1988	event	Widespread earthquake hits NE US, Canada; no damage reported	0
26 Nov 1988	event	Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch	0
26 Nov 1988	event	Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)	0
27 Nov 1988	event	76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21	0
28 Nov 1988	event	Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million	0
30 Nov 1988	event	New York City furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase	0
30 Nov 1988	event	Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed	0
30 Nov 1988	event	Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 years	0
30 Nov 1988	event	UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa	0
01 Dec 1988	event	596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless	0
01 Dec 1988	event	Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Moslem country (Pakistan)	0
01 Dec 1988	event	Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow	0
01 Dec 1988	event	NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics	0
01 Dec 1988	event	New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs. St. Louis Blues	0
01 Dec 1988	event	Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.	0
02 Dec 1988	event	5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel	0
02 Dec 1988	event	STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)	0
02 Dec 1988	event	UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Britain abstains	0
02 Dec 1988	event	Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.	0
03 Dec 1988	event	54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)	0
03 Dec 1988	event	New York Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)	0
04 Dec 1988	event	Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash	0
04 Dec 1988	event	Amy Benz / John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic	0
04 Dec 1988	event	Orioles trade veteran 1B Eddie Murray to the Dodgers	0
05 Dec 1988	event	NC federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy	0
06 Dec 1988	event	Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Baltimore Orioles	0
06 Dec 1988	event	Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden	0
06 Dec 1988	event	Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets vs. WI at the WACA but Australia lose	0
06 Dec 1988	event	Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)	0
06 Dec 1988	event	Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Cape Town	0
06 Dec 1988	event	STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission	0
06 Dec 1988	event	The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.	0
07 Dec 1988	event	6.9 earthquake in Armenia, Spitak destroyed, 60,000 killed	0
07 Dec 1988	event	Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)	0
07 Dec 1988	event	Earthquake in Armenia (more than 25,000 killed, 5,000,000 homeless)	0
07 Dec 1988	event	Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN	0
07 Dec 1988	event	Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St. crowds upon arrival in New York City	0
07 Dec 1988	event	New York Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach	0
07 Dec 1988	event	Rangers sign free-agent pitcher Nolan Ryan to a one-year contract	0
07 Dec 1988	event	Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000.	0
07 Dec 1988	event	Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.	0
08 Dec 1988	event	A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.	0
09 Dec 1988	event	New York Yankees sign 12-year television contract with Madison Square Garden for $500M	0
09 Dec 1988	event	The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.	0
10 Dec 1988	event	Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs. Montreal Canadiens	0
10 Dec 1988	event	Massive Earthquake in Armenia kills 100,000 in cities of Leninakan & Spitak	0
12 Dec 1988	event	New York City Subway system adds new stations (Z line)	0
12 Dec 1988	event	The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.	0
12 Dec 1988	event	Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment	0
12 Dec 1988	event	3 trains collide in London, 40 die	0
12 Dec 1988	event	PLO leader Yasser Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist	0
13 Dec 1988	event	PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.	0
13 Dec 1988	event	3 men end 29-hour all-466-station subway ride in New York NY	0
13 Dec 1988	event	Yasser Arafat addresses UN in Geneva	0
14 Dec 1988	event	The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.	0
14 Dec 1988	event	CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights	0
14 Dec 1988	event	NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 losses	0
14 Dec 1988	event	Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures	0
14 Dec 1988	event	US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Organization (1st time in 13 years)	0
15 Dec 1988	event	Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks	0
16 Dec 1988	event	Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud	0
17 Dec 1988	event	Bryan Murray becomes the 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Washington Capitals)	0
17 Dec 1988	event	New York Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2	0
17 Dec 1988	event	USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned	0
17 Dec 1988	event	77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)	0
17 Dec 1988	event	USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR	0
18 Dec 1988	event	5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs	0
18 Dec 1988	event	Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record	0
19 Dec 1988	event	NASA unveils plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars	0
19 Dec 1988	event	Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation	0
19 Dec 1988	event	Unexploded WWII bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated	0
20 Dec 1988	event	The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna, Austria.	0
20 Dec 1988	event	Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London	0
20 Dec 1988	event	NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years	0
20 Dec 1988	event	Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka	0
21 Dec 1988	event	New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die	0
21 Dec 1988	event	A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.	0
21 Dec 1988	event	Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine	0
21 Dec 1988	event	New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet (Flight 103) explodes over Scotland, killing all 259 people on the plane and 11 people on the ground	0
21 Dec 1988	event	Vladimir Titov, Anatoly Levchenko & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien	0
22 Dec 1988	event	Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast	0
22 Dec 1988	event	Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.	0
22 Dec 1988	event	2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey	0
22 Dec 1988	event	South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa	0
22 Dec 1988	event	Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 miles of Western Australia & British Columbia coast	0
26 Dec 1988	event	"Legs Diamond" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances	0
26 Dec 1988	event	Anti African student rebellion in China PR	0
26 Dec 1988	event	"Legs Diamond" starring Peter Allen prenieres at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 64 performances	0
26 Dec 1988	event	Anti African student rebellion in China People's Republic	0
27 Dec 1988	event	Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades	0
28 Dec 1988	event	US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism	0
28 Dec 1988	event	John Tarrant, 1st Australian born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission	0
28 Dec 1988	event	USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR	0
29 Dec 1988	event	Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum	0
29 Dec 1988	event	Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes	0
30 Dec 1988	event	Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US	0
30 Dec 1988	event	Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-year (bribery)	0
30 Dec 1988	event	Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard	0
30 Dec 1988	event	North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial	0
30 Dec 1988	event	Yugoslav government resigns	0