January

January 9 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.

January 20 - The first federal Martin Luther King Day, honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing its crew of six astronauts and a schoolteacher.

March 9 - United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The bodies of all seven astronauts were still inside.


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April 14 - 2.2 lb (1 kg) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.

April 26 - In Ukraine, one of the reactors at the Chornobyl (Chernobyl) nuclear plant explodes creating the world's worst nuclear disaster. 31 are killed directly by the incident, many thousands more were exposed to significant amounts of radioactive material, vast territories in Ukraine and Belarus rendered uninhabitable.

May 25 - Hands Across America

June 17 - The Legend of Zelda is release for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Dam....you're old.....

For me..... wait a second.....look at some of that stuff n yours.....

I had no idea they actually found the space shuttle's crew compartment: I am shocked I never knew that...

2.2 pound hail What the fuck....the sky was literally falling... I never heard of that either.....dayyyuuuuummmmm.....

Okay for me now.....

Big News Headlines in 1988

Federal grand juries return indictments against Gen. Manuel Noriega, ruler of Panama, charging that he was aiding drug cartels.

A missile, fired from the U.S. Navy warship Vincennes destroys a commercial Iranian airliner killing all 290 on board.

A Pan-Am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland from a terrorist bomb.

Vice-President George Bush defeats Michael Dukakis to capture the presidency.

Controversial Arizona Governor Evan Mecham is removed from office for financial misdeeds.


My year was boring as helll

Wait...there is more....

February 21 - In the taping of his own television program, televanglist Jimmy Swaggart confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be temporarily leaving the pulpit. The "unspecified sin" was an affair with a prostitute

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.

April 28 - Aloha Flight 243 several yards of its upper fuselage while in flight. Extraordinarily, the craft lands with only one fatality.

August 26 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri ("The terminal man") is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he continues to reside as of October 2005.

November 17 - The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet

December 19 - The Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the sale of lawn darts following the deaths of three children.

January 5 - NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time

January 20 - Bill Clinton starts his second term as President of the United States

February 4 - O. J. Simpson is found in civil court to be liable for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Simpson is ordered to pay $35,000,000 in damages to the families of the two victims

February 9 - The Simpsons surpasses The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series.

March 9 - Rap legend Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles, just six months after the killing of Tupac Shakur.

March 26 - Thirty-nine bodies found in Heaven's Gate cult suicide.

May 2 - Tony Blair appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

June 12 - The United States Department of the Treasury unveils a new $50 bill meant to be more counterfeit-resistant

June 13 - A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to the death penalty for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

June 19 - Fast food chain McDonald's won a partial victory in its libel trial, known as the McLibel case, against two environmental campaigners. The judge decided it was true that McDonald's targeted its advertising at children, who pestered their parents into visiting company's restaurants

August 13 - The animated American TV series South Park is aired.

August 31 - Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car crash in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 the next morning. i remember this . . .

September 6 - The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 1 billion people worldwide.

November 19 - In Carlisle, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive

December 16 - An episode of Pokemon (called Electric Soldier Porygon) in Japan caused 685 children to have epileptic seizures.

I graduated in 2001. Whole buncha shit happened.

meltwithu said:

we must be the same age

Rhondab said:

i've started counting my age in dog years to keep me from crying.

May 27 - Shortly after the graduation ceremonies, Illustrator manages to get to 3rd. base with Suzie Q. behind the high-school yard.
For those who don't think this was a big deal, keep in mind that this was with Suzie Q.!

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, a British colony, resulting in the Falklands War.

First artifical heart transplant.

Israel invades Lebanon.

Italy wins soccer World Cup.