Timeline of the 80s, 1988

This is a list of important events the occured during 1988. Exact dates are listed when known.

  • CDs outsell vinyl for the first time ever.
  • Soviets leave Afghanistan
  • Jimmy Swaggart admits to being with prostitutes.
  • Summer Olympics in Seoul, South-Korea; Ben Johnson caught for steriods after setting a World Record in the 100 meter dash.
  • Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland; Lybian terrorists are suspected of planting the bomb
  • Earthquake in the USSR
  • Bobby McFerrin tells everyone "Don't worry, be happy"
  • Prozac is introduced as an anti-depresent.
  • US advertising is permitted on Soviet TV
  • The first plutonium pacemaker is made.
  • World's longest undersea tunnel is completed. Work begins on the Chunnel which will then become the world's longest undersea tunnel.
  • Sonny Bono becomes Mayor in Palm Springs.
  • Robin Givens files for divorce from Mike Tyson
  • Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman to head an Islamic nation
  • Willie Horton ads during the '88 re-election
  • Dukakis loses to the "Read My Lips" guy, he's never heard from again.
  • McDonalds in the USSR (might have been 1989)
  • Long Island beaches close due to medical waste coming ashore July 6th.
  • Iran-Iraqi war ends in August.
  • Human Genome project begins.
  • Soviets withdraw from Afghanastan.
  • Australia celebrates it's bicentenary
  • Supreme Court case, California v. Greenwood, tested the Bill of Rights 4th Amendment, addressing search and seizure in trash.
  • Fires in Yellowstone National Park. The rains didn't come when expected but months later.