Fun Facts from 1988
Do You Remember These?
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Top 40 Chart List - 19881. Faith - George Michael
2. Need You Tonight - INXS
3. Got My Mind Set On You - George Harrison
4. Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
5. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses
6. So Emotional - Whitney Houston
7. Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle
8. Could've Been - Tiffany
9. Hands To Heaven - Breathe
10. Roll With It - Steve Winwood
11. One More Try - George Michael
12. Wishing Well - Terence Trent d'Arby
13. Anything For You - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
14. The Flame - Cheap Trick
15. Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car - Billy Ocean
16. Seasons Change - Expose
17. Is This Love - Whitesnake
18. Wild Wild West - Escape Club
19. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
20. I'll Always Love You - Taylor Dayne
21. Man In The Mirror - Michael Jackson
22. Shake Your Love - Debbie Gibson
23. Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
24. Hold On To The Nights - Richard Marx
25. Hungry Eyes - Eric Carnen
26. Shattered Dreams - Johnny Hates Jazz
27. Father Figure - George Michael
28. Naught Girls (Need Love Too) - Samantha Fox
29. A Groovy Kind Of Love - Phil Collins
30. Love Bites - Def Leppard
31. Endless Summer Nights - Richard Marx
32. Foolish Beat - Debbie Gibson
33. Where Do Broken Hearts Go - Whitney Houston
34. Angel - Aerosmith
35. Hazy Shade Of Winter - Bangles
36. The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson
37. Don't Worry - Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
38. Make Me Lose Control - Eric Carnen
39. Red Red Wine - UB40
40. She's Like The Wind - Patric Swayze
Go ahead. You know you want to sing.
| 1988 Prices | US President | |||||||||||||
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| Bread: | $0.61/loaf | Ronald Reagan | ||||||||||||
| Milk: | $2.00/gal | US Vice President | ||||||||||||
| Eggs: | $1.13/doz | George Bush | ||||||||||||
| Car: | $14,065 | Academy Award Winners | ||||||||||||
| Gas: | $0.96/gal |
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| House: | $138,300 | |||||||||||||
| Stamp: | $0.25/ea | |||||||||||||
| Avg Income: | $38,608/yr | |||||||||||||
| Min Wage: | $3.35/hr | |||||||||||||
| DOW Avg: | 2,169 | |||||||||||||
I want to go back just to get some gas. Are you serious!!!!
Top Ten Grossing Movies for 1988
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Rain Man |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
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# 3
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Coming to America |
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# 4
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Big |
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# 5
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Twins |
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# 6
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Crocodile Dundee II |
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# 7
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Die Hard |
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# 8
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Cocktail |
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# 9
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! |
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# 10
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Oliver & Company |
How many of these did you go see back then?
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Awwww Peg, do I gotta?
Other Trivial Facts from 1988
| February 21, 1988 | In one of the most memorable moments of the Awesome80s, Jimmy Swaggart tearfully claimed, "I have sinned against you" in a scripted program designed to elicit sympathy from his followers after it is revealed that the TV minister had been hooking up with hookers. |
| February 24, 1988 | Jerry Falwell's attempts to win $200,000 from Hustler magazine over a cartoon ended in failure when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a lower court's judgment on free speech grounds. |
| March 16, 1988 | Iran-Contra defendants John Poindexter and Oliver North are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. |
| April 4, 1988 | Arizona Governor Evan Mecham is removed from office following impeachment (and a voter-lead recall) for diversion of state money and for generally embarrassing residents of the state nearly every time he opened his mouth. |
| April 14, 1988 | Soviet Union announces it will withdraw troops from Afghanistan, which will end the nine year old conflict. |
| June 28, 1988 | The Defense Attache of the U.S. Embassy in Greece was killed when a car bomb was detonated outside his home in Athens. |
| July 3, 1988 | The Navy's U.S.S. Vincennes mistakenly shoots down an Iranian airliner killing 290 people. |
| July 6, 1988 | Long Island beaches close due to medical waste coming ashore. |
| August 1988 | Iran-Iraqi war ends. |
| August 20, 1988 | Fires in Yellowstone National Park burn over 160,000 acres in one day. |
| September 10-17, 1988 | Hurricane Gilbert in the Caribbean & Gulf of Mexico leaves 260 dead. |
| September 27, 1988 | Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is stripped of his gold medal after testing positive for banned steroids. |
| September 29, 1988 | NASA resumes Space Shuttle flights, which have been grounded since the Challenger disaster. |
| November 8, 1988 | George Bush Sr. wins the presidency by a comfortable margin over Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis. |
| November 15, 1988 | First and only flight of the Soviet space shuttle. |
| December 7, 1988 | An earthquake in Armenia leaves over 25,000 dead. |
| December 21, 1988 | Pan American Airlines Flight 103 was blown up over Lockerbie, Scotland, by a bomb believed to have been placed on the aircraft in Frankfurt, West Germany, by Libyan terrorists. All 259 people on board were killed in addition to 11 on the ground. |
| 1988 No Specific Dates | - CDs outsell vinyl for the first time ever. - Summer Olympics in Seoul, South-Korea; Ben Johnson caught for steroids after setting a World Record in the 100 meter dash. - US advertising is permitted on Soviet TV. - The first plutonium pacemaker is made. - Sonny Bono becomes Mayor in Palm Springs. - Robin Givens files for divorce from Mike Tyson. |
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Yes Master Splinter, we understand!