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.