Top 40 Chart List – 1988
1. 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

 
 

Top 10 TV Favorites - 1988
Roseanne
The Cosby Show
A Different World
Cheers

60 Minutes
The Golden Girls
Who's the Boss?
The Wonder Years
Murder She Wrote
Empty Nest 

 

 

 

Top Ten Grossing Movies - 1988
Rain Man
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Coming to America
Big
Twins
Crocodile Dundee II
Die Hard
Cocktail
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Oliver & Company

 

 

Sports

Football
Superbowl XXIII : SAN FRANCISCO 20 - Cincinnati 16

Superbowl MVP:  Jerry Rice
Pro MVP: Boomer Esiason, Cincinnati, QB & Randall Cunningham, Phila, QB

College Football: Notre Dame
Heisman Trophy: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma St., RB
Rose Bowl: Michigan 22, USC 14
Orange Bowl: Miami-FL 23, Nebraska 3
Cotton Bowl: UCLA 17, Arkansas 3
Sugar Bowl: Florida St. 13, Auburn 7
Florida St. 13, Auburn 7

Basketball
NBA Championship
Winner: LA Lakers 4-3 (LWWLLWW) - Coach: Pat Riley
Opposing Team: DETROIT PISTONS - Coach: Chuck Daly

NBA MVP: Michael Jordan, Chicago, G Ave Score: 35

NCAA National Champions: Kansas 27-11 - Coach: Larry Brown

Baseball
World Series
Winner: LA DODGERS 4-1 (WWLWW) - Coach: Tommy Lasorda
Opposing Team: Oakland A's - Coach: Tony La Russa

National League
MVP: Kirk Gibson, LA - OF
Rookie of the Year: Chris Sabo, Cin - C

American League
MVP: Jose Canseco, Oak - OF
Rookie of the Year: Walt Weiss, Oak – SS

 

 

 

ENTERTAINMENT

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction:  Beloved, Toni Morrison

Music:  12 New Etudes for Piano, William Bolcom

Drama:  Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry

Entertainment Awards

Academy Awards
Picture: 1987; “The Last Emperor”  1988;  “Rain Man”

Actor:  1987; Michael Douglas in “Wall Street”  1988; Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man”

Actress:  1987; Cher in “Moonstruck”   1988; Jodie Foster in “The Accused”

Supporting Actor:  1987; Sean Connery in “The Untouchables”   1988; Kevin Kline in “A Fish Called Wanda”

Supporting Actress:  1987; Olympia Dukakis in “Moonstruck”   1988; Geena Davis in “The Accidental Tourist”

Grammys

Record of the Year: 1987; “Graceland,” by Paul Simon    1988;  “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” by  Bobby McFerrin

Album of the Year:  1987; Joshua Tree by U2    1988; Faith by George Michael

Song of the Year: 1987; “Somewhere Out There” by James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil    1988;  “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”  by Bobby McFerrin

Best New Artist:  1987; Jody Watley   1988; Tracy Chapman

 World 

World Events
Population:  5,104 billion (population by decade)

Nobel Peace Prize:  U.N. Peacekeeping Forces

 

U.S and Canada reach free trade agreement on Jan. 2

Terrorists kill nine tourists on Aegean cruise on July 11

Benazir Bhutton, first Islamic woman prime minister, chosen to lead Pakistan

Pan-Am 747 explodes from terrorist bomb and crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland killing all 259 aboard and 11 on ground

U.S. Events
President:  Ronald W. Reagan

Vice President:  George Bush

Population:  244,498,982

Life expectancy:  74.9 years

 

Robert C. McFarlane, former National Security Advisor, pleads guilty in Iran-Contra case

U.S. Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf, mistaking it for a jet fighter

Democratic convention nominates Gov. Michael Dukakis of Mass, for President

Republican convention nominates George Bush for President

Economics
U.S. GDP (1998 dollars):  $5,049.60 billion

Federal Spending:  $1,064.14 billion

Federal Debt:  $2,601.30 billion

Average cost of a new home:  $138,300.00

Average cost of a new car:  $14,065

Median Household Income: $27,225

Cost of a first class stamp:  $0.22 ($0.25 as of 4/3/88)

Cost of a gallon of regular gas:  $1.08

Cost of a dozen eggs:  $0.89

Cost of a gallon of milk:  $2.30

 

Science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry:  Johann Deisendhofer, Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel for unraveling the structure of proteins that play a crucia role in photosynthesis

Physics:  Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger for research that improved the understanding of elementary particles and forces

Physiology or Medicine:  Gertrude B; Elion, George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment

 

 

 Other Fun Filled Facts

Ninety-eight percent of U.S. households have at least one television set

CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time

Ted Turner starts Turner Network Television (TNT) and buys MGM’s film library

George Bush, Sr. is elected President

Miss America is Kaye Lani Rae Rafko of Michigan

The greenhouse effect is discovered

America’s Most Wanted debuts

Prozac is introduced to the public

Sonny Bono becomes the mayor of Palm Springs

MTV Raps debuts

Lionel Richie’s wife was arrested for assaulting Lionel and a model she found him with

Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson get married

“She’s Like the Wind” shows Patrick Swayze can sing as well as dance and act

Salt N’ Pepa get their breakthrough hit with “Push It”

Julia Roberts hits the big screen in her first breakthrough role in “Mystic Pizza”

Spuds Mackenzie becomes the original party animal

Oprah Winfrey is the hottest talk show in America

The new Suzuki Samurai gets a bad reputation for flipping over when it turns corners

Penny Loafers with a penny in them and Levis with the cuffs rolled up were the fashion statements of the year

U2 records Rattle and Hum and then later the documentary

Flying chairs thrown at Geraldo hits him in the nose on his self titled talk show

France and China permit the use of the “morning after” pill

 

The Olympics are held in Seoul, Korea

(Sept. 17-October 2, 1988)

Mascot:  “Hodori” the baby tiger

Participants:  8,391

Participating Nations:  159 

Sports:  23

Events:  237

Medals given out:  741