Roanoke Valley Christian School
Class Of 1988
Fun Facts about 1988
Top 100 Hits of 1988/Top 100 Songs of 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 and the 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 41. Bad Medicine, Bon Jovi 42. Kokomo, Beach Boys 43. I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That, Elton John 44. Together Forever, Rick Astley 45. Monkey, George Michael 46. Devil Inside, INXS 47. Should've Known Better, Richard Marx 48. I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love, Chicago 49. The Loco-Motion, Kylie Minogue 50. What Have I Done To Deserve This?, Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield 51. Make It Real, Jets 52. What's On Your Mind, Information Society 53. Tell It To My Heart, Taylor Dayne 54. Out Of The Blue, Debbie Gibson 55. Don't You Want Me, Jody Watley 56. Desire, U2 57. I Get Weak, Belinda Carlisle 58. Sign Your Name, Terence Trent d'Arby 59. I Want To Be Your Man, Roger 60. Girlfriend, Pebbles 61. Dirty Diana, Michael Jackson 62. 1-2-3, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine 63. Mercedes Boy, Pebbles 64. Perfect World, Huey Lewis and the News 65. New Sensation, INXS 66. Catch Me (I'm Falling), Pretty Poison 67. If It Isn't Love, New Edition 68. Rocket 2 U, Jets 69. One Good Woman, Peter Cetera 70. Don't Be Cruel, Cheap Trick 71. Candle In The Wind, Elton John 72. Everything Your Heart Desires, Daryl Hall and John Oates 73. Say You Will , Foreigner 74. I Want Her, Keith Sweat 75. Pink Cadillac, Natalie Cole 76. Fast Car, Tracy Chapman 77. Electric Blue, Icehouse 78. The Valley Road, Bruce Hornsby and The Range 79. Don't Be Cruel, Bobby Brown 80. Always On My Mind, Pet Shop Boys 81. Piano In The Dark, Brenda Russell Featuring Joe Esposito 82. When It's Love, Van Halen 83. Don't Shed A Tear, Paul Carrack 84. We'll Be Together, Sting 85. I Hate Myself For Loving You, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts 86. I Don't Want To Live Without You, Foreigner 87. Nite And Day, Al B. Sure 88. Don't You Know What The Night Can Do, Steve Winwood 89. One Moment In Time, Whitney Houston 90. Can't Stay Away From You, Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine 91. Kissing A Fool, George Michael 92. Cherry Bomb, John Cougar Mellancamp 93. I Still Believe, Brenda K. Starr 94. I Found Someone, Cher 95. Never Tear Us Apart, INXS 96. Valerie, Steve Windwood 97. Just Like Paradise, David Lee Roth 98. Nothin' But A Good Time, Poison 99. Wait, White Lion 100. Prove Your Love, Taylor Dayne |
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.