Historical Events In 1988

Oct 19 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members

Oct 19 S Afr anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize

Oct 13 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest

Oct 08 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage

Oct 29 Soviets 1st scheduled shuttle launch (postponed)

Oct 05 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism

Oct 14 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment

Oct 01 Robert Englund the actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth

Oct 26 US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK

Oct 02 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens

Oct 17 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft

Oct 07 Latvian flag raised in Riga for First time since annexation by USSR

Oct 31 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia

Oct 26 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service

Jul 24 US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup

Jul 03 US warship in the Gulf accidently shoots down Iranian airliner

Jul 29 Last US Playboy Club (Lansing Mich) closes sigh

Jul 11 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor

Jul 14 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorp of Nagorno-Karabak

Jul 22 Luigi Lucioni Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87

Jul 17 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 100m woman's record (10.49)

Jul 03 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290

Jul 31 Miami Dolphins beat SF 49ers 27-21 in London

Jul 08 Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992

Jul 09 Barbara Woodhouse dog trainer, dies at 78 of a stroke

Jul 16 Michael J Fox marries Tracy Pollan

Jul 28 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for first visit in 21 years

Jul 17 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103ø F (39ø C)

Jul 28 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank

Jul 29 Gorbachev pushes plan electing president & parliament in March, 1989

Jul 16 Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton

Jul 03 Gabe Dell actor, dies at 68 of leukemia

Jul 28 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa destroyed by arson

Jul 16 Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds

Jul 23 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton (CFL)

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