Historical Events In 1988

Feb 13 European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992

Feb 21 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart confesses his sins to his congregation

Feb 15 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 20 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million

Feb 27 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open

Feb 21 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13 48.20)

Feb 29 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations

Feb 28 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed

Feb 06 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

Feb 27 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1

Feb 27 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating

Feb 16 First documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador

Feb 26 Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1 17.65)

Feb 13 15th Winter Olympics games open at Calgary, Canada

Feb 10 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)

Feb 21 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane

Feb 23 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games

Feb 23 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4:11.94)

Feb 14 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected President of Paraguay

Feb 25 South Korea adopts constitution

Feb 27 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34

Feb 08 NASA launches DOD-2

Feb 23 15th Winter Olympics games opens in Calgary, Alberta

Feb 24 Matti Nykanen becomes winter Olympics first triple gold medalist

Feb 29 Mark Greatbatch scores 107 vs England on Test Cricket debut

Feb 24 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF

Feb 20 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Feb 05 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs

Feb 18 Anthony M. Kennedy is sworn in as the 104th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Feb 05 Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

Feb 05 Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham

Feb 13 The 15th Winter Olympics opens in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Feb 23 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4 11.94)

Feb 05 The first prime-time wrestling match in 30 years-Andre the Giant beats Hulk Hogan

Feb 14 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden

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