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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