Historical Events In 1988

Nov 25 Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve NYC assault charges

Nov 23 South Africa: Botha reprieves Sharpeville Six

Nov 03 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane

Nov 11 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million years) reported in Science

Nov 03 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping

Sep 19 Israel launches first satellite, for secret military reconnaissance

Sep 16 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series

Sep 21 Mike Tyson threatens a TV reporter in NJ

Sep 03 Heidi Ittermann was born!

Sep 07 Security &Exchange Comm accuses Drexel of violating security laws

Sep 12 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica

Sep 30 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer

Sep 26 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test

Sep 10 Steffi Graf wins US Open, 1st woman Grand Slam since Court (1970)

Sep 05 Jerry Lewis' 23rd Labor Day telethon raises record $41,132,113

Sep 15 Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics

Sep 22 South Korean coaches attack the New Zealand referee after disputing his decision, the Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in

Sep 06 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard

Sep 24 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected first woman Episcopal bishop

Sep 27 Lab tests reportedly show Shroud of Turin not Christ`s burial cloth

Sep 04 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY

Sep 09 US swamps New Zealand at 27th America`s Cup NZ set to appeal

Sep 24 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec

Sep 07 Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito &Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame

Sep 02 Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley

Sep 28 Bronx Museum for the Arts opens

Sep 26 US space shuttle STS-26 launched

Sep 27 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes

Sep 27 Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story

Sep 09 US swamps New Zealand at 27th America`s Cup: NZ set to appeal

Sep 25 Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s

Sep 13 Hurricane Gilbert becomes strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane in Western Hemisphere

Sep 30 Andrei A Gromyko retires

Sep 07 NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychatrist

Sep 26 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM

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