Jan 30 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident

Jan 14 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris

Jan 29 Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-point loss since October 1987; index at 2,256.43

Jan 26 AT&T reports first loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988

Jan 17 Murden & Metz are first women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)

Jan 07 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan

Jan 27 German war criminals Fischer &Austrian der Fünten freed

Jan 01 Year of the Young Reader begins

Jan 07 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris

Jan 04 Aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F. Kennedy shoot down 2 hostile Libyan Migs.

Jan 07 British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway

Jan 09 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS

Jan 12 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)

Jan 18 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Jan 04 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion

Jan 27 German war criminals Fischer &Austrian der Fünten freed

Jan 04 Aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F. Kennedy shoot down 2 hostile Libyan Migs.

Jan 17 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded

Jan 04 Two Libyan jets are shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen

Jan 18 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988

Jan 07 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris

Jan 18 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey

Jan 01 New York City NY transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15

Jan 29 Orlando Arena opens

Jan 09 Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Jan 21 In St John's Newfoundland Tory Brian Peckford resigns after 10 years as Newfoundland Premier; replaced by Clyde Wells after election

Jan 23 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court

Jan 27 Oklahoma's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Oklahoma grad student

Jan 03 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its first commercial advertisement

Jan 05 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test

Jan 08 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die

Jan 17 Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach

Jan 28 46th Golden Globes Rain Man, Working Girl

Jan 05 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test

Jan 17 Murden & Metz are first women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)

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