Historical Events in 1988 (Part 2)

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• Apr 24 NFL Draft: Auburn tight end Aundray Bruce first pick by Atlanta Falcons
• Apr 25 American news program "Nightline" goes on location to Jerusalem Israel
• Apr 25 John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), Nazi concentration camp guard, sentenced to death in Jerusalem

• Apr 25 NASA launches space vehicle S-211

• Apr 26 NBA approves addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season

• Apr 28 Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight; kills stewardess
• Apr 28 Baltimore Orioles lose AL record 21 games in a row
• Apr 28 NJ Devils set all time playoff mark for penalty minutes
• Apr 29 Baltimore Orioles end their record 21-game losing streak by beating the White Sox 9-0
• Apr 29 Orioles beat White Sox 9-0 for 1st 1988 win after 21 loses
• Apr 30 NJ Devils beat Caps 3-2 taking 7th game of Patrick Division final
• Apr 30 NY Knights 1st arena football game beats Cobras 60-52 (10,157 in LA)

• Apr 30 The then largest banana split ever, at 4.5 miles long, is made along Market Street in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
• Apr 30 World Exposition, Expo 88 opens in Brisbane Australia

• May 1 Two IRA attacks in and near Roermond, Netherlands, kills 3 British servicemen and wounds 3 more
• May 2 Baltimore Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Baltimore and get a new park

• May 3 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
• May 3 Jasper Johns' painting "Diver" sells for $4,200,000
• May 4 PEPCON chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada explodes killing 2 and injuring 372 causing damage within 10-mile (16 km) radius
• May 4 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• May 5 Eugene A. Marino installed as 1st African American Catholic archbishop, in Atlanta, Georgia
• May 6 Doughnutgate incident: NJ Devils' coach Jim Schoenfeld tells referee Don Koharski to 'eat another doughnut you fat pig!,' he is suspended
• May 6 Graeme Hick scores 405 for Worcs v Somerset 35 fours 11 sixes
• May 7 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• May 8 Amateur referees work NJ Devil-Boston Bruin playoff games, as NHL referees walk-off, due to a restraining order brought by Devils

• May 9 Belgium: 8th government of Martens forms

• May 11 France performs nuclear test
• May 14 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
• May 14 Carrollton bus collision: a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
• May 15 The Soviet Union begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan
• May 16 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
• May 16 US Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
• May 18 In just Oakland's 39th of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks record with his 12th balk en route to 16
• May 19 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US

• May 20 Howard Stern fans disrupt rival radio station WMMR's & DJ John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• May 21 "Da'Butt" by EU hits #35
• May 21 New building for the National Gallery of Canada, designed by Moshe Safdie, opens in Ottawa, Ontario [1]
• May 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• May 22 Károly Grósz succeeds party leader Janos Kádár in Hungary
• May 23 41st Cannes Film Festival: "Pelle erobreren" directed by Bille August wins the Palme d'Or
• May 23 Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
• May 24 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
• May 24 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
• May 24 Section 28 passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality. Repealed 2001/2004
• May 26 Stanley Cup Final, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton, AL: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 6-3 for 4 game series sweep
• May 27 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
• May 29 Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season
• May 29 Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq dismisses government and disbands parliament
• Jun 1 "Morton Downey Jr Show" debuts in TV syndication
• Jun 1 Train crash kills two in Zeeland, Netherlands
• Jun 2 61st National Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
• Jun 2 Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile

• Jun 4 42nd Tony Awards: "M. Butterfly" (play) and "The Phantom of the Opera" (musical) win
• Jun 4 Longest game in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (5:46) 14 inn (beat NY 7-6)

• Jun 5 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
• Jun 5 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone
• Jun 5 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY
• Jun 5 Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its 1,000th anniversary
• Jun 6 3 giant turtles found in Bronx sewage plant
• Jun 6 George H. W. Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II to Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)
• Jun 7 Aluminum contaminates Cornwall's water supply
• Jun 8 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
• Jun 9 "Bloodsport (1987)" premieres in Germany

• Jun 10 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
• Jun 11 "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3
• Jun 11 "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61

• Jun 11 Galina Chistyakova of USSR sets long jump woman's record (24"8½")
• Jun 11 NY Yankees Rick Rhoden becomes first pitcher since AL's adoption of the rule in 1973 to DH (0 for 1 with an RBI) in an 8–6 victory over Baltimore Orioles
• Jun 12 Andy Hampton is 1st American to win Round of Italy

• Jun 12 The Republic of Ireland beats England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a headed goal by Ray Houghton. This is Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament.
• Jun 13 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win AL East
• Jun 13 Fed jury finds Liggett liable in death of NJ woman of lung cancer

• Jun 13 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
• Jun 14 "Guy" debut album by Guy is released

• Jun 15 NASA launches space vehicle S-213
• Jun 15 Turkish premier Özal meets Greek premier Papandreou in Athens
• Jun 16 Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
• Jun 16 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
• Jun 17 Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
• Jun 17 Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
• Jun 17 Soyuz TM-5 launches
• Jun 17 Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
• Jun 18 Jeff Hamilton, hits 8,000th Dodger home run
• Jun 19 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
• Jun 19 Namphy takes control of Haitian government
• Jun 19 World's then largest sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
• Jun 20 Coup in Haiti: Henri Namphy overthrows Leslie Manigat, general assembly dissolved
• Jun 20 NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils
• Jun 20 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
• Jun 20 Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities
• Jun 21 American rock band The Rascals begin their 1st tour in 20 years

• Jun 23 Charlotte Hornets & Miami Heat begin their NBA expansion draft

• Jun 24 Cleveland pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
• Jun 24 Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
• Jun 25 104°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in June
• Jun 25 Expos Pitcher Floyd Youmans suspended for 60 days due to drugs
• Jun 25 Kristen Logan, 17, of Mississippi, crowned America's Junior Miss

• Jun 25 Roger Rabbit Cartoon Character debuts in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
• Jun 27 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
• Jun 27 Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning
• Jun 28 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton

• Jun 30 Chicago agrees to build a new stadium so White Sox won't move to Florida
• Jun 30 French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church
• Jun 30 Sitcom "Sledge Hammer!" last airs on ABC-TV
• Jul 1 In New Zealand, Bastion Point land returned to the local Maori iwi (tribe), Ngāti Whātua
• Jul 2 Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonate a car bomb by remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa
• Jul 3 Gene Nelson of the Oakland A's becomes first AL pitcher to steal a base since 1973 in 9-8 win over Toronto Blue Jays

• Jul 3 US Vincennes in Strait of Hormoez shoots Iran Airbus A300, kills 290

• Jul 4 US Navy shoots down Iranian civilian jetliner over Gulf, kills 290
• Jul 5 Wist Indies cricket paceman Malcolm Marshall takes career best 7-22, beat England by an innings & 156 at Old Trafford
• Jul 6 "Piper Alpha" oil drilling platform explosion kills 167 in the North Sea about 190 km (120 miles) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland; rig operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited, explodes, 167 die
• Jul 6 Carlos Salinas de Gortari elected President of Mexico
• Jul 7 Five prominent anti-apartheid activists are released in Cape Town, South Africa after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act

• Jul 7 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
• Jul 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Jul 8 American rockers and brothers Chico & Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking charges
• Jul 8 Indians' Bud Black sets club record for most batters hit in inning (3)
• Jul 8 Miami Arena opens in Miami, Florida

• Jul 9 Chris Speier hits for the cycle & Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant HR

• Jul 11 Mike Tyson hires Donald Trump as an advisor
• Jul 12 Margo Adams alleges Red Sox Wade Bogg's had an affair with her
• Jul 12 USSR launches Phobos II for Martian orbit
• Jul 13 Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan

• Jul 14 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak
• Jul 14 Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place

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

• Jul 16 San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
• Jul 17 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute

• Jul 17 Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
• Jul 18 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on cruise ship City of Poros
• Jul 18 Shooting begins on Bond film "License to Kill"

• Jul 21 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
• Jul 21 Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for president
• Jul 22 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
• Jul 23 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
• Jul 24 US and Jamaica play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
• Jul 26 Mike Schmidt sets NL record appearing in 2,155 games at 3rd base, as Phillies & NY Mets end that game at 2:13 AM

• Jul 27 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
• Jul 27 General Sein Lwin succeeds San Yu as the 6th President of Burma
• Jul 27 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
• Jul 28 IBM announces price hike on older models
• Jul 28 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
• Jul 28 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
• Jul 28 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa, destroyed by arson
• Jul 29 Baltimore trades Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling
• Jul 29 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion

• Jul 29 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
• Jul 29 Rick Sutcliffe swipes home, 1st pitcher since Pascual Perez in 1984 to steal home
• Jul 29 South African government bans anti-apartheid film "Cry Freedom"
• Jul 30 ArenaBowl II, Allstate Arena, Rosemount, Illinois: Detroit Drive beats Chicago Bruisers 24-13, Steve Griffin MVP
• Jul 30 Cincinnati Reds pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
• Jul 30 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
• Jul 30 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignty over West Bank to the PLO, hours after dissolving Jordan's House of Representatives [1]
• Jul 30 MLB Pitcher John Franco saves a record 13th game during the month of July
• Jul 30 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
• Jul 31 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia

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