Historical Events in 1988 (Part 4)

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• Sep 29 US retain women's basketball title at he Seoul Olympics with a 77-70 win over Yugoslavia; star guard Teresa Edwards top scores for the Americans with 18 points
• Sep 30 Dave Stieb loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th
• Sep 30 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer

• Sep 30 Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal

• Sep 30 Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia 76-63 to win the men's basketball gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; US finishes 3rd; final time US field non-NBA team
• Oct 1 Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko retires as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
• Oct 1 Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens with an exhibition hockey game between Chicago Blackhawks and Edmonton Oilers; construction cost $90 million; closed 2018
• Oct 1 Canadian synchronised swimmer Carolyn Waldo teams with Michelle Cameron to win the duet gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; wraps up double having won individual title

• Oct 1 The inaugural Olympic table tennis program concludes in Seoul with China and South Korea each winning 2 titles
• Oct 1 The Soviet women's 4 x 400m relay team runs world record 3:15.17 to beat a star-studded US team and win the Olympic gold medal in Seoul; Tatyana Ledovskaya, Olga Nazarova, Mariya Pinigina & Olga Bryzgina
• Oct 1 Yuri Savichev scores in extra time as the Soviet Union beats Brazil 2-1 to win the men's football gold medal at the Seoul Olympics

• Oct 2 Gelindo Bordin of Italy wins the men's marathon in 2:10:32 at the Seoul Olympics; beats world champion Douglas Wakiihuri of Kenya by 15 seconds
• Oct 2 In a season ending 7-5 win in St. Louis, NY Mets' outfielder Kevin McReynolds establishes a MLB record swiping 21 bases without being caught stealing during the season
• Oct 2 Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his mansion in Bernardsville, NJ, during a domestic dispute
• Oct 2 Minnesota Twins total 3,030,672 in attendance at Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome; first AL club ever to break 3 million in a MLB season
• Oct 2 New Zealand horseman Mark Todd wins individual eventing gold medal aboard Charisma at the Seoul Olympics; his 2nd consecutive gold after winning in 1984
• Oct 2 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
• Oct 2 South Korean light middleweight boxer Park Si-hun is controversially awarded the Seoul Olympic gold medal after appearing well beaten by future 4 weight class world champion Roy Jones Jr
• Oct 3 26th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-day excursion
• Oct 3 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC
• Oct 3 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
• Oct 3 WBMW-FM, Washington, D.C. changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
• Oct 4 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
• Oct 5 Brazil adopts its Constitution

• Oct 5 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
• Oct 6 Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
• Oct 7 Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
• Oct 7 Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR
• Oct 7 Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
• Oct 7 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)

• Oct 8 Fire in the Space Needle causes evacuation and results in damages of $2,000 in Seattle, Washington
• Oct 8 Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
• Oct 9 17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium
• Oct 9 Dennis Eckersley, 1st to save all 4 games in a championship series
• Oct 10 NBC premieres tele-biopic, "Winnie", starring Meredith Baxter and based on life of [Gwyanna] Winifred Sprockett

• Oct 12 Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations

• Oct 13 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary festival
• Oct 13 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
• Oct 13 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 14 Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16
• Oct 14 Naguib Mahfouz is the 1st Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Oct 14 NJ Devils raise their 1st pennant by winning the Patrick Division Playoff Championship
• Oct 15 Amnesty International's "Human Rights Now!" Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Oct 15 NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)
• Oct 16 "Smile Jamaica" concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
• Oct 17 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
• Oct 17 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of NY Yankees
• Oct 17 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
• Oct 17 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft

• Oct 18 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
• Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Oct 19 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
• Oct 19 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
• Oct 19 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
• Oct 19 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
• Oct 19 South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
• Oct 19 US Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows
• Oct 20 Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
• Oct 20 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
• Oct 20 Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
• Oct 20 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
• Oct 21 Bat*21, an American war film, is released
• Oct 21 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid

• Oct 23 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid

• Oct 24 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
• Oct 25 ABC News reports on potbellied pygmy pigs' popularity as pets
• Oct 25 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

• Oct 26 US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
• Oct 27 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
• Oct 28 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister

• Oct 29 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
• Oct 29 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
• Oct 29 First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
• Oct 29 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
• Oct 30 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot

• Oct 30 Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
• Oct 30 NY Jets finally beat Pittsburgh Steelers for 1st time
• Oct 31 19°F lowest October temperature ever recorded in Cleveland, Ohio
• Oct 31 First Monday Night NFL game played in Indianapolis; Colts beat Denver Broncos, 55-23
• Oct 31 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
• Nov 1 Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones

• Nov 2 Mexican radio station erroneously reports Mike Tyson had died in car crash
• Nov 2 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain mainstream media attention is launched from MIT, strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and six universities
• Nov 3 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane

• Nov 3 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
• Nov 3 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
• Nov 4 First NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum - Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93
• Nov 5 "Kokomo" single by The Beach Boys from the film "Cocktail" goes to #1
• Nov 5 "Kokomo", single by the Beach Boys from the film "Cocktail" tops the charts, their first hit in 20 years, and to date their latest
• Nov 5 1st NBA game at Bradley Center, Milw Bucks lose to Atlnata Hawks 94-107
• Nov 5 1st NBA game at Miami Arena, Miami Heat loss to LA Clippers, 111-91
• Nov 5 1st NBA game at Palace of Auburn Hills, Pistons beat Hornets 94-85
• Nov 5 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
• Nov 5 France performs nuclear test
• Nov 5 Gulch wins Breeder's Cup
• Nov 5 Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
• Nov 6 Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)

• Nov 7 MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)

• Nov 8 900 die as earthquake hits China
• Nov 8 Arco Arena in Sacramento, California, opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75

• Nov 8 Rafael Fernandez Colón re-elected Governor of Puerto Rico
• Nov 8 Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis
• Nov 9 MLB All-Star team beat Japan 8-2 in Nishinomya, (Game 4 of 7)
• Nov 10 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
• Nov 10 MLB All-Star team beats Japan 3-1 in Tokyo (Game 5 of 7)
• Nov 10 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes

• Nov 11 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
• Nov 12 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
• Nov 12 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Nov 13 Brazilian McLaren driver Ayrton Senna finishes 2nd in the season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide to win his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins title by 3 points from Alain Prost
• Nov 14 Sitcom "Murphy Brown" starring Candice Bergen premieres on CBS
• Nov 15 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapses
• Nov 15 Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
• Nov 15 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
• Nov 15 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• Nov 16 Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs

• Nov 16 President Reagan meets with Jerusalem's mayor Teddy Kollek
• Nov 16 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel

• Nov 20 Boston College beats Army 38-24 in the 'Emerald isle Classic' at Dublin's Lansdowne Road Stadium, the first NCAA American Football game to be played in Europe
• Nov 23 France performs nuclear test
• Nov 23 President Reagan announces that he is pocket-vetoing a bill designed to further restrict lobbying by former federal employees.

• Nov 23 Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract
• Nov 25 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
• Nov 25 German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.

• Nov 25 US & Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson & Akhmilovskaya wed
• Nov 25 Widespread earthquake hits North East US, Canada, no damage reported
• Nov 26 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
• Nov 26 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)

• Nov 30 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
• Nov 30 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
• Nov 30 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
• Nov 30 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
• Nov 30 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
• Nov 30 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
• Dec 1 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
• Dec 1 Benazir Bhutto named Prime Minister of Pakistan, the 1st female leader of a Muslim country
• Dec 1 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
• Dec 1 First World AIDS day to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic
• Dec 1 NBC bids a record $401 million to capture television broadcasting rights for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games

• Dec 2 "Naked Gun" movie based on TV's "Police Squad" premieres
• Dec 2 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet surrender in Israel
• Dec 2 ESPN airs its 10,000th edition of 'Sports Center', making it the most televised cable program in history
• Dec 2 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
• Dec 2 UN votes 151-2 (Israel and US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Great Britain abstains
• Dec 3 54th Heisman Trophy Award: Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State (RB)
• Dec 3 NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
• Dec 4 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
• Dec 4 Edmonton center Jimmy Carson becomes just the third player to score 6 NHL hat tricks before the age of 21 in the Oilers 10-6 win over the New York Rangers

• Dec 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• Dec 5 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
• Dec 6 Agnes Neil Williams purchases Baltimore Orioles for $70 million Eli Jacobs becomes CEO of Baltimore Orioles
• Dec 6 Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela
• Dec 6 Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose
• Dec 6 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)

• Dec 6 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission

• Dec 7 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia kills 25,000-50,000 people and leaves up to 500,000 homeless
• Dec 7 American visual artist Chuck Close (48) suffers a spinal artery collapse leaving him paralyzed from the neck down
• Dec 7 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
• Dec 7 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC

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