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This is a list of important events the occured during 1988. Exact dates are listed when known.

CDs outsell vinyl for the first time ever.
Soviets leave Afghanistan
Jimmy Swaggart admits to being with prostitutes.
Summer Olympics in Seoul, South-Korea; Ben Johnson caught for steriods after setting a World Record in the 100 meter dash.
Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland; Lybian terrorists are suspected of planting the bomb
Earthquake in the USSR
Bobby McFerrin tells everyone "Don't worry, be happy"
Prozac is introduced as an anti-depresent.
US advertising is permitted on Soviet TV
The first plutonium pacemaker is made.
World's longest undersea tunnel is completed. Work begins on the Chunnel which will then become the world's longest undersea tunnel.
Sonny Bono becomes Mayor in Palm Springs.
Robin Givens files for divorce from Mike Tyson
Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman to head an Islamic nation
Willie Horton ads during the '88 re-election
Dukakis loses to the "Read My Lips" guy, he's never heard from again.
McDonalds in the USSR (might have been 1989)
Long Island beaches close due to medical waste coming ashore July 6th.
Iran-Iraqi war ends in August.
Human Genome project begins.
Soviets withdraw from Afghanastan.
Australia celebrates it's bicentenary
Supreme Court case, California v. Greenwood, tested the Bill of Rights 4th Amendment, addressing search and seizure in trash.
Fires in Yellowstone National Park. The rains didn't come when expected but months later.