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The U.S. Drought of 1988 causes big crop damage in many states, impacts many portions of the United States and causes around $60 billion in damage. Multiple regions suffer in the conditions. Heat waves cause 4,800 to 17,000 excess deaths while scorching many areas of the United States during 1988.
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January 1: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan exchange hopeful New Year’s greetings that they would reach an arms control treaty on strategic weapons within six months. January 2: Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Minister, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan sign a Canada-United States free trade agreement. January 3: Marga...
February 2: U.S. President Reagan presses his case for aid to the Nicaraguan Contras, in a speech that three major television networks declined to broadcast. February 3: Nurses all over the United Kingdom strike over their pay and funding for the NHS. February 3: U.S. President Ronald Reagan is defeated by the U.S. House of Representatives when the...
March 1: Iran announces that it launched 16 missiles into Tehran. March 1: U.S. President Ronald Reagan arrives in Brussels, Belgium for the first NATO summit in six years. March 6: British SAS officers kill 3 IRA suspects in Gibraltar. March 9: Actress Audrey Hepburn is appointed a UNICEF Special Ambassador. March 10: An avalanche at the Swiss ski...
April 3: U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz arrives in Israel to launch a fresh U.S. peace initiative, telling the Israelis that the Palestinians must be included in negotiations. April 4: Eddie Hill becomes the world’s first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds. April 5: The last broadcast of Crossroads is aired on British tel...
May 1: Two IRA attacks in and near Roermond, Netherlands, result in the deaths of 3 British servicemen and wound 3 more. May 2: Painter Jackson Pollock’s piece Search is sold for $4,800,000. May 2: Three British servicemen, who were off-duty, are killed by the IRA in the Netherlands. May 6: English cricket history is made by Graeme Hick when he sco...
June 2: U.S. President Ronald Reagan visits the U.K. June 3: The film Big directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks premieres in the United States. June 5: The first Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000. June 6: George H. W. Bush makes a campaign promise to support reparations for World War II to Japanese-Americans internees....
July 1: A 4-day national conference of Soviet Communist Party members ended in Moscow, with Mikhail Gorbachev winning approval for important changes. July 4: An Iranian civilian jetliner is shot down over the Gulf by the U.S. Navy, killing 290 people. July 5: The Church of England announces it will allow female priests to be ordained from 1992 onwa...
August 1: In its 8-year-old war with Iraq, Iran says it would honor an immediate ceasefire. August 2: In British soccer, Everton FC quickly break the transfer record set by Paul Gascoigne’s transfer when they pay £2.3 million for 22 year old West Ham United striker Tony Cottee. August 4: In a consumer fraud case, Hertz rental car company agrees to ...
September 8: Two nuclear-missile rockets are destroyed in Karnack, Texas at an army ammunition plant. These two rockets were the first U.S. weapons to be eliminated under an arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union. September 9: The Financial Corporation of America files for bankruptcy with assets of $33.8 billion. September 11: 300,000 people i...
October 8: Pope John Paul II travels to eastern France to address the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights. October 13: Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the first Arabic writer to do so. October 19: Broadcast interviews with members of the IRA are banned in Britain. October 20: ...
Dec 29, 1988 · The U.S. presidential election and the earthquake that devastated Soviet Armenia, killing tens of thousands of people, were the top two news stories of 1988 in a year-end poll of Associated Press member newspaper editors and broadcasters. It was a year in which U.S.-Soviet relations showed a warming trend, capped by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's announcement of a substantial, unilateral cut ...
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Oct 27, 2023 · The year 1988 marked a turning point for the United States, as it embraced materialism and a sense of detachment from tradition. Many would view this as the final straw of the once rose-tinted decade, as things would begin to change drastically in every aspect of the world, with politics, history, and pop culture taking the brunt of the changes.
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Nov 9, 1988 · George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas was elected the 41st President of the United States yesterday. The Vice President fashioned a solid, 6-to-5 victory in the popular vote over Gov. Michael S ...
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Jun 24, 1988 · ''The first five months of 1988 are so warm globally that we conclude that 1988 will be the warmest year on record unless there is a remarkable, improbable cooling in the remainder of the year ...
