1988 - Our 25th Anniversary And...

Here are some of the other things that happened in 1988:

• The United Nations set up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• The State of Palestine was proclaimed by Palestinian National Council
• The Piper Alpha offshore drilling platform exploded
• The Pan Am flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 103
• Oliver North was indicted for The Iran Contra affair
• First observance of World AIDS Day
• The Space Shuttle Discovery was launched
• "The Last Emperor" won 9 Academy Awards
• Record of the Year was "Graceland" by Paul Simon 
• Stephen Hawking published " A Brief History Of Time "
• The first major computer virus infected computers connected to the Internet.
• The Hubble Space Telescope was put into operation
•  Super Mario Brothers 2 video game was released in North America
• Average price of a gallon of gas $0.91; average price of a new car $10,400

For more information, see:
http://worldhistoryproject.org/1988 
http://triviafrog.com/?p=719
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1988.html