1988

• Billy Ocean - “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
• Bobby McFerrin - “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
• Bon Jovi - “Bad Medicine”
• Cheap Trick - “The Flame”
• Expose - “Seasons Change”
• George Harrison -“Got My Mind Set on You
• George Michael - “Father Figure” 
• Guns N’ Roses - “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
• INXS - “Need You Tonight”
• Michael Jackson - “Dirty Diana”
• Michael Jackson - “Man in the Mirror”
• Michael Jackson - “The Way You Make Me Feel”
• Phil Collins - “Groovy Kind of Love”
• Poison - “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
• Richard Marx - “Hold On to the Nights”
• Rick Astley - “Never Gonna Give You Up”
• Rick Astley - “Together Forever”
• Terence Trent D’Arby - “Wishing Well
• The Beach Boys - “Kokomo”
• The Escape Club - “Wild, Wild West”
• Whitney Houston - “So Emotional”
• Will to Power - “Baby, I Love Your Way”

• Rain Man
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Coming to America
• Big
• Twins
• Die Hard
• Cocktail
• Beetlejuice
• The Naked Gun

• The Wonder Years
• America's Most Wanted
• China Beach
• Superman
• Roseanne
• Mission: Impossible
• Murphy Brown

• Magnum, P.I.
• The Facts of Life
• St. Elsewhere
• Punky Brewster
• Dennis the Menace
• The Flinstone Kids
• Cagney and Lacey

• The Cosby Show
• Roseanne
• Cheers
• The Golden Girls
• Who's the Boss?
• Murder, She Wrote
• Growing Pains
• Alf
• Head of the Class
• The Wonder Years
• Dallas

• Rihanna - pop singer, "Diamonds", "We Found Love"
• Stephen Curry - basketball player, star point guard, named NBA MVP in 2015, 2016
• Tyler Joseph - lead vocalist for Twenty One Pilots
• Adele - British singer, "Hello", "Skyfall"
• Vanessa Hudgens - pop singer, actress in movie "High School Musical"; duet "Reminding Me" with Shawn Hook
• Kevin Durant - high-scoring NBA forward 
• Jessie J - pop singer, "Price Tag", "Domino"
• Emma Stone - movie actress, "The Help", La la land", "Easy A"
• Rupert Grint - movie actor, played Ron Weasley in the "Harry Potter" movies
• Claire Holt - TV actress, in "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Originals"
• Julianne Hough - dancer, on "Dancing with the Stars", in "Footloose" (2011)
• Colton Haynes - actor, "Teen Wolf", "Arrow"
• Melissa Benoist - TV actress, in "Supergirl"

• Stephen Hawking publishes "A Brief History of Time"
• first major computer virus infects computers connected to the internet
• US Stealth bomber is unveiled
• anti-depressant Prozac introduced
• laser eye surgery invented
• new drug crack appears (derivative of Cocaine) and is increasingly found in US cities

• boomerang child
• channel surfing
• crop circle
• e-book
• emo
• f-bomb
• gansta
• hyperlink
• JPEG
• mad cow disease
• mosh pit
• MPEG
• road rage
• stress ball
• unibrow

November 8: Incumbent Vice President George H. W. Bush, the Republican nominee, defeated Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. The 1988 election is the only election since 1948 in which either major party won a third straight presidential election. Bush became the first sitting vice president to be elected president since 1836.

September 22 – Prime Minister Brian Mulroney officially apologizes for the World War II internment of Japanese Canadians. Beginning after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and lasting until 1949 (four years after World War II had ended), Canadians of Japanese heritage were removed from their homes and businesses and sent to internment camps in the B.C. interior, and to farms and internment camps across Canada. Japanese Canadians had to move east of the Rocky Mountains or be repatriated to Japan following the end of the war. 

Feb 13-28: This was the first time Canada hosted the Winter Games. The Soviet Union, East Germany, and Switzerland won the most medals with 29, 25, and 15 respectively. Notable moments during these Olympics include the debut of the Jamaican bobsled team that inspired the popular film “Cool Runnings” and the self-taught “Eddie the Eagle” who became the first British ski jumper to compete in the event in 60 years. 

Pan Am Flight 103 was a regularly scheduled transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via London and New York. On December 21, it was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 11 more people on the ground.

When Ben Johnson of Canada and Carl Lewis of America met on the starting line of the men’s 100m final at the Seoul Olympics, It was the most-hyped race in Olympic history, hailed as ‘the race to end all races’. Canada was overjoyed when Johnson won, but 2 days after the race came the news that "stopped the Olympics dead” - Johnson tested positive for steroids and was stripped of his gold medal and world record, sent home in disgrace. 

 Swedish fencer Kerstin Palm became the first woman to take part in seven Olympic Games, and table tennis made its Olympic debut. Tennis also returned to the program after a hiatus of 64 years. The event was open to professionals, and Steffi Graf concluded her Grand Slam tennis season by winning Olympic gold.

Bus disaster near Carrollton, Kentucky: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Ironically, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg, KY 30 years prior.

In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.