1988 Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s – 1980s – 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1985 1986 1987 – 1988 – 1989 1990 1991

1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Births
Deaths
Events
Movies released
Hit songs
New books
Images for kids
See also

Births

January 12 – Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer
February 20 – Rihanna, Barbadian singer
February 29 – Lena Gercke, German model
April 29 – Jonathan Toews, Canadian Professional ice hockey player for the Chicago Blackhawks.
July 16 – Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
August 25 – Alexandra Burke, British singer
October 15 – Mesut Oezil, German footballer
November 19 – Patrick Kane, American professional ice hockey for the Chicago Blackhawks
November 25 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010)
December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress

Deaths

January 5 – Pete Maravich, basketball player (b. 1947)
February 1– Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
March 10 – Andy Gibb, singer (b. 1958)
September 1 – Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist (b. 1911)
December 6 – Roy Orbison, singer (b. 1936)

Events

Ankst music label founded.
Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra.
February 13 – Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. He calls his new home "Neverland".
February 17 – A 12-year old Mötley Crüe fan in Florida is badly burned while trying to imitate a stunt in the band's "Live Wire" music video. The boy suffered burns over ten percent of his body. Mötley Crüe issued a statement saying the band's stunts should not be tried at home.
March 12 – Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
April 19 – Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California
July 1 – Quartetto Cetra's last concert.
September 16 – rapper Eazy-E releases his first album Eazy-Duz-It.
November 1 – Bad Religion releases Suffer, which is considered one of the band's best known works in the history of punk music, along with its follow-up No Control, which came out a year later.
Hurricane Gilbert strikes the Caribbean, Mexico and south Texas.
November 24 – Mystery Science Theater 3000 premieres.
December 7 – A powerful earthquake hits Armenia.
December 21 – A Pan-Am airplane explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing more than 270 people.
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at No. 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.

Movies released

The Great Outdoors
Rambo III
Willow
Young Guns
The Thin Blue Line
Die Hard
Cocktail
The Cat Came Back
Twins
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
My Neighbor Totoro
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Hit songs

"Tell It To My Heart" – Taylor Dayne
"New Sensation" – INXS
"I Should Be So Lucky" – Kylie Minogue
"Kokomo" – The Beach Boys
"Don't Worry, Be Happy" – Bobby McFerrin
"Heaven Is A Place On Earth" – Belinda Carlie
"Simply Irristable" – Robert Palmer
"Man in the Mirror" – Michael Jackson
"Get Outta My Dreams (Get Into My Car)" – Billy Ocean
"Anything for You" – Gloria Estefan
"Saved By Love" – Amy Grant
"Lead Me On" – Amy Grant
"Every Rose Has Its Thorn" – Poison
"Never Gonna Give You Up" – Rick Astley
"Look Away" – Chicago
"Johnny B. Goode" – Judas Priest
"One More Try" – George Michael
"Roll With It" – Steve Winwood
"Sweet Child O' Mine" – Guns N' Roses
"Theme from S-Express" – S-Express
"Mountain Song" – Jane's Addiction
"Got My Mind Set On You" – George Harrison
"1-2-3" – Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine
"Forever Young" – Rod Stewart
"Is this Love" – Whitesnake
"I Get Weak" – Belinda Carlisle
"The Promise" – When In Rome
"When You Put Your Heart In It" – Kenny Rogers

New books

Alaska – James A. Michener
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Kiki: Reine de la Montparnasse – Lou Mollgaard
Breathing Lessons – Anne Tyler
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
The Butcher – Alina Reyes
Cabal – Clive Barker
Candlelight Spells – Gerina Dunwich
The Cardinal of the Kremlin – Tom Clancy
Cat's Eye – Margaret Atwood
The Coming of the King – Nikolai Tolstoy
Curriculum (poems) – Grazyna Miller
The Dark Green Tunnel – Allan W. Eckert
The Fifth Child – Doris Lessing
Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch – Alanna Nash
The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker
The Icarus Agenda – Robert Ludlum
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James and his literary circle, 1895-1915 – Miranda Seymour
The Sands of Time – Sidney Sheldon
Scorpius – John Gardner
The Shell Seekers – Rosamunde Pilcher
Sourcery – Terry Pratchett
Tapestry – Belva Plain
Til We Meet Again – Judith Krantz
The Toynbee Convector – Ray Bradbury
Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett
Zoya – Danielle Steel