Interesting Facts

Top News Stories from 1988

World Events

World Statistics

Population: 4.378 billion

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize: U.N. Peacekeeping Forces

U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

President: Ronald W. Reagan

Vice President: George Bush

Population: 244,498,982

Life expectancy: 74.9 years

Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 56.6

Property Crime Rate (per 1,000) 50.3

 

Economics

US GDP (1998 dollars): $5,049.60 billion

Federal spending: $1064.14 billion

Federal debt $2601.3 billion

Median Household Income(current dollars): $27,225 billion

Consumer Price Index: $118.3

Unemployment: 5.5%

Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.22 ($0.25 as of 4/3/88)

Sports

Sports Links

Super Bowl

Washington d. Denver

World Series

LA Dodgers d. Oakland A's (4-1)

NBA Championship

LA Lakers d. Detroit Pistons

Stanley Cup

Edmonton d. Boston

Wimbledon

Women: Steffi Graf d. M. Navratilova (5-7 6-2 6-1)
Men: Stefan Edberg d. B. Becker (4-6 7-6 6-4 6-2)

Kentucky Derby Champion

Winning Colors

NCAA Basketball Championship

Kansas d. Oklahoma

NCAA Football Champions

Notre Dame (12-0-0) 1988 Summer Olympics

Entertainment

Entertainment Awards

Pulitzer Prizes

Fiction: Beloved, Toni Morrison

Music: 12 New Etudes for Piano, William Bolcom

Drama: Driving Miss Daisy, Alfred Uhry

Academy Award, Best Picture: The Last Emperor, Jeremy Thomas, producer (Columbia)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)

Record of the Year: "Graceland," Paul Simon

Album of the Year: Joshua Tree, U2 (Island)

Song of the Year: "Somewhere Out There," James Horner, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, songwriters

Miss America: Kaye Lani Rae Rafko (MI)

Events

  • Ninety-eight percent of U.S. households have at least one television set.
  • CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
  • Ted Turner starts Turner Network Television (TNT) and buys MGM's film library.

Movies

  • Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, A Fish Called Wanda, Bull Durham

Books

Science

Nobel Prizes in Science

Chemistry: Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, and Hartmut Michel (all West Germany), for unraveling the structure of proteins that play a crucial role in photosynthesis

Physics: Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger (all US), for research that improved the understanding of elementary particles and forces

Physiology or Medicine: Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings (both US), and Sir James Black (UK), for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment

More Nobel Prizes in 1998...

Death

  • Roy Orbison
  • Chet Baker
  • Luis Alvarez
  • Edgar Jean Faure
  • Nora Astorga

 

 

 

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