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POLITICS and HISTORY

• Kurt Waldheim, Austrian President, is cleared of war crimes
• Widespread strikes by solidarity supporters take place in Poland
• McDonalds opens in Moscow
• Soviet troops begin to withdraw from Afghanistan after nine years occupation
• George Bush (Sr.) defeats Michael Dukakis for the US Presidency
• Iran and Iraq accept a UN peace plan
• Canada and the US sign a comprehensive free trade agreement

MUSIC

• Faith by George Michael
• Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
• Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns'N'Roses
• Heaven in a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle
• Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard
• Simply Irresistable by Robert Palmer
• Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin
• The Locomotion by Kylie Minogue

TV and at the MOVIES

• Fred Savage showed us all The Wonder Years
• Tom Hanks wished he was 'Big'
• Kevin kline and John Cleese were chasing 'A Fish Called Wanda'
• Robing Williams cried Good Morning Vietnam
• Cher and Nicholas Cage were Moonstruck
• Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger were Twins
• The Hogan Family joined the TV neighborhood
• Bruce Willis started to Die Hard
• The Highwayman revived the spooky
• Twighlight Zone genre People

People that Died in 1988

• Heather O'Rourke (b.1975) American film actress
• John Houseman (b.1902) American actor and filmmaker
• John Carradine (b.1906) American actor
• Roy Orbison (b.1936 ) American musician
• Enzo Ferrari (b.1898) Italian Car maker
• Trevor Howard (b.1916) English film actor
• Kenneth Williams (b.1926) English 'Carry On' film actor
• Chritina Onassis (b.) Greek Oil Heiress