Whenever I buy vintage items to sell, I will look for information on the internet or in a reference book I have about that item.  I always run across some great tidbits about something else that happened during a certain year.

Here is what I have run across for the year 1988:

May 27 saw the release of Windows 2.1.  This was the first version of Windows to require a hard disk drive in the computer.

June 12 saw Rusty Wallace win the last NASCAR Winston Cup race at Riverside International Raceway.

July 15 saw the debut of the blockbuster movie DIE HARD in movie theaters.

October 20—the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Oakland A’s on this date to win Major League Baseball’s World Series.

December 31—Extremely dense fog created The Fog Bowl game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Bears.  The fog was so dense that the fans could not see the players or the game.

1988 also saw DC Comics run a phone poll asking people to vote on Batman’s sidekick Robin live or die for the famous storyline called “Death In The Family”.

Table Tennis also became a sport in the Olympics.

This is just a few of the things that happened in 1988.  What are some of things that you know happened in 1988?