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Subject: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: whistledog on 09/25/07 at 11:50 am

20 years ago (1987). Things that happened ...

TV Debuts ...
♦ 21 Jump Street
♦ Beauty and the Beast
♦ The Charmings
♦ DuckTales
♦ Father Dowling Mysteries
♦ Full House
♦ Geraldo
♦ Hooperman
♦ Jake and the Fatman
♦ Married ... With Children
♦ My Two Dads
♦ Star Trek: The Next Generation
♦ T and T
♦ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
♦ Thirtysomething
♦ The Tracey Ullman Show
♦ Unsolved Mysteries
♦ Win, Lose or Draw
♦ Wiseguy

Popular TV shows that said farewell ...
♦ Hill Street Blues
♦ Gimme A Break!
♦ Airwolf
♦ The A-Team
♦ Remington Steele
♦ Scarecrow and Mrs. King
♦ Silver Spoons
♦ Today's Special
♦ Steven Spirlgerg's Amazing Stories

Music ...
♦ The Grateful Dead had their first ever Top 40 hit single with 'Touch of Grey'
♦ George Michael releases his debut solo album 'Faith'. It scored 6 US Top 40 hits, won several awards, and became the first ever album by a white solo artist to top the R&B chart

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Paul on 09/25/07 at 1:41 pm

20 years ago (1987). Things that happened ...

Bloody Rick Astley 'happened'... >:(

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Timm on 09/25/07 at 3:41 pm

Man, I would have sworn Married with Children was before '87 ???

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Henk on 09/25/07 at 4:02 pm

Bloody Rick Astley 'happened'... >:(

Hey Paul...

...whenever you need somebody... ::) :D

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Paul on 09/25/07 at 4:18 pm

...whenever you need somebody... ::) :D

If I do, he'll be the last to know!

Same goes for MJ's 'Bad' LP (hyped released that year), which was the beginning of the long, slippery slide...

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: woops on 09/25/07 at 6:11 pm

One of the greatest & most underrated pop singer/songwriters came 'Out of the Blue'...

Now pushin' 40 (still looking great), the record of being the youngest artist writing, producing, & recording a #1 hit in 1988 with "Foolish Beat" at age 17 (wrote it at 14) still holds
http://web.archive.org/web/20030117230801/www.naturally-deborah-gibson.net/debbie+gibson_barefoot+on+a+ladder.JPG
http://web.archive.org/web/20040813135515/www.naturally-deborah-gibson.net/md_magazine.jpg

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: coqueta83 on 09/25/07 at 7:16 pm

It's truly hard to believe Full House, Unsolved Mysteries, and 21 Jump Street are all 20 years old. (And it's been 25 years since Family Ties premiered! :o)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Midas on 09/25/07 at 9:27 pm

About 20 years ago I was starting my sophomore year in high school, just got my braces on, sporting bright yellow Chuck Taylors and grooving to the likes of Depeche Mode's "Strangelove", "True Faith" by New Order and LL Cool J's Bigger And Deffer album. 8)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: JamieMcBain on 09/25/07 at 9:29 pm

I was 11 that year, and kind of unaware of pretty much alot of stuff at the time.

For me, the biggest thing about that year is RoboCop.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/07 at 1:58 am

Bloody Rick Astley 'happened'... >:(
Now a hair dresser...

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/26/07 at 4:21 am

September 26th 1987:

Birth of Rosie Munter, member of singing group "Play"

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: xSiouXBoIx on 09/26/07 at 3:03 pm

I think it's so weird that 'Faith' topped the R&B charts. Nothing from that album sounds R&B to me at all.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: whistledog on 09/27/07 at 12:43 am

Bloody Rick Astley 'happened'... >:(

Rick Astley wasn't bad. He was one of the better SAW acts, which really doesn't say much ROFL

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/29/07 at 1:11 pm

September 29th:

1987 - American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers releases The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, their third studio album.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: cinnabon on 09/29/07 at 6:31 pm

I was 16 in 1987 and just entering my junior year in high school - one of the most signifcant moments in music that year:

Guns n Roses Roses released their first album, Appetite for Destruction, featuring the cool song "Welcome to the Jungle"; I kind of see them as the link between the hair band and alternative genres of music 8)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: woops on 09/29/07 at 8:52 pm

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/01/07 at 3:43 am

October 1st 1987 - The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: bookmistress4ever on 10/01/07 at 3:45 am

I saw an episode of "Soul Train" from 1987

Jody Watley's "Looking For A New Love" video was shown 8)

Only familiar with a few songs played since...

Chico DeBarge performed, though not familiar with him and I didn't know Rose Royce were still around... and wore the worst outfits, even for the era :P Not to mention I'm not fond of disco, which they were popular in the 70s.

Then again, I was watching "Muppet Babies" & "Heathcliff" at the time

I saw that very same episode just yesterday (I think it was).

20 years ago, I was looking for work and doing interviews (fun fun fun). I was also looking for love (in all the wrong places). ;D

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: cinnabon on 10/01/07 at 5:15 am

I think Ben & Jerry's introduced their Cherry Garcia flavor in '87, though I'm not 100% positive.

I do remember 2 short-lived sodas that debuted 20 years ago: Pepsi AM and 7-Up Gold (the latter one looked pretty gross, IMO)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: timm on 10/01/07 at 2:45 pm

Popular 1987 songs
1."Open Your Heart" ... Madonna
2."Livin' on a Prayer" ... Bon Jovi
3 ."Jacob's Ladder" ... Huey Lewis and the News
4."Lean on Me" ... Club Nouveau
5."Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now" ... Starship
6."I Knew You Were Waiting" ... Aretha Franklin & George Michael
7."Died in Your Arms" ... Cutting Crew
8."With or Without You" ... U2
9."You Keep Me Hangin' On" ... Kim Wilde
10."Always" ... Atlantic Starr

Popular 1987 movies
1. Beverly Hills Cop III
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Dragnet
4. Fatal Attraction
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. La Bamba
7. Lethal Weapon
8. The Living Daylights
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street
10. Outrageous Fortune

Academy Awards
Best Picture: "The Last Emperor"
Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci ... "The Last Emperor"
Best Actor: Michael Douglas ... "Wall Street"
Best Actress: Cher ... "Moonstruck"

Grammy Awards
Record of the Year: "Graceland" ... Paul Simon
Song of the Year: "Somewhere Out There" ... James Horner & Barry Mann
Best Album: "The Joshua Tree" ... U2
Male Vocalist: Sting ... "Bring on the Night"
Female Vocalist: Whitney Houston ... "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: coqueta83 on 10/01/07 at 7:30 pm

Popular 1987 songs
1."Open Your Heart" ... Madonna
2."Livin' on a Prayer" ... Bon Jovi
3 ."Jacob's Ladder" ... Huey Lewis and the News
4."Lean on Me" ... Club Nouveau
5."Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now" ... Starship
6."I Knew You Were Waiting" ... Aretha Franklin & George Michael
7."Died in Your Arms" ... Cutting Crew
8."With or Without You" ... U2
9."You Keep Me Hangin' On" ... Kim Wilde
10."Always" ... Atlantic Starr

Those songs really take me back to 1987.....great, great memories! :)

Also....

"Where's the Party"-Madonna
"Only In My Dreams"-Debbie Gibson
"Never Say Goodbye"-Bon Jovi
"Meet Me Halfway"-Kenny Loggins
"Heaven is a Place on Earth"-Belinda Carlisle
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"-U2
"Hooked on You"-Sweet Sensation
"Show Me"-Cover Girls
"Catch Me (I'm Falling)"-Pretty Poison

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/05/07 at 7:31 am

October 5th 1987

Birth of Javier Villa, Spanish racing driver

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 10/05/07 at 8:05 am

Twenty years ago this week I met my husband for the first time.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: GoodRedShirt on 10/05/07 at 8:09 am

I was 2 years and 2 months.

Nothing much else really.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/06/07 at 3:11 am

October 7th 1987:

Fiji becomes a republic.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: K.M. Richards on 10/09/07 at 7:23 pm

Twenty years ago, I was just joining the airstaff of Y-97 in Santa Barbara, which played a mix of New Wave and Urban music (and where, within a year, I would be doing the afternoon drive-home shift with almost one quarter of the audience listening to me). :D

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/10/07 at 2:55 am

October 10th 1987

Eric B. and Rakim release Paid in Full, their debut album.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: robby76 on 10/10/07 at 10:50 am

Popular TV shows that said farewell ...

♦ The A-Team
♦ Remington Steele
♦ Scarecrow and Mrs. King
♦ Silver Spoons

And what a run they had! *** salutes these fine 80s shows ***

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: cinnabon on 10/10/07 at 6:24 pm

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/11/07 at 2:05 am

October 11th 1987

March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights attracts an estimated 200,000 people to protest the Bowers v. Hardwick decision and the U.S. government's handling of the AIDS epidemic; first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: airsupplyairhead on 10/11/07 at 3:23 pm

movies from '87

Adventures In Babysitting
Can't Buy Me Love
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

also in music: Air Supply's Christmas Album, The Christmas Album, was released.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/07 at 2:58 am

October 12th 1987:

21st Country Music Association Award: Hank William, Jr. wins
George Harrison releases "Got My Mind Set On You"
Minnesota Twins beat Detroit Tigers for AL pennant
Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/13/07 at 2:32 am

October 13th 1987:

First military use of trained dolphins by the U.S. Navy

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: woops on 10/14/07 at 4:00 pm

Tiffany OAT (Original Ashley Tisdale) also came into the scene :P

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/07 at 2:23 am

October 15th 1987

The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 10/15/07 at 8:09 am

October 15th 1987

The Great Storm of 1987 hit France and England, killing at least 23 people.

We were just trying to remember what day of the week that was. :-\\

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/07 at 8:12 am

We were just trying to remember what day of the week that was. :-\\
...and that Michael Fish blunder?

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 10/15/07 at 8:31 am

...and that Michael Fish blunder?

Which he is now saying wasn't him - if you read the BBC site.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/07 at 8:55 am

Which he is now saying wasn't him - if you read the BBC site.
The clip is YouTube I saw it the other day.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 10/15/07 at 9:04 am

The clip is YouTube I saw it the other day.

Aye, but is it dated to prove that the broadcast links to that date in October?

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/07 at 9:05 am

Aye, but is it dated to prove that the broadcast links to that date in October?
Good question

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/07 at 9:07 am

Aye, but is it dated to prove that the broadcast links to that date in October?
Let us all have a look at the clip...

Michael Fish

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 10/15/07 at 9:14 am

Let us all have a look at the clip...

Michael Fish

As it switches to the weather map it says Thursday 13.00. Is that the current time or how the weather had looked at that time do you think? Because it was supposedly the 21.30 broadcast.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/15/07 at 9:21 am

As it switches to the weather map it says Thursday 13.00. Is that the current time or how the weather had looked at that time do you think? Because it was supposedly the 21.30 broadcast.
The plot thickens...

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Paul on 10/15/07 at 2:07 pm

We were just trying to remember what day of the week that was. :-\\

It happened during the night of Thursday 15th October...

...and after the weekend, the City had a 'storm' of its own when £50bn was wiped off the stock market (Black Monday)...

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 10/15/07 at 2:09 pm

It happened during the night of Thursday 15th October...

...and after the weekend, the City had a 'storm' of its own when £50bn was wiped off the stock market (Black Monday)...

Yes, I was just reading about the New York crash that happened at the same time.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Paul on 10/15/07 at 2:15 pm

Yes, I was just reading about the New York crash that happened at the same time.

...yep, the old saying, 'New York sneezes and London catches a cold' held true here...they had their panic on the Friday beforehand...

And according to this big book of useless info' (where I'm getting all of this from), the Dow dropped 508 points, almost double the drop of the 1929 crash!

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 10/16/07 at 7:56 am

...yep, the old saying, 'New York sneezes and London catches a cold' held true here...they had their panic on the Friday beforehand...

And according to this big book of useless info' (where I'm getting all of this from), the Dow dropped 508 points, almost double the drop of the 1929 crash!

I think some of markets also crashed at the same time.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/16/07 at 8:02 am

I think some of markets also crashed at the same time.
Was there a Black Monday or Thursday about then?

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 10/17/07 at 7:36 pm

Was there a Black Monday or Thursday about then?

That was Black Monday.

Black Thursday was 17th September 1992. That was when the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) all went to pot.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/19/07 at 3:03 am

That was Black Monday.

Black Thursday was 17th September 1992. That was when the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) all went to pot.
Let us hope that today is not a repeat.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/21/07 at 4:43 am

October 21st 1987 - Former Miss America Bess Myerson is arrested on charges of bribery, conspiracy, and mail fraud, all involving an alimony-fixing scandal. She is later found not guilty.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: woops on 10/21/07 at 6:46 pm

2007 prediction from a 1987 Bloom County comic strip

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/22/07 at 7:13 am

October 22nd 1987

John Adams's opera Nixon in China debuts at the Houston Grand Opera in Houston, Texas.
The pinnacle rock "Gendarme" falls at Seneca Rocks.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: K.M. Richards on 10/23/07 at 7:31 pm

Man, I would have sworn Married with Children was before '87 ???

Nope. The Fox network didn't start until then.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Fairee07 on 10/26/07 at 10:22 pm

I was getting all psyched up to go trick-or-treating.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/30/07 at 3:11 am

October 30th 1987 - In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 10/30/07 at 3:54 pm

I was in kindergarten. Starting 1st grade the following year.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: apollonia1986 on 10/31/07 at 7:36 pm

Wow, let's see, 20 years ago would be October 31st, 1987.

--I would be celebrating my second Halloween. (Born in may of 86)
--My mother had a huge Jherri Curl
--My father had hair! ;D
--I think Michael Jackson played a concert on his "Bad" World Tour.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Fairee07 on 10/31/07 at 10:43 pm

I was out trick or treating with my friends and we went down every street in the neighborhood.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/05/07 at 2:08 am

November 5th 1987 - Apartheid: In South Africa, Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority South Africa government.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/07 at 1:55 am

November 7th 1987 - In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 11/09/07 at 12:29 pm

20 years ago on this date, I had my tonsils removed. Then I had to miss school for two weeks, so I could heal up.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 11/09/07 at 10:35 pm

20 years ago on this date, I had my tonsils removed. Then I had to miss school for two weeks, so I could heal up.

Did you get to eat lots of ice cream?

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Nostalgic on 11/10/07 at 12:58 pm

Here are some songs from 1987 in alphabetical order:

ALONE - Heart
ALWAYS - Atlantic Starr
AT THIS MOMENT - Billy Vera And The Beaters

BAD - Michael Jackson
BIG LOVE - Fleetwood Mac
BIG TIME - Peter Gabriel
BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE - New Order
BOOM BOOM (LET'S GO BACK TO MY ROOM) - Paul Lekakis
BREAKOUT - Swing Out Sister
BRILLIANT DISGUISE - Bruce Springsteen

C'EST LA VIE - Robbie Nevil
CAUSIN' A COMMOTION - Madonna
CHANGE OF HEART - Cyndi Lauper
COME GO WITH ME - Exposé
CONTROL - Janet Jackson

DIAMONDS - Herb Alpert
DIDN'T WE ALMOST HAVE IT ALL? - Whitney Houston
DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER - Crowded House
DON'T GET ME WRONG - Pretenders
DON'T MEAN NOTHIN' - Richard Marx

ELECTRIC BLUE - Icehouse
EVERYBODY HAVE FUN TONIGHT - Wang Chung

FAITH - George Michael
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT (TO PARTY) - Beastie Boys
FUNKYTOWN - Pseudo Echo

HAMMERHEAD - James Reyne
HEAD TO TOE - Lisa Lisa And Cult Jam
HEART AND SOUL - T'Pau
HEAT OF THE NIGHT - Bryan Adams
HEAVEN ON A STICK - James Reyne
HERE I GO AGAIN - Whitesnake
HIP TO BE SQUARE - Huey Lewis And The News
HOLD ME NOW - Johnny Logan

I HEARD A RUMOUR - Bananarama
I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU - Michael Jackson featuring Saeeda Garrett
(I JUST) DIED IN YOUR ARMS - Cutting Crew
I KNEW YOU WERE WAITIN' (FOR ME) - Aretha Franklin and George Michael
I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR - U2
I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW - Tiffany
(I'VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE - Billy Medley and Jennifer Warnes
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY - Whitney Houston
I WANNA WAKE UP WITH YOU - Boris Gardiner
I WANT YOUR SEX - George Michael
IN TOO DEEP - Genesis

LA BAMBA - Los Lobos
LA ISLA BONITA - Madonna
LAND OF CONFUSION - Genesis
LEAN ON ME - Club Nouveau
LET'S WAIT AWHILE - Janet Jackson
LITTLE LIES - Fleetwood Mac
LIVIN' ON A PRAYER - Bon Jovi
LOCOMOTION - Kylie Minogue
LOOKIN' FOR A NEW LOVE - Jodie Watley
LUKA - Suzanne Vega

MIDNIGHT BLUE - Lou Gramm
MONY MONY - Billy Idol

NEED YOU TONIGHT - INXS
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP - Rick Astley
NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU - Glenn Medeiros
NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW - Starship
NOTORIOUS - Duran Duran

ONLY IN MY DREAMS - Debbie Gibson
OPEN YOUR HEART - Madonna

PAPER IN FIRE - John Cougar Mellencamp
POP GOES THE WORLD - Men Without Hats

RESPECTABLE - Mel And Kim
RHYTHM IS GONNA GET YOU - Gloria Estefan And The Miami Sound Machine
RIGHT ON TRACK - Breakfast Club
ROCK STEADY - Whispers

SHAKE YOU DOWN - Gregory Abbott
SHAKEDOWN - Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band
SHATTERED DREAMS - Johnny Hates Jazz
SHIP OF FOOLS - World Party
SIGN 'O' THE TIMES - Prince
SLICE OF HEAVEN - Dave Dobyn with the Herbs
SOMETHING SO STRONG - Crowded House
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE - Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
SONGBIRD - Kenny G.
STAND BY ME - Ben E. King (re-released)
STAR TREKKIN' - Firm
SUDDENLY - Angry Anderson

TAKE ME BACK - Noiseworks
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN - Europe
THE FINER THINGS - Steve Winwood
THE NEXT TIME I FALL - Peter Cetera and Amy Grant
THE WAY IT IS - Bruce Hornsby And The Range
THORN IN MY SIDE - Eurythmics
TO BE A LOVER - Billy Idol
TOO MUCH AIN'T ENOUGH LOVE - Jimmy Barnes

U GOT THE LOOK - Prince and Sheena Easton

WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN - Bangles
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE - Bon Jovi
WE CONNECT - Stacey Q.
WHAT'S MY SCENE? - Hoodoo Gurus
WHEN TOMORROW COMES - Eurythmics
WHO'S THAT GIRL? - Madonna
WHY CAN'T I BE YOU? - Cure
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME? - Chicago
WISHING WELL - Terence Trent D'Arby
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU - U2

YOU GOT IT ALL - Jets
YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON - Kim Wilde
YOU WIN AGAIN - Bee Gees

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/07 at 1:21 pm

Number One (in the UK) this day 20 years ago was The Bee Gees with You Win Again

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Nostalgic on 11/10/07 at 1:33 pm

Also happening on October 1987 was a big stock market crash.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/10/07 at 1:34 pm

Also happening on October 1987 was a big stock market crash.
As report earlier in this thread.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: robby76 on 11/10/07 at 9:27 pm

Another fantastic year! I'm gonna be harsh and narrow it down to my top 20 this time.

ALWAYS - Atlantic Starr (their big ballads were great)
BREAKOUT - Swing Out Sister
DIDN'T WE ALMOST HAVE IT ALL? - Whitney Houston (Whitney was on fire with her first 2 albums)
DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER - Crowded House
I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU - Michael Jackson featuring Saeeda Garrett (the intro to this is beautiful)
(I'VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE - Billy Medley and Jennifer Warnes
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY - Whitney Houston (another fine classic)
LA BAMBA - Los Lobos
LEAN ON ME - Club Nouveau (great version)
LOCOMOTION - Kylie Minogue
NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP - Rick Astley
RHYTHM IS GONNA GET YOU - Gloria Estefan And The Miami Sound Machine
ROCK STEADY - Whispers
SHAKE YOU DOWN - Gregory Abbott
SOMEWHERE OUT THERE - Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram
SONGBIRD - Kenny G. (c'mon, it was alright... haha)
STAND BY ME - Ben E. King (re-released)
WHO'S THAT GIRL? - Madonna
YOU GOT IT ALL - Jets (big fan of this family group)
YOU WIN AGAIN - Bee Gees (what a comeback!)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/11/07 at 8:08 am

November 11th 1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 11/11/07 at 6:06 pm

Did you get to eat lots of ice cream?

I probably did. I just know that after I was operated on, my mom got me some frozen yogurt and I didn't feel like eating any of it; my mouth was all swollen. However, I was determined to watch game shows on TV that night.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/12/07 at 3:07 am

November 12th 1987 - Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 11/12/07 at 2:34 pm

^On that day, I was most likely home from school, recovering from my tonsilectomy.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/07 at 2:03 am

^On that day, I was most likely home from school, recovering from my tonsilectomy.
...but did you snow where you were that time?

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/13/07 at 2:04 am

November 13th 1987 - First condom commercial on BBC TV

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/17/07 at 6:33 pm

November 18th 1987 – An underground fire kills 31 people at London's busiest underground station at King's Cross St Pancras.

I remember this event very well for it happen at around 9:30 at night, I was listening to the live reports on the radio, and the following I had to travel on The Tube early in the morning and the smoke could still be smelt below ground on other lines.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: johnny5alive on 11/17/07 at 6:58 pm

BREAKOUT - Swing Out Sister.................. i loved that song! and great video too!

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/07 at 2:07 am

November 21st 1987 - Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis

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Written By: nicolelittle1977 on 11/21/07 at 7:07 am

This is what I remember in 1987:

I was 10 years old in the 5th grade
I saw The Simpsons for the first time in Tracie Ullman Show
21 Jump Street with Holly Robinson before she was married to Rodney Peete
Who's That Girl
When Michael Jackson came out again with "Bad", and I begged my father to buy the LP
When I was at Nicetown Boys and Girls club, and I used to go to a lot of trips like West Point Park, Dorney Park, Hershey Park, and Clementon Park
When I first heard "Rebel Without A Pause" by Public Enemy
When LL Cool J's second album "Bigger and Deffer" came out
When I first saw "Full House"
When I first heard and saw the video "Looking For A New Love"
When Shanice first came out with (Baby Tell Me) Can You Dance
When New Jack Swing started with "I Want Her" by Keith Sweat
When I first heard "Lost In Emotion" and "Head To Toe"
When I first heard "Catch Me I'm Falling"
When I first had Atari 2600
When I first heard Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Something", "So Emotional", "Didn't We Almost Have It All"
When I first heard "Sexy Girl" by Lillo Thomas
When my father first had cable
When I got in trouble for kissing a boy. ;D
When George Michael went solo with his album, "Faith"
When Stephanie Mills came out with "Puttin A Rush On Me" and "I Feel Good"
When Atlantic Star came out with Always, All In The Name OF Love, and One Lover At A Time
When Lace came out with "My Love is Deep"
When The Cover Girls came out with "Show Me"
When I first heard "I Think We're Alone Now", by Tiffany
When I first heard "Break Out" by Swing Out Sister
When I first heard I Knew You Were Waiting For Me" by George Michael and Aretha Franklin
When I first saw that movie with Shelly Long and Tom Hanks, I forgot the name of that movie
When everybody was going through a Dirty Dancing phase, even black folks.
When I first heard "Raw" by Big Daddy Kane before he released his debut album a year later.
When Salt n Pepa hit it big with "Push It" and "Tramp", even though they had an album out a year ago, it wasn't until Push it took them to the mainstream. My father bought the LP
When Eric B and Rakim came out with "Paid In Full"
When Roxanne Shante came out with "Have A Nice Day"
When Kool Moe Dee came out with the "How Ya Like Me Now" LP. The "Wild Wild West video cracked me up at the time.
When Robert Townsend came out with "Hollywood Shuffle" I didn't see it in the movie until HBO had it a year later
When The Fat Boys was alll over the place with Wipe Out and Disorderlies
When Fatal Attraction came out
When No Way Out came out
When that corny movie, Superman IV: A Quest For Peace came out
When I first heard "Only In My Dreams" by Debbie Gibson.
When Babyface released his solo debut album, and I first heard "I Love You Babe"
When I first heard heard Surface's "Happy"
When I first heard "Rock Steady" and "It Just Gets Better With Time", by The Whispers.
When I first heard "I Live For Your Love"
When I first heard "Two Occasions" by The Deele (with Babyface)
That's all I can think of right now.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/07 at 12:54 am

November 22nd 1987 - Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom

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Written By: ultraviolet52 on 11/23/07 at 7:41 pm

November of 1987 - I was 5 1/2 years old and I was in Kindergarten.. I enjoyed Barbies, My Little Pony, Dirty Dancing (we had the soundtrack), also watched those minisodes of the Simpsons on Tracey Ullman for the first time ( I had no idea at that time how BIG the Simpsons were going to be as a show on it's own), Spaceballs, Mannequin, Harry and the Hendersons, La Bamaba, Revenge of the Nerds, watching Saturday Morning Cartoons.

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Written By: Class of 84 on 11/23/07 at 9:25 pm

I spent the spring and summer in "Army training, Sir!" in South Carolina and Georgia. Spent 4th of July on Tybee Island. It was a great summer....

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Written By: nally on 11/23/07 at 11:54 pm

November 23, 1987...I finally went back to school after missing two weeks due to my tonsil surgery, and healing up. My 2nd grade class had made me a "get well" card, which I still have packed away.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/07 at 2:05 am

November 29th 1987 - Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/07 at 5:57 am

How Much things cost in 1982

In the USA:
Yearly Inflation Rate USA6.16 %
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1046
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 11.50%
Average Cost of new house $82,200.00
Average Income per year $21,050.00
Average Monthly Rent $320.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 91 cents
New Car Average price $7,983.00
US Postage Stamp 20 cents
Vic 20 $299.95
Satellite Reciever $245.95

Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Stirling
Average House Price £23,644
Gallon of Petrol £1.59
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 8.6%
Interest Rates Year End Bank of England 10.00%

Tomorrow celebrates the 25th anniversary of the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/07 at 6:17 am

December 1st 1987 - NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/07 at 6:20 am

December 1st 1987 - Digging begins to link England and France under English Channel, with the tunnels meeting exactly three years on.

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Written By: nally on 12/06/07 at 10:02 pm

Dec 7, 1987...pop singer Aaron carter was born.

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Written By: robby76 on 12/07/07 at 12:06 am

Dec 7, 1987...pop singer Aaron carter was born.

*** shudders ***

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/07/07 at 12:57 am

December 7th 1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/08/07 at 3:16 am

December 8th 1987 - National Hockey League Goalie Ron Hextall becomes the first goalie in the modern era to score a goal

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/07 at 4:17 am

December 9th 1987 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank

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Written By: ladybug316 on 12/11/07 at 8:32 pm

I was a senior in high school, for pete's sake!

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Written By: LostInThe80s on 12/14/07 at 12:03 am

Now a hair dresser...

Probably not the best way to introduce yourself, but I want to say that I_LOVE_RICK_ASTLEY!!! What a beautiful voice (he was pretty, too). And, I am a married guy :D (ssshhhh)

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Written By: ladybug316 on 12/14/07 at 8:47 am

Probably not the best way to introduce yourself, but I want to say that I_LOVE_RICK_ASTLEY!!! What a beautiful voice (he was pretty, too). And, I am a married guy :D (ssshhhh)
Your secret is safe with us ;)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/14/07 at 10:17 am

Probably not the best way to introduce yourself, but I want to say that I_LOVE_RICK_ASTLEY!!! What a beautiful voice (he was pretty, too). And, I am a married guy :D (ssshhhh)
Only a few of us know your secret.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/15/07 at 4:19 am

December 15th 1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/07 at 2:07 am

December 17th 1987 - Mega Man makes his debut on the NES in the video game Mega Man.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/07 at 6:22 pm

December 18th 1987 – Programmer Larry Wall released the first version of the programming language Perl via the comp.sources.misc newsgroup.

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Written By: Bluescreen_ODeff on 12/20/07 at 9:11 pm

I must be a whole bunch younger than the other posters of this thread, because on April 14, 1987, I was BORN!

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/17/08 at 12:36 am

January 17th 1988 - "Teddy and Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 77 performances

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/19/08 at 3:01 am

January 19th 1988 - "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/21/08 at 2:34 am

January 21st 1988 - US accept immigration of 30,000 U.S./Vietnamese children

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Written By: nally on 01/23/08 at 5:55 pm

In January 1988 I was in the 2nd grade and don't recall a whole lot from my life then...but I do remember learning how to write in cursive at the time. The thing is, my second grade teacher commonly shifted to cursive when she wrote certain things on the board, especially words that ended in "-al", which irked some of the kids in my class, so we begged her to teach us cursive.

This date (January 23rd) fell on a Saturday, so I obviously didn't go to school that day.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/24/08 at 2:13 am

January 24th 1988: 1st WWF Royal Rumble, Jim Duggan wins

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Written By: martydangs on 01/25/08 at 7:02 pm

i guess i knew myself and 3 friends, went to the mann music center in philly to watch U2 open up for J GEILS BAND and left when j geils came on stage, the following year is when they started their war tour went on a wendsday night, to philly, on that night we bought tickets for the thursday and riday night shows and drove the 3 hours 3 nights in a row what a great show...

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/26/08 at 3:05 am

January 26th 1988 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre in New York.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/08 at 2:03 am

January 29th 1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h 54m 15s.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/03/08 at 2:04 am

February 3rd 1988 - Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/05/08 at 1:57 am

February 5th 1988:

Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
Comic Relief holds the first "Red Nose Day", which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.

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Written By: nally on 02/11/08 at 12:12 pm

It has been almost 20 years since the Winter Olympic Games began in Calgary, Alberta, Canada...but I think it was on the 13th.

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Written By: nally on 02/13/08 at 10:41 am

Yes, on February 13, 1988... the Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, began. I even remember watching it on TV that day. :)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/13/08 at 11:58 am

Yes, on February 13, 1988... the Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, began. I even remember watching it on TV that day. :)
That was the year of the Jamaican Bob Sleigh Team?

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Written By: karen on 02/14/08 at 11:16 am

That was the year of the Jamaican Bob Sleigh Team?

And of course our own Eddie the Eagle

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/14/08 at 11:45 am

And of course our own Eddie the Eagle
Oh yes, Eddie the Eagle!

The last I heard he is a plumber somewhere.

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Written By: nally on 02/18/08 at 12:39 pm

On this date 20 years ago, actress Maiara Walsh was born...in Simi Valley, California! (She is best known for currently starring in the Disney Channel sitcom, Cory In The House, as 'Meena.')

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Written By: woops on 02/18/08 at 9:17 pm

George Michael "Faith" is Album of the Year at the 1988 Grammy awards

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Written By: nally on 02/19/08 at 2:48 pm

20 years ago exactly, pop/r&b/dance singer Robyn Rihanna Fenty, better known simply as Rihanna (who entered the music scene in 2005 at age 17), was born in Barbados.

(Some sources give her birthday as February 20th, but most sources I've seen say it's the 19th.)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 02/29/08 at 1:14 am

February 29th 1988 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town

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Written By: karen on 02/29/08 at 10:49 pm

I proposed to my boyfriend at the time. We'd been engaged for a while, split up and got back together. He accepted but we split up again later that year. :-\\

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/01/08 at 2:54 am

March 1st 1988 - Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/05/08 at 1:21 am

March 5th 1988 - Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/06/08 at 1:21 am

March 6th 1988 – In Operation Flavius, the British Special Air Service killed Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers Daniel McCann, Seán Savage and Mairéad Farrell while they were conspiring to bomb a parade of British military bands in Gibraltar.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/08 at 1:34 am

March 7th 1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/10/08 at 2:55 am

March 10th 1988 Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles

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Written By: nally on 03/10/08 at 11:17 am

March 10th 1988 Avalanche at Klosters, a Swiss Ski resort, nearly kills Prince Charles

...and Andy Gibb (known affectionately as the "Baby Bee Gee", since he was the baby brother of the Bee Gees' 3 members, but never a member of the band) died of a heart inflammation; he was only 30 years old. :\'(

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Written By: robby76 on 03/10/08 at 8:05 pm

...and Andy Gibb (known affectionately as the "Baby Bee Gee", since he was the baby brother of the Bee Gees' 3 members, but never a member of the band) died of a heart inflammation; he was only 30 years old. :\'(

Didn't realise it was today - thanks for the info Nally. I'm a big Andy fan!

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/17/08 at 2:47 am

March 17th 1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/08 at 2:05 am

March 20th 1988 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 03/25/08 at 3:15 am

March 25th 1988 - The Candle demonstration in Bratislava was the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

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Written By: nally on 03/27/08 at 10:17 am

On this date 20 years ago (March 27th), actress Brenda Song was born. She is best known for currently starring in Disney Channel's "Suite Life Of Zack & Cody" as 'London Tipton.' She also starred in the Disney original movie "Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior."

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/04/08 at 2:11 am

April 4th 1988 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.

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Written By: nicolelittle1977 on 04/05/08 at 1:14 am

I was 11 years old in 1988. I wanting to be older. I wanted to look like Salt n Pepa. That was the year The Boys came out with "Dial My Heart". That was the year when Bobby Brown blew up with "Don't Be Cruel". Oh, what memories!!!!

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/12/08 at 1:50 am

April 12th 1988 - Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/14/08 at 1:43 am

April 14th 1988 - In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/16/08 at 1:54 am

April 16th 1988 - In Forlì, Italy, Red Brigades kill Italian Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/18/08 at 1:54 am

April 18th 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: U.S. naval forces launched Operation Praying Mantis in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to the American frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/08 at 2:09 am

April 22nd 1988 - Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/23/08 at 1:51 am

April 23rd 1988 - Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon, after spending the record total of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200, left the charts for its first time ever.

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Written By: midnite on 04/23/08 at 11:34 pm

April 23rd 1988 - Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon, after spending the record total of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200, left the charts for its first time ever.

AMAZING!!!!!! And every generation re-discovers it.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/24/08 at 10:07 am

AMAZING!!!!!! And every generation re-discovers it.
...and is about time I reheard it.

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Written By: ultraviolet52 on 04/25/08 at 2:01 pm

Around this time, I was edging closer to my grand 6th birthday at Chuck E Cheeses. This Chuck E Cheese is now gone and has since been replaced by an Old Navy.

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Written By: Davester on 04/26/08 at 8:36 am

Around this time, I was edging closer to my grand 6th birthday at Chuck E Cheeses. This Chuck E Cheese is now gone and has since been replaced by an Old Navy.

Would that be the old Chuck E. Cheeses at the Willows shopping center? If so, I remember attending my friend Annie's birthday party there...

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Written By: ultraviolet52 on 04/26/08 at 11:33 am

Would that be the old Chuck E. Cheeses at the Willows shopping center? If so, I remember attending my friend Annie's birthday party there...

Yes - I LOVED that place. Do you remember the mouse hole area. I remember piling in there with all my friends on my birthday. It got really warm in there after awhile, but it was a lot of fun. :0)

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Written By: Davester on 04/26/08 at 6:16 pm

Yes - I LOVED that place. Do you remember the mouse hole area. I remember piling in there with all my friends on my birthday. It got really warm in there after awhile, but it was a lot of fun. :0)

Yeah, I was crawling around in the same mouse hole. Those round, carpeted tunnels were cool. A kid was tired after leaving Chuck E. Cheese, there was so much going on there. I remember getting Annie a Barbie for her birthday and after she opened it she kissed me! Yuck..! lol!

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Written By: ultraviolet52 on 04/27/08 at 1:28 am

Yeah, I was crawling around in the same mouse hole. Those round, carpeted tunnels were cool. A kid was tired after leaving Chuck E. Cheese, there was so much going on there. I remember getting Annie a Barbie for her birthday and after she opened it she kissed me! Yuck..! lol!

Ahh, so cute! (the kiss on the cheek) lol. Yes, many kids I know who grew up in the time frame that the mouse hole was around have fond memories of it. And, yes, all that cool carpet in there... my mom has pictures of me in it, but I have no idea where they went. It makes me wonder, when was that Chuck E Cheese built? Late '70s I'm guessing..

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Written By: Davester on 04/27/08 at 3:45 am

Ahh, so cute! (the kiss on the cheek) lol. Yes, many kids I know who grew up in the time frame that the mouse hole was around have fond memories of it. And, yes, all that cool carpet in there... my mom has pictures of me in it, but I have no idea where they went. It makes me wonder, when was that Chuck E Cheese built? Late '70s I'm guessing..

I'd be interested in seeing those piccys from Chuck E. Cheese. Yeah, it was there in the late 70s for sure, that's when we used to go there. I never realized that that's the same place where Old Navy is now...

Now that I think about it I know I still have an old token from Chuck E. Cheese laying around somewhere...

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/28/08 at 1:59 am

April 28th 1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.

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Written By: Stinkyy on 04/28/08 at 3:03 pm

It seems like there is a Chuck -E- Cheese conspiracy of sorts... my fave arcade was replaced by a phone retailer... no more riding our bikes through the vacant lots to get there a la some kind of Bridge to Terabithia.

You had to be careful in the ball pit because there was always the rumor that some kid puked in there... that kid was yours truly... Stinky!

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Written By: ultraviolet52 on 04/29/08 at 12:52 pm

It seems like there is a Chuck -E- Cheese conspiracy of sorts... my fave arcade was replaced by a phone retailer... no more riding our bikes through the vacant lots to get there a la some kind of Bridge to Terabithia.

You had to be careful in the ball pit because there was always the rumor that some kid puked in there... that kid was yours truly... Stinky!

Ewww.... ;D

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Written By: ultraviolet52 on 04/30/08 at 12:48 am

I'd be interested in seeing those piccys from Chuck E. Cheese. Yeah, it was there in the late 70s for sure, that's when we used to go there. I never realized that that's the same place where Old Navy is now...

Now that I think about it I know I still have an old token from Chuck E. Cheese laying around somewhere...

I'll have to find some of them. Many of them have been scattered about, but they do have some good background images of Chuck E himself and those singing puppets in the background.
Yeah, the one in the Willows has since been replaced by Old Navy. It may have been something before that as well, but I do believe Old Navy took over after it shut down.

Wow! I wonder if that token is a collector item now??

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/02/08 at 8:15 am

May 2nd 1988 - Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/03/08 at 11:51 am

May 3rd 1988 - 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida

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Written By: nally on 05/03/08 at 2:25 pm

...and my mom, who had been teaching music part-time for the previous eight months (in the school I was attending!), finally went back to work full-time. My dad took over the music-teaching duties.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/08 at 2:46 am

May 4th 1988 - The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonates during a fire.

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Written By: Marian on 05/05/08 at 1:26 pm

october 19,1989--Loma prieta earthquake.Al Michaels announces it during the World Series

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/08/08 at 1:43 am

May 8th 1988 - A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggered an extended 1AESS outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' is still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.

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Written By: nally on 05/08/08 at 11:46 am

october 19,1989--Loma prieta earthquake.Al Michaels announces it during the World Series

That was not 20 years ago yet. Please save that post for October 19, 17, 2009. :)

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Written By: nally on 05/08/08 at 11:47 am

May 8th 1988 - A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggered an extended 1AESS outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history' is still the worst to occur on Mother's Day.

That's a shame. However, in my life, something much happier and more eventful occurred on that day: I made my First Communion. :)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/09/08 at 1:50 am

May 9th 1988 - The new Australian Parliament House opens in Canberra.

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Written By: nally on 05/09/08 at 11:04 am

...and I think I went to an eye doctor after school to have my eyes examined.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/10/08 at 2:08 am

May 10th 1988 - Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/08 at 12:55 am

May 12th 1988 - "Carrie" opens at Virginia Theater New York City for 5 performances

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/08 at 12:28 am

May 14th 1988 - Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, USA hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/15/08 at 1:58 am

May 15th 1988 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: after more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/16/08 at 2:01 am

May 16th 1988 - A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.

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Written By: ultraviolet52 on 05/21/08 at 12:57 am

Celebrated my 6th Birthday at Chuck E Cheeses. Lots of fun!

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Written By: nally on 05/21/08 at 3:58 pm

Celebrated my 6th Birthday at Chuck E Cheeses. Lots of fun!

I'm glad you had a good time. :)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/24/08 at 1:02 am

May 24th 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom Local Government Act of 1988, an amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted, generating so much controversy that it was eventually repealed fifteen years later.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 05/24/08 at 1:13 am

May 24th 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom Local Government Act of 1988, an amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted, generating so much controversy that it was eventually repealed fifteen years later.

...and I won a spelling bee!

Also, teen country singer Billy Gilman was born. (Actually, he's no longer a teen as of tomorrow! But still...)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/08 at 1:52 am

May 27th 1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/08 at 1:00 am

May 29th 1988 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/12/08 at 1:43 am

June 12th 1988 - The Republic of Ireland beat England 1-0 at Euro88 thanks to a Ray Houghton headed goal. This was Ireland's first competitive match at a major football tournament.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 06/18/08 at 2:42 pm

20 years ago on this day, I believe my family and I were staying at a motel in Pismo Beach, CA. For me, it was my first time staying in that area; I enjoyed the experience and the surroundings. :) Too bad we didn't bring a camera at the time.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/19/08 at 4:56 am

June 19th 1988 - World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 miles long

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/08 at 1:45 am

June 23rd 1988 - James Hansen testifies to U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that it was 99% probable that global warming had begun.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: woops on 06/24/08 at 10:14 pm

This thread probably would get rude/ignorant comments, but whatthehey...

On June 25, Deborah (Debbie) Gibson became the youngest artist to write, produce, and record a #1 hit with "Foolish Beat" at age 17 and wrote the song at 14. The record still holds to this day.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: apollonia1986 on 06/25/08 at 6:45 pm

June 25, 1988--Michael Jackson landed in Paris France to perform two concerts at Parc Des Princes during his "Bad" world tour. :)

Oh, and it was my grandmother's 65th birthday! ;D

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/30/08 at 1:23 am

June 30th 1988 - French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is excommunicated by the Catholic church.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/08 at 2:06 am

July 1st 1988 - Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/08 at 1:46 am

July 3rd 1988 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/05/08 at 3:15 am

July 5th 1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/06/08 at 4:07 am

July 6th 1988 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 07/10/08 at 2:57 pm

Yesterday I was going to post in this thread, as I have a fond memory of July 9th, 1988...

I had my 8th birthday party at home, with boys from my 2nd grade class. We had a "sports" theme to the party; my parents set up an obstacle course in our backyard, in which we had to bat a ball off a tea, crawl under a towel suspended between two chairs, jump over a bucket of water, and run around a series of orange plastic cones. My cake was vanilla, and it had a "golf" motif, with a golfer figurine posing to make a putt. If I can get a picture of it scanned in, I will share it with you guys!

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: CeramicsFanatic on 07/10/08 at 3:28 pm

This time, twenty years ago, I was spending the summer at my brother's apartment in San Francisco... :)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: apollonia1986 on 07/10/08 at 3:56 pm

July 10, 1988--Prince performed in Paris, France on the Lovesexy tour.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: karen on 07/11/08 at 9:29 pm

Just started dating the man who I am now married to.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/08 at 2:00 am

July 23rd 1988 - General Ne Win, effective ruler of Myanmar since 1962 resigns after pro-democracy protests.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/08 at 2:01 am

For me, I was taking a gap week between jobs

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/08 at 12:17 pm

August 5th 1988 - Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 08/05/08 at 3:46 pm

Let's see, in August 1988 I was attending summer day camp for the first time. :)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/08 at 12:47 am

August 7th 1998 – Car bombs simultaneously exploded at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing over 200 people and injuring over 4,500 others.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Sean1983 on 08/07/08 at 3:22 am

Twenty years ago on Saturday, Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the LA Kings, perhaps the biggest trade in hockey history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FqlB98R40o
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/topstory/sports/gretzky_trade.jpg

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 08/07/08 at 11:25 am

In August 1988, we went on a house boating trip at Lake Shasta for two weeks. We were mainly with my Dad's side of the family, except for a few of my mom's side cousins also came along. It was tight quarters and sometimes boredom would sit in. I just remember listening to Phil Collins a lot and then dunking into the lake a few times.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 08/07/08 at 5:36 pm

August 7th 1998 – Car bombs simultaneously exploded at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing over 200 people and injuring over 4,500 others.

Did that happen in 1998 or 1988? :o ???

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/08 at 1:48 am

Did that happen in 1998 or 1988? :o ???
Oops!!!

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/08 at 1:49 am

August 8th 1988 - The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 08/08/08 at 9:46 am

Oops!!!

Well if it happened in '98, then it belongs in the 10 Years Ago thread. Otherwise it should be modified to say 1988.

August 8th 1988 - The "8888 Uprising" occurs in Burma.

Well, the date was written with all eights! :D

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 08/11/08 at 1:10 pm

Let's see...August 11, 1988 was a Thursday, and it was most likely a day when I went to summer day camp, because I was going on Tuesdays and Thursdays that year. :)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Class of 84 on 08/15/08 at 9:29 pm

August of 88, just barely 2 months into my new marriage, NFL preseason gearing up, probably already started arguing about my football watching habits.....

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/20/08 at 1:51 am

August 20th 1988 - "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/25/08 at 11:01 pm

August 26th 1988 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 08/25/08 at 11:04 pm

Let's see...in August 1988, besides attending summer day camp, I also watched reruns of "Get Smart" on an independent affiliate channel in my area. I always got a kick out of the humor on that show. Oh, and this station stopped airing the reruns on August the 26th.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 08/28/08 at 2:05 am

August 28 1988: 70 people die and over 500 are injured at the international Airshow at Ramstein Airbase after one of the most shocking mid-air collisions ever.

The death toll could have been (much) lower, if only burn victims would have been treated appropriately before transport and there had been some sort of coordination/communication between different groups of aid workers.
It is worth noting that only "real" burn victims received some sort of financial compensation. There has never been any (financial) compensation for those who lost a dear one in the disaster.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Henk on 08/28/08 at 2:41 pm

Thanks for copying the above, Philip. Saves me the trouble. ;)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 09/07/08 at 11:56 am

In September 1988, I was getting ready to start 3rd grade.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/17/08 at 9:54 pm

September 18th 1988 - End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students) were killed by the Tatmadaw.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: coqueta83 on 09/17/08 at 10:38 pm

September 1988......I was in the 5th grade. Really does seem like yesterday. :\'(

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 09/17/08 at 11:13 pm

And I was just starting the 3rd grade. My first day, for the record, was September the 13th (a Tuesday, for the record). It was the latest date that I ever started school.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/19/08 at 1:49 am

September 19th 1988 - Greg Louganis (diver) suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics; goes on to win two Gold medals.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 09/19/08 at 3:49 pm

Yes...I remember that the Summer Olympics had started later in the year, but I did not recall Greg Louganis' injury. I also remember that he went on to win the gold medals.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 09/20/08 at 4:11 pm

It's funny, as I seem to remember the Winter Olympics better from '88 than I do the Summer Olympics.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 09/20/08 at 4:24 pm

It's funny, as I seem to remember the Winter Olympics better from '88 than I do the Summer Olympics.

Me too...in February '88 I was enjoying watching the Winter Olympics from Calgary. :)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: coqueta83 on 09/20/08 at 6:54 pm

I remember watching some of the 1988 Summer Olympics from Seoul, Korea. If my memory serves right, I believe Greg hit his head on a diving board during practice. :(

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/21/08 at 2:53 am

I remember watching some of the 1988 Summer Olympics from Seoul, Korea. If my memory serves right, I believe Greg hit his head on a diving board during practice. :(

September 19th 1988 - Greg Louganis (diver) suffers a head injury while qualifying for the Seoul Olympics; goes on to win two Gold medals.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: apollonia1986 on 09/22/08 at 6:14 pm

^^ I was a baby when it happened, but my mom said she remembered seeing it on TV when it happened. That poor man :( ^^

September 22, 1988:

Prince and the New Power Generation plays in Cincinati, OH during the Lovesexy World Tour. I can't beleive that back in the day a Prince ticket was 20 bucks! Now it's 200 hundred for the nosebleeds! :( I'll blow a pupil trying to locate him onstage! >:( ;D

http://prince-live.com/images/ticket/1988-09-22-tic.jpg

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/23/08 at 1:17 am

September 23rd 1988 - José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: apollonia1986 on 09/23/08 at 3:20 pm

^^I don't wanna sound stupid, but what's the 40-40 club?^^

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 09/23/08 at 3:24 pm

It has to do with baseball. 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases, I think. ;)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 09/23/08 at 3:39 pm

On the subject of baseball, my L.A. Dodger team was on its way to winning its division 20 years ago this month. 8)

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/24/08 at 12:53 am

September 24th 1988 – Canadian Ben Johnson finished the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world record time of 9.79 seconds, ahead of rivals Carl Lewis and Linford Christie, but was later disqualified for doping.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: apollonia1986 on 09/24/08 at 4:43 pm

September 24, 1988--Prince and the New Power Generation play Charlotte, NC on the Lovesexy World Tour.

And thanks Nally for the 40-40 info. I don't know much about baseball. I'm a basketball fan. LOL.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/27/08 at 1:47 am

September 27th 1988 - The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/29/08 at 2:38 am

September 29th 1988 - Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/04/08 at 3:21 am

October 4th 1988 - U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/05/08 at 1:26 am

October 5th 1988 - The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeat Augusto Pinochet in his re-election intentions. Next year a general election was called.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 10/09/08 at 10:00 pm

20 years ago, the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets were playing in the National League Championship Series to determine which team would represent the National League in the World Series. In L.A., fans were repeatedly chanting "Beat the Mets! Beat the Mets!", since the Mets were heavily favored, and they had beaten the Dodgers in all but one game in the regular-season series between the two teams.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/12/08 at 4:26 am

October 12th 1988 - Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 10/12/08 at 11:03 pm

October 12th 1988 - Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.

This was also the day that the Los Angeles Dodgers won Game 7 of the National League Championship Series, defeating the New York Mets and advancing to the World Series!

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 10/15/08 at 2:07 pm

October 15, 1988: The Los Angeles Dodgers won the first game of the World Series, defeating the Oakland Athletics 5-4, on a walk-off 2-run pinch-hit home run in the 9th inning by Kirk Gibson. That comeback may be remembered as one of the most historic in World Series history, especially since Gibson wasn't expected to play that night.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 10/20/08 at 12:55 pm

October 20, 1988: The Dodgers won the World Series, defeating the Oakland Athletics in 5 games. Orel Hershiser was named series MVP.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/28/08 at 7:53 pm

October 29th 1988 - Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as Governor of Sindh, following the efforts by President of Pakistan Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/29/08 at 7:11 pm

October 30th 1988 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for U.S. $13.1 billion.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/15/08 at 9:10 am

November 15th 1988 – The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, unmanned, on her first and only space flight.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/16/08 at 1:44 am

November 16th 1988 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/18/08 at 1:54 am

November 18th 1988 - War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for murder in regards to drug traffickers

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/19/08 at 2:20 am

November 19th 1988 - Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declared that Serbia was under attack from Albanian separatism in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/21/08 at 2:42 am

November 21st 1988 - Canadian federal election, 1988 - Canadians re-elect the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney after an election campaign fought mainly over the issue of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/08 at 3:34 am

November 22nd 1988 – The first B-2 stealth bomber of the United States Air Force was first displayed in public at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/24/08 at 6:03 pm

November 25th 1988 - German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/29/08 at 6:31 pm

November 30th 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/01/08 at 3:11 am

December 1st 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/08 at 1:58 am

December 2nd 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/06/08 at 6:13 pm

December 7th 1988 – An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 6.9 struck the Spitak region of Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union, killing at least 25,000 people

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: muchmusicbaby on 12/08/08 at 9:04 am

20 years ago, I was in kindergarten

I loved Rainbow Brite

Cinderella was my favourite Disney movie

I remember seeing Prince's Batdance video and Captain EO at Disney World

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/09/08 at 1:34 am

December 9th 1988 - The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/12/08 at 2:04 am

December 12th 1988 – In one of the worst railway accidents in the United Kingdom in recent times, a total of 35 people died and 500 others were injured during two collisions between three commuter trains near the Clapham Junction railway station in London.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/08 at 4:01 am

December 22nd 1988 - Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/31/08 at 7:05 pm

January 1st 1989 - The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer comes into force.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 01/01/09 at 2:43 am

I had lots of eventful memories in the year 1989.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/30/09 at 4:34 am

January 30th 1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 02/08/09 at 7:32 pm

On February 8, 1989---Ash Wednesday---I had my very first exposure to snow. It was an interesting experience for me. :D

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/19/09 at 6:53 am

On February 8, 1989---Ash Wednesday---I had my very first exposure to snow. It was an interesting experience for me. :D
Was there a snowball fight that day?

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 02/26/09 at 5:02 pm

Was there a snowball fight that day?

I don't think so. The snow wasn't as thick as it gets in other parts of the world. I'd like to share a picture at some point, though.

On February 26, 1989, I went to go see a play adaptation of 'Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory'. A boy in my third grade class was in it, playing the role of Mike T.V., the character who was so obsessed with television. When it came time for his "shrinking" scene, he jumped off the stage and was replaced by a tiny doll.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nicole1977 on 02/26/09 at 5:13 pm

I was 12 years old 20 years ago, having a ball. I went to my first concert in 1989, enter my womanhood (I'm not going to tell you what it is, but ladies, you know what I'm talking about). I went to see Batman and Leviathan in the movies in 1989. I had a lot of memories 20 years ago!

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 02/27/09 at 12:55 pm

I had lots of memories, too! I was 8 years old during the first half of the year, and 9 years old during the second half. I changed schools between 3rd and 4th grade, though.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: woops on 02/27/09 at 1:06 pm

5 years old and watching toy infomercials like "Ninja Turtles"

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/07/09 at 9:08 am

March 7th 1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Frank on 03/07/09 at 9:55 am

At the time I was dating a girl who was too "high maintenance" :-\\

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 03/08/09 at 9:36 pm

20 years ago, I was in the 3rd grade. I had almost-perfect attendance during my 3rd grade year; I went to school every day except for this day---Wednesday, March 8, 1989---because I was feeling sick that day. Thankfully I was feeling better the next day.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/09/09 at 2:44 am

March 9th 1989 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/13/09 at 2:29 am

March 13th 1989 - A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. Six million people were left without power for nine hours.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/15/09 at 9:58 am

March 15th 1989 - The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/18/09 at 5:07 am

March 18th 1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/09 at 3:10 am

March 19th 1989 - Egyptian Flag raised on Taba announcing the end of the Israeli Occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Peace negotiations in 1979.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 03/19/09 at 10:34 am

^Let's see...I remember that day was Palm Sunday, and I remember going to church in the morning. Afterwards, a friend of mine came over to my house, and my family and I took him to play miniature golf with us.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 03/21/09 at 4:58 pm

March 21, 1989...Tuesday...after school I was invited by one of my 3rd grade classmates to his birthday celebration at Skateland, a roller skating arena. Several other members of my third grade class were invited, too...and showed up. I arrived at Skateland not knowing how to roller skate very well, so one of my friends (who was among the oldest in the class) showed me how. Pretty soon, I was confident about roller skating, and it was something I enjoyed...so anytime I went back there I had a great time!

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: 90steen on 03/22/09 at 5:53 pm

I was in third grade too. And i think l;ate march is when we had testing. Our teacher would let us bring in snacks and stuff. I don't remember it in details.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/24/09 at 12:40 pm

March 24th 1989 – The tanker Exxon Valdez spilled more than 10 million U.S. gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing one of the most devastating man-made environmental disasters at sea.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 03/24/09 at 1:03 pm

March 24, 1989...was Good Friday...but for some reason I don't remember having the day off from school. Probably because my school took the middle week of April as their spring break.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 03/30/09 at 12:51 pm

I know March 29th was yesterday, but I wasn't online so today I gotta mention that on that day in 1989 I went on a whale-watching field trip with my 3rd grade class. Some of the kids' parents accompanied them, including my mom; we took dramamine before setting sail so we wouldn't get seasick.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/01/09 at 1:32 am

April 1st 1989 - Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the 'poll tax'), is introduced in Scotland.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/02/09 at 6:08 am

April 2nd 1989 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 04/03/09 at 12:49 pm

April 3, 1989...I remember that in southern California, summer seemed to be coming early because we had record-breaking heat during the whole week. Temperatures actually got up to 100 degrees F. 8-P

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/07/09 at 1:38 am

April 7th 1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/08/09 at 1:26 am

April 8th 1989 – South Africa: The Democratic Party is formed from the merger of four parties.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/08/09 at 1:26 am

April 8th 1989 – The two Greek Communist parties, along with smaller left-wing parties, merge to form the Coalition of the Left and Progress in Greece.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 04/08/09 at 11:11 pm

By around this date in 1989, the weather finally started to cool off in Southern California.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/09/09 at 1:57 am

April 9th 1989 – An anti-Soviet demonstration in Tbilisi, Georgia, was quashed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/09 at 1:50 am

April 15th 1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/15/09 at 1:50 am

April 15th 1989 – Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of football club Sheffield Wednesday, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool F.C. fans.

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Written By: nally on 04/19/09 at 10:41 pm

April 19, 1989...I went to a Dodgers baseball game with my family; my team defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 3 to goose egg. 8) O0

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Written By: Philip Eno on 04/21/09 at 1:08 am

April 21st 1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.

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Written By: nally on 04/26/09 at 4:45 pm

April 26, 1989: Actress/comedian Lucille Ball died in a Los Angeles hospital at age 77. :\'(

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/01/09 at 1:31 am

May 1st 1989 – Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/04/09 at 1:21 am

May 4th 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.

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Written By: nally on 05/09/09 at 12:38 pm

^I sorta remember that.

Anyho, on Tuesday, May 9, 1989...I took part in a spelling bee with more than 100 other kids from various schools in the Los Angeles area. This spelling bee was held at a shopping mall, in the evening...and with 140 total kids, each one had to wait a mighty long time to spell his or her next word. But as more kids were eliminated, we didn't have to wait quite as long. When I was asked to spell the word "celebrity", I think I may have been feeling tired, since what I thought was the correct spelling didn't sound right. So I decided to bail out and go home. That was the only time I was in a spelling bee that I did NOT win.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 05/20/09 at 1:41 am

May 20th 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/09 at 12:43 am

June 3rd1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

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Written By: nally on 06/03/09 at 12:07 pm

And on that day in sports, I believe that the L.A. Dodgers and Houston Astros played their longest game in terms of time: 7 hours and some minutes! It finally ended on the morning of the 4th, sometime after 2.

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Written By: Henk on 06/03/09 at 2:41 pm

June 3rd1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.

According to the International Red Cross, as many as 2600 protesters might have been killed in the night of 3 to 4 June 1989.

The Chinese people were never (fully) informed about the massacre, and commemorations are forbidden in China (except for Hong Kong).

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/09 at 2:43 pm

According to the International Red Cross, as many as 2600 protesters might have been killed in the night of 3 to 4 June 1989.

The Chinese people were never (fully) informed about the massacre, and commemorations are forbidden in China (except for Hong Kong).
My wife was in the Philippines that time and tells me that it was not reported over there.

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Written By: karen on 06/03/09 at 3:05 pm

According to the International Red Cross, as many as 2600 protesters might have been killed in the night of 3 to 4 June 1989.

The Chinese people were never (fully) informed about the massacre, and commemorations are forbidden in China (except for Hong Kong).

A year after Tiananmen Square I was talking to a Chinese visiting student at work. He'd never heard anything of the protests at all. And he wouldn't believe that they had happened.

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Written By: Henk on 06/03/09 at 3:11 pm

A year after Tiananmen Square I was talking to a Chinese visiting student at work. He'd never heard anything of the protests at all. And he wouldn't believe that they had happened.

Shocking.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/09 at 1:52 am

June 4th 1989 – The People's Liberation Army violently cracked down on the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, leaving at least 241 dead and 7,000 wounded, and causing widespread international condemnation of the Chinese government.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/09 at 1:52 am

June 4th 1989 – Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.

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Written By: nally on 06/08/09 at 1:07 pm

June 8, 1989 (Thursday) was my last day of 3rd grade. Three months later, I would be starting 4th grade at a different school...a public one.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 06/23/09 at 1:46 am

June 23rd 1989 – The Supreme Court ruled that Congress had gone too far in passing a law banning all sexually oriented phone message services.

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Written By: nally on 06/30/09 at 11:05 pm

^Also, I think the movie Batman had premiered in theaters.

Anyhoo, on June 30, 1989...my family and I went to a Dodger game; I brought along a friend from my 3rd grade class (who would now be 30 years old...I wonder what he's up to now). Even though the Dodgers lost that game to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3, we still had a great time being there; we also stayed for the fireworks show afterwards.

By the time we got my friend back home to his house--at the west end of the San Fernando Valley, close to the Santa Susana Mountains--it was almost midnight...the beginning of July 1st!

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/05/09 at 3:17 am

July 5th 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service.

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Written By: 2kidsami on 07/06/09 at 2:21 pm

July 5th 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service.

OMG -this was the longest summer ever... Nothing on tv except for the trial :P

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Written By: nally on 07/06/09 at 3:31 pm

OMG -this was the longest summer ever... Nothing on tv except for the trial :P

I do sorta remember hearing about that, but I didn't pay much attention to the news at the time; I was almost 9 years old and was attending summer day camp for the second year in a row.

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Written By: nally on 07/08/09 at 2:08 pm

July 8, 1989 ~ I had a celebration for my 9th birthday at a roller skating rink and invited at least 20 or 30 friends. It was the first time my mom did NOT bake a cake for me; she got a store-bought cake because we had to serve lots of kids. Among my gifts were two copies of the movie E.T.-The Extra-Terrestrial.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/09/09 at 1:40 am

July 9th 1989 – Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.

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Written By: nally on 07/11/09 at 6:17 pm

July 11th 1989: I turned 9, and since that day was a Tuesday, I spent the day at summer day camp.

Also, actor David Henrie (currently best known for his role as Justin Rousseau on the Disney Channel original sitcom Wizards Of Waverly Place) was born.

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Written By: nally on 07/16/09 at 5:10 pm

On this date 20 years ago (July 16) my family and I went to Disneyland and got there in the afternoon to meet my mom's cousin from Seattle, and her family, who'd been there since the morning. It was my first time taking pictures at an event.

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Written By: mgmmcdowell on 07/17/09 at 1:22 pm

Regarding the original post:

George Michael's 'Faith' was released...

I remember that it was an uproar for radio stations to play 'I Want Your Sex' on the radio. It was a huge comotion.

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Written By: whistledog on 07/17/09 at 9:38 pm

The (then) current Top 50 in Canada for July 17, 1989 ...

01 | Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
02 | Express Yourself - Madonna
03 | Baby Don't Forget My Number - Milli Vanilli
04 | If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red
05 | Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
06 | This Time I Know It's For Real - Donna Summer
07 | The Doctor - The Doobie Brothers
08 | Satisfied - Richard Marx
09 | Batdance - Prince
10 | I Drove All Night - Cyndi Lauper
11 | Toy Soldiers - Martika
12 | So Alive - Love and Rockets
13 | I'll Be Lovin' You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
14 | Rooms on Fire - Stevie Nicks
15 | I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
16 | The End of the Innocence - Don Henley
17 | Crazy About Her - Rod Stewart
18 | My Brave Face - Paul McCartney
19 | Cry - Waterfront
20 | Dressed For Success - Roxette
21 | Trouble Me - 10,000 Maniacs
22 | Pop Singer - John Cougar Mellencamp
23 | On Our Own - Bobby Brown
24 | Rock N Roll Duty - Kim Mitchell http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
25 | Love Is - Alannah Myles http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
26 | Hard Sun - Indio http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
27 | Unborn Heart - Dan Hill http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
28 | Hey Baby - Henry Lee Summer
29 | Lay Your Hands on Me - Bon Jovi
30 | What You Don't Know - Expose
31 | Rock On - Michael Damian
32 | Boomtown - Andrew Cash http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
33 | Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey Band http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
34 | Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
35 | Patience - Guns 'N Roses
36 | I Want it All - Queen
37 | Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
38 | Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
39 | Miss You Like Crazy - Natalie Cole
40 | Who Do You Give Your Love To - Michael Morales
41 | Harry Houdini - Kon Kan http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
42 | Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
43 | Missing You - Candi http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
44 | Everlasting Love - Howard Jones
45 | Fire Woman - The Cult
46 | Through the Storm - Aretha Franklin and Elton John
47 | No More Rhyme - Debbie Gibson
48 | Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
49 | Beautiful White - The Pursuit of Happiness http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
50 | Misguided Angel - Cowboy Junkies http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png

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Written By: Frank on 07/17/09 at 9:58 pm

The (then) current Top 50 in Canada for July 17, 1989 ...

01 | Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
02 | Express Yourself - Madonna
03 | Baby Don't Forget My Number - Milli Vanilli
04 | If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red
05 | Buffalo Stance - Neneh Cherry
06 | This Time I Know It's For Real - Donna Summer
07 | The Doctor - The Doobie Brothers
08 | Satisfied - Richard Marx
09 | Batdance - Prince
10 | I Drove All Night - Cyndi Lauper
11 | Toy Soldiers - Martika
12 | So Alive - Love and Rockets
13 | I'll Be Lovin' You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
14 | Rooms on Fire - Stevie Nicks
15 | I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
16 | The End of the Innocence - Don Henley
17 | Crazy About Her - Rod Stewart
18 | My Brave Face - Paul McCartney
19 | Cry - Waterfront
20 | Dressed For Success - Roxette
21 | Trouble Me - 10,000 Maniacs
22 | Pop Singer - John Cougar Mellencamp
23 | On Our Own - Bobby Brown
24 | Rock N Roll Duty - Kim Mitchell http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
25 | Love Is - Alannah Myles http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
26 | Hard Sun - Indio http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
27 | Unborn Heart - Dan Hill http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
28 | Hey Baby - Henry Lee Summer
29 | Lay Your Hands on Me - Bon Jovi
30 | What You Don't Know - Expose
31 | Rock On - Michael Damian
32 | Boomtown - Andrew Cash http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
33 | Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey Band http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
34 | Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
35 | Patience - Guns 'N Roses
36 | I Want it All - Queen
37 | Soldier of Love - Donny Osmond
38 | Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
39 | Miss You Like Crazy - Natalie Cole
40 | Who Do You Give Your Love To - Michael Morales
41 | Harry Houdini - Kon Kan http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
42 | Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
43 | Missing You - Candi http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
44 | Everlasting Love - Howard Jones
45 | Fire Woman - The Cult
46 | Through the Storm - Aretha Franklin and Elton John
47 | No More Rhyme - Debbie Gibson
48 | Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
49 | Beautiful White - The Pursuit of Happiness http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
50 | Misguided Angel - Cowboy Junkies http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png

Really liked these songs
Toy Soldiers - Martika
Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 3:27 pm

July 20th 1989 – Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/20/09 at 3:28 pm

July 20th 1989 – Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/09 at 3:31 am

July 26th 1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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Written By: nally on 07/30/09 at 4:33 pm

Yesterday it was 20 years to the day since my mom had her 20 year class reunion! :D

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Written By: nally on 07/30/09 at 4:34 pm

July 20th 1989 – Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.

Sometime during that year, the country's official name was changed to Myanmar...but lots of people still refer to it by its old name.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/02/09 at 4:26 am

August 2nd 1989 – 1989 Valvettiturai massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/05/09 at 1:01 am

August 5th 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/07/09 at 1:40 am

August 7th 1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 08/08/09 at 2:37 am

August 8th 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.

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Written By: nally on 08/24/09 at 8:54 am

Let's see...on Thursday, August 24, 1989, I believe I finished my second year of summer day camp.

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Written By: Frank on 08/25/09 at 1:09 am

Let's see...on Thursday, August 24, 1989, I believe I finished my second year of summer day camp.

You remember this?

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Written By: nally on 08/25/09 at 12:07 pm

You remember this?

Absolutely!!

I went to summer day camp for three straight years: 1988, 1989, and 1990.

In '89 I had lots of fond memories of day camp. I made several puppets, and played a certain video game just about every day.

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Written By: Frank on 08/26/09 at 1:23 am

Absolutely!!

I went to summer day camp for three straight years: 1988, 1989, and 1990.

In '89 I had lots of fond memories of day camp. I made several puppets, and played a certain video game just about every day.

You have an amazing memory.

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Written By: nally on 08/27/09 at 11:08 am

You have an amazing memory.

Yep. Among the activities we had at that summer daycamp was a gameroom with various arcade games (and all of them operated in free mode, that way we didn't need to come up with our own coins and pay for playing them). I remembered one in particular: SonSon. At the time it looked like an interesting game, so I played it just about every day and did pretty well on it. And just a couple weeks or so ago I found some Youtube clips of the game. Viewing them brought back the memories.

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Written By: nally on 09/03/09 at 12:58 pm

Yesterday (Sept. 2nd) marked 20 years since we first replaced the carpet in our home. Today (Sept. 3rd) marks 20 years since my family and I went to Knotts Berry Farm with a friend of mine. :)

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Written By: nally on 09/12/09 at 3:36 pm

I believe that Tuesday, September 12, 1989, was the day I officially began 4th grade. Probably one of my worst school years ever.

Also, it was my first ever experience with public school.

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Written By: Frank on 09/12/09 at 5:20 pm

I believe that Tuesday, September 12, 1989, was the day I officially began 4th grade. Probably one of my worst school years ever.

Around this time I was sort of dating a girl that the words "high-maintenance" was made for. She drove me nuts. Never seen anyone so moody in my life.

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Written By: nally on 10/17/09 at 2:17 am

October 17, 1989: Game Three of the 1989 World Series was about to begin between the Oakland A's and San Francisco Giants, but a strong earthquake shook the Bay Area, and cancelled the gameplay, postponing the continuation of the series for at least a week.

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Written By: BrandyBlue on 10/25/09 at 7:38 pm

"Hysteria" happened!!! and Joe Elliot is still YUMMY!!!http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/796/383/66/o_JmrsiCVy6EkbRWM.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ioffer.com/n/4140616&usg=__HtTSYeY-M2D9jwMsh3OdP1tzwJQ=&h=580&w=454&sz=58&hl=en&start=20&um=1&tbnid=QRX6hPCRt3L9cM:&tbnh=134&tbnw=105&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djoe%2Belliott%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DBPt%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 4:24 am

November 7th 1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 4:24 am

November 7th 1989 – David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/07/09 at 4:24 am

November 7th 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/09 at 1:53 am

November 8th 1989 – Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/08/09 at 1:54 am

November 8th 1989 - The Berlin Wall starts to come down.

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Written By: nally on 11/08/09 at 3:08 pm

November 8th 1989 - The Berlin Wall starts to come down.

I remember hearing about it on the news. Over the next couple of days, it was dismantled entirely.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 11/28/09 at 5:20 am

November 28th 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.

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Written By: nally on 12/04/09 at 4:18 pm

December 4, 1989: my mom was in a roller skating accident which permanently dislocated a bone in her right wrist.

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Written By: nally on 12/13/09 at 10:58 pm

During the second week of December 1989 I learned how to make Baggie wreaths. That was one of the few good things about my fourth grade year. However, I didn't get very far on my project in school because I was sick during the last three days of the week (December 13, 14, and 15)...which was the last week of school before the winter break. So the other kids in the class finished it up for me, and I made sure to thank them when I got back to school......in the 90's.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/09 at 1:00 am

December 17th 1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.

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Written By: nally on 12/17/09 at 4:36 pm

December 17th 1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.

Hard to believe that show is still being made 20 years later. I keep wondering if it will ever have a series finale.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/09 at 12:54 am

December 22nd 1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

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Written By: nally on 12/22/09 at 5:29 pm

December 22nd 1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

...and American singer Jordin Sparks was born.

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Written By: nally on 12/25/09 at 10:52 pm

One of my most memorable Christmases was that of 1989. I spent a couple hours putting baseball cards into an album while my parents prepared our holiday feast (with family over), and our dog Dusty gobbled up a cannoli intended for me.

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Written By: Frank on 12/26/09 at 1:14 am

One of my most memorable Christmases was that of 1989. I spent a couple hours putting baseball cards into an album while my parents prepared our holiday feast (with family over), and our dog Dusty gobbled up a cannoli intended for me.

Do you keep a diary, or do you actually remember all those things?

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: nally on 12/26/09 at 2:04 pm

Do you keep a diary, or do you actually remember all those things?

Well, I did actually keep a diary for a while during the 1990's. Most things stick in my mind for years to come, especially if I remember them well.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/28/09 at 6:49 am

December 28th 1989 - Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: Frank on 12/28/09 at 1:08 pm

Well, I did actually keep a diary for a while during the 1990's. Most things stick in my mind for years to come, especially if I remember them well.

Amazing memory recall.

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Written By: nally on 12/28/09 at 1:27 pm

Amazing memory recall.

And I might have some recollections of what I was doing during the final weekend of the 1980's.

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Written By: Frank on 12/28/09 at 3:36 pm

And I might have some recollections of what I was doing during the final weekend of the 1980's.

I don't know what I did on Dec 31, 1989, but it might have involved some Mexican girls. ::)

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Written By: nally on 12/28/09 at 3:38 pm

I don't know what I did on Dec 31, 1989, but it might have involved some Mexican girls. ::)

I remember it was a Sunday. How could I forget that? :D

I was most likely at home with the family.

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Written By: nally on 12/31/09 at 5:44 pm

For continuation of this thread, you may follow the new one.

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Written By: Philip Eno on 12/31/09 at 5:45 pm

For continuation of this thread, you may follow the new one.
Will do!

Subject: Re: The 20 Years Ago Thread

Written By: coqueta83 on 12/31/09 at 7:24 pm

I would've been listening to Casey Kasem countdown the biggest hits of the 1980s 20 years ago today. :) :)

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Written By: Philip Eno on 01/03/10 at 5:54 am

This topic should be locked now.

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Written By: Bobo on 01/03/10 at 1:09 pm

Done and done. :D

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