August 1988 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1988 Deep Rover one-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon.
• 02 Aug 1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
• 03 Aug 1988 Skip Storch swims 246 km of Hudson River from Albany to New York City
• 04 Aug 1988 US Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II.
• 05 Aug 1988 Mario Biaggi (Representative-Democrat-New York), convicted of racketeering, resigns seat.
• 06 Aug 1988 Oakland Athletics Jose Canseco becomes 11th to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases
• 07 Aug 1988 Martha Nause wins Planters Pat Bradley International Golf Tournament
• 08 Aug 1988 9th US Seniors Golf Open: Gary Player
• 09 Aug 1988 Just one day after 8/8/88 New York lottery's daily number is 888.
• 10 Aug 1988 Matt Biondi swims world record 100m free style
• 11 Aug 1988 225 at bats after #299, Met Gary Carter is 59th to hit 300th HR
• 12 Aug 1988 Movie Last Temptation of Christ is released
• 13 Aug 1988 Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit Opens
• 14 Aug 1988 70th PGA Championship: Jeff Sluman shoots a 272 at Oak Tree Golf Club - Edmond
• 15 Aug 1988 At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
• 16 Aug 1988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
• 17 Aug 1988 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
• 18 Aug 1988 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island, New York sells for $22 million.
• 19 Aug 1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war
• 20 Aug 1988 6.5 earthquake strikes India / Nepal, 1,000s killed
• 21 Aug 1988 Cease fire between Iran and Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
• 22 Aug 1988 NBC premieres Later with Bob Costas
• 23 Aug 1988 Mike Tyson and Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
• 25 Aug 1988 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
• 27 Aug 1988 Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2
• 28 Aug 1988 40th Emmy Awards: 30something, Wonder Years and Richard Kiley
• 29 Aug 1988 USSR launches 3 Cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
• 30 Aug 1988 Julianne Philips files for divorce from Bruce Springsteen
• 31 Aug 1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins

Famous Birthday

• G-Dragon

  South Korean singer-songwriter rapper producer and dancer (Big Bang).

• Rupert Grint

  Movie Actor.

• Rumer Willis

  American actress and singer, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Wife Demi Moore.

• Alexa Vega

  American actress.

• Princess Beatrice of York

  British royal.

• Tori Black

  American porn actress.

• Rachel Legrain-Trapani
• Madalina Ghenea
• Jeremy Lin

  American basketball player.

• Robert Lewandowski

  Polish football player, playing for the Bayern Munich and captaining his national team.

• MØ (singer)
• Alice Glass
• Ernests Gulbis

  Latvian tennis player.

• Federica Pellegrini

  Italian swimmer.

• Pingping He
• Alexandra Burke

  English singer.

• Sasha Jackson

  English-American actress.

• Evan Ross

  American actor.

• Siri Tollerød
• Brady Corbet

  American actor director and screenwriter.

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Famous Deaths

• Jean-Michel Basquiat

  American painter and graffiti artist (Born 1960).

• Pauline Lafont

  French actress, daughter of Diourka Medveczky, Hungarian sculptor, and Bernadette Lafont, French actress.

• Victoria Shaw

  Australian actress and astrologer.

• Raymond Carver

  American poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at age 50 (born 1938).

• Max Shulman

  American writer, screenwriter and playwright best known for creating the adventurous 1950's teen Dobie Gillis.

• Roy Buchanan

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Snakestretchers) (d. 1988).

• Alan Napier

  American actor (Alfred the butler on Batman), at age 85 (born 1903).

• Paul Francis Lloyd

  Entertainer.

• Barry Bingham Sr

  US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82.

• Mohammed Zia ul-Haq

  President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash.

• Ray Buchanan

  US blues gitarist, dies at about 48.

• Leonard Frey

  Actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49.

• Ray Eames

  American designer, artist and architect (Born 1912).

• Carlos Paiao

  Portuguese singer (Born 1957).

• John Cardinal Dearden

  US cardinal, dies at age 80.

• Arias Arnulfo

  three-time president of Panama, dies at age 86.

• Adela Rogers Saint John

  journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at age 94.

• Otto E Passman

  American politician (Representative-Democrat-Louisiana, 1947-77), dies at age 88.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr

  American lawyer and politician (Representative-Democrat-New York, 1949-55) dies on 74th birthday (born 1914).

• Felix Leclerc

  Quebec singer and songwriter (Born 1914).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Steve Winwood - Roll With It
2. George Michael - Monkey
3. Breathe - Hands To Heaven
4. Elton John - I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That
5. Richard Marx - Hold On To The Nights

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Yazz & The Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up
2. Kylie Minogue - The Loco-Motion
3. BVSMP - I Need You
4. Kim Wilde - You Came
5. Brother Beyond - The Harder I Try