October 1988 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1988 Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens
• 02 Oct 1988 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea
• 03 Oct 1988 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th and 45th Sts, New York City
• 04 Oct 1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid.
• 05 Oct 1988 Brazil adopts its Constitution
• 06 Oct 1988 Oakland Athletics sweep Boston Red Sox in four games for American League pennant.
• 07 Oct 1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager
• 08 Oct 1988 Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
• 09 Oct 1988 17% vote extremely-right Flemish Block in Belgium
• 10 Oct 1988 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
• 12 Oct 1988 George Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in 2nd debate
• 13 Oct 1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
• 14 Oct 1988 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment
• 15 Oct 1988 NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma).
• 16 Oct 1988 Smile Jamaica concert for Hurricane Gilbert victims held in London
• 17 Oct 1988 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
• 19 Oct 1988 Roxette releases Roxette Look Sharp! album
• 20 Oct 1988 Dodgers win World Series, LA 1st to have both NBA and baseball champs as LA beats Oakland Athletics, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series
• 21 Oct 1988 Boston Celtics beat Yugoslavia 113-85 in Madrid, Spain.
• 22 Oct 1988 Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time
• 23 Oct 1988 Boston Celtics play Spain in Madrid.
• 24 Oct 1988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
• 26 Oct 1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
• 27 Oct 1988 ET released to home video
• 28 Oct 1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
• 29 Oct 1988 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
• 30 Oct 1988 Beth Daniel wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship
• 31 Oct 1988 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia.

Famous Birthday

• ASAP Rocky

  American rapper and producer (ASAP Mob).

• Candice Swanepoel

  South African model.

• Alicia Vikander

  Movie Actress.

• Mark Rendall
• Derrick Rose

  American basketball player.

• Mohammed Merah

  French serial killer and terrorist.

• Mesut Özil

  German footballer.

• Gaëtane (Nouvelle Star)
• Devon Murray

  Irish singer and actor.

• Maja Salvador

  TV Actress.

• Max Thieriot

  American actor.

• Melissa Benoist

  TV Actress.

• Maki Horikita

  Japanese model and actress.

• Cariba Heine

  Australian actress.

• Janel Parrish

  American actress.

• Sébastien Buemi

  Swiss race car driver.

• Carrie Finklea

  American actress.

• Raphaël Lakafia
• Bobby Edner

  American singer dancer and actor.

• ASAP Ferg

  Musician.

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Famous Deaths

• Felix Wankel

  German research engineer and inventor-developer of the rotary combustion engine, called the Wankel-motor.

• Franz Josef Strauss

  German Federal Republic minister of defense (1956-62), dies at age 73.

• Mary Morris

  Actress (Agitator, Double Door).

• Dimitri Frenkel Frank

  Writer / director (Hadimassa), dies at 60.

• Morgan Farley

  Actor (Open Secret), dies of natural causes at 90.

• S B Fuller

  Founder (Fuller products), dies at 83.

• Sugar Geise

  Actress (Rhythm Parade), dies after brief illness at 71.

• Edward Chodorov

  playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at age 84.

• Mike Venezia

  jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, New York.

• Asashio Taro III

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (Born 1929).

• Friedrich Weinreb

  Dutch economist, professor of econometrics, publicist and eminent mystical scholar on the Hebrew bible and its roots in kabbalah.

• T Hee

  American animator and director (d. 1988).

• Alfred Pellan

  Canadian painter and educator (d. 1988).

• Coby Whitmore

  American painter and magazine illustrator (Born 1913).

• Ruth Manning-Sanders

  Welsh poet and children's book author (Born 1886).

• Billy Daniels

  Jacksonville, Florida -- Singer ( Show).

• Alec Issigonis

  Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (Born 1906).

• Wayland Flowers

  Ventriloquist (Madame), dies of AIDS at 48.

• Bill Cody

  Actor (Blazing Justice, Ghost City), dies at 75.

• Charles Hawtrey

  English actor (Carry On), dies near London at 73.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy (Edit)
2. Def Leppard - Love Bites
3. UB40 - Red Red Wine '88
4. Phil Collins - Groovy Kind Of Love
5. The Beach Boys - Kokomo

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time
2. U2 - Desire
3. The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
4. Enya - Orinoco Flow
5. Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy