September 1988 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1988 Nintendo releases the Super Mario Bros. 2 video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US.
• 04 Sep 1988 Mike Tyson crashes a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills, New York
• 05 Sep 1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
• 06 Sep 1988 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Canal
• 07 Sep 1988 5th MTV Awards
• 08 Sep 1988 Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation
• 09 Sep 1988 Braves Bruce Sutter joins Fingers and Gossage to save 300 games
• 10 Sep 1988 102nd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Gabriela Sabatini
• 11 Sep 1988 1 / 3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
• 12 Sep 1988 1st NFL regular-season game played in Phoenix; Cowboys beat Card
• 13 Sep 1988 9 hard / software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in New York
• 15 Sep 1988 Les Miserables, opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
• 16 Sep 1988 Cin Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0
• 17 Sep 1988 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
• 18 Sep 1988 Juli Inkster wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
• 19 Sep 1988 US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board
• 20 Sep 1988 Darrell Evans hits his 400th career home run
• 21 Sep 1988 Mike Tyson smashes TV camera outside his Bernardsville New Jersey home
• 22 Sep 1988 Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
• 23 Sep 1988 Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon
• 24 Sep 1988 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal Bishop
• 25 Sep 1988 Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter and Matt Biondi, swim world record 4x100 m freestyle
• 26 Sep 1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
• 27 Sep 1988 Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story
• 28 Sep 1988 LA Dodger Orel Hershiser sets record for consecutive scoreless inns
• 29 Sep 1988 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
• 30 Sep 1988 Andrei A Gromyko retires

Famous Birthday

• Dounia Coesens
• Kevin Durant

  American basketball player.

• Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

  Pakistani politician.

• Coco Rocha

  Canadian fashion model.

• Juan Martín del Potro
• Gustav Schafer

  German drummer (Tokio Hotel).

• Lilly Singh

  YouTube Star.

• Kiira Korpi

  Finnish figure skater.

• Esmée Denters

  Dutch singer-songwriter.

• Martin Fourcade

  French biathlete, cross-country skier, and non-commissioned officer.

• Katrina Bowden

  TV Actress.

• James Blake (musician)
• Chelsea Kane

  TV Actress.

• Max George (singer)
• Chanel West Coast
• Arizona Muse

  Model.

• Kevin Love

  American basketball player.

• Tegucigalpa (Honduras)
• Justin Nozuka

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

• McKey Sullivan
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Famous Deaths

• Charles Addams

  American cartoonist, the creator of gentle, ghoulish drawings that are chilling but charming, wicked without being mean-spirited.

• Henry Koster

  German-American director producer and screenwriter (d. 1988).

• Marjorie Bonner Lowry

  Actress (Reno, Poor Girls), dies at 83.

• Christine Norden

  Actress (Little Shop of Horroers, Night Beat).

• John Sylvester White

  American actor (Born 1919).

• Robert Gwathmey

  artist, dies at age 85.

• Leonor Sullivan

  American politician (Representative-Democrat-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at age 86.

• George Alpert

  railroad executive, dies at age 90.

• Luis W Alvarez

  physicist (Nobel Prize-1968), dies at age 77.

• Alan Bible

  American politician (Senator-Democrat-Nevada, 1954-74), dies at age 78.

• Oren Lee Staley

  first president of US National Farmers Organization (1955-79), dies at age 65.

• William V Shannon

  US ambassador to Ireland (1977-81), dies at age 61.

• Joachim Prinz

  author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at age 86.

• Gert Frobe

  German actor (Born 1913).

• Leroy Brown

  wrestler (Born 1950).

• Peter Tosh

  Jamaican reggae singer (The Wailers) (d. 1987).

• Tibor Sekelj

  Hungarian explorer and author (d. 1988).

• Ethel Grandin

  Silent screen actress (Deserter), dies at 94.

• Rais Amrohvi

  Pakistani psychoanalyst poet and scholar (d. 1988).

• Al Holbert

  American race car driver and team owner (Born 1946).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. George Michael - Monkey
2. Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
3. Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy (Edit)
4. Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
5. Def Leppard - Love Bites

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Phil Collins - Groovy Kind Of Love
2. Whitney Houston - One Moment In Time
3. The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
4. U2 - Desire
5. Womack & Womack - Teardrops