In 1988, comedienne Roseanne got her own television series. Prescriptions were first written for the anti-depressant Prozac. Sony Bono was elected the Mayor of Palm Springs, California. The price of a postage stamp rose from 22¢ to 25¢. The 53 year old tradition of night baseball came to an end at Wrigley Field. Fire consumed over 1 million acres of Yellowstone National Park. Rogaine was released. Corporate sponsorships of music tours was the thing to do in 1988 with Pepsi backing Madonna, Diet Coke backing George Michael, Budweiser behind the Stones, and Eric Clapton was sponsored by Michelob. The Cars broke up. After 18 years as host of American Top 40, Casey Kasem left to host a similar show for Westwood One Radio Network. His replacement was Shadoe Stevens of TV's Hollywood Squares. Roy Orbison passed away after a heart attack at the age of 52. Song of the Year went to "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin.
| Pop | Country |
| *Roll With It-Steve Winwood | *When You Say Nothing At All-Keith Whitley |
| *Ever Rose Has It's Thorn-Poison | *I'll Leave This World Loving You-Ricky Van Shelton |
| *One More Try-George Michael | *Baby Blue-George Strait |
| *Could've Been-Tiffany | *Bluest Eyes In Texas-Restless Heart |
| *Never Gonna Give You Up-Rick Astley | *Addicted-Dan Seals |
| *Man In The Mirror-Michael Jackson | *Honky Tonk Moon-Randy Travis |
| *Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car-Billy Ocean | *Strong Enough To Bend-Tanya Tucker |
| *Where Do Broken Hearts Go-Whitney Houston | *Gonna Take A Lot Of River-Oak Ridge Boys |
| *Night Court | *The Golden Girls |
| *Who's the Boss? | *Cheers |
| *A Different World | *Murder, She Wrote |
| *The Wonder Years | *60 Minutes |
| *Growing Pains | *The Cosby Show |
*Big Top Pee-Wee
*The Accused, Best Actress-Jodie Foster
*Rambo III
*A Fish Called Wanda
*Young Guns
*Rain Man, Best Actor-Dustin Hoffman, Best Picture
*Clara's Heart
*Big
*Who Framed Roger Rabbit
*Working Girl, Best Original Song-"Let The River Run" Carly Simon
*Alien Nation
*The nation endured a record-shattering
heat wave and drought during the summer.
*U.S. warship Vincennes, under assault by Iranian gunboats in the Persian Gulf,
mistook a civilian airliner on a routine flight for an attacking Iranian fighter plane and
shot it down killing all 290 people aboard the Iranian plane.
*Vice President George Bush Beat Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis in a
presidential race that created little national enthusiasm.
*A bomb exploded on a Pan Am 747 jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, on a flight from
London to New York, killing all 259 people aboard and a dozen on the ground.
*The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Oakland
A's 4 games to 1.
*The Detroit Pistons beat the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 0.
*The Calgary Flames beat the Montreal Canadiens 4 games to 2.
*The 1988-89 football season ended with the San Francisco '49ers over the Cincinnati
Bengals 20-16.
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