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1987 Soul Train Music Awards
The 1987 Soul Train Music Awards were the first edition of the annual awards honoring Black music, held March 23, 1987, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
1987 United Kingdom general election
1987 UK general election, held 11 June 1987 under first-past-the-post; Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives won a third term over Neil Kinnock's Labour and the SDP-Liberal Alliance; turnout 75.3 percent; Alliance parties merged in 1988.
1987 World Series
1987 World Series: Minnesota Twins beat St. Louis Cardinals 4-3, winning all four home games at the Metrodome; first all-home-team-wins Series, first indoor games, Frank Viola MVP, Twins 85-77.
1987–88 European Cup
The 1987–88 European Cup was the 33rd season of the European Champion Clubs' Cup, won by PSV Eindhoven, who beat Benfica 6-5 on penalties in Stuttgart.
1987–88 Football League
1987–88 Football League, 89th season of the English Football League. Liverpool won Division One with 90 points; Millwall reached the top flight first time; play-offs and automatic Conference exchange continued.
1987–88 NBA season
The 1987–88 NBA season was the 42nd season of the National Basketball Association, played by 23 teams and won by the Los Angeles Lakers, who beat Detroit in the Finals.
1987–88 United States network television schedule
The 1987–88 United States network television schedule covered ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, with NBC winning the ratings behind The Cosby Show and its Thursday comedy block.
1987: When the Day Comes
1987: When the Day Comes is a 2017 South Korean historical drama directed by Jang Joon-hwan. It depicts the death of Park Jong-chul and the June Democratic Uprising.
1988
1988: late Cold War year of the Geneva Accords on Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq ceasefire, the Moscow summit and INF ratification, Bush's 426-111 election win, the Seoul Olympics, the Lockerbie bombing, Spitak earthquake, Morris worm, and founding of the IPCC.
1988 Arab Cup
1988 Arab Cup (كأس العرب 1988), fifth edition hosted by Jordan in Amman, 8-21 July 1988. Iraq beat Syria 1-1 (4-3 pens) in the final for its fourth title; Egypt took third place.
1988 Armenian earthquake
The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also called the Spitak earthquake, struck northern Armenia, then part of the Soviet Union, on December 7, 1988, killing about 25,000 people.
1988 Atlantic hurricane season
The 1988 Atlantic hurricane season produced 19 tropical depressions, 12 tropical storms, and 5 hurricanes from August to November, with Hurricane Gilbert setting an Atlantic pressure record of 888 millibars.
1988 Brazilian Constitution
The 1988 Brazilian Constitution, nicknamed the Constituição Cidadã or Citizen Constitution, is Brazil's current constitution, promulgated on 5 October 1988 after 21 years of military dictatorship.
1988 Burundian massacres
The 1988 Burundian massacres were interethnic killings in northern Burundi in August 1988, in which Hutu killed several thousand Tutsi and the army reprisals killed up to 20,000 Hutu.
1988 Canadian federal election
The 1988 Canadian federal election (21 November 1988), also called the Free Trade Election, returned Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives to a second majority (169 of 295 seats, 43.01%) over John Turner's Liberals and Ed Broadbent's NDP, settling the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement issue.
1988 Chilean national plebiscite
The 1988 Chilean national plebiscite was a referendum held on 5 October 1988 in which voters rejected another term for General Augusto Pinochet, ending military rule.
1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries
The 1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries saw Michael Dukakis win the nomination after strong performances in New Hampshire and Ohio. He later lost the general election to George Bush.
1988 Ethiopia–Somalia peace agreement
The 1988 Ethiopia–Somalia peace agreement was signed in Mogadishu on 3 April 1988, normalizing relations, demilitarizing the border, exchanging nearly 4,000 prisoners, and ending support for each other's insurgents.
1988 Formula One World Championship
1988 FIA Formula One World Championship, 39th F1 season, 16 races. McLaren Honda MP4/4 (RA168E 1.5L V6 turbo) won 15 of 16; Senna beat Prost 90-87 for his first title; McLaren took the Constructors' Cup with 199 points.
1988 in film
1988 in film: Hollywood's record ~$4.4 billion box office year of Rain Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Die Hard, Akira, and Cinema Paradiso, marked by the 22-week WGA strike and The Last Temptation of Christ controversy.
1988 Mexican general election
The 1988 Mexican general election (6 July 1988) pitted PRI candidate Carlos Salinas de Gortari against Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas of the FDN and Manuel Clouthier of the PAN; official results gave Salinas just under 49 percent amid fraud allegations and the caída del sistema.
1988 NBA Finals
1988 NBA Finals: Los Angeles Lakers beat Detroit Pistons 4-3 for a back-to-back title. Defined by Isiah Thomas's record 25-point third quarter on a sprained ankle in Game 6 and a Game 7 Lakers win.
1988 Nepal earthquake
The 1988 Nepal earthquake, also called the Udayapur earthquake, struck eastern Nepal and Bihar, India, in August 1988, killing about 1,000 people and damaging more than 64,000 buildings.
1988 Soul Train Music Awards
The 1988 Soul Train Music Awards was the second annual ceremony, held March 30, 1988 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles and hosted by Dionne Warwick.
1988 Summer Olympics
1988 Summer Olympics (제24회 서울올림픽대회), Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, 17 September–2 October 1988; 159 countries, 237 events; Soviet Union led the medals; Ben Johnson doping scandal; catalyst for South Korean democracy and Seoul's growth.
1988 Summer Paralympics
The 1988 Summer Paralympics, officially the 8th Paralympic Games or VIII Paralympic Games, were held in Seoul in October 1988, the first officially named "Paralympics".
1988 United States presidential election
1988 United States presidential election, 51st quadrennial election, November 8, 1988: Republican George Bush and Dan Quayle beat Democrat Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen, 426-111 electoral votes, 53.4% popular vote.
1988 United States presidential election in California
1988 US presidential election in California: George H.W. Bush (R) beat Michael Dukakis (D) 51.1% to 47.6%, winning all 47 electoral votes; the last Republican presidential win in California.
1988 Winter Olympics
1988 Winter Olympics (XV Olympic Winter Games), Calgary, Canada, 13–28 February 1988; first Canadian Winter Games, 57 nations, 1,423 athletes, 46 events; USSR led medals; chinook winds disrupted skiing; enduring venue legacy.
1988 Winter Paralympics
The 1988 Winter Paralympics, officially the IV World Winter Games for the Physically Disabled, were held in Innsbruck, Austria, in January 1988, with 377 athletes from 22 countries.