Winter of Terror



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1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikhs, New Zealand declared Nuclear Free Zone, Mauna Loa eruption, Ethiopian drought, Tabernacle choir sings at start of L.A. Olympics, Gymnast Peter Vidmar wins gold – Miss Utah becomes Miss America, BYU national championship * Reagan and Church leaders discuss Book of Mormon, Genealogy presented to Reagan, Mar - 36 tornadoes hit Carolinas, Jul-Worst hailstorm in Europe, "Sunday in the Park with George" debuts on Broadway, Miami Vice airs on television, UT - mining disaster in Huntington kills 27, Quakes in CA, Bhopal India accidental release of methyl isocyanate gas kills 15000 by Union Carbide, Cameroon – a limnic eruption of CO2 kills 37 at Lake Monoun , Jesse Jackson runs for presidency, The Cosby Show debuts, Carl Lewis wins four golds at LA Olympic Games, Alec Jeffreys develops genetic fingerprinting, Geldof and Ure initiate Band Aid concerts, Picasso vows that he will give up painting if God will spare his sister, Followers of Indian guru Bagwan Shree Rajneesh taint saladbars with Salmonella in Oregon, “501 Blues” from Levi introduced, Michael Jordan signs 5-year contract with Nike Shoes, death of writer JB Priestley of England, 2-pound hailstones fall in Bangladesh, film: Amadeus, Popular Songs: “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before” “Innocent Man” album, artists include Michael Jackson (Thriller), Cyndi Lauper, Kenny Loggins (Footloose), Madonna, U2, Michael Jackson releases “Beat It” Sting releases “Every Breath You Take”, Miss America Vanessa Williams steps down after posing in Playboy, “The Cosby Show” debuts, Supreme Court rules that taping television is not illegal, “Band Aid” releases “Do They Know It’s Christmas”, Films: “Ghostbusters” ”Beverly Hills Cop” ”Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” ”Gremlins” ”The Karate Kid” ”Police Academy” ”Footloose” “Terms of Endearment” “Amadeus” “The Killing Fields” “A Passage to India”, Television: Cosby Show debuts, supreme Court rules that VCR taping not in violation of copyright, Family Ties a top show, Syria frees captured US Navy pilot, US and Vatican exchange diplomats after 116 year hiatus, Reagan withdraws US Marines frojm Beirut, Yuri Andropov dies and Chernenko named Soviet leader, Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion, Soviets withdraw from summer Olympic games, Jpse Napoleon Duarte elected president of El Salvador, 300 slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden temple in Amritsar, Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards – 1000 killed in anti-Sikh riots 0 son Rajiy succeeds her, 2000 killed in Bhopal India gas leak from Union Carbide plant – 150,000 injured, Bell telephones broken up, Congress rebukes Reagan on use of funds to mine Nicaraguan harbors, Geraldine Ferraro becomes first female vice president nominee, Reagan reelected, BYU wins NCAA Football Championship, Pulitzer winner “Ironweed” by William Kennedy, Mac computer introduced by Apple, Kittinger makes first solo transatlantic balloon flight, deaths: Truman Capote, Count Basie, Francois Truffaut - French filmmaker, Leakeys discover most complete Homo erectus, Raup and Sepkoski publish claim that extinctions happen every 26 million years, BYU undefeated, Area Presidencies appointed, Personal Ancestral File released, Andropov dies and Chernenko is leader of USSR, Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikh bodyguards, legislation illegal in US if religious activities are in the mind of the legislator

1985 End major drought in Sahel, Mikhail Gorbachev elected and introduces reforms, Treaty of Raratonga sets up nuclear-free zone in Pacific, 8.0 Earthquake in Mexico City kills 9500, eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz in Colombia, end of Ethiopian drought, Cote D’Azur fire in France, Ethiopian drought, Tuberculosis hits Thailand, new hymnbook, Genealogical library dedicated, 10,000th ward * Former President Nixon speaks at funeral of W. Willard Marriott near Washington Temple, Jan - Three storms force Oklahoma legislature to close, Jan - VA temperatures drop so low to cause cable wires to shrink, May 31 - deadliest tornado in PA, Jul - rain falls for first time in 78 days in Phoenix, AZ, Jul - Hot, dry winds fan fires in France, Aug - 6 inches of rain falls in WY - worst flooding, Oct - Typhoon Dot hits Philippines, "Les Miserables" debuts in London, "We Are the World" recorded, quakes, CAN quake, Colombia – Nevado Del Ruiz erupts killing 23000 – 4th deadliest, Pentagon starts “Star Gate” project regarding psychic research, two cases deal with separation of church and state, Famine in Ethiopia eases, Mikhail Gorbachev reforms in USSR, Rudi Gernich the controversial US designer of such items as the miniskirt dies, death of artist Marc Chagall, New Coke released to public dismay, film “Out of Africa”, Soviet leader Chernenko dies and Gorbachev rules with slogans of glasnost and Perestroika, Shi’ite Muslim gunmencapture TWA airliner - hostages later freed in Beirut, PLO terrorists hijack Italian cruise ship – Italian government toppled by political crisis over hijacking, Reagan and Gorbachev meet in summit, Terrorists take Egyptian Boeing 737 from Athens 0 59 die when Egyptian forces storm plane on Malta, General Westmoreland settles libel action against CBS, US Supreme Court bars public school teachers from parochial schools, Arthur James Walker convicted of being a Soviet spy with his brother John, US budget-balancing bill enacted, “Sunday in the Park with George” by Sondheim and Lapine released, Miss Utah Sharlene Wells wins Miss America, Rock Hudson dies of AIDS age 59, Madonna launches first road show “Virgin Tour” , laser printers enables desktop publishing, Popular Songs: “Night Shift” “Born in the USA” album, artists include Jefferson Starship, Sade, Don Henley, Bryan Adams, Katrina and the Waves “What’s Love Got to Do With IT” by Tina Turner, Lionel Richie’s “Can’t Slow Down”, Films: “Back to the Future” “Rambo: First Blood Part II” “Rocky IV” “The Color Purple” “Out of Africa” “Goonies” “Fletch””The Breakfast Club” “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” PG13 ratings issued “Amadeus” “Kiss of the Spider Woman” “PRizzi’s Honor”, Television: top shows include “Murder, She Wrote” and “Cheers” with Cosby #1, Death of Marc Chagall, silent film actress Louise Brooks, Frank Oppenheimer, President Kimball dies and President Benson sustained, Freiberg temple in East Germany dedicated, Christmas message includes “Cone Back”, Mark Hoffman "Salamander letter” bombings, Fasting throughout the Church for starving people in Africa, Gorbachev heads Soviets, graduation prayers banned in US

1986 Nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl, Volcano in Cameroon Africa, New Zealand eruption * President Benson meets with Reagan, Church Leaders update V.P. Bush on the relief efforts in Africa twice, Feb 1 - 52 day streak of no tornadoes (longest in US) ends, quakes in CA and AK, Cameroon – CO2 from Lake Nyos kills 1700 people and 3500 livestock limnic Eruption, Bangladesh – 2 pound hailstones kill 92, Oprah Winfrey show begins, Rutan and Yeager begin first nonstop and nonfueled flight around world in Voyager, Bishop Desmond Tutu becomes archbishop of Cape Town SAF, Last appearance of Beatles in public, Challenger explodes, US bombs Libya, Dockers pants introduced, death of Russian leader VM Molotov, death of British conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, death of composer Edmund Rubbra, death of English author Christopher Isherwood, death of Russian choreographer Serge Lifar, death of Austrian choreographer Robert Helpmann, death of French author Simone de Beauvior, film: “Platoon”, Spain and Portugal join EEC, Reagan freezes Libyan assets in US and US planes attack Libyan terrorist centers, Haitian president Jean=Claude Duvalier flees to France, Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos flees and Corazon Aquino succeeds him, Union Carbide settles with victims of Bhopal India gas leak, Chernobyl nuclear accident, US Navy analyst Pollard found guilty as spy for Israel, World Court rules US broke international law by mining Nicaragual waters, US Supreme Court bars racial bias in trial jury selection, explosion of space shuttle Challenger, US Supreme Court reaffirms abortion rights, William H Rehnquist made Chief Justice of US Supreme Court, House rejects “Star Wars” policy, US sends arms to Iran – funds diverted to Nicaraguan Contras, FOX the fourth network created by Barry Diller of News Corp., Oprah Winfrey show begins, CD-ROM release of Academic American Encyclopedia, Nintendo games introduced in US, superconductivity discovered by Miller and Bednorz, Rutan and Jeana Yeager make first circumnavigation flight without refueling aboard Voyager, hepatitis B vaccine, Voyager 2 probe passes Uranus, Halley’s comet, deaths of Swedish politician Olof Palme, Georgia O’Keeffe, Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson, British politician Harold Macmillan, Popular Songs: Whitney Houston album “That’s What Friends are For” artists include Dionne Warwick, Robert Palmer, Prince, Run DMC and Aerosmith, James Brown, “We Are the World”, Phil Collins, Release of book “Lonesome Dove”, Television: Fox created by Newscorp, Oprah Winfrey Show hits the air, top shows include “The Golden Girls” with Cosby at #1, Films: “Top Gun” “Crocodile Dundee” “Platoon” “Karate Kid II” “Star Trek IV – Voyage Home” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” “Out of Africa” “The Color of Money”, 6 million members, Stake 70s discontinued, 5 LDS chapels bombed in Chile, Space Shuttle Challenger explodes

1987 Fire in Manchuria, fire in Borneo, Saragosa TX tornado, Landslide in Colombia, “Great Storm” in Kent, England, Feb – 87 inches of snow falls in Alpine, AZ, Apr - surprise snowstorm hits north AL, Jul - 33 days of 100 degree temps in Tuscon, AZ, "Into the Woods" debuts, quakes in CA and AK, Mediterranean heat wave kills over 1000, Aretha Franklin inducted into Rock and roll Hall of Fame, Stock market crash, LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) founded as upscale fashion firm, death of French physicist and 1929 Nobel Prize winner Louis de Broglie, death of French dramatist Jean Anouilh, Republican politician R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide on televised press conference, Andy Warhol died (Andrew Warhola) film: “The Last Emperor”, death of US hostage in Lebanon William Buckley, Iraqi missiles kill 37 in Persian Gulf – Hussein apologizes, Prime Minister Thatcher reelected to rare third term, Klaus Barbie Gestapo leader sentenced to life by French court, US Supreme Court rules Rotary Clubs must admit women, Oliver North Jr. testifies in Iran-Contra hearings, Admiral John M Poindexter testifies he did arms sales in Iran to aid Contras, Shultz and Weinberger testify on Iran-Contra, Senate rejects Robert H Bork as US Supreme Court Justice, Prozac released for use in US, AZT wins FDA approval for treatment of AIDS, International treaty signed in Montreal calls for reduction in use of CFCs by 2000, first transatlantic hot air balloon flight, deaths: William Casey of CIA, Andy Warhol, Rudolf Hess, John Huston – US film director, writer James Baldwin, Popular Songs: “The Joshua Tree” album, “Give Me Wings” artists include Bon Jovi, Billy Idol (re-release), Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes, Club Nouveau, Kenny G, “Higher Love” by Steve Winwood, Graceland album by Paul Simon, “That’s What Friends are For” song, “World Music” term coined, “thirtysomething” debuts, Films: “Three Men and a Baby” “Fatal Attraction” “Beverly hills Cop II” “Good morning Vietnam” “Moonstruck” “Dirty Dancing” “The Last Emperor” Toni Morrison writes “Beloved” Television: thirtysomething debuts with baby-boomer characters, top shows include “A Different World” and “Growing Pains” with Cosby in first, Wilson and Cann show a mitochondrial eve at 150,000 years ago, Clack shows fossil with gills and legs, Family History developed from old genealogy Department, International mission discontinued, “Flood the Earth with the Book of Mormon”, topic of AIDS discussed at Conference, Portugal agrees to return Macao to China in 1999, US and USSR agree to ban intermediate range missiles, Christmas banned in Alaska schools because of the term “Christ” – homosexual newspapers can be distributed in schools in Virginia but not religious papers, Nevada city’s symbol had to be changed for religious reference

1988 Cease fire in Iran-Iraq War, Spitak Armenia quake kills 25k - 100,000, Yellowstone fire, Hurricane in Jamaica, flood in Khartoum, Sudan, Meningitis outbreak in Chad AFR, Flooding in Bangladesh, Earthquake in Nepal * Elder John C. Carmack meets with Reagan and the Church is presented with an award, Jan - 70 Inches of snow fells in New York State, Mar - 100 hours of snow in MI, Apr - 9 inches of rain falls in New Orleans, May - 22 Mother's Day tornadoes in IA, "Phantom of the Opera" debuts, Quakes in Australia AK CAN, RU486 approved by French government, Scientists receive patent for genetically engineered animal, End Iran-Iraq war, Rushdie publishes "Satanic Verses" and is persecuted, British politician claims most eggs infected with salmonella – forced to resign, death of cartoonist Charles Addams, picture Rain man”, US and Canada reach free trade agreement in advance of NAFTA, Terrorists kill nine on Aegean cruise, Benazir Bhutto becomes first Pakistani female prime minister, Pan-Am 747 explodes over Lockerbie, SCO killing 259+11, McFarlane pleads guilty in Iran Contra case, US Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf killing 290, Dukakis vs. Bush sees George HW Bush winning election, Driving Miss Daisy wins drama awards, CDs outsell vinyl records, Ted Turner starts TNT network and buys MGM film library – starts colorizing, France and China permit use of RU486 birth control, NASA scientist warns of global warming ang greenhouse effect, deaths Roy Orbison, Chet Baker (Jazz music), US scientist Luis Alvarez, French politician Edgar Faure, Nicaraguan guerilla fighter Nora Astorga, Popular Songs: Dirty Dancing album, “Got My Mind Set on You”, Artists include Louis Armstring, Rob Base and E-Z Rock, U2, Def Leppard, Taylor Dayne, “Somewhere Out There”, Films: “Rain Man” ”Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” ”Coming to America” ”Big” ”Twins” “The Last Emperor” :Mississippi Burning” “A Fish Called Wanda” “Bull Durham”, Television: Ted Turner starts TNT and buys MGM film library, top shows include “Rosanne” with Cosby at first, Cairns shows bacteria can direct mutations for favorable outcome (hypermutation due to stress) under poor environmental conditions, Aba Nigeria Stake organized – first all black African leadership, Missionaries in E GER, first stake in W Africa, Church puts out statement on AIDS, Vietnam agrees to withdraw from Kampuchea (Cambodia), Iran-Iraq war ends, Angola and Cuba end war, US launches shuttle Discovery and return to Space, Benazir Bhutto becomes first Pakistani woman leader, Bush elected, Denver principal removes Bible from school library



1989 Loma Prieta CA Quake, mass demonstrations for democracy in Tiananmen Square end in massacre, Berlin Wall deconstructed, US soldiers invade Panama and depose leader, geomagnetic storm plunges Montreal CAN into darkness, Earthquake in Australia * Missionaries expelled from Ghana, Choir celebrates sixty years of broadcasts and Reagan sends congratulations, Tabernacle Choir performs at Inauguration, President Benson honored with Presidential Citizens Medal, many Mormons continue in Bush positions of leadership – Jon M Huntsman Jr. appointed youngest ambassador in a century, Many LDS appointments, Tioga, ND records windchill of -90 degrees Fahrenheit, Mar - Withcita Falls TX temps rise from 8 degrees to 95 degrees in six days, Oct - 17th Loma Prieta (World Series) Quake near San Fransisco registers 7.1
Dec - Freezing rain around Memphis, TN, Dec - record cold around Kansas City, MO, quakes in CA and Quebec, Deadliest tornado hits Bangladesh killing 1300, Gen. Colin Powell serves as chairman of joint Chiefs of Staff, David Dinkins is NY first black mayor, Oprah Winfrey becomes first black woman to own television and production companies, US invades Panama deposing Manuel Noriega, Eric Lomax meets and forgives Japanese WWII torturer Takashi Nagase, US ends support of Contras in Central America, Chinese Tiananmen Square massacre, destruction of Berlin Wall, death of Russian-American composer Irving Berlin age 101, death of Spanish painter Salvador Dali, death of English composer Lennox Berkeley, death of French-Irish author Samuel Beckett, death of Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, death of Sugar Ray Robinson – boxing champion, Nico of Time by Bonnie Raitt becomes popular album, better Man by Clint Black popular music, picture: “Driving Miss Daisy”, Ebola Reston outbreak in Virginia, US splanes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters of Mediterranean, Ayatollah Khomeini declares Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” offensive and declares fatwah, Chinese students demonstrate in Tianamen Square for democracy – thousands killed, Gorbachev named Soviet President, Botha quits as South Africa’s president, Deng Xiaoping resigns from China’s leadership, Berlin Wall opens, Czech Parliament ends Communists’ dominant role, Romanian uprising overthrows Communists and President Ceausescu and wife executed, US troops invede Panama to capture General Manuel Noriega, Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, Oliver North convicted in Iran-Contra affair, Colin Powell becomes first black Chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff, term “virtual reality coined by Jaron Lanier, books “The Joy Luck Club” “The Remains of the Day” , human gene transfer developed, first WWW server and browser developen by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, First indexing of Internet attempted, Voyager 2 speeds past Neptune and leaves main solar system, deaths: Lucille Ball, Salvador Dali, bette Davis, Ferdinand marcos, Laurence Olivier, Sugar Ray Robinson, Micolae Ceausescu, actor Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo), Irish writer Samuel Beckett, Spanish Communist leader Dolores Ibarruri Gomez (La Pasionaria), baseball manager Billy Martin, Russian scientist and political activist Andrei Sakharov, Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing, American writer and critic Robert Penn Warren, Popular Songs: artists include B-52’s. Tone Loc, Young MC, Bette Midler, Madonna, “Don’t Worry Be Happy, George Michael, Films: “Batman” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” “Lethal Weapon 2” “Look Who’s Talking” “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” “Rain Man” “Glory” “Born on the Fourth of July” “My Left Foot” “Field of Dreams”, Television: death of Lucille Ball, Roseanne dethrones The Cosby Show and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” rises in ratings, Gingerich finds fossilized whale with legs, 7 million in Church, discussion on Pride, 2nd Quorum of 70 created, Ghana withdraws Church recognition for a time, BYU Jerusalem Center created, World budgets taken from tithes alone. Two missionaries murdered in Bolivia, Fixed missionary budgets created through the church, elections first held in POL, Student uprising in China leads to massacre of over 5000 students, Voyager 2 discovers storm and moons of Neptune, Fatwa against Salmon Rushdie author of the Satanic Verses, Ayatollah Khomeini dies, CFCs banned for destroying ozone, China and USSR resume relations, Last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan, Pro-reform Soviets, Kampuchea changes name back to Cambodia, Burma changes name to Myanmar, Tienamen Square killin of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators in China, Poland holds first partially-free elections in years, De Klerk succeeds Botha in South America, Solidarity leaders in Poland elect Masowiecki, Voyager 2 passes Neptune, Libya and Chad end 25 year old war, E German refugees flee to west – End of Communist, Pakistan rejoins commonwealth, Gorbachev visits Pope in Rome, Cold War ends Dec 3, Revolution in Romania – Ceauscescu killed, Communism ends in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, Aunt Jemima figure replaced by more updated character

1990 Namibia gets independence, Civil war in Liberia, Nelson Mandela freed in S Africa and apartheid starts to be dismantled, Iraq invades Kuwait, starting Gulf War, E and W Germany unified, Solidarity party’s Lech Walesa elected president of Poland, Margaret Thatcher loses power in Britain, Sandinistas defeated in Nicaraguan elections, Aristide elected president of Haiti until 2004, Earthquake in N Iran kills 45,000, also landslide, earthquake in Philippines, flood in Australia * Carter and Rosalyn tour Temple Square, Carter helps restore missionaries to Ghana, Jan - 80 mph winds in Colorado strand skiers, Jan - first Jan 16 tornado ever recorded in US, Mar - Gulf of St. Lawrence ice jam, may - Tornado causes train accident in KS, Jun 26 - Phoenix airport closes with 122 degree temps, Jul - avalanche in Soviet Union kills 43, Hubble telescope launched, Mexican heat wave kills 380, African Civil Right’s Leader Nelson Mandela released from prison, debut of The Simpsons, Nelson Mandela releades from prison, Voyager I captures images of solar system from outside, Human genome project begins, US Federal Trade Commission opens investigation of claims of Microsoft monopoly, Kazakhstan declares independence, Iraq invades Kuwait, Hubble telescope in orbit, Big Bang confirmed, Apartheid ends in South Africa, Halston (designer) dies, death of Frederick Mellinger maven behind Fredericks of Hollywood, thong bathing suits banned in FL, death of Lewis Mumford American author, death of American musician Aaron Copland, death of Swedish actress Greta Garbo, death of English cricket player Len Hutton, death of Composer Leonard Bernstein, President George HW Bush agrees to tax increase in spite of “Read my lips; no new taxes”, General Manuel Noriega surrenders in Panama, Yugoslav Vommunists end monopoly, Communists relinquish sole power in Soviet government, South Africa frees Nelson Mandela, US Soviet summit reaches accord, Western Alliance ends Cold War, Iraqi troops invade Kupait starting Persian Gulf War, Germanys unite, Margaret Thatcher resigns and John Major becomes British Prime Minister, Lech Walesa wins Poland runoff election, US Supreme Court says flag burning protected speech, US Appeals Court overturns Oliver North’s Iran-Contra conviction, NC-17 rating invented as X rating with “social benefits’ Milli Vanilli admits lip-synching, Seinfeld debuts, deaths: BF Skinner, Jim Henson, Greta Garbo, Sammy Davis Jr. Jose Napoleon Duarte (El Salvador), Le Duc Tho of the Indochinese (Vietnamese) Communist Party, Hubble Space Telescope launched, President Bush signs Clean Air Act, FDA approves Norplant contraceptive implants, Movie: “Dances With Wolves” “Driving Miss Daisy” “GoodFellas”, Popular Songs: Artists include Digital Underground, Luthor Vandross, Calloway, Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, “Wind Beneath My Wings” Bette Midler, Television: Simpsons debut on Fox, Human genome project launched, Soviet ambassador in UT, Missions in Poland Germany and Hungary open, Helsinki mission extends to Soviet Union, Genealogy made on CD, Two missionaries murdered in Peru, Nelson Mandela freed, Conflicts between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Lithuanians ask for independence and Gorbachev agrees, School districts number 15,361 down from 1932 number of 127,300
1991 Channel Tunnel meets, end of revolutionary regime in Ethiopia, Allied forces liberate Kuwait, Breakup of Soviet Union, resignation of Gorbachev and Yeltsin takes power, Yugoslavia breaks up into civil war, Eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in Philippines kills 700, Cyclone 2B hits Bangladesh killing 138k, Yangtze River floods in China, Kilauea HI erupts, Earthquake in Costa Rica, earthquake and avalanche in French Alps, earthquake in Afghanistan, Mt. Pinatubo erupts in Philippines, cyclone hits Bangladesh, earthquake in India, flooding in China, Unzen volcano eruption in Japan * Bush 41 meets with Church leaders in Utah, May - 5 inch hail in Witchita, KS, May - golfball sized hail in Denver, CO, Oct - Halloween Megastorm hits upper Midwest... MN endures full blizzard, World Wide Web goes online, HIV outbreak due to tainted blood in France, Gorbachev resigns, apartheid dissolved in S Africa, Desert Storm launched, earthquake in CA, Clarence Thomas confirmed as second black Supreme Court Justice, US reindtates leader of Kuwait, Aung San Suu Kyi awarded Nobel Peace Prize, Persian Gulf War, USSR dismantled, S. African Gordimer wins Nobel Prize (Lit), Proctor and Gamble buys Max Factor cosmetics, death of English novelist Graham Greene, death of English novelist Angus Wilson, death of English ballerina Margot Fonteyn, businessman Gerald Ratner jokes about quality of one of his products and his company nose-dives, Freddie Mercury of Queen dies of AIDS, landscape arch in S Utah collapses, Cease-fire ends Persian Gulf War, Europeans end sanctions on South Africa and SA Parliament repeals apartheid laws, France and China accept non-proliferation nuclear treaty and US Russia sign reduction treaty, Communist Government of Albania resigns, Warsaw Pact dissolved, Boris Yeltsin becomes first freely elected president of Russian Republic, Lithuania Estonia and Latvia win independence from USSR, Haitian troops seize president in uprising and US suspends assistance, US indicts Libyand in 1988 Lockerbie, SCO bombing, USSR breaks into commonwealth, US Supreme Court limits death row appeals, Webster retires as CIA director and is succeeded by Gates, Clarenct Thomas appointed to Supreme Court over accusations of Professor Anita Hill, FDA approves ddl for treatment of AIDS, Gopher Internet interface created, Japanese nuclear accident, first transpacific hot-air balloon flight, cholera epidemic sickens 100,000 in South America, death of Miles Davis, Theodore Seuss Geisel, Frank Capara, actor Graham Greene, baseball great Leo Durocher, top movie “Silence of the Lambs” “Dances With Wolves” “Beauty and the Beast” “JFK” “Thelma & Louise”, Popular Songs: artists include Nat and Natalie Cole, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince, Bryan Adams, C+C Music Factory, Extreme, Phil Collins “Another Day in Paradise” “From a Distance” (Bette Midler perf.) “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on Nevermind launches grunge movement, Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) arrested in Florida theater for indecent exposure, Television: first condom ads hit Fox, Chicxulub crater discovered in Yucatan supporting asteroid impact theories, Angry Italian artist attacks Michelangelo’s David with hammer and breaks toe, Tabernacle choir tours Eastern Europe, Church recognized in Russia, Church recognized in Ivory Coast, 50,000th Missionary, Bankruptcy and end of Pan American airlines,, New Mexico eclipse demonstrates lights in the sky and possible objects seen by many – possibly Venus, Jacques Cousteau mentions we need to lose 350,000 people per day for the health of the planet, Eruption of Mount Pinatubo Philippines


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