Too
Much Swagger (Feb. 21): After reports that he had committed
lewd acts with a prostitute, the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart publicly confesses
to "moral failure" and is directed to stop preaching for a year. But on
May 22, he will preach without ministerial credentials and later be defrocked.
Black Archbishop
(March 15): Pope John Paul II appoints Eugene Antonio Marino as the first
black Roman Catholic U.S. archbishop.
Mistaken Identity
(July 3): An Iranian jetliner is shot down by a U.S. Navy warship in the
Persian Gulf when it is mistaken for an Iranian F-14 fighter plane, killing
290. The cruiser at the time was fighting off attacks by Iranian gunboats.
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Up the Ladder (Nov.
8): Promising a "kinder, gentler" America, Vice President George Herbert
Walker Bush is elected the 41st president of the United States.
She's in Charge
(Dec. 2): Benazir Bhutto, 35, takes the oath of office as prime minister
of Pakistan, becoming the first female prime minister of a Muslim country.
Terror in the Sky
(Dec. 22): Pan Am Flight 103 erupts into a fireball. The blazing Boeing
747 jetliner comes crashing down on Lockerbie, Scotland. All 259 people
aboard the plane die. Eleven are killed on the ground. Within a week,
investigators pin the explosion on a bomb. Several terrorist organizations
are suspected.
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Memorable
scenes mark the 1988 Winter and Summer Olympics. In Calgary, Canada,
heartstrings are pulled by speed skater Dan Jansen, who learns hours
before his first race that his sister has died of leukemia. He falls
in both of his attempts for a medal. At the Summer Games in Seoul,
South Korea, American diver Greg Louganis hits his head on the board
but still wins the gold medal. Carl Lewis is awarded the gold medal
for the 100-meter dash after the apparent winner, Ben Johnson of
Canada, is stripped of his victory when he tests positive for steroids.
Lewis takes a second gold in the long jump. Deaths Roy Orbison, rock 'n' roll pioneer (born 1936) Max Robinson, 1st black network news host (born 1939)
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