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jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:53 AM
August 11 - Sodomy becomes legal in France.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:53 AM
August 12 - Sultan Abd Al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:54 AM
August 25 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:54 AM
* August 28 - Rosamond Carr is born in South Orange, New Jersey
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:54 AM
September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York, New York.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:54 AM
October 8 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:55 AM
# October 14 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:55 AM
October 16
* Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:55 AM
The Boston Red Sox, assisted by a famous error, defeat the New York Giants in extra innings to win the 1912 World Series, in what is considered one of the greatest games of baseball ever played.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:56 AM
November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base was undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finished second, ahead of Taft.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:56 AM
November 7 - The Deute Ottoman Empire.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:56 AM
November 28 - Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:56 AM
December - Piltdown Man presented in Britain.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:57 AM
December 3 - First Balkan War ends temporarily - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 12:58 AM
1988 info now...................................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:00 AM
January 1 - The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985).
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:00 AM
January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:00 AM
January 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 140.58 points, or 6.85%, to close at 1,911.31 in a mini-crash.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:01 AM
January 13 - Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo dies in Taipei; Vice-President Lee Teng-hui becomes president.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:01 AM
January 15 - In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Palestinians are injured.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:02 AM
January 25 - U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:02 AM
January 29 - The Midwest Classic Conference, a U.S. college athletic conference, is formed.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:02 AM
February 3 - The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:02 AM
February 12 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:03 AM
February 13 – February 28 - The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:03 AM
February 17 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (he is later killed by his captors).
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:03 AM
# February 24 - Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:03 AM
February 29 - A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:04 AM
March 6 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a non-deaf university president.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:04 AM
March 7 - Operation Flavius: The Special Air Services fatally shoot three unarmed Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:04 AM
March 8 - Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:05 AM
March 8 - U.S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday". The bipartisan primary/caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6 competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests. Jesse Jackson, however, wins several Southern state primaries.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:05 AM
March 16 - The Halabja poison gas attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:06 AM
March 16 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:06 AM
A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:07 AM
Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:07 AM
March 19 - British Army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA in the so-called "Corporals killings".
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:07 AM
March 20 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the EPLF enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:08 AM
March 24 - An Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:08 AM
March 25 - The Candle Demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:09 AM
March 26 - U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to earn him much support in Detroit.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:09 AM
March 29 - African National Congress representative Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:09 AM
this is possibly 300 combo if someone didn't sneak a post in.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:10 AM
April 4 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:10 AM
April 5 - Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis wins the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:10 AM
April 10 - The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:10 AM
April 10 - The Great Seto Bridge opens to traffic in Japan.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:11 AM
April 11 - The Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci) wins nine Oscars.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:11 AM
April 12 - Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:11 AM
April 14 - In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:11 AM
The USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:12 AM
April 16 - Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Abu Jihad in Tunisia.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:12 AM
April 16 - In Forlì, Italy, the brigate rosse kill Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:12 AM
April 18 - United States Navy retaliates for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:12 AM
April 25 - In Israel, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused by survivors of being the notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction is later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:13 AM
April 28 - Aloha Flight 243 loses several yards of its upper fuselage while in flight, killing one.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:13 AM
April 30 - World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:13 AM
May 4 - PEPCON disaster in Henderson, Nevada: A major explosion at an industrial solid-fuel rocket plant causes damage extending up to 10 miles away, including Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:14 AM
# May 14 - Bus collision near Carrollton, Kentucky: A drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71, hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group from Radcliff, Kentucky. The resulting fire kills 27, making it tied for 1st in the U.S. for most fatalities involving 2 vehicles to the present day. Coincidentally, the other 2-vehicle accident involving a bus that also killed 27 occurred in Prestonsburg, KY 30 years prior.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:14 AM
May 14 - Wimbledon wins the English FA Cup after beating Liverpool 1–0 at Wembley. The southwest Londoners had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in the history of English football, as they had been top division members for just 2 years and had joined the Football League only 11 years earlier. Liverpool, meanwhile, had won a total of 30 major trophies including 17 league titles.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:14 AM
May 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins withdrawing from Afghanistan.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:15 AM
May 16 - A report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:15 AM
May 16 - California v. Greenwood: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:15 AM
May 24 - Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:15 AM
May 31 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses 600 Moscow State University students, during his visit to the Soviet Union.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:16 AM
June 5 - The first National Cancer Survivors Day is held.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:16 AM
June 6 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom strips jockey Lester Piggott of his Order of the British Empire following his jailing for tax irregularities.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:16 AM
June 11 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned for the first time.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:16 AM
June 11 - Wembley Stadium hosts a concert featuring stars from the fields of music, comedy and film, in celebration of the 70th birthday of imprisoned ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:17 AM
June 25 - The Netherlands defeats the Soviet Union 2–0 to win Euro 88.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:17 AM
June 28 - Four workers are asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in U.S. history (a fifth victim dies 2 days later).
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:17 AM
June 29 - Morrison v. Olson: The United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutors to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:17 AM
June 30 - Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Ecône, Switzerland for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:18 AM
July 3 - The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:18 AM
July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655 is shot down by missiles launched from the USS Vincennes.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:18 AM
July 6 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and two rescue mariners.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:19 AM
July 6 - The first reported medical waste on beaches in the Greater New York area (including hypodermic needles and syringes possibly infected with the AIDS virus) washes ashore on Long Island. Subsequent medical waste discoveries on beaches in Coney Island and in Monmouth County, New Jersey force the closure of numerous New York-area beaches in the middle of one of the hottest summers in the American Northeast on record.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:19 AM
July 14 - Volkswagen closes its Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania plant after 10 years of operation (the first factory built by a non-American automaker in the U.S.).
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:19 AM
July 20 - The Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia nominates Michael Dukakis for U.S. President and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:19 AM
# July 31 - Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:20 AM
Allama Arif Hussain Hussaini the leader of Pakistani Shia muslims was killed in Peshawar.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:20 AM
August 5 - The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ouster of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:20 AM
August 6 – August 7 - Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City: A riot erupts in Tompkins Square Park when police attempt to enforce a newly-passed curfew for the park. Bystanders, artists, residents, homeless people and political activists are caught up in the police action which took place during the night of August 6 and into the early morning of August 7.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:20 AM
August 8 - 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:21 AM
# August 17 - The Pakistani president, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Raphel, are killed in a plane crash near Bhawalpur.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:21 AM
August 18 - The Republican National Convention in New Orleans, Louisiana nominates George H.W. Bush for President and James "Dan" Quayle for Vice President of the United States of America.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:21 AM
August 19 - A truce begins in the Iran-Iraq war.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:21 AM
August 20 - The Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated one million lives lost.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:22 AM
August 25 - A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical center.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:22 AM
# August 26 - Mehran Karimi Nasseri, "The terminal man", is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he will continue to reside until August 1, 2006.
holy **** he stay there nearly 20 yrs
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:23 AM
August 28 - Seventy-five people are killed and three-hundred and forty-six injured in one of the worst airshow disasters in history at Germany's Ramstein Air Base, when three jets from the Italian air demonstration team, Frecce Tricolori, collide, sending one of the aircraft crashing into the crowd of spectators.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:23 AM
September 5 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:23 AM
# September 11 - In Estonia, 300 000 demonstrate for independence.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:23 AM
September 12 - Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:24 AM
September 16th- I was born :)
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:24 AM
# September 17 – October 2 - The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:24 AM
September 22 - The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea. (See also July 6)
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:24 AM
September 24 – September 26 - Large, militant protests against the 1988 World Bank and IMF meetings take place in West Berlin.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:25 AM
September 29 - STS-26: NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:25 AM
Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:25 AM
Chilean president Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national plebiscite which sought to renew his mandate.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:26 AM
In Omaha, Nebraska, in the only vice presidential debate of the 1988 U.S. presidential election, the Republican party vice presidential nominee, Senator "Dan" Quayle of Indiana, insists he has as much experience in government as John F. Kennedy did when he sought the presidency in 1960. His Democratic party opponent, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, replies, "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." The tremendously positive audience response to Sen. Bentsen's remark solidified the reputation of Sen. Quayle as a political lightweight.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:26 AM
October 11 - Women are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:26 AM
October 12 - Walsh Street police shootings: Two Victoria Police officers are gunned down, execution style, in Australia.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:27 AM
October 13 - In the second U.S. presidential debate, held by U.C.L.A., the Democratic party nominee, Michael Dukakis, is asked by journalist Bernard Shaw of CNN if he would support the death penalty if his wife, "Kitty", were to be raped and murdered. Gov. Dukakis' reply, voicing his opposition to capital punishment in any and all circumstances, is later said to have been a major reason for the eventual failure of his campaign for the White House.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:27 AM
October 15 - Kirk Gibson hits a dramatic home run to win Game One of the World Series for the Los Angeles Dodgers, over the Oakland Athletics, by a score of five runs to four.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:27 AM
October 19 - The United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. The BBC gets around this stricture through the use of professional actors.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:28 AM
# October 23 - Super Mario Bros. 3 is released in Japan
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:28 AM
October 27 - Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new US embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:28 AM
October 28 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:28 AM
October 29 - Pakistan's General Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as the governor of Sindh, following attempts by the President of Pakistan, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, to limit the vast powers Gen. Rahimuddin had accumulated.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:29 AM
October 30 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:29 AM
October 30 - Expo '88 in Brisbane Australia draws to a close after a six month spectacular.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:29 AM
October 30 - Formula One: Ayrton Senna clinches his first World Championship with a phenomenal drive in the Japanese Grand Prix, recovering from 16th place on the first lap to win the race and beat rival Alain Prost into second place.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:29 AM
November 1 - In the Israeli election, Likud wins 47 seats, Labour wins 49, but Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains in office.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:30 AM
November 3-November 5: Thousands of South Korean students demonstrate against former president Chun Doo Hwan.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:30 AM
November 8 - United States presidential election, 1988: George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:30 AM
November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually found and Puente is convicted of 3 murders and sentenced to life in prison).
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:30 AM
# November 15 - In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on its maiden orbital spaceflight (the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:31 AM
November 15 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed at the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:31 AM
November 15 - The very first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:31 AM
November 16 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:31 AM
November 16 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. Elections were held as planned despite head of state Zia-ul-Haq's death earlier in August.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:32 AM
November 18 - War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:32 AM
November 21 - Canadian federal election, 1988: Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada win a second majority government.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:32 AM
November 21 - Ted Turner Officially Buys Jim Crockett Promotions, known as NWA Crockett, and turns it into World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:33 AM
November 22 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:33 AM
November 23 - Former Korean president Chun Doo Hwan publicly apologizes for corruption during his presidency, announcing he will go into exile.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:33 AM
November 30 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout deal of all time.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:33 AM
December 2 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:34 AM
December 2 - A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless and thousands dead.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:34 AM
December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:34 AM
December 7 - Estonian becomes the official language of Estonia.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:34 AM
December 9 - The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:35 AM
December 12 - The Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures 132.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:35 AM
December 20 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:35 AM
December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be of either Iranian or Libyan origin.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:35 AM
December 22 - Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:36 AM
The Labtec mouse was created in 1988.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:36 AM
TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:36 AM
Zebra mussels found in the Great lakes.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:36 AM
The US Drought of 1988 causes big crop damage in many states, impacts many portions of the United States and causes around $60 billion in damage. Multiple regions suffered in the conditions. Heat waves caused 4800 to 17000 deaths while scorching many areas of the United States during 1988.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:37 AM
b-days.......
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:37 AM
January 22 - Greg Oden, American basketball player
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:38 AM
February 20 - Rihanna, Barbadian R&B singer
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:38 AM
May 5 - Brooke Hogan, American reality star and singer
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:38 AM
May 17 - Nikki Reed, American actress
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:39 AM
December 14 - Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:40 AM
deaths...................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:40 AM
August 14 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:40 AM
December 6 - Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:40 AM
Nobel prizes
* Physics - Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
* Chemistry - Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
* Medicine - Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
* Literature - Naguib Mahfouz
* Peace - The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
* The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Maurice Allais
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:41 AM
b-days.......
possibly a 400 combo.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:43 AM
5943 is where the combo will tie the record.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:43 AM
39 away............................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:43 AM
38 till the record................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:43 AM
37...............final stretch.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:44 AM
36 and it'll be there..........................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:44 AM
35..............................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:44 AM
34...............i got nothing.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:45 AM
33.................I wonder what the record would be without a time limit
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:45 AM
32..............Franco Harris jersey #
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:45 AM
31.....................................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:46 AM
30....................this countdown process is lame.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:47 AM
Pink Floyd has many good songs.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:47 AM
nearly 1k lead in this thread.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:47 AM
nearly 3k in it as well.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:48 AM
in the 1988 presidentual election
George Bush got 426 electoral votes
Michael Dukakis got 111
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:49 AM
the popular vote went like
George Bush 48,886,597
Michael Dukakis 41,809,476
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:49 AM
that would sucks if someone c-c-combo broke me 1 post before the record.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:50 AM
"that would sucks"
wtf is wrong with me?
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:50 AM
o ya sleep deprived, even slow I slepts from like 8 till whenever I got on.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:50 AM
MechQuest...hmmmm
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:51 AM
1984 president election went like....
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:52 AM
George H. W. Bush=525
Geraldine Ferraro=13
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:52 AM
straight up pwnage right there.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:53 AM
popular vote
Bush=54,455,472
Ferraro= 37,577,352
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:53 AM
that's electoral votes sucks...Bush pwned him but the public just had him in L column
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:54 AM
I wonder how our country would have gone if Al Gore was elected instead of the monkey.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:54 AM
2 guests? no............................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:55 AM
so close yet 5 minutes away.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:55 AM
actually less than that..............
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:55 AM
RAWR to the person that breaks my combo
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:56 AM
less than 10 away now.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:56 AM
if this combo is still alive that is.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:56 AM
I have a feeling Linux/Blaze broke it ages ago.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:56 AM
thus making this only a 300+ combo atm.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:57 AM
but who knows, should of logged everyone post count in here so I could know if it was broken
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:57 AM
sooooooooooooo
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:57 AM
close...........................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:58 AM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stupid clock
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:58 AM
nearly there...................................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:58 AM
tied.............................................. ......
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 01:58 AM
I win the internetz.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:04 AM
YouTube - Real Meteor Captured On Camera (http://youtube.com/watch?v=jUh7pYDmK08)
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:05 AM
In the American system of presidential elections, the electoral vote determines the winner, and Bush won this count, although Gore received the most votes (called the "popular vote"). This was the fourth time in American history that a candidate won the presidency without receiving at least a plurality of the popular vote; it also happened in the elections of 1824, 1876 and 1888.
.......................................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:07 AM
13 till 1k lead.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:08 AM
expanding my possible record.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:11 AM
1. Florida, <0.0092%
2. New Mexico, 0.06%
3. Wisconsin, 0.22%
4. Iowa, 0.31%
5. Oregon, 0.44%
6. New Hampshire, 1.27%
7. Minnesota, 2.40%
8. Missouri, 3.34%
9. Ohio, 3.51%
10. Nevada, 3.55%
11. Tennessee, 3.86%
12. Pennsylvania, 4.17%
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:11 AM
1. Maine, 5.12%
2. Michigan, 5.13%
3. Washington, 5.57%
4. Arkansas, 5.45%
5. Arizona, 6.28%
6. West Virginia, 6.33%
7. Louisiana, 7.67%
8. Virginia, 8.03%
9. Colorado, 8.36%
10. Vermont, 9.93%
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:11 AM
those last 2 posts had to do with the 2000 election btw.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:13 AM
YouTube - Real life meteor impact - very close up! - Awesome! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=n9gJXmKCkr8&feature=related)
nice effects but alas fake as hell.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:14 AM
http://i38.tinypic.com/2d9tq43.jpg
lol
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:18 AM
YouTube - Tacoma Meteor (http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_OtbXmu9kg&feature=related)
lol commercials.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:21 AM
i need sleep badly...again.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:21 AM
I could stay up and make this record impossible to reach.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:22 AM
but sleep is sounding good right now.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:22 AM
YouTube - Reign Of Fire Trailer (http://youtube.com/watch?v=PqSWknmu_Lw)
not a bad flic.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:23 AM
wtf french? spanish? bs either way.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:26 AM
http://urie.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/mikehenry_cle.jpg
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:26 AM
6k and log off time
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:26 AM
so just under 10 minutes till sleep.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:27 AM
actually probably close to 20+ seeing I'm reading gaf and surfing for interesting youtube vids.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:27 AM
my combo started at 5493 btw......
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:28 AM
so I am heading towards a 507 combo.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:32 AM
looks like no one got in my way.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:33 AM
so heading towards first 500+ combo.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:34 AM
Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend youtube vid finally got #1 for what seems like for good...too bad a custom vid wasn't there.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:35 AM
I'm hungry.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:36 AM
nice to see 2 new gamers in the last 24 hours post list.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:36 AM
hopefully they stay for awhile
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:40 AM
YouTube - Sneezing Panda (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk)
another link to this epic sneeze.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:41 AM
YouTube - Afro Ninja 2 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=b_NQCTbvRnM)
epic vid and epic rehashed.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:41 AM
I got post 2323 today...woot.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:44 AM
YouTube - Afro Ninja 2 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=b_NQCTbvRnM)
epic vid and epic rehashed.
:laugh:
times 1 billion.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:46 AM
YouTube - 70's GROOVE - Wedding Singers (1 of 9) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y62ZTDpJqAc&feature=dir)
the ****?
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:48 AM
pretty neat you can continue...I clicked 80's rock and got
YouTube - 80's ROCK - Wedding Singers (4 of 9) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zo5yCUf0pPw&feature=iv)
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:48 AM
and just chose B-52's
YouTube - B-52's - Wedding Singers (9 of 9) (http://youtube.com/watch?v=R_YxVzMm2YM&feature=iv)
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:49 AM
that was actually pretty ****ing cool, interactive vids ftw.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:50 AM
5980..................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:50 AM
500 combo is sooon......................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:51 AM
lol, I'm delaying the hell out of this, by the time I reach post #6000 it'll be 4:30ish
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:52 AM
YouTube - Elevator - College Buddies (http://youtube.com/watch?v=GmRKh53LCD8&feature=user)
lol
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:53 AM
less than 10 away from 500 combo.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:53 AM
3 guests, c-c-c-combo breaker time?
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:53 AM
time will telll...............
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:54 AM
YouTube - The Temptations - Get Ready (http://youtube.com/watch?v=rQdSJXPDtjs)
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:55 AM
my foot fell asleep..that sucks
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:56 AM
i heard every time that does happen it causes a small amount of nerve damage, I wonder how true that is
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:57 AM
5990........................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:58 AM
less than 5 till 500.................
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:59 AM
4 guests??????????????//
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 02:59 AM
500 combo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 03:00 AM
woot, I win a 2nd internetz and a cookie n sum milk
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 03:00 AM
yum yum cookie...I is t3h cookie monsta....here me......
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 03:01 AM
RAWR
I is da cookie monsta hand ova dem da/mn cookies
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 03:01 AM
6k already.....insane...that this thread got so big so fast.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 03:02 AM
likely will pass the other before the end of the year.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 03:02 AM
then we'll have 2 fighting threads on who'll be the biggest.
jakncoke
07-22-2008, 03:02 AM
#6000
507 combo complete.
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