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28 August 1988 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 28 August 1988 was a Sunday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Monkey” by George Michael.
- Top Film of 1988
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1988 was Rain Man.
- Bestselling Novel of 1988
- “The Cardinal of the Kremlin” by Tom Clancy was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1988.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “The Cosby Show” (NBC) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1988–89 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 28 August is Virgo.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 28 August 1988 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for August is Peridot.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 28 August 1988 was Waning Gibbous.
On this day: 28 August
- 1990 Gulf War: Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1993 NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
- 1993 Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
- 1993 The autonomous Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bosnia in Bosnia and Herzegovina is transformed into the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
- 1996 Chicago Seven defendant David Dellinger, antiwar activist Bradford Lyttle, Civil Rights Movement historian Randy Kryn, and eight others are arrested by the Federal Protective Service while protesting in a demonstration at the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago during that year's Democratic National Convention.
Famous people born on August 28
- David Fincher, American director and producer (born 1962)
- Shania Twain, Grammy Award-winning Canadian Country Singer-Songwriter (born 1965)
- Jack Kirby, Comic Book Artist and Writer (1917–1994)
- Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor (born 1956)
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Events of 1988 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1988 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 1 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
- January 4 – Nick Jr. begins as a block of Nickelodeon programming for younger children.
- March 9 – Blackstone Financial Management is founded as a global asset management company in New York City by eight co-founders, led by Larry Fink. In 1992, it would change its name to BlackRock.
Life in the US in 1988
President
Ronald Reagan
Gas (per gallon)
$0.90
Loaf of Bread
$0.70
Average House
$99,700
Weekly Wage
$374
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