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It brings a renewed interest in the Golden Age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance. 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 two days later).
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
1988 – Severe droughts and massive heat wave gripping the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states. The crisis reaches its peak with the Yellowstone fires of 1988. 1988 – Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, becomes the last Major League Baseball park to add lights for night games. 1988 – Discovery is launched as first post-Challenger Space ...
Miss America 1988 delegates (4 P) 1988 in American music (10 P) N. 1988 American novels (197 P) P. 1988 in American politics (4 C, 5 P) S. 1988 in American sports (32 ...
October 1988 events in the United States (1 C, 3 P) November 1988 events in the United States (6 C, 20 P) December 1988 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P)
Dunlap, Riley E., and Angela G. Mertig, eds. American environmentalism: The US environmental movement, 1970–1990 (2014) Ehrman, John. The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan. (2005) Ferguson Thomas, and Joel Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1986). Greene, John Robert. (2nd ed. 2015) excerpt
This has not happened since; from 1992 onward, neither party has been able to win the presidency more than two consecutive times. Additionally, 1988 was the most recent time that the Republicans won the popular vote in consecutive elections, and the latest in which a Republican who had not already served as president won the popular vote.
Obama is the first African-American to hold the office. [ 5 ] 2009 — The first of a series of Tea Party protests are conducted across the United States, focusing on smaller government, fiscal responsibility, individual freedoms and conservative views of the Constitution.