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1988 Free History Poster Makes An Ideal Birthday or Christmas Gift

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1988 A4 History Print / Poster Featuring Prices, News and Events and Popular Culture


This Printable 8 1/2 inch X 11 inch poster is suitable for placing in a picture frame or to hand out during Birthday Celebrations or as a Christmas Gift. The new Graphics also resize to Birthday / Christmas Card size and still look pretty good, so ideal to use as an unusual card idea.
Featured In This 1988 Poster / Print
A Range of What Things Cost , Popular Movies and Music, Born This Year
Important Events From The Year including the following After 8 years and 1.5 million dead, the Iran-Iraq war ends • Iraq carries out a poison gas attack on Kurds • Crack-Cocaine appears as a new drug • The US Stealth Bomber is unveiled • The Hubble Space Telescope is put into operation • The first major computer virus infects computers connected to the internet • The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners • Benazie Bhutto is elected to be Prime Minister of Pakistan • The Soviet Red Army withdraws from Afghanistan • Ben Johnson wins the 100m gold medal at the Seoul Olympics and is then disqualified for taking the anabolic steroid, Stanozol • Over 1/3 of Yellowstone National Park is destroyed when a series of more than 250 wild fires combined with drought destroys 793,880 acres of the park • Stephen Hawking publishes “A Brief History of Time” • There are widespread strikes in Poland by Solidarity Supporters • A terrorist bomb explodes on a PanAm jet over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, killing a total of 270 people


This free print is available for all to use is created by The People History and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License ( I.E. Just include an Attribute to The People History When Using Online and Leave Our Copy write Notice Thanks ) The graphic includes news, pop culture, prices and more is also ideal for use when making a 1988 scrapbook for family, friends birthday, Christmas or Wedding Anniversary celebrations or for use with school reunion