Tuesday
Jan082008
20 Great Things About 1988
Jan 8, 2008 at 10:14AM Even if you were knee high to a grasshopper (or not even born yet) you will surely know there was a lot more to 1988 than the final season of Miami Vice.
1988
- The Premier of Western Australia was Brian Burke, then Peter Dowding
- The Prime Minister was Bob Hawke
- Australia's Bicentenary year, with celebrations lasting throughout year.
- On Australia Day, Australia celebrates its bicentennial day with a tall ships parade in Sydney Harbour.
- Queen Elizabeth II opens the New Parliament House in Canberra
- Perth's third commercial television station NEW-10 opens, giving Perth the same number of stations as the eastern states.
- Reserve Bank of Australia issues polypropylene polymer banknotes
- The first SUBWAY® restaurant in Australia opened in the city of Perth
- INXS announces that the band left Perth because it was "the one place in Australia where jukebox (Top 40) bands are popular," Farriss adds. "That's why we had to leave - our agent fired us because we refused to play enough covers."
- Alan Bond was the anonymous buyer of the world's most valuable painting, Vincent Van Gogh's "Irises,"
Jan 8, 2008 at 10:14AM