1988

Top Songs

1. Billy Ocean – “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car
2. Bobby McFerrin – “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
3. Bon Jovi – “Bad Medicine”
4. Cheap Trick – “The Flame”
5. Escape Club – “Wild, Wild West”
6. George Harrison -“Got My Mind Set on You
7. Guns N’ Roses – “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
8. INXS – “Need You Tonight”
9. Michael Jackson – “Man in the Mirror”
10. Michael Jackson – “The Way You Make Me Feel”
11. Phil Collins – “Groovy Kind of Love”
12. Poison – “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”
13. Richard Marx – “Hold on to the Nights”
14. Rick Astley – “Never Gonna Give You Up”
15. Rick Astley – “Together Forever”
16. Terence Trent D’Arby – “Wishing Well”
17. The Beach Boys – “Kokomo”
18. Whitney Houston – “So Emotional”
19. Will to Power – “Baby, I Love Your Way”

#7: Top Movies

1. Coming to America
2. The Naked Gun
3. Die Hard
4. Rain Man
5. Cocktail
6. Twins

#8: Top TV Shows

1. Alf
2. Cheers
3. Growing Pains
4. Murder, She Wrote
5. Roseanne
6. The Cosby Show
7. The Golden Girls
8. The Wonder Years
9. Who’s the Boss?

#9: TV shows that started

• Mission: Impossible
• Superman
• China Beach

#10: Births

1. Claire Holt – TV actress, “Vampire Diaries”, “The Originals”
2. Stephen Curry – top basketball player, record 3-pointers
3. Rihanna – pop singer, “Diamonds”, “We Found Love”
4. Emma Stone – movie actress, “The Help”, “Easy A”
5. Tyler Joseph – lead vocalist for Twenty One Pilots
6. Rupert Grint – actor, in the “Harry Potter” movies
7. Melissa Benoist – TV actress, in “Supergirl”
8. Jessie J – pop singer, “Price Tag”, “Domino”
9. Kevin Durant – high-scoring NBA forward 
10. Adele – British singer, “Hello”, “Skyfall”

#11 : Calgary Olympics

• First time Canada hosted a winter Olympics
• Jamaican bobsled team: “Cool Runnings” movie
• Eddie the Eagle: British ski jumper