What was happening when T95 turned 9?

POP CULTURE:

First transatlantic fibre optic cable laid able to carry 40,000 telephone calls simultaneously
Stephen Hawking Publishes “A Brief History Of Time “
The first major computer virus infects computers connected to the Internet.
The US Stealth Bomber is unveiled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvjAcQdgvyU

Using Carbon Dating it is established that the Turin Shroud Can Not Be the Burial Cloth of Christ
The Antidepressant Prozac introduced which quickly became the market leader for treating depressio

SPORTS:

The XV Olympic Winter Games, were held in Calgary, Canada from February 13th to February 28th. There were 46 events that 1,423 athletes from 57 countries participated in during the games. This was the first time Canada hosted the Winter Games. The Soviet Union, East Germany, and Switzerland won the most medals with 29, 25, and 15 respectively. Notable moments during these Olympics include the debut of the Jamaican bobsled team that inspired the popular film “Cool Runnings” and the self-taught “Eddie the Eagle” who became the first British ski jumper to compete in the event in 60 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2LVihKXFwM

Super Bowl XXII – The Washington Redskins win their second Super Bowl title and fourth NFL title 42–10 over the Denver Broncos.
January 12 – Former Pirates slugger Willie Stargell is the only player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Stargell, leader of two world champions in Pittsburgh and NL co-MVP in 1979 at age 39, becomes the 17th player to be elected in his first year of eligibility. Jim Bunning falls four votes shy of the 321 needed for election in his 13th year on the ballot.
August 8 – The first night game ever at Wrigley Field is played. After an attempt the previous night was rained out, the Cubs defeat the New York Mets 6–4.
World Series – Los Angeles Dodgers won 4 games to 1 over the Oakland Athletics. The Series MVP was Orel Hershiser, Los Angeles
NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship – Kansas wins 83–79 over Oklahoma
NBA Finals – Los Angeles Lakers won 4 games to 3 over the Detroit Pistons
Stanley Cup – Edmonton Oilers won 4 games to 0 over the Boston Bruins

MUSIC NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT:

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony inducts The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan and The Supremes.
A Tampa, Florida, man files an unusual lawsuit against Mötley Crüe. Matthew John Trippe, who has a history of mental health issues and trouble with the law, claims that he was secretly hired to pose as Nikki Sixx and toured, wrote and recorded with the band for a time during 1983 and 1984. Trippe drops the lawsuit in 1993.
Alice Cooper almost dies on stage when one of the props, the Gallows, malfunctions.
Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California, USA.
The Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 commences in East Troy, Wisconsin. Van Halen headlines with the other acts on the bill consisting of Metallica, Scorpions, Dokken and Kingdom Come.
Public Enemy garners publicity by staging a concert at Riker’s Island prison for 250 inmates and 100 journalists.

BOX OFFICE:

TELEVISION:

The season finale of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series airs in syndication with “Shredder & Splintered“. The series will return for a second season in fall.
The pilot for The Wonder Years airs following ABC‘s coverage of Super Bowl XXII.
Wrestlers Hulk Hogan and André the Giant compete on The Main Event on NBC, marking the return of professional wrestling to network prime-time for the first time since 1955.
The series finale of St. Elsewhere reveals that the entire series was the product of an autistic boy’s imagination.
The first ever edition of “Shark Week” airs on Discovery Channel.
TNT, the fourth cable network owned by Turner Broadcasting, commences programming with a broadcast of the movie Gone with the Wind.
Mystery Science Theater airs for the first time on KTMA-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

HISTORICAL EVENTS:

Suspected Libyan terrorist bomb explodes on Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in Scotland on December 21st killing all 259 on board and 11 on the ground
A new drug Crack appears ( A derivative of Cocaine ) and is increasingly found in US Cities

The English Pound Note ceases to be legal Tender
Soviet Red Army withdraws from Afghanistan.
Over 1/3 of Yellowstone National Park is destroyed when a a series of more than 250 small different fires combined with the 1988 Drought destroys 793,880 acres of the park.
US Space Shuttle program resumes 2 1/2 years after Challenger disaster