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1.9 September

September 5 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association
September 17 - TV Show Garfield and Friends debuts on CBS
September 17 - Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea opens
September 22 - Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea. (See also July 6th)
September 29 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster

1.10 October

October 5 - Thousands riots in Algiers, Algeria against the government of National Liberation Front - by October 10 army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots
October 11 - Girls are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag
October 12 - two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings in Australia
October 19 - United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
October 28 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France
October 29 - In Japan, the Sega Megadrive is released for the first time.
October 30 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.

1.11 November

November 2 - The Morris worm is unleashed on the Internet
November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1988: George Herbert Walker Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (seven bodies were eventually found and Puente was convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison)
November 15 - In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on her maiden orbital spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle)
November 15 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46
November 16 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that the Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence
November 16 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister
November 17 - The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet
November 18 - War on Drugs: US President Ronald Wilson Reagan signs a bill into law providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers
November 22 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed
November 30 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.

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