Timeline: 1988 - The Olympics, Coming to America and Mike Tyson KOs
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2020
- Weird History presents Timeline and the year 1988. In 1988, we would see one of the largest oil spills ever with the Exxon Valdez, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, Mike Tyson, take one an undefeated opponent in one of the biggest boxing matches of the century and the release of Eddie Murphy's iconic "Coming to America." Check out Timeline 1988 for the news, sports, culture, and all that was weird. Weird History's Timeline: The 80s.
#year1988 #the80s #weirdhistory 
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“If you’re fascinated by armed standoffs led by charismatic Cult leaders, wait ‘till we get to the 90’s.” -THIS is why I love this channel.
I was like, Bruh...
And the ATF got their shit pushed in.
r00tbeer Lol, is that what they tell you at the meetings?
if you're interested in what happened at Waco I recommend the Ask A Mortician's video about it
@ Antonia Stoyanova Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check it out. Cheers!
This is the only series that brings me any comfort anymore
The only thing left we can trust
I'm glad they hinted at making a 90s
its a good one !!
I hear you.and completely agree.
@@This1Person They'll have to change the intro music for sure.
A legendary year for animation in cinema: Akira, My Neighbor Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies, The Land Before Time, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, etc...
Land before time!!! Woooooww, forgot about that one.
Ugh yess
Who framed Roger rabbit was the only movie for me I loved it so much I always nagged my parents to rent the VHS until they finally bought it. Still my favorite movie to this day
A star studded list holy shit.
My only criticism of this series is that it is way too short. The years need an hour each at minimum. I'm really enjoying this trip to my younger years!
Yeah, for a channel that covers world history, this series is too focused on one country.
Pppppp
@@jp3813 the USA?
@@projectc.j.j3310 Yup.
Ya! He left out Bobby Brown Don’t Be Cruel album
they should do a 60s and 70s timeline.
No one who remembers them are alive or know how to use the interwebz!
This is straight Gen X shit, yo!
No argument here.
@@fuqupal My Dad is 87 and was designing web pages before you where born, learn some history and do your math before you blab.
@@otakuConn They should do the 2000s.
@@fuqupal i was born in 88 and its not like my interest just disappears at 87.
Shit, id watch one on 1287
I would just like to say that y’all have done a fantastic job with this series.
Isnt it just one guy?
agreed 👍
I could not agree more. I get so excited every time I see a new year pop up in my feed. Keep it up!!
Hugh tube I think he’s just the narrator
That needs a heart !!!!!guys come on......
When Rowdy Roddy Piper makes the opening you know this is going to be a good year!
Right?! I miss him every day
"Beetlejuice" it's my all time favorite, I'm glad it was included!
I saw it for the very first time back in 2016 and fell in love, I actually just bought the Blu-Ray of it. Winnona Ryder's portrayal of Lydia is amazing
@@chayden153 get the cartoon! is super cute and has a pretty nice friendship between beetlejuice and lydia (:
@@aliddsdiary from what I've seen of the cartoon, I really liked it, I definitely love the intro
@@chayden153 I’m happy you enjoy it!!! ❤️❤️❤️
"Coming To America" is still one of the most funniest movies today! Eddie Murphy was a comedic genius in the 80's.
@David Shaw If you're going to knock someone's grammar, you should be able to write a sentence properly yourself.
Coming 2 America is in the works. IMDB
"Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return
to America to meet the unlikely heir to the throne of Zamunda. A sequel
to the 1988 comedy 'Coming to America'."
@@D33Lux my only concern is how social justice may ruin the movie. Eddie Murphy's impersonations are hilarious. Will he be as brave as Dave Chapelle or will he cave?
David Shaw Likely the same school where you learned grammar.
Probably my favorite comedy of all time
That ABC cartoon bumper hit me right in the nostalgia. I miss being a little kid in the late 80's.
got me hankerin for a hunka cheese..
yesss i was like holy shit i remember that!
Same here, I was 8.... oddly it felt like I just saw it yesterday.... some things just never leave you, no matter how many years go by.
The 80's was a great decade. Best one of the last 4
They used that into the 90s too
I'm from Syracuse, and the Lockerbie bombing entry in this video really stood out. 35 SU students coming home for Christmas break were on that plane, and let me tell you, for that to happen 4 days before Christmas really altered the overall feel for the holiday around here. You'd run into at least one person that was related to someone, or whose sibling was a friend with and/or had been in a class with someone at some point that were attending SU. There's a memorial dedicated to them up on campus. Anyway, sorry that was so long, but that incident really meant something (at least to me that is). Anyway, the video was REALLY good though. I love this series and when I saw this one was almost a half hour long, I was stoked. I know there's a lot of time invested in making these videos, and it definitely shows. You should be commended for it! Thanks for sharing them with us!👍🏻
Man, Wayne Gretzky going to LA changed hockey in the U.S forever. If you went back to 1988 and said that one day a team from Texas would be playing a team from Florida in the Stanley Cup Finals, people would have looked at you like you were nuts. And yet here we are. Dallas Stars vs Tampa Bay Lightning/ 2020 Stanley Cup Finals.
And a year later Tampa is about to win it again. Although they are playing a Canadian team though.
I turned 59 years old in January of 1988 and it was a great year for Movies.
Damn u old
Some good movies that year.
North Korea So you’re around 90 years old correct? What do you considered is the best movie in the past 30 years?
glad you still here
@@tiffanygotgame Respect your elders!!
its such a throwback for me.. this timeline is my complete youth (i was born in 1973) :) Thanks guys!
73 also
Me too, I was born in 1975.
Me too! April of 73'
@Behavior & Handwriting Reveal the Truth My brain still thinks I'm in my 20s at the most early 30s...but my body says...no bitch,you are getting old..LOL
@@PlanetJ32 25 years on the river i know my body sayes i not young.
"They Live is a documentary"
- Roddy Piper
👍
@@justindearmond1 OMG. That is so effin funny.
1988 . . . the year I got my drivers license and when the movie License to Drive was released. 😁
Poltergeist star Heather O'Rourke died in February of 1988.
It happened when she was sucked into a television.
that's so sad.
@Toby Hofmans You've never watched Poltergeist? You're in for a treat should you decide to!
@brewer921 no, she died in real life. Just 12 years old.
Spielberg and his ilk killed her...she died of sepsis due to anal trauma....sure the wikipedia page will scrub that but its true. she was used and abused just like most of the child stars in Hollywood...also Holly was the tree that the ancient magicians made their wands from, the holly wood. its a cesspool of evil, that place.
The 80s aren’t my favorite decade, but compared to the 2010s, they were a paradise.
I graduated high school in '88 and I remember all these things. Thanks for doing each year in your series..brings back so many memories. :)
Glad to see the Traveling Wilburys mentioned. One of my favorite bands.
Yes!! They’re amazing
I just want to say, the background music is awesome.
Ikr?! I was hoping that first song would be somewhere in the comments.
13:13 They forgot to mention that Suzuki Samurai review by Consumer Reports was completely fudged.
Eddie Murphy Coming to America probably the greatest comedy movie of all time with a good storyline and ending
The year I married my husband, I was so lucky to marry a good man, who I love and who loves me way more than we thought we loved each other in '88. Special year.
Mazel tov
You must've had a real puffy wedding dress!
@@Saint_nobody thank you 🤗💖
@@jujubees 🤦♀️oh my yesss lol.
@Joe Al yes we are...😉
Keep pumping out these full year videos. It’s a great blast from the past.
Finally my year! Well done guys this series is above and beyond. So much respect for the work you put into these videos bro.
I was born in 87 so I didn't expect to remember any of the events as I was still a baby however I'm surprised I didn't hear about some of them while I was growing up. What surprised me even more was how minimal airport security remained up until 2001 despite the fact that there had been airplanes that crashed due to bombs being detonated on board.
I think security for bombs and explosives was tight but out of sight, when they used planes as missiles using only "boxcutters" things changed. That's why they caught the shoe bomber guy, they just started looking in smaller possible cavities for blades. There is also a "display of security" so people feel confident while at the Airport and to deter attempts.
This is a great series. I’m only 25. I was not born and raised in the 80s so I appreciate these types of programs. Very entertaining!
"It's 88 time to set it straight. Ain't no half steppin...word.' - Big Daddy Kane
Yes!
Had him hanging up all over my walls. 😍🥴
My favorite year in music --PERIOD!
@@fireeestarter1 LL Cool J Or Big Daddy Kane ?
"Rappers steppin to me, they wanna get some,
But I'm the Kane so yo you know the outcome"
I specifically remember the August release of Sweet Child of Mine by Guns n Roses. I had just started as a cashier at the 7-Eleven in Naples, Florida, and was at work at about 5 in the afternoon, when they debuted the song. A space in time that has stuck in my memory. I always had the rock and roll blasting at work back then.
I love these 80's revisits
I LOVE this series!! It makes me sad remembering back to such more simple and good times, but I fricking LOVE the videos! KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK!!!!
was just thinking about the series too.Damn, one more year left.
They're gonna do the 90's too.
And probably the 2000's as well
@@fuqupal They confirmed the 90s one? 2000's seems a bit too modern but I'd be down for it either way
@@khalilalexander2125 I hope we can go back to the seventies eventually too.
Passed away
Andy Gibb ( singer of shadow dancing )
Roy Orbison ( singer of oh pretty women)
I love this series - and all the hints to the '90s makes me hopeful we'll see a sequel set during the decade when I grew up (born in 1990).
This is really weird because I'm watching coming to America right now lol
Sexual Chocolate
Greatest movie 🍿
Taste the soup.
"JUST LET YO SOUL GLO!!!"🗣🗣
Lol😂
This series is so good, give whoever came up with it a raise
From my perspective I would want to relive 1984-1985. Those were the best years of the 80s IMO.
I really hope you continue the timeline series further into the 60s, 70s, 90s etc..
I was 8 years old and it was the best year. I literally remember all of the things mentioned in the video, but my biggest memory was that my drawing of a pig wearing a sparkly midnight blue evening gown won the art competiton in my school. So there's that.
@shotonshitteo It was my favorite summer too. I remember seeing not only WFRR (still one of my fav movies), but also Beetlejuice, Short Circuit 2, Land Before Time and Oliver & Co.
I was 8 in April of 1988, lol. I do miss those times!
Great job on your award @Katie Frank!
@@KatieLHall-fy1hw Thank you!
The year I graduated HS. This is the only one I was waiting & wanting to watch
Same
I was born in mid-December of '88. It's wild to see this timeline. I absolutely love Curling. I worked with genetically engineered mice for breast cancer research. Van Gogh is my favorite artist - though I would never steal a painting, of course. So cool to see how many things I so strongly relate to in my birth year. 😊 ❤
LOVE this series, thank you so much for putting the time + work into each vid for us. I'm not hinting at anything I promise, but I'd love to see someone do a similar series for the UK and Ireland's cultural and political landscape over the same time period (I'm Welsh), what a roller coaster the 80s were there too :)
Next week, end of the 80s. Loving the series more and more! Thanks for putting the effort in guys! It's totally awesome!
Who framed roger rabbit is a good one. 😀👍🐰
Ahhh..yessss...right ...rightty
I was obsessed with that movie for the rest of that year. I was 10, almost 11.
I saw that in the theater. I was seven. Had absolutely no idea what on earth was going on. I still couldn’t tell you what that movie was about or what happened in it.
The first movie I watched in theaters when I was 4
@@user-neptune84 I bet you have a good time seeing that movie. 😀👍🐰
I love how this series does so many stories outside of the U.S., world news is important, not just America so I like learning about other events I didn’t know about. Thanks!!
1988 was a very rocky year for me. I'll never forget it. I graduated from high school. I entered the Army and my dad died.
Sorry about your dad. ❤
R u gonna do the 90’s after this Weird History?
There is a hint at 3:20 that they will get to the 90's.
Another hint at 15:14 when he says “We’ll save Rob Pilatus’ story for 1998”.
@@rasten79 so I would assume they will get to 2020 or so in march/April 2021
Pleaaaaase!
I don't anyone is going to want to think about 2020 ever again once it's over. We'll just pretend it never happened.
This is the year I hit adulthood; turned 18, graduated high school, and went to college.
Wow ancient
Many zoomer never achieved that
I turned 16 quit school and went to work full time for my dad. It was awesome! I smoked weed every day. Test drove brand new Mustang GTs, Trans Ams, IROCs, the occasional Corvette. Learned Wheel Alinement, tires and brakes. When I turned 18 I got my GED in Feb. 1990. I would have graduated in late May, so I got my diploma 3 months early by quitting.
@cunny funt Apparently anyone over the age of 18 is now a boomer 🤣🤦♂️
@@viperaputakeyteaparyou8237 OK boomer. LOL
Thanks for covering the best of all decades first. I love and miss the 1980s so much😢😍💓💔💞
I like this guys taste -- Beetlejuice, Kids in the Hall, Coming to America, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and Naked Gun.
What would I relive? 1986-1989...but only because I was in my late teens, those years are always good
I got a hankering for a weird history year video and I went here to see if the new one had been uploaded. Uploaded 9 minutes. Yesssss.
I was born in 1991, but the 80s have always been my favorite decade as far as pop culture, music, movies, etc. Ive definitely absolutely enjoyed watching these and learning more things that Ive never known. Looking forward to what you guys do for the 90s, if you do a timeline for it.
LET ME TELL YOU!!!! I LOVE THIS CHANNEL SO MUCH!!!! Especially this timeline series! I tune in every time a new video drops!
Best historical channel on RUclips!!!
This is one of the best series from one of the best channels on RUclips! Always entertaining always informative and the absolute best narrator.
What I love about this series is finding out all the news that I missed, thanks to not having a television back in the 80s, when I was in my twenties, most of the time. But I also didn't watch news because it was mostly bad news, and it was just a downer most of the time. But it's also a flashback to the culture, hairstyles, clothing styles, and music that we were into back then. Nobody realized how cheesy we could be back then.
This series is well done and wonderful to watch. Looking forward to next week!!!!! ...Rather, next year ;)
Thank you
I've been waiting for this year! Born in October of 88 😊.
Love this series!!!
Hands down my favorite series on RUclips. Thanks weird history for all the hard work.
Agreed. This is an AMAZING series! My husband and I watched 1980-1987 last weekend when cleaning the garage, we loved it! Please do the 70s and the 90s!
1977 when I graduated was something else, along with the previous 3 years in HIGH school, what a trip it was!!
I’ve been on for two hours....patiently waiting....watching weird history lol!!! Thanks for the content!
Every Sunday morning the first thing I do is check a new timeline video! I can’t believe it’s already been months since 1980...
This whole series has been great so far. Thanks very much for researching and producing it!
I will tell ya, I love this series as I was born in 84. That said I am super stoked to find out that the 90’s are gonna be covered just like I asked for And was hoping they were gonna do.
Thanks so much Weird History for being such a great channel with some of the best content around. Keep up the great work and keep it coming!
Take care and stay safe, peace.
*FINALLY, RICK ROLLED*
And Suzuki Samurai rolled!
Not a bug, it's a feature
This series is incredibly well done! Bravo!
You forgot the time, Roald Dahl published the novel "Matilda" on October 1, 1988. 8 years later, the 1996 movie based on the novel was released starring Mara Wilson and Pam Ferris.
Im a huge Matilda fan and was 5 when the movie came out!
Man I love these, When I see the notification pop its like, I do a happy dance. So glad you are doing these, and I am defiantly looking forward to the 90's!
88, the year of the release of one of the best albums of all time: Seventh Son of the Seventh Son
Funny you should mention it: that was the year 11 year old me discovered Iron Maiden.
And that was the album.
Found it in my stepfather's car.
I stopped listening to Iron Maiden a long time ago.
But I was a super fanboy for 3 years until 1991 when my taste in music developed further
What band?
@@mrrandom1265 Iron Maiden.
With its wacky lyrics of hellfire and damnation
Maiden fully embrace their prog side. Great album and tour.
"Read my lips: no new taxes"
That was around 91-92.
And the dems controlled both houses. Everything they sent up for 41 to sign had taxes attached to it. I saw an interview years later of him saying that he wish he had defended himself better on that count.
I appreciate this series a lot, and I'm not even a guy who gets into most shows, movies or series. It's so surreal to look back at everything
Timeline: what an amazing series!! you guys rock.
i would love to see a whole episode on the russian anthrax story.
Thanks!
I turned 10 this year. It was okay. Can’t remember what happened at my neck of the woods of Soviet Estonia at that time. Edit: Oh, we started campaigning for independence. That’s certainly a good thing.
Kyril J True. I couldn’t believe it when the crown was gotten rid of. The same money we had waited for so long!
I love this series. Keep doing timeline for sure!
I definitely enjoys these posts. I do wish more content included past entertainment stuff, forgotten and lost to time and memory. It seems to only be mere seconds of mentions.
The most entertaining series to watch. Looking forward to 1989. Very well done!
Thank-you!
I can't wait for Sunday to see this Timeline Series. However, I get sad when I realize it's almost over! The nostalgia these videos bring is awesome! I think about life in the 80's quite often! Greatest decade EVER!!!
I agree. I love the 80s.
The 1987-88 NBA season is arguably the greatest in history. The MVP race between Jordan, Bird, and Magic; Jordan as the first MVP to also become Defensive Player of the Year, the first DPOY to win the scoring title, and the first player to accumulate 200+ steals with 100+ blocks in a season twice; Bird becoming the first player to be in the 50-40-90 club twice; Jordan vs Wilkins iconic dunk contest; Bird's legendary 3pt contest threepeat; Bird vs Wilkins Game 7 duel; Isiah's sprained ankle game; Lakers fulfilling Pat Riley's repeat guarantee (ending the league's drought since 1969); Worthy recording the first ever Game 7 triple-double; Stockton finally unleashed from the bench to begin his nine consecutive assists titles along with racing Jordan and A. Robertson (all-time steals per game leader) for the steals title; and so on and so forth.
It also featured at least 22 eventual Hall of Fame players: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Moses Malone, Charles Barkley, Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Dennis Rodman, Adrian Dantley, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Alex English, Dominique Wilkins, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Reggie Miller.
Your comment is also a good indication of why Jordan is The GOAT.
I look forward to these every week
Just found your channel. Love this! You got yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the great work!🤘🏽
Love listening to this narrator but then again the stories were clear and interesting, easy to follow. Thanks, man!🤗🦋
I love these so much. Keep up the good work man!
I'm born in 88, thanks for this amazing timeline videos! though I never really "lived" in the 80s in a sense that I can relive and remember them, somehow they are in my genes, in my blood so to speak. I can feel them and feel that they must have been very unique! play a synth line and you've got me goosebumps, that's the way I feel about the 80s :-)
Man this series is great, I really hope you keep going with the 90s
I love this series. Can’t wait until you guys get into the 1990’s. Even this year, 2020, has nothing on all of the crazy events of 1993. That was the most eventful year of my lifetime, so far. Seeing Joe Montana in a Chiefs uniform was definitely the most painful.
Love the background music... 😁
For all those who don’t know you can’t dance on the giant keyboard cause they shut down f.a.o Schwartz years ago
I visited Manhattan NY in 2018 and I went into the building where it used to be and the people who work there told me it was closed. I was so sad.
Evilsdemise toys r us is gone now
Some company did buy just the name and still use it. But you can tell it's not the same quality as the original
Rex Lint oh really I should check it out everything is super expensive now
NYC where I live has lossed 300billion dollars
Yay! We finally got to my birth year! I was excited to see all the history that happened the year I was born. I'm surprised you didn't mention that "The Phantom of the Opera" opened on Broadway in January. It's gone on to be Broadway's longest-running show and, when it first came out, was an absolute smash hit, the "Hamilton" of its day.
"Phantom of the Opera" is absolutely amazing, I saw it at The Wharton Center on Michigan State's campus a few years ago, it's definitely one of my favorite musicals
Only content i check everyday to see if they post , keep up the good stuff !
every time i see that Gibson home run, i imagine those brake lights in the parking lot are from someone who left early, and was listening to the end on the radio, slamming the brakes thinking, "what have i done?"
haha that damn home run broke my heart and then I changed from an A's to a Yankees fan (we had no team of our own in Denver then) and Don Mattingly fanboy and that caused them to go on pretty much their longest World Series absence in team history and the single greatest baseball player of all time never got a single world series attendance nor did he qualify for the HOF because of that. And then they Yanks get the ring in 96 the very next year after he retires. I should have stayed an A's fan... =D
@@gobshite5150 Did you seriously call Donnie Baseball the single greatest player of all time? Stop it.
Don Mattingly and Wade Boggs were definitely the best American league players of the 80s. At least 220+ hits every year? Come on. But Boggs wasnt a decent all around sports star like Donnie, Boggs was cheating on his wife, drinking massive amounts of beer before games and off field, getting in fights, arrested etc
He pretty much all but confirmed they are doing the 90’s in this video with a few hints. One of a few hints was when at 15:14 he says “We’ll save Rob Pilatus’ story for 1998”.👍🏽👍🏽
Love this series. Thank You Weird History
You may as well just do every decade. You do a great job, and we love it.
Ayrton Senna, considered one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time, wins the World Drivers Championship for the first time. No mention of it here, but then again i'm not surprised, there's lots that gets missed out of this series.
I love this era!
I may have only been 6 in 1988 but I have memories of graduating Kindergarten and jamming to some of the biggest hits.
I loooooove your Soundtrack - teleports me directly back to my youth (Born 1968). Thanx, was a great time with great music...and bad hair/ clothes