Happy Birthday to a Great Daughter who became a Great Mother! Thought you might like to know what things were like when you were born. Love You XOXOX Cost of Living 1988 How Much things cost in 1988 Yearly Inflation Rate USA4.08% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 2168 Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.50% Average Cost of new house $91,600 Median Price Of and Existing Home $90,600 Average Income per year $24,450.00 Average Monthly Rent $420.00 Average Price for new car $10,400.00 1 gallon of gas 91 cents Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling FTSE 100 Average 1750 Average House Price 61,020 Gallon of Petrol 1.67 Yearly Inflation Rate UK 4.9% Interest Rates Year End Bank of England 12.88% More Example Prices Movie Ticket $3.50 US Postage Stamp 24 cents Dozen Eggs 65 cents Gallon 2% Milk $1.89 Pork Chops Lb 40 cents Lotus 123 Spreadsheet S/W $299.00 Star NSX Dot Matrix Printer $189.00 Logitech Mouse $89.99 Amiga Computer With Color Monitor $849.00 IBM PC with 30Mb Hard Disk, Mono Monitor and 512K Memory $1249.00 Ford Taurus $9,996 Volkswagen Rabbit $7,104 Technology •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 Hubble Space Telescope is put into operation •The US Stealth Bomber is unveiled •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 depression Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use ) Laser Eye Surgery Popular Culture 1988 Popular Films •Rain Man •Who Framed Roger Rabbit •Big •Twins •Crocodile Dundee II •Die Hard •The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! •Beetlejuice •Dangerous Liaisons •A Fish Called Wanda •Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood Popular Musicians •Enya •Robert Palmer •Erasure •Kylie Minogue •U2 •The Beach Boys •Bros •Michael Jackson with Dirty Diana •Gloria Estefan •Chicago with Look Away •George Michael with father Figure •Guns N Roses •George Harrison
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