1988

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

July 4, 1988

Birthdays:

	August 20 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
	PanAm Flight 103 jumbo jet crashes onto Lockerbie Scotland killing all on board. DECEMBER 21, Libyan terrorists planted a bomb with a barometric timer on Pan Am 103, bound from London to New York City. When the plane blew up, all 278 people on board and 11 on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland, were killed. The timer was set to explode at a certain altitude, by which time the 747 was expected to be over deep water. A 25-minute delay at takeoff from London and headwinds of more than 100 mph had placed the aircraft over Lockerbie — instead of the Irish Sea. As a result, the wreckage was scattered over 845 square miles. Repeated sweeps of the Scottish landscape recovered minute fragments of the plane. The telltale piece of the timer that led to the identification of the Libyan terrorists was found imbedded in a shirt that had been packed in the suitcase that contained the bomb. The terrorist would finally come to trial on 2000
		Seoul, Korea - Canada's Ben Johnson breaks his own world record to win the 100 meter gold medal in 9.79 seconds at the 24th Olympiad in Seoul. Johnson is forced by the lOC to return the medal and is disqualified from the Games after a positive steroid drug test two days later.

New York City - Ben Johnson named the Associated Press (AP) athlete of the year, the first Canadian track athlete so honored. On Sept. 26, at the Seoul Summer Olympics, Johnson will test positive for steroid use, and will be stripped of the Gold Medal he won in the 100 Meter Sprint two days earlier. Sept. 30 Ben Johnson sent home from Seoul Olympics for failing a drugs test

		I started using my first PDA Personal Digital Assistant, a Sharp Wizzard I still use PDA's, and recently bought an iPaq hx2755.

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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we�re always in other places, lost, like sheep.
Janet Frame (b. 1924), New Zealand novelist, poet. You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, "The Day of the Sheep" (1983).

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