Year in a Minute: 1988

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1988.

A police officer walks past the wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland of Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York. (AP Photo, File) Credit: AP

Our bicentenary year.

Charles, Diana, and the Queen all pay us a visit.

Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman to lead an Islamic nation.

The Soviets withdraw from a decade long war in Afghanistan.

Roy Orbison dies of a heart attack.

Pan Am Flight 103 blown-up over Lockerbie in Scotland.

The US Navy accidentally shoots down an Iranian passenger jet, killing all 290 on board.

Osama Bin Laden funnels millions into militant group Al-Qaeda.