Our 20th wedding anniversary is coming up on 8/8/08 and on our invitation I wrote what was going on around the time we were married. My research (and faded memory) brought up the following which may be of interest to you:

*Tompkins Square Riots

*Medical waste washes up on NYC beaches

*Jennifer Levin’s family sues Dorian’s Bar in the Yuppie Murderer case

*Central Park Zoo reopens after renovations

*Temperature hits 88 degrees in NYC on 8/8/88

*Winning lotto ticket is 888 day after 8/8/88

*A New York court indicts Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

* Brooklyn native Jean-Michel Basquiat dies of a drug overdose at age 27

* Madonna on Broadway in David Mamet’s “Speed the Plow”

* Boro movies of 1988 include “Working Girl” , “Coming to America” and “Big”

*An illegal bike messenger from Dublin marries an art dealer’s assistant from Brooklyn. For the green card.