NWA Straight Outta Compton: 9 Wild Facts About the 1988 Debut
How NWA’s Straight Outta Compton went triple platinum with no MTV, no radio, and an FBI letter trying to shut them down. The 1988 album that broke gangsta rap.
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Soviet Exit from Afghanistan: 7 Shocking Cold War Facts From May 15, 1988
On May 15, 1988, Soviet tanks began rolling out of Afghanistan. After 9 years and 15,000 lives lost, Gorbachev called it a bleeding wound and pulled the plug. Here are 7 wild facts from the day Russia’s Vietnam finally ended.
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The PEPCON Disaster: Inside the Day Henderson, Nevada Exploded
The PEPCON disaster on May 4, 1988 was the most powerful civilian explosion in American history — a rocket-fuel chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada that vaporized itself, leveled the marshmallow factory next door, cracked windows at McCarran International Airport seven miles away, and shoved a 1,000-foot mushroom cloud over Las Vegas while a Boeing 737…
