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For this week's episode, we're going back to September 1988.

On September 2nd, 1988, the Benefit Concert Tour, Human Rights Now, launched in Wimbly Stadium in London, England.

The 20 City Tour featured Bruce Fringstein in the East Street band, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, and Houston Doer.

The tour lasted six weeks and they visited 15 countries.

The tour was to raise awareness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

which had been adopted 40 years earlier in Amnesty International's work.

More than a million people attended the concerts. On September 9th, 1988, the most intense hurricane on record in the Atlantic basin,

up to that point, started forming. Hurricane Gilbert eventually became a Category 5 storm,

which is the most intense type of wind. Wind speeds reach 185 miles per hour. The storm battered the Gulf of Mexico

and the Caribbean. Mexico and Jamaica were particularly hard hit by the hurricane. In total,

318 people were killed. 202 of those people were in Mexico and 45 were in Jamaica. It caused 2.98 billion dollars in damages,

accounting for inflation that is 7.9 billion in 2024. On September 17th, 1988,

the Summer Olympics opened in Seoul, South Korea. There were many highlights, but for

people in North America,

two memorable things happened at those games. On September 19th, American diver Greg Lugainis

smacked the back of his head on a springboard while diving in the 3-meter preliminary competition.

This cut his head and he bled in the pool. At the time, Lugainus was keeping a secret. He had tested HIV positive

months earlier. Luganus was worried that the other competitors who went into the water and the doctors

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