What happend in 1988

Events
DateEvent
1988 Gamal Abdel-Rahim Died
1988 Jeanne Behrend Died
1988 Joly Braga Santos Died
1988 Lex van Delden Died
1988 Evgeny Golubev Died
1988 Kenneth Leighton Died
1988 Ernst Hermann Meyer Died
1988 Marcel Poot Died
1988 Giacinto Scelsi Died
1988 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji Died
1988 Pablo Sorozábal Died
1988 Rezső Sugár Died
January 01 1988 Evangelical Church Largest Lutheran Congregation In US
1988 Cesar Bresgen Died
January 13 1988 Lee Teng-hui First Taiwanese President Of China
January 28 1988 Canadian High Court Allows Unrestricted Abortions
February 02 1988 Auntie Anne's Founded In Lancaster, Pennsylvania
February 05 1988 Manuel Noriega Indicted
February 06 1988 Michael Jordan's Slam Dunk Inspires Air Jordan
February 20 1988 Nagorno-Karabakh Seceds From Azerbaijan
February 27 1988 Azerbaijan's Armenian Community Is Targeted
February 29 1988 South Arican Desmond Tutu And Clergymen Aressed In Cape Town
February 29 1988 Robinson Is The First Gay House Member
March 06 1988 SAS Kills IRA Volunteers, Ending Operation Flavius
March 13 1988 Seikan Undersea Tunnel Opens In Japan
March 14 1988 Chinese Defeat Vietnamese At Johnson South Reef
March 16 1988 North And Poindexter Indicted For Conspiracy
March 16 1988 Kudish Town Attached With Chemical Agents
March 16 1988 Stone Attacks IRA Funeral In Belfast
March 17 1988 Jetliner Crashed Into Mountain, Killing 143
March 17 1988 Nadew Command Overwhelmed In Battle Of Afabet
March 20 1988 The Eritrean People's Liberation Front Won The Battle Of Afabet
March 25 1988 Demonstration Against Communist Regime In Czechoslovakia
April 04 1988 Arizona Governor Is Removed From Office
April 10 1988 More Than 1000 Dead Due To Blast
April 14 1988 Operation Earnest Will: USS Samuel B Roberts Strikes Mine
April 14 1988 Soviet Union Agrees To Withdraw (Afghan)istan Troops
April 18 1988 US Launches Operation Praying Mantis
April 25 1988 Demjanuk Sentenced To Death For War Crimes
April 28 1988 Aloha Airlines Flight-243 Bursts, Kills Attendant
May 04 1988 Disaster Hits Henderson, Nevada-tons Of Fuel Detonates
May 08 1988 Fire At Illinois Bell Triggers 1AESS Outage
May 14 1988 Wrong Way Drunk Driver Kills 27
May 15 1988 Soviet Army Begins Afghanistan Withdrawal
May 16 1988 Report By U.S. Surgeon Regarding Nicotine
May 24 1988 Section 28 Prohibitied Government Promotion Of Homosexuality
May 29 1988 Reagan Visits Moscow For Superpower Summit
June 04 1988 Train Explosion In USSR Kills 91
June 27 1988 Rail Accident In Paris Kills 56
July 03 1988 U.S. Navy Shoots Down, Iran Plane Killing All
July 03 1988 Bridge In Turkey Becomes Second To Link Europe And Asia
July 06 1988 Offshore Oil Platform Explodes, Kills 167
July 23 1988 General Resigns As Ruler Over Burma
July 31 1988 Penang, Malaysian Bridge Collapse Kills, Injures
August 06 1988 NYC: Tompkins Square Park Riot Takes Place
August 08 1988 The "8888 Uprising" Occurs In Burma
August 10 1988 Reagon Signs Japanese-American Internment Act In 1988
August 17 1988 Plane Crash Killed Zia-ul-Haq And Arnold Raphel
August 20 1988 Black Saturday Of Yellowstone National Park
August 20 1988 Peru Joins Berne Convention
August 20 1988 Iran-Iraq Finally Agree To Ceasefire
August 20 1988 The Troubles: IRA Bomb Kills Eight Soldiers
August 25 1988 Chiado, Lisbon Partially Destroyed By Fire
August 28 1988 Three Aircraft Collide Killing 75
September 07 1988 First Afgan Astonaught Departs Mir Space Station
September 08 1988 Yellowstone Closed Due To Fires
September 11 1988 St. Jean Bosco Massacre In Port-au-Prince Haiti
September 12 1988 Hurricane Devastates Jamaica Then Yucatan Peninsula
September 13 1988 Hurricane Gilbert Strongest Recorded
September 18 1988 Pro-democracy Uprisings Crushed In Myanmar
September 23 1988 Oakland's Canseco First Member Of 40-40 Club
September 27 1988 Myanmar: National League For Democracy Formed
September 29 1988 NASA Return To Flight Mission
September 30 1988 Pilot Fatally Injured After Aircraft Crash In Ohio
October 04 1988 Jim Bakker Indicted For Fraud
October 05 1988 Chilean Opposition Defeats Pinochet
October 05 1988 Brazilian Constitution Ratified
October 07 1988 International Rescue For Trapped Gray Whales
October 12 1988 Indian Peace Keeping Force Raid Campus
October 12 1988 Two Victoria, Australia Police Gunned Down
October 12 1988 Massacre In Tripura, India
October 19 1988 Interviews With Sinn Fein Are Outlawed
October 27 1988 Reagan Tears Down Embassy In Moscow
November 02 1988 The Morris Worm Is Launched From MIT
November 03 1988 Indian Military Suppresses Coup
November 13 1988 Portland Law Student Beaten To Death
November 15 1988 Unmanned Shuttle Buran Makes Flight
November 15 1988 Palestinian National Council Proclaims Independent Palestinian State
November 15 1988 Netherlands: Havelaar Launches First Fairtrade Label
November 16 1988 Estonia Declares Sovereignty, But Not Independence
November 16 1988 Bhutto Elected In Pakistani Historic Open Election
November 17 1988 Baku Protests Against Soviets
November 18 1988 President Reagan Signs A Bill
November 19 1988 Sebian Representative Declares Serbia Is Under Attack
November 22 1988 First Stealth Bomber Is Revealed In California
December 01 1988 Pakistan Appoints Benazir Bhutto, Minister
December 02 1988 Benazir Bhutto First Female Prime Minister - Pakistan
December 06 1988 Australian Capital Gets Self-government
December 07 1988 6.9 Earthquake In Armenia Leaves 1/7 Homeless
December 07 1988 Yasser Arafat Recognizes Israel's Exit
December 08 1988 Air Force A-10 Crashes Into Apartment Complex
December 09 1988 Irish Hughes Bridge Opens
December 12 1988 Clapman Junction Rail Crash Worst In UK
December 13 1988 Speech Given By Yasser Arafat At UN General Assembly Meeting, Geneva
December 14 1988 ET3 TV Network Launched In Thessaloniki
December 20 1988 Convention Against Drugs Signed
December 21 1988 Bomb Explodes On Pan Am Flight
December 22 1988 Chico Mendes Is Assassinated
December 31 1988 Mario Lemieux Scores Five Different Goals
December 31 1988 Wielicki Accomplishes First Winter Ascent Of Lhotse




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