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1988 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1988 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
•  February 17, 1988 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
•  February 29, 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town
•  March 17, 1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
•  April 14, 1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
•  May 8, 1988 – A fire at Illinois Bell‘s Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the 'worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history’and still the worst to occur on Mother’s Day.
•  July 23, 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
•  October 27, 1988 – Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
•  December 9, 1988 – The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
•  December 22, 1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.

•  January 25, 1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
•  January 27, 1988 – Liu Wen, Chinese model
•  February 29, 1988 – Scott Golbourne, English footballer
•  March 9, 1988 – Alodia Gosiengfiao, Filipina cosplay artist and model
•  March 14, 1988 – Stephen Curry, American basketball player
•  April 19, 1988 – Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer
•  May 4, 1988 – Georgios Ioannidis, Greek footballer
•  June 27, 1988 – Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
•  September 10, 1988 – Coco Rocha, Canadian fashion model
•  October 14, 1988 – MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress