1988 Calendar
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1988 Historical Event(s)
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 6, 1988
– Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
March 17, 1988
– A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
April 28, 1988
– Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle “C.B.” Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane’s fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
April 30, 1988
– Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo '88 in Brisbane, Australia.
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.
May 24, 1988
– Section 28 of the United Kingdom’s Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
September 8, 1988
– Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
December 13, 1988
– Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.
Who Were Born On 1988?
January 21, 1988
– Vanessa Hessler, Italian model
February 15, 1988
– Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer
May 30, 1988
– Kelvin Etuhu, Nigerian footballer
June 17, 1988
– Stephanie Rice, Australian swimmer
June 23, 1988
– Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
July 19, 1988
– Shane Dawson, American YouTube comedian
July 25, 1988
– Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
August 18, 1988
– Luke Jackson (author), English Author
August 25, 1988
– Alexandra Burke, English singer
December 29, 1988
– Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player