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.
- March 17, 1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
- March 25, 1988 – The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
- June 27, 1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
- July 6, 1988 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. 167 oil workers are killed, making it the world’s worst offshore oil disaster.
- July 23, 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
- August 20, 1988 – Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- September 8, 1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
- October 5, 1988 – The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
- December 1, 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Who Were Born On 1988?
- January 22, 1988 – Greg Oden, American basketball player
- February 7, 1988 – Lee Don-Ku, South Korean ice hockey defenceman player
- March 20, 1988 – Louie Vito, American snowboarder
- April 1, 1988 – Courtney McCool, American gymnast
- April 9, 1988 – Michel Alves Baroni, Brazilian footballer
- April 10, 1988 – Haley Joel Osment, American actor
- May 23, 1988 – Morgan Pressel, American golfer
- June 23, 1988 – Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast
- August 16, 1988 – Kevin Schmidt, American actor
- December 23, 1988 – Eliana Ramos, Uruguayan fashion model (d. 2007)