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
– Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the Canadian House of Commons to come out as gay.
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.
August 17, 1988
– Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
September 24, 1988
– National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
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.
November 15, 1988
– In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
December 8, 1988
– A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
December 22, 1988
– Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
Who Were Born On 1988?
January 18, 1988
– Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer
February 14, 1988
– Ángel di María, Argentine footballer
April 5, 1988
– Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
April 23, 1988
– Prince Buaben, Ghanaian football player
May 25, 1988
– Cameron van der Burgh, South African swimmer
July 7, 1988
– Jack Whitehall, British comedian
August 9, 1988
– Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer
September 9, 1988
– Danilo D'Ambrosio, Italian footballer
November 15, 1988
– Zena Grey, American actress
November 21, 1988
– Len Väljas, Canadian cross-country skier