1988 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1988?
- 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.
- March 5, 1988 – The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
- 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 16, 1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
- April 4, 1988 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
- April 18, 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
- 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.
- May 16, 1988 – A report by United States’ Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
- July 3, 1988 – The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus.
- August 10, 1988 – Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.
- September 7, 1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
- September 11, 1988 – The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- September 23, 1988 – José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40-40 club.
- 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 12, 1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
- November 15, 1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
- December 1, 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- December 6, 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
- 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.
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