1988 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1988?
- February 5, 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- February 17, 1988 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- March 5, 1988 – The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
- April 18, 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
- April 25, 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- 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.
- June 4, 1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
- 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.
- August 17, 1988 – Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
- August 20, 1988 – “Black Saturday” of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
- 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 8, 1988 – Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
- September 13, 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
- October 5, 1988 – The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by Constituent Assembly.
- November 15, 1988 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
- November 18, 1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
- December 6, 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
- December 7, 1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
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