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.
- 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 13, 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
- April 25, 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
- May 15, 1988 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan.
- May 24, 1988 – The fourth game of the 1988 Stanley Cup Finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Boston Bruins had to end in a tie because of a power failure. The Oilers went on to win the Stanley Cup with a 6-3 victory in game 5.
- June 27, 1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
- July 23, 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
- July 31, 1988 – 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
- August 9, 1988 – Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in hockey history, upsetting many Canadians.
- August 20, 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: a cease-fire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
- August 28, 1988 – Ramstein airshow disaster: three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. 75 are killed and 346 seriously injured.
- 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.
- December 1, 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- December 6, 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
- December 9, 1988 – The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
- December 12, 1988 – The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains – one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
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