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1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
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1988 in television may refer to: . 1988 in American...
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The 1988 NSWRL season sees the debuts of three new...
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The year 1988 in television involved some significant...
- Spaceflight
Loss of communication 2 September 1988 en route to Mars 12...
- Khian Sea
The Khian Sea waste disposal incident was an incident in...
- Leap Year Starting on Friday
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February 13 – Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. He calls his new home "Neverland".March 12 – Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmasalbum.April 19 – Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono becomes the mayor of Palm Springs, California.May 1 – Citing the 1st Amendment, a judge drops all charges filed against singer Billy Joel. Joel was being sued by Jack Powers for defamation following an interview with Playboyin which he called...January 12 – Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballerFebruary 20 – Rihanna, Barbadian singerFebruary 29 – Lena Gercke, German modelMarch 27 – Brenda Song, American actress and singerJanuary
1. January 3 – Rose Auslander, German poet (b. 1901) 2. January 3 – Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1905) 3. January 5 – Pete Maravich, basketball player (b. 1947) 4. January 7 – Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913) 5. January 11 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist (b. 1898) 6. January 13 – Chiang Ching-kuo, 3rd President of the Republic of China (b. 1910) 7. January 14 – Georgy Malenkov, 5th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1902) 8. January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish...
February
1. February 1 – Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975) 2. February 13 – John Curulewski, American guitarist (Styx) (b. 1950) 3. February 15 – Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
March
1. March 7 – Divine, American actor and singer (b. 1945) 2. March 9 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 3rd Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904) 3. March 10 – Andy Gibb, singer (b. 1958) 4. March 10 – Phạm Hùng, Vietnamese prime minister (b. 1912) 5. March 31 – Sir William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, and Jack Steinberger for their research on neutrinosNobel Prize in Chemistry shared by Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, and Hartmut MichelNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, and George H. HitchingsNobel Prize in Literature won by Naguib Mahfouz, an EgyptianwriterThe Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created in two major phases – the Paracas phase (from 400 BC to 200 BC) and the Nazca phase (from 200 BC to 500 AD). The combined length of all the lines is more than 1,300 km (800 mi), and the group covers an area of about 50 km 2 (19 sq ...
This category is for topics specifically related to the year AD 1988. 1983. 1984. 1985. 1986. 1987. 1988. 1989. 1990. 1991. 1992. 1993. 1930s. 1940s. 1950s. 1960s. 1970s. 1980s. 1990s. 2000s. 2010s. 2020s. 2030s. Subcategories. This category has the following 34 subcategories, out of 34 total. 1988 by city (9 C) 1988 by continent (23 C)
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June 1 – The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, banning intermediate-range missiles in the United States and the Soviet Union, comes into effect. June 12 – Rusty Wallace wins the last NASCAR Winston Cup Series Budweiser 400 auto race at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.
Help. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1988. Topics specifically related to the year AD 1988. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total. 1988 by continent (4 C) 1988 by country (3 C) / 1988 disestablishments (5 C, 2 P) 1988 establishments (6 C, 8 P) B. 1988 births (625 P) D. 1988 deaths (135 P) E.
