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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1988. 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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6 January 1988: Last: 29 December 1988: Total: 121:...
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Lists of celebrities. A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a given society and commands a degree of public and media attention. The word is derived from the Latin celebrity, from the adjective celeber ("famous," "celebrated"). Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of notability, although the word notable is ...
magazine (1980s) This is a list of people and subjects appearing on the cover of Time magazine in the 1980s. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety.
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January 1: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan exchange hopeful New Year’s greetings that they would reach an arms control treaty on strategic weapons within six months. January 2: Brian Mulroney, Canadian Prime Minister, and U.S. President Ronald Reagan sign a Canada-United States free trade agreement. January 3: Marga...
February 2: U.S. President Reagan presses his case for aid to the Nicaraguan Contras, in a speech that three major television networks declined to broadcast. February 3: Nurses all over the United Kingdom strike over their pay and funding for the NHS. February 3: U.S. President Ronald Reagan is defeated by the U.S. House of Representatives when the...
March 1: Iran announces that it launched 16 missiles into Tehran. March 1: U.S. President Ronald Reagan arrives in Brussels, Belgium for the first NATO summit in six years. March 6: British SAS officers kill 3 IRA suspects in Gibraltar. March 9: Actress Audrey Hepburn is appointed a UNICEF Special Ambassador. March 10: An avalanche at the Swiss ski...
April 3: U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz arrives in Israel to launch a fresh U.S. peace initiative, telling the Israelis that the Palestinians must be included in negotiations. April 4: Eddie Hill becomes the world’s first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds. April 5: The last broadcast of Crossroads is aired on British tel...
May 1: Two IRA attacks in and near Roermond, Netherlands, result in the deaths of 3 British servicemen and wound 3 more. May 2: Painter Jackson Pollock’s piece Search is sold for $4,800,000. May 2: Three British servicemen, who were off-duty, are killed by the IRA in the Netherlands. May 6: English cricket history is made by Graeme Hick when he sco...
June 2: U.S. President Ronald Reagan visits the U.K. June 3: The film Big directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks premieres in the United States. June 5: The first Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000. June 6: George H. W. Bush makes a campaign promise to support reparations for World War II to Japanese-Americans internees....
July 1: A 4-day national conference of Soviet Communist Party members ended in Moscow, with Mikhail Gorbachev winning approval for important changes. July 4: An Iranian civilian jetliner is shot down over the Gulf by the U.S. Navy, killing 290 people. July 5: The Church of England announces it will allow female priests to be ordained from 1992 onwa...
August 1: In its 8-year-old war with Iraq, Iran says it would honor an immediate ceasefire. August 2: In British soccer, Everton FC quickly break the transfer record set by Paul Gascoigne’s transfer when they pay £2.3 million for 22 year old West Ham United striker Tony Cottee. August 4: In a consumer fraud case, Hertz rental car company agrees to ...
September 8: Two nuclear-missile rockets are destroyed in Karnack, Texas at an army ammunition plant. These two rockets were the first U.S. weapons to be eliminated under an arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union. September 9: The Financial Corporation of America files for bankruptcy with assets of $33.8 billion. September 11: 300,000 people i...
October 8: Pope John Paul II travels to eastern France to address the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights. October 13: Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian novelist, is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the first Arabic writer to do so. October 19: Broadcast interviews with members of the IRA are banned in Britain. October 20: ...
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AD 196 Angel hair • EU, Roman Empire; Rome, Italia: Historian Cassius Dio described a "fine rain resembling silver [that] descended from a clear sky upon the Forum of Augustus." He wrote that he was able to plate some of his bronze coins, but four days later, the silvery coating was gone. AD c. 740 Air ship of Clonmacnoise
Celebrate the birthdays of 390 famous people, historical figures and celebrities born in 1988 like Rihanna, Haley Joel Osment and Adele.
