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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...
- American
Date Event January 1 The season finale of the original...
- 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
Applicable years Gregorian Calendar. Leap years that begin...
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Stanley Price Weir (23 April 1866 – 14 November 1944) was a public servant and Australian Army officer. During World War I, he commanded the 10th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force during the landing at Anzac Cove and the Gallipoli campaign against the Ottoman Turks, and during the battles of Pozières and Mouquet Farm in France.
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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 EgyptianwriterLanguage links are at the top of the page across from the title.
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This category has the following 34 subcategories, out of 34 total. 1988 by city (9 C) 1988 by continent (23 C) 1988 by country (232 C, 51 P)
