1988 in History (Part 5)

Events in History

Events 401 - 483 of 483

• Nov 5 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
• Nov 5 France performs nuclear test

• Nov 5 Gulch wins Breeder's Cup
• Nov 8 900 die as earthquake hits China
• Nov 8 Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis
• Nov 8 Rafael Fernandez Colón re-elected Governor of Puerto Rico
• Nov 10 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
• Nov 10 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
• Nov 11 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
• Nov 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Nov 15 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV, collapses
• Nov 15 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
• Nov 15 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• Nov 16 Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs

• Nov 23 France performs nuclear test
• Nov 23 President Reagan announces that he is pocket-vetoing a bill designed to further restrict lobbying by former federal employees.
• Nov 25 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
• Nov 25 Widespread earthquake hits North East US, Canada, no damage reported
• Nov 25 German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
• Nov 26 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev & Jean-Loup Chretien launch
• Nov 26 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)

• Nov 30 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
• Nov 30 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
• Nov 30 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
• Nov 30 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
• Nov 30 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
• Dec 1 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
• Dec 1 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
• Dec 1 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
• Dec 1 First World AIDS day to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic
• Dec 2 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet surrender in Israel


• Dec 2 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
• Dec 2 UN votes 151-2 (Israel and US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Great Britain abstains
• Dec 3 NY Lotto pays $45 million to twelve winner (#s are 1-8-13-18-28-48)
• Dec 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• Dec 5 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite

• Dec 6 Carlos Andres Perez re-elected president of Venezuela
• Dec 6 Merv Hughes takes 13 wickets v WI at the WACA but Australia lose

• Dec 6 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
• Dec 7 PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time
• Dec 7 6.9 earthquake in Spitak, Armenia kills 25,000-50,000 people and leaves up to 500,000 homeless
• Dec 7 Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN

• Dec 9 The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.
• Dec 12 3 trains collide in London, 40 die
• Dec 12 NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
• Dec 12 PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist
• Dec 13 3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
• Dec 13 Yasser Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
• Dec 14 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
• Dec 14 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org for the 1st time in 13 yrs
• Dec 16 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
• Dec 17 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
• Dec 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 19 NASA unveils plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
• Dec 19 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
• Dec 20 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London
• Dec 20 Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka
• Dec 21 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
• Dec 21 Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
• Dec 21 Lockerbie disaster: Pan Am Flight 103 destroyed mid air by a terrorist bomb killing all 258 on board over Scotland
• Dec 22 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
• Dec 22 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa
• Dec 22 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast
• Dec 26 Anti African student rebellion in Nanjing, China
• Dec 27 Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
• Dec 28 John Tarrant, 1st Aust born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
• Dec 28 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
• Dec 28 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Dec 29 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
• Dec 30 Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
• Dec 30 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
• Dec 30 Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard

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