1988 in History (Part 5)

Events in History

Events 401 - 500 of 525

Oct 21 Philippine former first couple Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges

Oct 22 Supreme Ct Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OK after breast cancer surgery
Oct 23 Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate
Oct 24 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
Oct 25 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

Oct 26 US-Soviet effort to free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK
Oct 27 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
Oct 28 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister

Oct 28 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library

Oct 29 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
Oct 29 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
Oct 29 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
Oct 29 First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
Oct 30 2 gambling clubs & 1 player share 61.38 M California lotto jackpot
Oct 30 Jim Elliott (US) completes 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
Oct 31 19°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
Oct 31 Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
Nov 1 Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones
Nov 2 The Morris worm, first internet-distributed computer worm to gain mainstream media attention launched from MIT, strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
Nov 3 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
Nov 3 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
Nov 3 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
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 7 Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
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 elected as president 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 10 Orel Hershiser (23-8) is a unanimous choice as NL Cy Young Award
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 16 Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years

Nov 17 Neil Simon's "Rumors" premieres in NYC

Nov 28 Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million

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 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 NC federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud & conspiracy
Dec 5 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite

Dec 6 Yasser Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden

Dec 6 Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown

Dec 6 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
Dec 7 PLO delegation lead by Yasir 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 7 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC