Events in History
Events 501 - 532 of 532
Event of Interest
Dec 13 Yasser Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
Yasser Arafat
- Dec 14 Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
- Dec 14 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (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 18 5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs
- 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
The 1988 Fog Bowl
Dec 31 "The Fog Bowl", a heavy, dense fog rolls over Soldier Field in Chicago during second quarter of the Bears vs Eagles NFC Divisional Playoff Game, cuts visibility to 15-20 yards (Bears win 20-12)
