Events in History in 1988 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 464

• Jul 18 Abu Nidal terrorists kill 9 on cruise ship City of Poros

• Jul 21 ESA's Ariane-3 launches 2 communications satellites (1 Indian)
• Jul 21 Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis accepts Democratic nomination for president
• Jul 22 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
• Jul 23 Saskatchewan's Dave Ridgway kicks record 8 field goals vs Edmonton
• Jul 27 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years
• Jul 27 General Sein Lwin succeeds San Yu as the 6th President of Burma
• Jul 27 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer
• Jul 28 IBM announces price hike on older models
• Jul 28 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
• Jul 28 Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank
• Jul 28 Winnie Mandella's home in Soweto, South Africa, destroyed by arson
• Jul 29 FDIC bails out 1st Republic Bank, Dallas, with $4 billion

• Jul 29 Judge orders NASA to release unedited tape from Challenger cockpit
• Jul 30 ArenaBowl II, Allstate Arena, Rosemount, Illinois: Detroit Drive beats Chicago Bruisers 24-13, Steve Griffin MVP
• Jul 30 Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
• Jul 30 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignty over West Bank to the PLO, hours after dissolving Jordan's House of Representatives [1]
• Jul 30 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver to Halifax (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
• Jul 31 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia

• Aug 1 Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon
• Aug 2 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
• Aug 2 System Enhancement Association settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
• Aug 3 David "Skip" Storch (37) swims 152.9 miles (246 km) of Hudson River from Albany to NYC
• Aug 4 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II
• Aug 4 Hertz car rental will pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
• Aug 5 American politician Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns his seat
• Aug 6 The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7
• Aug 7 Angola, Cuba and South Africa allegedly signed a cease fire treaty
• Aug 7 Rioting in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
• Aug 7 Writers guild ends its 6 months strike
• Aug 8 -11] Army in Rangoon, Myanmar fires on pro-democracy students, killing thousands during the "8888 Uprising"
• Aug 8 Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign cease fire treaty
• Aug 8 Ceasefire between Iran & Iraq takes effect after 8 years of war
• Aug 8 Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) announced
• Aug 8 Duchess of York gives birth to 6 lb 12 oz baby girl
• Aug 8 Jennifer Levin's parents file $25M suit against Dorrian Red Hand Bar
• Aug 8 Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years (New York City)
• Aug 8 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
• Aug 8 South Africa declares cease-fire in Angola
• Aug 8 Temperature hits high of 88 deg F on 8/8/88 in NYC

• Aug 9 Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
• Aug 10 Rodrigo Borja installed as president of Ecuador
• Aug 10 UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion

• Aug 11 Charlotte Colisieum in Charlotte NC opens
• Aug 11 Meir Kahane renounced US citizenship to stay in Israeli Parliament

• Aug 12 Richard Thornburgh becomes US Attorney General
• Aug 13 Palace of Auburn Hills in Detroit opens
• Aug 13 Ronald J Dossenbach sets world record for pedaling across Canada from Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS in 13 days, 15 hr, 4 min
• Aug 14 Detroit beats Sox, 18-6, at Fenway, ends Boston winning streak at 24
• Aug 15 At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
• Aug 15 NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
• Aug 16 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
• Aug 16 Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
• Aug 17 Butch Reynolds runs world record 400m (43.29)
• Aug 17 LIRR says Penn station will get air conditioning in 1991
• Aug 17 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy)
• Aug 17 Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
• Aug 17 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 17 US Republicans nominate George H. W. Bush for President
• Aug 18 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
• Aug 18 Largest house (130 rooms) on Long Island sold for $22 million
• Aug 18 Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
• Aug 19 Iran and Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
• Aug 19 Maung Maung succeeds General Sein Lwin as the 7th President of Burma
• Aug 20 "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
• Aug 20 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
• Aug 20 Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
• Aug 20 Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
• Aug 22 Australia unveils 1st platinum coin (Koala)
• Aug 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Aug 25 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
• Aug 25 Iran & Iraq begin talks to end their 8 year war
• Aug 25 NASA launches space vehicle S-214
• Aug 25 Serious fire destroys historic center of Lisbon
• Aug 26 Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrives at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Roissy-en-France, France, stays for almost 8 years
• Aug 28 70 killed in crash of three Italian air force fighters at air show at Ramstein, Germany
• Aug 29 Macy's Tap-o-Mania sets a Guinness record for tap dancing
• Aug 29 USSR launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir
• Aug 30 France performs nuclear test
• Aug 31 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
• Aug 31 Arbitrator George Nicolau rules owners conspired against free agents
• Aug 31 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches
• Sep 1 Timberlake Westenbaker's "Our Country's Good" premieres in London
• Sep 3 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War
• Sep 6 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
• Sep 6 Thomas Gregory (11) swims English Channel
• Sep 6 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• Sep 7 Security & Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
• Sep 10 -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
• Sep 11 1/3 of population argues for Estonia autonomy
• Sep 11 Lost steamship 'the Ship of Gold' SS Central America, sunk in 1857, rediscovered in waters off North Carolina by group led by Tommy Gregory Thompson using Bayesian search theory [1]
• Sep 12 Gilbert, strongest hurricane ever (160 mph), devastates Jamaica
• Sep 13 9 hard/software manufacturers announce EISA computer bus in NY
• Sep 13 Gilbert is measured the strongest (26.13 barometer) hurricane ever in the Western Hemisphere
• Sep 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Sep 15 Museum of Moving Image in London opens
• Sep 18 Burma suspends its constitution
• Sep 18 Coup in Haiti: General Prosper Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees
• Sep 18 Magna Charta Universitatum signed to celebrate university traditions and mark 900th anniversary of the founding of Bologna University, the oldest in the world
• Sep 19 Israel launches 1st satellite, for secret military reconnaissance
• Sep 22 Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
• Sep 23 Fiji's new constitution is proposed
• Sep 24 Barbara C. Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
• Sep 24 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100m in 9.79 sec
• Sep 24 Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th

• Sep 26 Canada's Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test
• Sep 26 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark
• Sep 26 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM
• Sep 26 US space shuttle STS-26 launched
• Sep 27 Canadian Finn class sailor Lawrence Lemieux abandons race 5 to assist injured competitor after being in 2nd place; selfless act is awarded with the Pierre de Coubertin medal
• Sep 27 Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story
• Sep 27 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes

• Sep 28 Bronx Museum for Arts opens
• Sep 29 26th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 7 launches
• Sep 29 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• Sep 29 UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
• Sep 29 Union Station reopens in Washington, D.C.
• Sep 30 Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko retires as Soviet Foreign Minister
• Sep 30 Dave Stieb loses 2nd consecutive no hitter bid with 2 outs in 9th
• Sep 30 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
• Oct 1 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, effectively head of state of the Soviet Union
• Oct 2 Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
• Oct 3 26th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-day excursion
• Oct 3 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC
• Oct 3 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
• Oct 3 WBMW-FM, Washington, D.C. changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
• Oct 4 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid
• Oct 5 Brazil adopts its Constitution

• Oct 5 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism
• Oct 7 Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR
• Oct 8 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage
• Oct 8 Jay Howell ejected in NLCS game 3 for having pine tar on his glove
• Oct 9 17% vote for extreme-right Flemish Block in Belgium
• Oct 12 George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis meet in their second presidential debate
• Oct 12 Israel & China sign trade deal, plan diplomatic relations

• Oct 13 Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages
• Oct 13 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Oct 14 Crude oil prices jump in anticipation of possible production accord at Gulf Cooperation Council meeting set for October 16
• Oct 14 Naguib Mahfouz is the 1st Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Oct 17 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome
• Oct 17 Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment
• Oct 17 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft
• Oct 18 Israel's supreme court uphold's ban on Kahane`s Kach Party as racist
• Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• Oct 19 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
• Oct 19 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
• Oct 19 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
• Oct 19 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album
• Oct 19 South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
• Oct 20 Britain ends suspects' right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
• Oct 20 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
• Oct 20 Man armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)

• 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 28 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister

• Oct 29 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
• Oct 29 China announces a herbal male contraceptive
• Oct 29 First scheduled Soviet shuttle launch (postponed)
• Oct 29 Jim Elliott (US) begins 24-hr paced outdoor race for 548.9 mi
• 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 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 Rafael Fernandez Colón re-elected Governor of Puerto Rico
• Nov 8 Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis
• 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 16 President Reagan meets with Jerusalem's mayor Teddy Kollek
• Nov 23 France performs nuclear test

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