Historical Events In 1988
Dec 14 Spanish general strike to protest austerity measures
Dec 10 Massive Earthquake in Armenia kills 100,000 in cities of Leninakan and Spitak
Dec 01 Benazir Bhutto named first female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
Dec 03 Barry Sanders wins the Heisman Trophy
Dec 19 NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
Dec 30 Former Soviet President Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
Dec 22 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast
Dec 13 Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
Dec 30 Yugoslav government resigns
Dec 01 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
Dec 29 Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
Dec 16 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
Dec 07 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
Dec 30 Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 government fuel standard
Dec 29 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
Dec 14 US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
Dec 22 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
Dec 19 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
Dec 21 Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
Dec 05 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's first nuclear-war-fighting satellite
Dec 01 NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
Dec 12 NYC Subway system adds new stations (the Z line)
Dec 17 USS Tennessee, first sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
Dec 04 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
Dec 06 Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
Dec 30 North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
Dec 20 Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London
Dec 07 Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)
Aug 22 Australia unveils first platinum coin (Koala)
Aug 08 Discovery of most distant galaxy announced
Aug 04 Hertz car rental to pay out $23 million in consumer fraud case
Aug 08 Sec of State Shultz narrowly escapes assassin attempt in Bolivia
Aug 25 Challenger Center opens its classroom doors in Houston
Aug 28 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
Aug 31 A Delta Boeing 727 crashes during takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, killing 14 passengers.
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