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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