Page 15: Historical Events In 1988
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Sep 30 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer. 


Sep 30 Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86 


Oct 01 Robert Englund the actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth 


Oct 02 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. 


Oct 03 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days 


Oct 03 Franz Josef Strauss, German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies at 73. 


Oct 03 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months). 


Oct 04 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid. 


Oct 05 Israel bans Meir Kahane's Kach Party on grounds of racism 


Oct 07 Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73 


Oct 07 Latvian flag raised in Riga for inaugural time since annexation by USSR. 


Oct 07 Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson 


Oct 08 Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82 


Oct 08 Fire in Seattle's Space Needle leads to evacuation, $2000 damage. 


Oct 09 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84. 


Oct 11 Bonita Granville, actress (Lone Ranger, Hitler's Children), dies at 55. 


Oct 12 Ken Murray, actor (Bill and Coo, Crooner, Half-Marriage), dies at 85 


Oct 13 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest 


Oct 13 Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY. 


Oct 14 Mary Morris, actress (Agitator, Double Door), dies. 


Oct 14 Mike Tyson countersues Robin Givens for divorce and annulment 


Oct 15 Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires. 


Oct 15 With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of 85th World Series. 


Oct 17 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome. 


Oct 17 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft. 


Oct 17 Scottish scientist James Black awarded the Nobel prize for his work on treating angina and blood pressure. 


Oct 18 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer/director (Hadimassa), dies at 60. 


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 results in the deaths of 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border. 


Oct 19 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Neth theologist/economist, dies at 77 


Oct 19 In this year, S Afr anti-apartheid leader Sisulu claims $100000 Human Rights prize. 


Oct 19 Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows. 


Oct 20 Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA 


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