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1988 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2044. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1988 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1988
- February 2, 1988 – Auntie Anne’s is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- February 5, 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- February 17, 1988 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- March 6, 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
- July 31, 1988 – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
- October 12, 1988 – Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India
- December 2, 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
- December 21, 1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
- December 22, 1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
- December 31, 1988 – Pittsburgh Penguins’ Mario Lemieux becomes the only National Hockey League player to score goals in five different ways: even strength, shorthanded, power play, penalty shot, and empty net, during an 8–6 win over the New Jersey Devils.
Who Were Born On 1988?
- February 22, 1988 – Sebastian Tyrała, Polish-German footballer
- February 23, 1988 – Nicolás Gaitán, Argentinian footballer
- March 12, 1988 – Myles Weston, English footballer
- March 17, 1988 – Rasmus Elm, Swedish footballer
- March 24, 1988 – Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete
- March 27, 1988 – Rodriguinho Marinho, Brazilian footballer
- April 5, 1988 – Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
- May 2, 1988 – Neftalí Feliz, Dominican baseball player
- May 13, 1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer-songwriter
- September 14, 1988 – Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer