Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- Pope John Paul II embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting San Francisco.
- The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were opened in Seoul, South Korea.
- Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
- The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
- The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
- Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
- An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
- Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
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