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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

Historical Events Of 1988

• February 17, 1988 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• May 14, 1988 – Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
• July 8, 1988 – The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
• 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.
• September 13, 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
• October 12, 1988 – Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap.
• November 2, 1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• November 15, 1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
• December 1, 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• December 21, 1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.

Who Were Born On 1988?

• January 15, 1988 – Aija Putniņa, Latvian basketball player
• February 22, 1988 – Jonathan Borlée, Belgian sprinter
• April 22, 1988 – Amadou Samb, Senegalese footballer
• April 23, 1988 – Erica Mer, American actress
• June 9, 1988 – Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer
• July 7, 1988 – Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter
• August 5, 1988 – Princess Salwa Aga Khan, American model
• August 20, 1988 – Sarah R, Lotfi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• October 14, 1988 – Mario Titone, Italian footballer
• November 22, 1988 – Austin Romine, American baseball player