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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.
• 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 23, 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• August 25, 1988 – The Chiado area in Lisbon is partially destroyed by a fire.
• October 5, 1988 – The Brazilian Constitution is ratified by the Constituent Assembly.
• October 13, 1988 – Naguib Mahfouz wins Nobel Prize in Literature.
• November 13, 1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.
• November 19, 1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
• 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?

• January 12, 1988 – Holder da Silva, Guinea-Bissauan sprinter
• February 13, 1988 – Aston Merrygold, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor (JLS)
• March 14, 1988 – Rico Freimuth, German decathlete
• March 24, 1988 – Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• April 1, 1988 – Courtney McCool, American gymnast
• June 26, 1988 – Masakazu Tashiro, Japanese footballer
• August 1, 1988 – Sasha Jackson, English-American actress
• August 10, 1988 – Julia Melim, Brazilian actress
• August 26, 1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este
• October 20, 1988 – Ma Long, Chinese table tennis player