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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.
• February 29, 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
• March 16, 1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three people are killed and more than 60 wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
• May 4, 1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• May 15, 1988 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdrawal 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
• June 27, 1988 – Gare de Lyon rail accident In Paris a train collides with a stationary train killing 56 people.
• August 6, 1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.
• November 15, 1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• November 16, 1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• December 12, 1988 – The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

Who Were Born On 1988?

• March 10, 1988 – Christian Beck, German footballer
• March 28, 1988 – Patrick Mayer, German footballer
• July 1, 1988 – Evan Ellingson, American actor
• July 12, 1988 – LeSean McCoy, American football player
• July 22, 1988 – Sercan Temizyürek, Turkish footballer
• July 27, 1988 – Adam Biddle, Australian footballer
• September 23, 1988 – Anthony Straker, English footballer
• September 26, 1988 – Kiira Korpi, Finnish figure skater
• October 15, 1988 – Mesut Özil, German footballer
• December 17, 1988 – Grethe Grünberg, Estonian ice dancer