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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 2, 1988 – Auntie Anne’s is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• February 17, 1988 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• June 4, 1988 – Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• September 18, 1988 – End of pro-democracy uprisings in Myanmar after a bloody military coup by the State Law and Order Restoration Council. Thousands, mostly monks and civilians (primarily students), are killed by the Tatmadaw.
• September 30, 1988 – Al Holbert was fatally injured when his privately owned propeller driven Piper PA-60 aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff near Columbus, Ohio when a clamshell door was not closed.
• October 7, 1988 – An Inupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
• October 26, 1988 – Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
• November 3, 1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
• December 13, 1988 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.
• December 14, 1988 – The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Who Were Born On 1988?

• January 7, 1988 – Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer
• January 9, 1988 – Katherine Copely, American ice dancer
• February 14, 1988 – Ángel Di María, Argentinian footballer
• February 19, 1988 – Shawn Matthias, Canadian ice hockey player
• April 4, 1988 – Frank Fielding, English footballer
• May 24, 1988 – Artem Anisimov, Russian ice hockey player
• May 31, 1988 – Lisa Bund, German singer-songwriter
• June 28, 1988 – Lacey Schwimmer, American singer and dancer
• August 12, 1988 – Leah Pipes, American actress
• September 4, 1988 – John Tyler Hammons, American politician