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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
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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.
- March 20, 1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
- May 16, 1988 – A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
- May 24, 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom’s Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
- August 20, 1988 – Peru becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- September 11, 1988 – The St. Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- 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.
- December 22, 1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.
Who Were Born On 1988?
- January 12, 1988 – Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
- March 10, 1988 – Christian Beck, German footballer
- March 27, 1988 – Darren Smith, Scottish footballer
- May 20, 1988 – Carla Humphries, American-Filipino model and actress
- July 5, 1988 – Martin Liivamägi, Estonian swimmer
- July 8, 1988 – Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
- July 23, 1988 – Ping Medina, Filipino actor
- July 29, 1988 – Sabrina van der Donk, Dutch model, Miss Earth 2006
- August 7, 1988 – Liz Cochran, American model, Miss Alabama 2009
- November 22, 1988 – Suresh Guptara, English-Swiss author