59 events found for 1988
Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.
End of the last stage of the Anfal campaign of Ba'athist Iraq against its Kurdish population, which resulted in major…
Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crashes in Khu Khot, Thailand, while on approach to Don Muang International Airport,…
Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated…
Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in…
General Henri Namphy, president of Haiti, is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by General Prosper Avril.
The Magna Charta Universitatum, asserting key principles essential to the free operation of universities, is signed in…
Margaret Thatcher delivers the Bruges speech, in which she articulates her opposition to further European integration.
The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
NASA launches STS-26, the first Space Shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort…
Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and…
Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the…