306 notable events from 1988 — murders, air crashes and wars. Page 1 of 4.
- Pan Am Flight 103
Dec 21, 1988 · United Kingdom · Terrorism
- Delta Air Lines Flight 1141
Aug 31, 1988 · United States · Aviation accident
- Tsutomu Miyazaki
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1989 · Japan · Attack (other)
- Charles Cullen
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 2003 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Midosuji subway incident
Nov 4, 1988 · Japan · Crime & justice
- Iran Air Flight 655
Jul 3, 1988 · Iran · War & armed conflict
- Jean-Claude Romand
Oct 23, 1988–Jan 10, 1993 · France · Scandal & controversy
- Ramstein air show disaster
Aug 28, 1988 · Germany · Aviation accident
- Nagoya Avec Murder
Feb 23, 1988 · Japan · Murder & homicide
- Gladbeck hostage crisis
Aug 16, 1988–Aug 18, 1988 · Germany · Kidnapping & hostage
- Aloha Airlines Flight 243
Apr 28, 1988 · United States · Aviation accident
- Sugamo child abandonment case
Apr 14, 1988 · Japan · Scandal & controversy
- Piper Alpha
Jul 1988 · United Kingdom · Fire
- Sunnyvale ESL shooting
Feb 16, 1988 · United States · Shooting
- 1988 Armenian earthquake
Dec 7, 1988 · Armenia · Earthquake
- Tokyo–Saitama child abduction murders
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1989 · Japan · Murder & homicide
- Quds Force
Jan 1, 1988 · Iran · Terrorism
- Air France Flight 296Q
Jun 26, 1988 · France · Aviation accident
- Anfal campaign
Sep 1988 · Iraq · Genocide & ethnic violence
- TACA Flight 110
May 24, 1988 · United States · Aviation accident
- PEPCON disaster
May 4, 1988 · United States · Bombing & explosion
- Corporals killings
Mar 19, 1988 · United Kingdom · Shooting
- Sergei Ryakhovsky
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1993 · Russian Federation · Murder & homicide
- Halabja massacre
Mar 16, 1988 · Iraq · Massacre
- Battle for Hill 3234
Jan 7, 1988–Jan 8, 1988 · Afghanistan · War & armed conflict
- Charles Albright
Oct 1, 1988–Mar 1, 1991 · United States · Attack (other)
- George Trepal
Oct 15, 1988–Mar 3, 1989 · Murder & homicide
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
May 15, 1988–Feb 15, 1989 · Afghanistan · War & armed conflict
- Disappearance of Lee Boxell
Sep 10, 1988 · United Kingdom · Disappearance
- Recruit scandal
1988 · Japan · Crime & justice
- Gérard Lebourg case
Aug 1, 1988 · France · Murder & homicide
- Attack on Chiba Prefecture Expropriation Commission Chairman
Sep 21, 1988 · Japan · Terrorism
- Nagoya pregnant woman slashing murder case
Mar 1988 · Japan · Murder & homicide
- 8888 Uprising
Mar 1988–Sep 1988 · Myanmar · Riot & unrest
- Satanic Verses controversy
1988 · United Kingdom · Scandal & controversy
- VASP Flight 375
Sep 29, 1988 · Brazil · Aviation accident
- Murder of Janine Balding
Sep 8, 1988 · Australia · Murder & homicide
- Luc Tangorre cases
May 23, 1988 · France · Scandal & controversy
- Toyama City Okuda Junior High School bullying suicide incident
Dec 21, 1988 · Japan · Suicide & execution
- Gare de Lyon rail accident
Jun 27, 1988 · France · Rail accident
- Murder of April Tinsley
Apr 1, 1988 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Sumgait pogrom
Feb 27, 1988–Mar 1, 1988 · Azerbaijan · Genocide & ethnic violence
- Sergey Maduev
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1990 · Russian Federation · Murder & homicide
- Disappearance of Michaela Garecht
Nov 19, 1988 · United States · Disappearance
- 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners
Jun 1988–Dec 1988 · Iran · Suicide & execution
- Palestinian Declaration of Independence
Nov 15, 1988 · Algeria · War & armed conflict
- Hurricane Gilbert
Sep 8, 1988–Sep 19, 1988 · Natural disaster
- Ouvéa cave hostage taking
Apr 22, 1988–May 5, 1988 · New Caledonia · War & armed conflict
- 1988 Maldives coup attempt
Nov 3, 1988 · Maldives · War & armed conflict
- Milltown Cemetery attack
Mar 16, 1988 · United Kingdom · Massacre
- Murder of Helen McCourt
Feb 9, 1988 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Jaclyn Dowaliby
Sep 10, 1988 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Antonio Bardellino
May 26, 1988 · Brazil · Murder & homicide
- Didier Gentil case
Jul 1988 · France · Crime & justice
- 1988 Ordzhonikidze bus hijacking
Dec 2, 1988 · Russian Federation · Aviation accident
- Nürnberger Flugdienst Flight 108
Feb 8, 1988 · Germany · Aviation accident
- Barbara Stager
Feb 1, 1988 · Murder & homicide
- Efren Saldivar
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1998 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286
Jan 19, 1988 · United States · Aviation accident
- Murder of Lynette White
Feb 14, 1988 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Yellowstone fires of 1988
Nov 18, 1988 · United States · Fire
- Sylvie Reviriego affair
Dec 12, 1988 · France · Murder & homicide
- Kimberly McCarthy
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1997 · Murder & homicide
- Clay family murders
Mar 28, 1988 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Killing of Julie Ward
Sep 6, 1988 · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Nick Corwin
May 20, 1988 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Aeroflot Flight 3739 (1988)
Mar 8, 1988 · Russian Federation · Aviation accident
- Walsh Street police shootings
Oct 12, 1988 · Australia · Murder & homicide
- 1988 Shanghai train collision
Mar 24, 1988 · China · Rail accident
- David Brom
Feb 18, 1988 · Murder & homicide
- E. coli long-term evolution experiment
from 1988 · United States · Science & concept
- Lil' Miss murder
Mar 25, 1988 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Clapham Junction rail crash
Dec 12, 1988 · United Kingdom · Rail accident
- Harold Wayne Nichols
Sep 30, 1988 · Murder & homicide
- Arzamas train disaster
Jun 4, 1988 · Russian Federation · Rail accident
- Kuwait Airways Flight 422
Apr 5, 1988–Apr 20, 1988 · Iran · Aviation accident
- Avianca Flight 410
Mar 17, 1988 · Colombia · Aviation accident
- Killing of Brenda Schaefer
Sep 24, 1988 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Gordon Church
1988 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Chain murders of Iran
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1998 · Iran · Murder & homicide
- Forst Zinna rail disaster
Jan 19, 1988 · Germany · Rail accident
- Kidnapping of Amber Swartz-Garcia
from Jun 3, 1988 · United States · Kidnapping & hostage
- Johnson South Reef skirmish
Mar 14, 1988 · Philippines · War & armed conflict
- Case of the missing people of Fontainebleau
Oct 31, 1988 · France · Murder & homicide
- Shinozaki pump station female dismemberment unidentified murder case
Sep 9, 1988 · Japan · Murder & homicide
- Murder of Deborah Linsley
Mar 23, 1988 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Nadashio Incident
Jul 23, 1988 · Japan · Maritime disaster
- 1988 Black Sea bumping incident
Feb 12, 1988 · Ukraine · War & armed conflict
- Henry Eugene Hodges
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1990 · Murder & homicide
- Sverdlovsk-Sortirovochny station explosion
Oct 4, 1988 · Russian Federation · Rail accident
- Police officer embezzlement incident
1988 · Japan · Incident
- Higashi-Nakano train station accident
Dec 5, 1988 · Japan · Rail accident
- New Bedford Highway Killer
Mar 1, 1988–Apr 1, 1989 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Łódź gay murderer
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1993 · Poland · Murder & homicide
- M25 Three
Dec 16, 1988 · United Kingdom · Murder & homicide
- Gao Chengyong
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 2002 · China · Shooting
- Widerøe Flight 710
May 6, 1988 · Norway · Aviation accident
- Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782
Jan 2, 1988 · Türkiye · Aviation accident
- Alfredo Prieto
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1990 · United States · Murder & homicide
- Daryl Mack
Oct 1, 1988 · Attack (other)