Events in 1988

306 notable events from 1988. Page 1 of 4.

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