306 notable events from 1988. Page 2 of 4.
- Roppongi disco lighting collapse accident
Jan 5, 1988 · Japan
- Death and state funeral of Zia-ul-Haq
Aug 17, 1988 · Pakistan
- Desk number 9 incident
Feb 21, 1988 · Japan
- American Airlines Flight 132
Feb 3, 1988 · United States
- Indian Airlines Flight 113
Oct 19, 1988 · India
- Strijdom Square massacre
Nov 15, 1988 · South Africa
- Xavier Philippe (criminal)
Nov 18, 1988–May 17, 2005 · France
- Valery Asratyan
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1990 · Russian Federation
- Attack on the Edificio Mónaco
Jan 13, 1988 · Colombia
- Murder of Lieth Von Stein
Jul 25, 1988 · United States
- Aum Shinrikyo lay believer death case
Sep 22, 1988 · Japan
- Tochigi wife and acquaintance murder case
Nov 19, 1988–May 20, 1996 · Japan
- 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash
Dec 8, 1988 · Germany
- Ethiopian Airlines Flight 604
Sep 15, 1988 · Ethiopia
- Murder of Marie Wilks
Jun 18, 1988 · United Kingdom
- Murder of Willy Branchi
Sep 30, 1988 · Italy
- 1988 Polish strikes
Apr 21, 1988–Sep 1988 · Poland
- Ivan Mandzhikov
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1989 · Russian Federation
- Murder of Mulugeta Seraw
Nov 13, 1988 · United States
- 1988 October Riots
Oct 4, 1988–Oct 10, 1988 · Algeria
- Salmonella-in-eggs controversy
Dec 3, 1988 · United Kingdom
- Peruman railway accident
Jul 8, 1988 · India
- Disappearance of Susan Smalley and Stacie Madison
Mar 20, 1988 · United States
- LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703
Nov 2, 1988 · Poland
- Ojhri Camp disaster
Apr 10, 1988 · Pakistan
- 1988 Naples bombing
Apr 14, 1988 · Italy
- Daniel Tavares
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 2007 · —
- 1988 Gilgit massacre
May 16, 1988–May 18, 1988 · Pakistan
- Ballygawley bus bombing
Aug 20, 1988 · United Kingdom
- Vietnam Airlines Flight 831
Sep 9, 1988 · Thailand
- Saint-Michel cinema attack
Oct 22, 1988 · France
- Murder of Pamela Walton
Jul 6, 1988 · United States
- 1988 Fukuyama family triple murder case
Jun 12, 1988 · Japan
- Kirovabad pogrom
Nov 1988 · Azerbaijan
- 4 O'Clock murders
Jun 27, 1988 · United States
- Assassination of Vangaveeti Mohana Ranga
Dec 26, 1988 · India
- Horizon Air Flight 2658
Apr 15, 1988 · United States
- Terry Langford
Jul 5, 1988 · —
- Murder of Kenyatta Odom
Dec 21, 1988 · United States
- Nathalie Boyer case
Aug 3, 1988 · France
- AVAir Flight 3378
Feb 19, 1988 · United States
- Ramón Laso
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 2009 · Spain
- Andrei Sibiryakov
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1989 · Russian Federation
- 1988 Soviet Air Force Il-76 crash
Dec 11, 1988 · Armenia
- Resistance Conspiracy case
from May 12, 1988 · United States
- 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot
Aug 6, 1988–Aug 7, 1988 · United States
- 1988 Sakai Tunnel fire
Jul 15, 1988 · Japan
- Uganda Airlines Flight 775
Oct 17, 1988 · Italy
- Dwight J. Loving
Dec 11, 1988–Dec 12, 1988 · United States
- Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046
Jun 12, 1988 · Argentina
- Nanjing anti-African protests
Dec 1988–Jan 1989 · China
- China Southwest Airlines Flight 4146
Jan 18, 1988 · China
- Singer–Swapp standoff
Jan 16, 1988 · United States
- Segovia massacre
Nov 11, 1988 · Colombia
- Leslie Torres
Jan 1, 1988 · United States
- Stolzenbach mining accident
Jun 1, 1988 · Germany
- First Interstate Tower fire
May 4, 1988 · United States
- Murders of Sally McNelly and Shane Stewart
Jul 4, 1988 · —
- CAAC Flight 301
Aug 31, 1988 · Hong Kong
- Judea and Samaria Division
Jan 1, 1988 · Palestine
- Thurston County ritual abuse case
Jan 1, 1988 · United States
- 1988 Oakland Elementary School shooting
Sep 26, 1988 · United States
- 1988 Saguenay earthquake
Nov 25, 1988 · Canada
- James Opelton Bradley
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 2014 · —
- 1988 Kansas City explosion
Jan 1, 1988 · United States
- City of Poros ship attack
Jul 11, 1988 · Greece
- Aeroflot Flight 699
Jan 18, 1988 · Turkmenistan
- Honduras and La Negra farms massacre
Mar 4, 1988 · Colombia
- Comair Flight 206
Mar 1, 1988 · South Africa
- Aurora train disaster
Aug 16, 1988 · Russian Federation
- Massacre of El Amparo
Oct 29, 1988 · Colombia
- Jeffrey Feltner
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1989 · —
- TAT Flight 230
Mar 4, 1988 · France
- Murder of Melissa Ann Tremblay
Sep 12, 1988 · United States
- Toa Domestic Airlines Flight 670
Jan 10, 1988 · Japan
- Memphis tanker truck disaster
Dec 23, 1988 · United States
- Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1989 · United States
- Assassination of Vijaya Kumaratunga
Feb 16, 1988 · Sri Lanka
- 1988 IRA attacks in the Netherlands
May 1, 1988 · Netherlands
- Chiado Fire
Aug 25, 1988 · Portugal
- Juha Valjakkala
Jul 3, 1988 · Sweden
- Corruption scandals in the Paris region
Jan 1, 1988–Jan 1, 1997 · France
- 1988 Chicago shootings
Sep 22, 1988 · United States
- Gugark pogrom
Mar 1988–Dec 1988 · Armenia
- 1988 Shimojijima All Nippon Airways hard landing
May 30, 1988 · Japan
- Old Salisbury Road shooting
Jul 17, 1988 · United States
- LACSA Flight 628
May 23, 1988 · Costa Rica
- Golden sheets scandal
from 1988 · Italy
- 1988 Talia Airways Boeing 727 crash
Feb 27, 1988 · Cyprus
- Shiga Prefecture public junior high school discriminatory graffiti fabrication incident
1980s · Japan
- 1988 British Army Lynx shootdown
Jun 23, 1988 · United Kingdom
- Priamurye fire accident
May 18, 1988 · Japan
- Piła train disaster
May 19, 1988 · Poland
- Pierre Silviet-Carricart case
Jan 1, 1988 · France
- 1988 Raleigh tornado outbreak
1988 · United States
- La Mejor Esquina massacre
Apr 3, 1988 · Colombia
- Mexico City fireworks disaster
Dec 12, 1988 · Mexico
- Military truck accident near Bytom Odrzanski
Jun 4, 1988 · Poland
- Golden prisons scandal
from 1988 · Italy
- Aeroflot Flight 7867
Feb 27, 1988 · Russian Federation