Question by shygurl: what are some world news events that happened in 1988?
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Answer by titania
February 13 – The 1988 Winter Olympics open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
February 28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics close.
March 17 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
April 10 – The Great Seto Bridge opened to traffic in Japan.
April 14 – In the Geneva Agreement, Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
April 30 – World Expo ’88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia. The exhibition runs for 6 months, hosting pavilions from over 70 countries and thrusting the city of Brisbane into the international spotlight.
May 15 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdraw from Afghanistan.
June 25 – The Netherlands defeat the Soviet Union 2-0 to win Euro 88.
July 6 – The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners.
August 20 – Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated 1 million lives lost.
September 12 – Hurricane Gilbert devastated Jamaica, it turns towards Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula two days later causing an estimated billion in damage.
September 17 – Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea open
November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1988: George Herbert Walker Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
November 16 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister
December 2 – Cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless – thousands dead
December 7 – In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale killed nearly 25,000, injured 15,000 and left 400,000 persons homeless.
Dave Barry wins the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Deaths
January 7 – Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913)
May 21 – Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
August 14 – Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
November 19 – Christina Onassis, American shipping magnate (b. 1950)
December 6 – Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
Nobel prizes
Physics – Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger
Chemistry – Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel
Medicine – Sir James W. Black, Gertrude B. Elion, George H. Hitchings
Literature – Naguib Mahfouz
Peace – The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Maurice Allais
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