Table of Contents
642 relations: Abdul Halim of Kedah, Abortion, Ace Hood, Active service unit, Adele, Advance Publications, Afabet, Afghanistan, Agnes (singer), Agustín Marchesín, Ai Kago, Aid agency, Al-Qaeda, Alberta, Alberto Bueno, Aleksander Lesun, Alex Dowsett, Alex Tyus, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Alexandra Burke, Alexis Sánchez, Alfred Enoch, Algeria, Algiers, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Alicia Vikander, Alisha Glass, Alistair Brownlee, Aloha Airlines Flight 243, Amanda Nunes, Amanda Serrano, Amber Marshall (actress), Ana de Armas, Ancestry.com, Anfal campaign, Angelique Boyer, Angelique Kerber, Antônio de Castro Mayer, Anushka Sharma, Archbishop, Arianna Errigo, Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Arnold Lewis Raphel, Artjoms Rudņevs, ASAP Rocky, Ashton Eaton, Associated Press, Aston Merrygold, Atsuto Uchida, Augusto Pinochet, ... Expand index (592 more) »
Abdul Halim of Kedah
Al-Mu’tassimu Billahi Muhibbuddin Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah (Jawi: المرحومالسلطان المعتصمبالله محب الدين توانکو الحاج عبدالحليممعظمشاه ابن المرحومسلطان بدلي شاه; 28 November 1927 – 11 September 2017) was the 28th Sultan of Kedah from 1958 until his death in 2017, and served twice as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 1970 to 1975 and from 2011 to 2016.
See 1988 and Abdul Halim of Kedah
Abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.
Ace Hood
Antoine Franklin McColister (born May 11, 1988), known professionally Ace Hood, is an American rapper.
Active service unit
An active service unit (ASU) was a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) cell of four to ten members, tasked with carrying out armed attacks.
See 1988 and Active service unit
Adele
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter.
See 1988 and Adele
Advance Publications
Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-relating companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (42 million shares), and Warner Bros.
See 1988 and Advance Publications
Afabet
Afabet (ኣፍዓበት) is a town in northern Eritrea.
See 1988 and Afabet
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
Agnes (singer)
Agnes Emilia Carlsson (born 6 March 1988), known mononymously as Agnes, is a Swedish singer.
Agustín Marchesín
Agustín Federico Marchesín (born 16 March 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Grêmio.
See 1988 and Agustín Marchesín
Ai Kago
is a Japanese actress and singer.
See 1988 and Ai Kago
Aid agency
An aid agency, also known as development charity, is an organization dedicated to distributing aid.
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
See 1988 and Alberta
Alberto Bueno
Alberto Bueno Calvo (born 20 March 1988) is a Spanish former professional footballer.
Aleksander Lesun
Aleksander Leonidovich Lesun (Александр Леонидович Лесун; born 1 July 1988) is a Belarusian-born naturalized Russian modern pentathlete.
Alex Dowsett
Alex Edward Albert Dowsett (born 3 October 1988) is a British former professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam.
Alex Tyus
Alexander Trent Tyus (born January 8, 1988) is an American-Israeli professional basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem of the Israeli Basketball Premier League in which he was the 2018 Finals MVP.
Alexandr Dolgopolov
Alexandr Oleksandrovych Dolgopolov (born 7 November 1988), formerly known as Oleksandr Dolgopolov Jr., is a Ukrainian retired professional tennis player.
See 1988 and Alexandr Dolgopolov
Alexandra Burke
Alexandra Imelda Cecelia Ewen Burke (born 25 August 1988) is an English singer, songwriter and actress.
Alexis Sánchez
Alexis Alejandro Sánchez Sánchez (born 19 December 1988), also known mononymously as Alexis, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Chile national team.
Alfred Enoch
Alfred Lewis Enoch (born 2 December 1988) is a British-Brazilian actor.
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
See 1988 and Algeria
Algiers
Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.
See 1988 and Algiers
Ali Hassan al-Majid
Ali Hassan Majid al-Tikriti (ʿAlī Ḥasan Majīd al-Tikrītī; – 25 January 2010), nicknamed Chemical Ali (ʿAlī al-Kīmīawī), was an Iraqi military officer and politician under Saddam Hussein who served as defence minister, interior minister, and chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
See 1988 and Ali Hassan al-Majid
Alicia Vikander
Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress.
Alisha Glass
Alisha Rebecca Glass Childress (born April 5, 1988) is an American professional volleyball player who plays as a setter for the Vegas Thrill of the Pro Volleyball Federation.
Alistair Brownlee
Alistair Edward Brownlee MBE (born 23 April 1988) is an English triathlete.
See 1988 and Alistair Brownlee
Aloha Airlines Flight 243
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (IATA: AQ243, ICAO: AAH243) was a scheduled Aloha Airlines flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii.
See 1988 and Aloha Airlines Flight 243
Amanda Nunes
Amanda Nunes (born May 30, 1988) is a Brazilian retired professional mixed martial artist.
Amanda Serrano
Amanda Serrano (born October 9, 1988) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler.
Amber Marshall (actress)
Amber Marshall (born June 2, 1988) is a Canadian actress, singer, and equestrian.
See 1988 and Amber Marshall (actress)
Ana de Armas
Ana Celia de Armas Caso (born 30 April 1988) is a Cuban and Spanish actress.
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.
Anfal campaign
The Anfal campaign was a counterinsurgency operation which was carried out by Ba'athist Iraq from February to September 1988 during the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict at the end of the Iran–Iraq War.
Angelique Boyer
Angelique Monique-Paulette Boyer Rousseau (born 4 July 1988), simply known as Angelique Boyer, is a French-Mexican actress.
Angelique Kerber
Angelique Kerber (born 18 January 1988) is a German former professional tennis player.
Antônio de Castro Mayer
Antônio de Castro Mayer (20 June 1904 – 25 April 1991) was a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
See 1988 and Antônio de Castro Mayer
Anushka Sharma
Anushka Sharma (born 1 May 1988) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films.
Archbishop
In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office.
Arianna Errigo
Arianna Errigo (born 6 June 1988) is an Italian left-handed foil and sabre fencer.
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Armenia, or simply Armenia, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, located in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Soviet Armenia bordered the Soviet Republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia and the independent states of Iran and Turkey.
See 1988 and Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
Arnold Lewis Raphel
Arnold Lewis Raphel (March 16, 1943 – August 17, 1988) was an American diplomat who served as the 18th United States Ambassador to Pakistan.
See 1988 and Arnold Lewis Raphel
Artjoms Rudņevs
Artjoms Rudņevs (born 13 January 1988) is a Latvian former professional footballer who played as a striker for Daugava Daugavpils in his home country, for Zalaegerszegi TE in Hungary, for Lech Poznań in Poland, and for Bundesliga clubs Hamburger SV, Hannover 96, and 1. FC Köln.
ASAP Rocky
Rakim Athelaston Mayers (born October 3, 1988), known professionally as ASAP Rocky (stylized as A$AP Rocky), is an American rapper.
Ashton Eaton
Ashton James Eaton (born January 21, 1988) is a retired American decathlete and two-time Olympic champion, who holds the world record in the indoor heptathlon event.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
Aston Merrygold
Aston Iain Merrygold (born 13 February 1988) is a British singer, songwriter, actor, dancer and television presenter.
Atsuto Uchida
is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army officer and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a federal territory of Australia.
See 1988 and Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988
The Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988 is an Act of the Parliament of Australia enacted on 6 December 1988, that establishes "a body politic under the Crown by the name of the Australian Capital Territory" and is the constitutional foundation of the Territory's government.
See 1988 and Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988
Avianca Flight 410
Avianca Flight 410 was a flight that crashed at 13:17 on March 17, 1988, near Cúcuta, Colombia, which occurred shortly after takeoff when it flew into a mountain.
See 1988 and Avianca Flight 410
Awkwafina
Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, comedian and rapper.
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, also referred to as the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan SSR, Azerbaijani SSR, AzSSR, Soviet Azerbaijan or simply Azerbaijan, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1991.
See 1988 and Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
Azizulhasni Awang
Dato' Muhammad Azizulhasni bin Awang (born 5 January 1988) is a Malaysian professional track cyclist based in Melbourne, Australia.
See 1988 and Azizulhasni Awang
Ángel Di María
Ángel Fabián Di María (born 14 February 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right winger or attacking midfielder.
Écône
Écône is an area in the municipality of Riddes, district of Martigny, in the canton of Valais, Switzerland.
See 1988 and Écône
Éver Banega
Éver Maximiliano David Banega (born 29 June 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Newell's Old Boys.
B.o.B
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. (born November 15, 1988), known professionally as B.o.B, is an American rapper, singer, and record producer.
See 1988 and B.o.B
Ba'athist Iraq
Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
Bahawalpur
Bahawalpur (Punjabi and Urdu: بہاول پور, romanised: Bahāwalpūr) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan.
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.
See 1988 and Bangkok
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Banks (singer)
Jillian Rose Banks (born June 16, 1988), known mononymously as Banks (often stylized in all caps), is an American singer and songwriter.
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
The Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) is a Spanish think tank headquartered in Barcelona, devoted to research in the field of international relations.
See 1988 and Barcelona Centre for International Affairs
Bartosz Kurek
Bartosz Kamil Kurek (born 29 August 1988) is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as an opposite spiker for ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle and the Poland national team.
Battle for Hill 3234
The Battle for Hill 3234 was a successful defensive battle fought by the 9th Company of the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment, Soviet Airborne Troops, in Afghanistan against a force of some 250 Mujahideen rebels who were supported by several Pakistani mercenaries in early January 1988.
See 1988 and Battle for Hill 3234
Battle of Afabet
The Battle of Afabet was a three-day battle fought from 17 March through 20 March 1988 in and around the town of Afabet, as part of the Eritrean War of Independence.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
See 1988 and BBC
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Behati Prinsloo
Behati Prinsloo (born 16 May 1988) is a Namibian model. In 2008, she became a Pink contract model, and moved on to become a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2009. She walked in ten Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows (2007–2015; 2018), and opened consecutive Victoria's Secret Fashion shows in 2014 and 2015.
Belfast
Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.
See 1988 and Belfast
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician and stateswoman who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (born 21 September 1988) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 37th Minister of Foreign Affairs, in office from 27 April 2022 to 10 August 2023.
See 1988 and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Birchandra Manu massacre
On 12 October 1988, activists of the Indian National Congress attacked a Communist Party of India (Marxist) office in Birchandra Manu village, Belonia sub-division in southern Tripura, India.
See 1988 and Birchandra Manu massacre
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
See 1988 and Bishop
Blac Chyna
Angela Renée White (born May 11, 1988), commonly known as Blac Chyna, is an American model, television personality, rapper and socialite.
Blanca Suárez
Blanca Martínez Suárez (born 21 October 1988) is a Spanish actress.
Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Bosporus
The Bosporus or Bosphorus Strait (Istanbul strait, colloquially Boğaz) is a natural strait and an internationally significant waterway located in Istanbul, Turkey.
Brad Marchand
Bradley Kevin Marchand (born May 11, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger and captain of the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Brenda Song
Brenda Song --> (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress.
Brisbane
Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.
Brittany Bowe
Brittany Starr Bowe (born February 24, 1988) is an American speed skater and former inline skater and basketball player.
Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.
Buran (spacecraft)
Buran (Буран,, meaning "Snowstorm" or "Blizzard"; GRAU index serial number: 11F35 1K, construction number: 1.01) was the first spaceplane to be produced as part of the Soviet/Russian Buran program.
See 1988 and Buran (spacecraft)
Burao
Burao, also spelt Bur'o or Bur'ao (Burco,, برعو), is the capital of the Togdheer region and the second largest city in Somaliland.
See 1988 and Burao
Butterworth, Seberang Perai
Butterworth is the city centre of Seberang Perai in the Malaysian state of Penang.
See 1988 and Butterworth, Seberang Perai
Calgary
Calgary is the largest city in the Canadian province of Alberta.
See 1988 and Calgary
California Birth Index
The California Birth Index (CABI) is a database compiled by the California Office of Health Information and Research.
See 1988 and California Birth Index
Cameron van der Burgh
Cameron van der Burgh OIS (born 25 May 1988) is a retired South African competitive swimmer and hedge fund analyst.
See 1988 and Cameron van der Burgh
Camila Brait
Camila de Paula Brait (born October 28, 1988) is a volleyball player from Frutal, Brazil, who plays as a libero.
Camila Vallejo
Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling (born 28 April 1988) is a Chilean communist politician and former student leader.
Candice Swanepoel
Candice Susan Swanepoel (born 20 October 1988) is a South African model.
See 1988 and Candice Swanepoel
Candle demonstration in Bratislava
The Candle demonstration (Sviečková manifestácia) on 25 March 1988 in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, was the first mass demonstration since 1969 against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
See 1988 and Candle demonstration in Bratislava
Cariba Heine
Cariba Heine (born 1 October 1988) is a South African-born Australian actress and dancer.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 3 April 1948) is a Mexican economist and politician with Spanish citizenship who served as the 60th president of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.
See 1988 and Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Carly Patterson
Carly Rae Patterson (born February 4, 1988) is an American singer, songwriter and former artistic gymnast.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
Célia Šašić
Célia Šašić (born 27 June 1988) is a German former footballer who played as a striker for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr, 1. FFC Frankfurt and the Germany national team before retiring in 2015.
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (Conseil européen pour la Recherche nucléaire), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
See 1988 and CERN
Chellsie Memmel
Chellsie Marie Memmel (born June 23, 1988) is an American artistic gymnast.
Cheng Fei
Cheng Fei (born May 29, 1988) is a Chinese retired artistic gymnast.
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a politician of the Republic of China.
Chibuzor Okonkwo
Chibuzor Augustine Okonkwo (born 16 December 1988) is a Nigerian footballer who currently plays as a full-back for Kwara United F.C. Although he is naturally right-footed, he can play on either side of the pitch.
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
See 1988 and Chile
Cho Kyu-hyun
Cho Kyu-hyun (born February 3, 1988), referred to as Kyuhyun, is a South Korean singer, musical theatre actor and television host.
Chun Doo-hwan
Chun Doo-hwan (or; 18 January 1931 – 23 November 2021) was a South Korean politician, army general and military dictator who served as the fifth president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.
Claire Holt
Claire Rhiannon Holt (born 11 June 1988) is an Australian actress.
Clapham Junction rail crash
The Clapham Junction rail crash occurred on the morning of 12 December 1988, when a crowded British Rail passenger train crashed into the rear of another train that had stopped at a signal just south of Clapham Junction railway station in London, England, and subsequently sideswiped an empty train travelling in the opposite direction.
See 1988 and Clapham Junction rail crash
Claude Giroux
Claude Giroux (born January 12, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and alternate captain for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Claudia Faniello
Claudia Faniello (born 25 February 1988) is a Maltese singer.
Claudia Lösch
Claudia Lösch (born 19 October 1988) is a successful Austrian Paralympian and alpine monoskier.
Clayton Kershaw
Clayton Edward Kershaw (born March 19, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Cláudia Gadelha
Ana Cláudia Dantas Gadelha (born December 7, 1988), is a Brazilian former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Women's Strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
Cocalero
Cocaleros are the coca leaf growers of Peru and Bolivia.
Coco Rocha
Mikhaila "Coco" Rocha (born September 10, 1988) is a Canadian model.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Colton Haynes
Colton Lee Haynes (born July 13, 1988) is an American actor and model.
Communist party
A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.
See 1988 and Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Computer virus
A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.
Computer worm
A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers.
Conchita Wurst
Thomas Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988) is an Austrian singer and drag queen who is known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst (or simply Conchita).
Conor McGregor
Conor Anthony McGregor (Conchúr Antóin Mac Gréagóir; born 14 July 1988) is an Irish professional mixed martial artist, professional boxer, businessman, and actor.
Constitution of Brazil
The Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil (Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil) is the supreme law of Brazil.
See 1988 and Constitution of Brazil
Corporals killings
On 19 March 1988, the British Army corporals Derek Wood and David HowesTaylor, p. 284.
See 1988 and Corporals killings
Counterinsurgency
Counterinsurgency (COIN, or NATO spelling counter-insurgency) is "the totality of actions aimed at defeating irregular forces".
See 1988 and Counterinsurgency
Cristina Scuccia
Cristina Scuccia (born 19 August 1988) is an Italian singer.
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
Dainik Bhaskar
Dainik Bhaskar is a Hindi-language daily newspaper in India which is owned by the Dainik Bhaskar Group.
Dakota Kai
Cheree Georgina Crowley (born 6 May 1988) is a New Zealand professional wrestler.
Dani Stevens
Dani Stevens (née Samuels, born 26 May 1988) is an Australian retired discus thrower who in 2009 became the youngest ever female world champion in the event.
Daniela Luján
Daniela Luján (born Daniela Barrios Rodriguez, 5 April 1988) is a Mexican pop singer and actress.
David Rudisha
David Lekuta Rudisha, MBS (born 17 December 1988) is a retired Kenyan middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.
Dean Furman
Dean Furman (born 22 June 1988) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for English side Warrington Rylands 1906.
DeAndre Jordan
Hyland DeAndre Jordan Jr. (born July 21, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Dele Adeleye
Ayodele "Dele" Adeleye (born 25 December 1988) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
See 1988 and Democratic Party (United States)
Department for Transport
The Department for Transport (DfT) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
See 1988 and Department for Transport
Derrick Rose
Derrick Martell Rose (born October 4, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.
Die Hard
Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp.
Diego Buonanotte
Diego Mario Buonanotte Rende (born 19 April 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Chilean club O'Higgins as an attacking midfielder and winger.
Diego Capel
Diego Ángel Capel Trinidad (born 16 February 1988) is a Spanish retired professional footballer who played as a left winger.
Diego Costa
Diego da Silva Costa (born 7 October 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Grêmio.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
See 1988 and Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Dmitry Muserskiy
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Muserskiy (Дмитрий Александрович Мусэрский) (born 29 October 1988) is a Russian volleyball player of Ukrainian descent, member of the Russian national team and Japanese club, Suntory Sunbirds.
Dong Bin
Dong Bin (born 22 November 1988) is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump.
Dušan Tadić
Dušan Tadić (Душан Тадић,; born 20 November 1988) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe.
Ecumenism
Ecumenism (alternatively spelled oecumenism)also called interdenominationalism, or ecumenicalismis the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity.
Ed Speleers
Edward John Speleers (born 7 April 1988) is an English actor and producer.
Efe Ambrose
Efetobore Eric “Efe” Ambrose Emuobo (born 18 October 1988) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a defender for club Bury.
Efraín Juárez
Efraín Juárez Valdez (born 22 February 1988) is a Mexican former professional footballer.
Ekaterina Makarova
Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova (Екатери́на Вале́рьевна Мака́рова;; born 7 June 1988) is a Russian former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles, and world No.
See 1988 and Ekaterina Makarova
Emilia Fahlin
Emilia Fahlin (born 24 October 1988) is a Swedish road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam.
Emily Browning
Emily Jane Browning is an Australian actress.
Emma Stone
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone (born November 6, 1988) is an American actress and producer.
Endéné Miyem
Nwal-Endéné “Endy” Miyem (born 15 May 1988) is a French professional basketball player.
Energia (rocket)
Energia (Energy; GRAU 11K25) was a 1980s super-heavy lift launch vehicle.
Eren Derdiyok
Eren Derdiyok (born 12 June 1988) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Eric Johannesen
Eric Johannesen (born 16 July 1988) is a German former representative rower.
Eritrea
Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.
See 1988 and Eritrea
Eritrean People's Liberation Front
The Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), colloquially known as Shabia or HGDEF, was an armed Marxist–Leninist organization that fought for the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia.
See 1988 and Eritrean People's Liberation Front
Eritrean War of Independence
The Eritrean War of Independence was a war for independence which Eritrean independence fighters waged against successive Ethiopian governments from 1 September 1961 to 24 May 1991.
See 1988 and Eritrean War of Independence
ESPN
ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
See 1988 and ESPN
Estonian Sovereignty Declaration
The Estonian Sovereignty Declaration (suveräänsusdeklaratsioon), fully: Declaration on the Sovereignty of the Estonian SSR (Deklaratsioon Eesti NSV suveräänsusest), was issued on 16 November 1988 during the Singing Revolution in the Estonian SSR.
See 1988 and Estonian Sovereignty Declaration
Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian SSR), Soviet Estonia, or simply Estonia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union (USSR), covering the occupied and annexed territory of Estonia in 1940–1941 and 1944–1991.
See 1988 and Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
Eva-Maria Brem
Eva-Maria Brem (born 13 September 1988) is an Austrian former World Cup alpine ski racer, who specialised in giant slalom.
Exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System.
Fabrice Muamba
Fabrice Ndala Muamba (born 6 April 1988) is an English former professional footballer who played for Arsenal, Birmingham City and Bolton Wanderers as a central midfielder.
Fair trade certification
A fair trade certification is a product certification within the market-based movement of fair trade.
See 1988 and Fair trade certification
FamilySearch
FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software.
Fandango Media
Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge
The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge ("Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror Bridge"; Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü, abbreviated as F.S.M. Köprüsü), also known as the Second Bosphorus Bridge (İkinci Köprü), is a bridge in Istanbul, Turkey spanning the Bosphorus strait (Turkish: Boğaziçi).
See 1988 and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge
Fábio Coentrão
Fábio Alexandre da Silva Coentrão (born 11 March 1988) is a Portuguese former professional footballer.
February 14
It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.
February 29
February 29 is a leap day (or "leap year day")—an intercalary date added periodically to create leap years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Federica Pellegrini
Federica Pellegrini (born 5 August 1988) is an Italian retired swimmer.
See 1988 and Federica Pellegrini
Felipe Caicedo
Felipe Salvador Caicedo Corozo (born 5 September 1988) is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a striker.
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
The First Nagorno-Karabakh War was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place from February 1988 to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan with support from Turkey.
See 1988 and First Nagorno-Karabakh War
First National Bank (South Africa)
First National Bank (FNB; Eerste Nasionale Bank (ENB)) is one of South Africa's "big four" banks.
See 1988 and First National Bank (South Africa)
First Republic Bank Corporation
First Republic Bank Corporation was an American bank based in Texas.
See 1988 and First Republic Bank Corporation
FKA Twigs
Tahliah Debrett Barnett (born 16 January 1988), known professionally as FKA Twigs (stylized as FKA twigs), is a British singer, songwriter, and dancer.
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France.
See 1988 and François Mitterrand
Frans van der Hoff
Frans van der Hoff (13 July 1939 – 13 February 2024), or Francisco VanderHoff Boersma as he is called in Latin America, was a Dutch missionary who, in collaboration with Nico Roozen and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad, launched Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade label in 1988.
See 1988 and Frans van der Hoff
Frecce Tricolori
The Frecce Tricolori, officially known as the 313° Gruppo Addestramento Acrobatico, Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale (PAN) Frecce Tricolori ("313th Acrobatic Training Group, National Aerobatic Team (PAN) Frecce Tricolori"), is the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force.
Fueled by Ramen
Fueled by Ramen LLC is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by 300 Elektra Entertainment.
FYI (American TV channel)
FYI (stylized as fyi) is an American basic cable channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Disney Entertainment subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications (each owns 50%).
See 1988 and FYI (American TV channel)
G-Dragon
Kwon Ji-yong (born August 18, 1988), best known as G-Dragon, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur, known as the "King of K-pop".
Gabriela Isler
María Gabriela de Jesús Isler Morales is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2013, she was previously crowned Miss Venezuela 2012 and is the seventh Miss Universe of her country.
Gal Mekel
Gal Mekel (גל מקל, pronounced; born March 4, 1988) is an Israeli former professional basketball player.
Gamma Cephei Ab
Gamma Cephei Ab (abbreviated γ Cephei Ab, γ Cep Ab), formally named Tadmor, is an exoplanet approximately 45 light-years away in the constellation of Cepheus (the King).
Gare de Lyon rail accident
The Gare de Lyon rail accident (Accident ferroviaire de la gare de Lyon), occurred on 27 June 1988, when an SNCF commuter train headed inbound to Paris's Gare de Lyon terminal crashed into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57, resulting in the third deadliest rail disaster in peacetime France.
See 1988 and Gare de Lyon rail accident
Geneva Accords (1988)
The Geneva Accords were the agreements on the settlement of the situation relating to Afghanistan, were signed on 14 April 1988 at the Geneva headquarters of the United Nations, between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the United States and the Soviet Union serving as guarantors.
See 1988 and Geneva Accords (1988)
George H. Hitchings
George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) was an American medical doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.
See 1988 and George H. Hitchings
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker BushAfter the 1990s, he became more commonly known as George H. W. Bush, "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush the Elder" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd U.S. president from 2001 to 2009; previously, he was usually referred to simply as George Bush.
See 1988 and George H. W. Bush
Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George H. Hitchings and Sir James Black for their use of innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs.
See 1988 and Gertrude B. Elion
Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Ghulam Ishaq Khan (20 January 1915 – 27 October 2006), commonly known by his initials GIK, was a Pakistani bureaucrat, politician and statesman who served as the seventh president of Pakistan from 1988 to 1993.
See 1988 and Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).
Glaiza de Castro
Glaiza Castro Galura-Rainey (born January 21, 1988), professionally known by her stage name Glaiza de Castro, is a Filipino actress.
Glen Powell
Glen Thomas Powell Jr. (born October 21, 1988) is an American actor.
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
Governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
Gregory van der Wiel
Gregory Kurtley van der Wiel (born 3 February 1988) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
See 1988 and Gregory van der Wiel
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson (transliterated as Hafthor in English; born 26 November 1988) is an Icelandic professional strongman who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strength athletes of all time.
See 1988 and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas.
See 1988 and Haiti
Halabja massacre
The Halabja massacre (کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە Kêmyabarana Helebce), also known as the Halabja chemical attack, was a massacre of Kurdish people that took place on 16 March 1988 that was led by Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, during the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict in the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in Halabja, Iraq.
Haley Bennett
Haley Loraine Keeling (born January 7, 1988), known professionally as Haley Bennett, is an American actress.
Haley Joel Osment
Haley Joel Osment (born April 10, 1988) is an American actor.
See 1988 and Haley Joel Osment
Han Seung-yeon
Han Seung-yeon (born July 24, 1988), known mononymously as Seungyeon, is a South Korean singer and actress.
HanCinema
HanCinema is an online South Korean movie and drama database created by Cédric Collemine during the summer of 2003 in Korea.
Hargeisa
Hargeisa (Hargeysa; Harjīsā) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Somaliland, a de facto sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, still considered internationally to be part of Somalia.
Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel (born 18 July 1948) is a German biochemist, who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
Hayley Williams
Hayley Nichole Williams (born December 27, 1988) is an American singer and songwriter.
Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
Helly Luv
Helan Abdulla (Kurdish: هێلین عەبدوڵڵا; born 16 November 1988), better known by her stage name Helly Luv (ھێڵی لۆڤ), is a Kurdish singer, dancer, choreographer, actress, model, She rose to fame after uploading cover videos on social media websites like Myspace and YouTube.
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.
Holliday Grainger
Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress.
See 1988 and Holliday Grainger
Hungarian People's Republic
The Hungarian People's Republic (Magyar Népköztársaság) was a one-party socialist state from 20 August 1949 to 23 October 1989.
See 1988 and Hungarian People's Republic
Hurricane Gilbert
Hurricane Gilbert was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin in terms of barometric pressure, only behind Hurricane Wilma in 2005.
See 1988 and Hurricane Gilbert
Ikechukwu Ezenwa
Ikechukwu Vincent Ezenwa (born 16 October 1988) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Indian Armed Forces
The Indian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of India.
See 1988 and Indian Armed Forces
Innocent passage
Innocent passage is a concept in the law of the sea that allows for a vessel to pass through the archipelagic and territorial waters of another state, subject to certain restrictions.
International Narcotics Control Board
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is an independent treaty body, one of the four treaty-mandated bodies under international drug control law (alongside the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, UNODC on behalf of the Secretary-General, and the WHO).
See 1988 and International Narcotics Control Board
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; Comité international olympique, CIO) is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
See 1988 and International Olympic Committee
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
See 1988 and Iran
Iran Air Flight 655
Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by, a United States Navy warship.
See 1988 and Iran Air Flight 655
Iran–Contra affair
The Iran–Contra affair (ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Caso Irán-Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal and more rarely as the Iran Initiative, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration.
See 1988 and Iran–Contra affair
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.
Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
See 1988 and Iraq
Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan (Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq.
IRC
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging.
See 1988 and IRC
Irfan Bachdim
Irfan Haarys Bachdim (born 11 August 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder.
Irish republicanism
Irish republicanism (poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule.
See 1988 and Irish republicanism
Iron Curtain
During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Ishant Sharma
Ishant Sharma (born 2 September 1988) is an Indian cricketer who has represented India in Tests, ODIs and T20Is.
Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
See 1988 and Islam
Islamabad
Islamabad (اسلام‌آباد|translit.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
See 1988 and Israel
Israeli Jews
Israeli Jews or Jewish Israelis (יהודים ישראלים) comprise Israel's largest ethnic and religious community.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine.
See 1988 and Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Istanbul
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.
Ivan Rakitić
Ivan Rakitić (born 10 March 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Croatian Football League club Hajduk Split.
Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger (born Hans Jakob Steinberger; May 25, 1921December 12, 2020) was a German-born American physicist noted for his work with neutrinos, the subatomic particles considered to be elementary constituents of matter.
Jacob deGrom
Jacob Anthony deGrom (born June 19, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
See 1988 and Jamaica
James Black (pharmacologist)
Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist.
See 1988 and James Black (pharmacologist)
James Blake (musician)
James Blake Litherland (born 26 September 1988) is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer.
See 1988 and James Blake (musician)
James Hansen
James Edward Hansen (born March 29, 1941) is an American adjunct professor directing the Program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
Jason Kenny
Sir Jason Francis Kenny, (born 23 March 1988) is a British former track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints.
Javier Hernández
Javier Hernández Balcázar (born 1 June 1988), commonly known by the nickname Chicharito (Mexican Spanish: little pea), is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga MX club Guadalajara.
Jérôme Boateng
Jérôme Agyenim Boateng (born 3 September 1988) is a German professional footballer who plays for Austrian Bundesliga club LASK.
Jelena Blagojević
Jelena Blagojević (born 1 December 1988) is a Serbian professional volleyball player and two-time Olympian.
See 1988 and Jelena Blagojević
Jennifer Maia
Jennifer Maia (born October 6, 1988) is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competes in the Women's Flyweight division.
Jesse Plemons
Jesse Plemons (born April 2, 1988) is an American actor.
Jessica Lowndes
Jessica Lowndes (born November 8, 1988) is a Canadian actress, singer, and songwriter.
Jessie J
Jessica Ellen Cornish (born 27 March 1988), known professionally as Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter.
Jet (magazine)
Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community.
Jet aircraft
A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines.
Jhené Aiko
Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo (born March 16, 1988) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and rapper from Los Angeles, California.
Joanna Rowsell
Joanna Katie Rowsell MBE (born 5 December 1988) is a retired English cyclist on the Great Britain Cycling Team who competed on track and road.
Johann Deisenhofer
Johann Deisenhofer (born September 30, 1943) is a German biochemist who, along with Hartmut Michel and Robert Huber, received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1988 for their determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
See 1988 and Johann Deisenhofer
John Poindexter
John Marlan Poindexter (born August 12, 1936) is a retired United States naval officer and Department of Defense official.
Jonathan Toews
Jonathan Bryan Toews (born April 29, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who is an unrestricted free agent.
Jonny Evans
Jonathan Grant Evans (born 3 January 1988) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Manchester United and the Northern Ireland national team.
Josepmir Ballón
Josepmir Aarón Ballón Villacorta (born 21 March 1988) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Alianza Lima and the Peru national team.
Josh Dun
Joshua William Dun (born June 18, 1988) is an American musician.
Juan Cuadrado
Juan Guillermo Cuadrado Bello (born 26 May 1988) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays for the Colombia national team.
Juan Martín del Potro
Juan Martín del Potro (born 23 September 1988) is an Argentinian former professional tennis player.
See 1988 and Juan Martín del Potro
Juan Mata
Juan Manuel Mata García (born 28 April 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer.
Julia Görges
Julia Görges (born 2 November 1988) is a German former professional tennis player.
Julianne Hough
Julianne Alexandra Hough (born July 20, 1988) is an American dancer, actress and television personality.
July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
See 1988 and July 2
Justin Meram
Justin Meram (جستن حكمت عزيز ميرام; born December 4, 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for National Independent Soccer Association club Michigan Stars.
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Lee Musgraves (born August 21, 1988) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
Kaitlyn Lawes
Lesley Kaitlyn Lawes (born December 16, 1988) is a Canadian curler.
Kamil Glik
Kamil Jacek Glik (Polish pronunciation:; born 3 February 1988) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ekstraklasa club Cracovia.
Katarina Ivanovska
Katarina Ivanovska (Катарина Ивановска; born 18 August 1988) is a Macedonian model and actress.
See 1988 and Katarina Ivanovska
Kevin Durant
Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988), also known by his initials KD, is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Kevin Love
Kevin Wesley Love (born September 7, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Kevin McHale (actor)
Kevin Michael McHale (born June 14, 1988) is an American actor and singer.
See 1988 and Kevin McHale (actor)
Khabib Nurmagomedov
Khabib Abdulmanapovich Nurmagomedov (born 20 September 1988) is a Russian former professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
See 1988 and Khabib Nurmagomedov
Khalil al-Wazir
Khalil Ibrahim al-WazirStandardized Arabic transliteration: / / (خليل إبراهيمالوزير, also known by his kunya Abu JihadStandardized Arabic transliteration: أبو جهاد—"Jihad's Father"; 10 October 1935 – 16 April 1988) was a Palestinian leader and co-founder of the nationalist party Fatah.
Khian Sea waste disposal incident
The Khian Sea waste disposal incident was an incident in maritime waste disposal.
See 1988 and Khian Sea waste disposal incident
Ki Bo-bae
Ki Bo-bae (or; born February 20, 1988) is a South Korean recurve archer and three-time Olympic gold medalist.
Kiira Korpi
Kiira Linda Katriina Korpi (born 26 September 1988) is a Finnish figure skater.
Kim Soo-hyun
Kim Soo-hyun (born February 16, 1988) is a South Korean actor.
Kim Yeon-koung
Kim Yeon-koung (born 26 February 1988) is a South Korean professional volleyball player and a former member of the FIVB Athletes' Commission.
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.
Kurds
Kurds or Kurdish people (rtl, Kurd) are an Iranic ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
See 1988 and Kurds
Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat.
Kuwait
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.
See 1988 and Kuwait
Kuwait Airways Flight 422
Kuwait Airways Flight 422 was a Boeing 747 jumbo jet hijacked en route from Bangkok, Thailand, to Kuwait City, Kuwait on 5 April 1988, leading to a hostage crisis that lasted 16 days and encompassed three continents.
See 1988 and Kuwait Airways Flight 422
Kwadwo Asamoah
Kwadwo Asamoah (born 9 December 1988) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer.
Lacey Turner
Lacey Amelia Turner (born 28 March 1988) is an English actress.
Laura Lepistö
Laura Anneli Lepistö (born 25 April 1988) is a Finnish former competitive figure skater.
Laura Unsworth
Laura Roper, (née Laura Unsworth) (born 8 March 1988) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or defender for East Grinstead and the England and Great Britain national teams.
Le Courrier de Floride
Le Courrier de Floride is a free monthly French-speaking newspaper in Florida, on paper and on internet, founded in 2013 by Gwendal Gauthier.
See 1988 and Le Courrier de Floride
Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
See 1988 and Lebanon
Lee Chung-yong
Lee Chung-yong (born 2 July 1988) is a South Korean footballer who plays as a winger for K League 1 club Ulsan HD and is a South Korean international.
Lee Joon
Lee Chang-sun (born February 7, 1988), better known by his stage name Lee Joon, is a South Korean actor, singer, model and DJ.
Lee Seung-hoon
Lee Seung-hoon (born 6 March 1988) is a South Korean speed skater.
Lee Teng-hui
Lee Teng-hui (15 January 192330 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman and agriculturist who served as the 4th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000.
Lee Yong-dae
Lee Yong-dae (born 11 September 1988) is a professional badminton player from South Korea who had been successful in both men's and mixed doubles.
Leon M. Lederman
Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos.
Li Xiaoxia
Li Xiaoxia (born 16 January 1988) is a Chinese table tennis Grand Slam champion.
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
See 1988 and Libya
Lillehammer
Lillehammer is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway.
Lio Tipton
Lio Tipton (formerly Analeigh Tipton; born November 9, 1988) is an American actor and fashion model.
Lisa Brennauer
Lisa Brennauer (born 8 June 1988) is a German former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2022, for six different teams.
Lisa Unruh
Lisa Unruh (born 12 April 1988) is a German athlete who competes in recurve archery.
List of ambassadors of the United States to Pakistan
The U.S. embassy in Karachi was established August 15, 1947, with Edward W. Holmes as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim, pending the appointment of an ambassador.
See 1988 and List of ambassadors of the United States to Pakistan
Liu Wen (model)
Liu Wen (born 27 January 1988) is a mainland Chinese model.
Livingly Media
Livingly Media (formerly Zimbio, Inc.) is an American digital media company based in Redwood City, California that publishes six lifestyle sites for women: Livingly.com, Lonny.com, Mabelandmoxie.com, Itsrosy.com, Zimbio.com, and StyleBistro.com.
Lizzo
Melissa Viviane Jefferson (born April 27, 1988), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American rapper and singer.
See 1988 and Lizzo
Lockerbie
Lockerbie (Locarbaidh) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland.
Lord President of the Supreme Court
The title of Lord President of the Supreme Court was formerly the title of the head of the judiciary in Malaysia, until 1994 when the office was renamed "Chief Justice of the Federal Court".
See 1988 and Lord President of the Supreme Court
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles.
See 1988 and Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
See 1988 and Los Angeles Times
Lotte Friis
Lotte Friis (born 9 February 1988) is a Danish competitive swimmer from Allerød Municipality.
Lyndon LaRouche
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche Jr. (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist who founded the LaRouche movement and its main organization, the National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC).
Ma Jin
Ma Jin (born 7 May 1988) is a badminton player from China who specialises in women's and mixed doubles.
See 1988 and Ma Jin
Ma Long
Ma Long (born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked number 4 in Men’s Singles by the ITTF and the reigning Olympic and World Cup singles champion.
See 1988 and Ma Long
Maddie Hinch
Madeleine Clare Hinch, (born 8 October 1988) is an English former field hockey player who played as a goalkeeper for Tilburg HC and England and Great Britain national teams.
Mae Whitman
Mae Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American actor.
Maja Alm
Maja Møller Alm (born 10 July 1988) is a Danish orienteering and Athletics competitor who has won seven World Championships and two World Games titles.
Maja Salvador
Maja Ross Andres Salvador-Ortega (born October 5, 1988) is a Filipino actress and television personality.
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
Marcel Lefebvre
Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a French Catholic archbishop who influenced modern traditionalist Catholicism.
Marcelo (footballer, born 1988)
Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior (born 12 May 1988), known as Marcelo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense.
See 1988 and Marcelo (footballer, born 1988)
Marco Mengoni
Marco Mengoni (born 25 December 1988) is an Italian singer-songwriter who rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third season of Italian talent show X Factor.
Marin Čilić
Marin Čilić (born 28 September 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player.
Marina Erakovic
Marina Erakovic (Marina Eraković; born 6 March 1988) is a former tennis player from New Zealand.
Mario Maurer
Mario Maurer (มาริโอ้ เมาเร่อ) is a Thai actor and model.
Markéta Irglová
Markéta Irglová (born 28 February 1988) is a Czech-Icelandic singer-songwriter, musician and actress, who starred in the film Once, which earned her a number of major awards, including the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly", with co-writer and co-star Glen Hansard.
Martin Fourcade
Martin Fourcade (born 14 September 1988) is a retired French biathlete.
Marxism–Leninism
Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution.
Masahiro Tanaka
is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
See 1988 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mats Hummels
Mats Julian Hummels (born 16 December 1988) is a German professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for the Germany national team.
Matthew Mitcham
Matthew John Mitcham OAM (born 2 March 1988) is an Australian retired diver and trampolinist.
Matthew Spiranovic
Matthew Thomas Spiranovic (born 27 June 1988) is a former Australian soccer player who played as a defender.
See 1988 and Matthew Spiranovic
Matthew Stafford
John Matthew Stafford (born February 7, 1988) is an American football quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL).
Matthias de Zordo
Matthias de Zordo (born 21 February 1988) is a German athlete who was the World Champion in the men's javelin throw in 2011.
See 1988 and Matthias de Zordo
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (މައުމޫން ޢަބްދުލް ޤައްޔޫމް) (born 29 December 1937) is a Maldivian politician and islamic scholar who served as President of the Maldives from 1978 to 2008.
See 1988 and Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Maurice Allais
Maurice Félix Charles Allais (31 May 19119 October 2010) was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources", along with John Hicks (Value and Capital, 1939) and Paul Samuelson (The Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1947), to neoclassical synthesis.
Mauricio Isla
Mauricio Aníbal Isla Isla (born 12 June 1988) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a right-back and midfielder for Chilean Primera División club Colo-Colo.
Max Carver
Max Carver (born Robert Maxwell Martensen Jr; August 1, 1988) is an American actor.
Maxim Mikhaylov
Maxim Mikhaylovich Mikhaylov (mɐˈksʲim mʲɪˈxaɪ̯ɫəf; born 19 March 1988) is a Russian professional volleyball player, a member of the Russia men's national volleyball team and Russian club VC Zenit-Kazan, gold medalist at the Olympic Games London 2012, silver medalist at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, bronze medalist at the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, gold medalist at the World Cup 2011, European Champion 2013 and 2017 and a multiple medalist of the World League.
May J.
, better known by her stage name May J., is a Japanese pop and R&B singer who made her major label debut under Sony Music Japan on July 12, 2006, with her first mini-album All My Girls.
See 1988 and May J.
MØ
Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen (born 13 August 1988), known professionally as MØ, is a Danish singer and songwriter.
See 1988 and MØ
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.
Melissa Benoist
Melissa Marie Benoist (born October 4, 1988) is an American actress and singer.
Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz (November 2, 1932 – August 28, 2006) was an American physicist.
Mesut Özil
Mesut Özil (born 15 October 1988) is a German former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Michael Cera
Michael Austin Cera (born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian actor.
Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991.
Michael Stone (loyalist)
Michael Anthony Stone (born 2 April 1955) is a British former militant who was a member of the Ulster Defence Association, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.
See 1988 and Michael Stone (loyalist)
Mifepristone
Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical abortion during pregnancy and manage early miscarriage.
Mikhail Aloyan
Mikhail Surenovich Aloyan (Михаил Суренович Алоян; born 23 August 1988) is a Russian professional boxer of Yazidi origin, who challenged for the WBO bantamweight title in 2018.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
See 1988 and Mikhail Gorbachev
Milan Lucic
Milan Lucic (born June 7, 1988) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently an unrestricted free agent.
Milltown Cemetery
Milltown Cemetery (Reilig Bhaile an Mhuilinn) is a large cemetery in west Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Milltown Cemetery attack
The Milltown Cemetery attack (also known as the Milltown Cemetery killings or Milltown massacre) took place on 16 March 1988 at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
See 1988 and Milltown Cemetery attack
Miralem Sulejmani
Miralem Sulejmani (Миралем Сулејмани,; born 5 December 1988) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger.
See 1988 and Miralem Sulejmani
Miss Universe 2013
Miss Universe 2013 was the 62nd Miss Universe pageant, held at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow, Russia on 9 November 2013.
See 1988 and Miss Universe 2013
Mixed economy
A mixed economy is an economic system that accepts both private businesses and nationalized government services, like public utilities, safety, military, welfare, and education.
Mizuki Fujii
is a badminton player from Ashikita, Kumamoto, Japan and plays for the Renesas badminton club.
Modified Mercalli intensity scale
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location.
See 1988 and Modified Mercalli intensity scale
Morris worm
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (12 August 192417 August 1988) was a Pakistani military officer who served as the sixth president of Pakistan from 1978 until his death.
See 1988 and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Mujahideen
Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah).
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
See 1988 and Myanmar
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) was an autonomous oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic that was created on July 7, 1923.
See 1988 and Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيماحمد الباشا,; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
See 1988 and Namibia
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.
See 1988 and NASA
Natalie Geisenberger
Natalie Geisenberger (born 5 February 1988) is a German luger.
See 1988 and Natalie Geisenberger
Natascha Kampusch
Natascha Maria Kampusch born 17 February 1988 (march 2) is an Austrian author and former talk show host.
See 1988 and Natascha Kampusch
Nathan Adrian
Nathan Ghar-jun Adrian (born December 7, 1988) is an American competitive swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist who formerly held the American record in the long course 50-meter freestyle event.
National AIDS Trust
The National AIDS Trust is a United Kingdom charity with the purpose to stand alongside and defend the rights of everyone living with, affected by or at risk of HIV.
See 1988 and National AIDS Trust
National Archives of Australia
The National Archives of Australia (NAA), formerly known as the Commonwealth Archives Office and Australian Archives, is an Australian Government agency that is the official repository for all federal government documents.
See 1988 and National Archives of Australia
National Liberation Front (Algeria)
The National Liberation Front (translit; Front de libération nationale) commonly known by its French acronym FLN, is a nationalist political party in Algeria.
See 1988 and National Liberation Front (Algeria)
National Science Foundation Network
The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1985 to 1995 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States.
See 1988 and National Science Foundation Network
National Transportation Safety Board
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent U.S. government investigative agency responsible for civil transportation accident investigation.
See 1988 and National Transportation Safety Board
Naval mine
A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines.
Nazism
Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
See 1988 and Nazism
Nemanja Matić
Nemanja Matić (Немања Матић,; born 1 August 1988) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Lyon.
Netherlands national football team
The Netherlands national football team (Nederlands voetbalelftal or simply Het Nederlands elftal) has represented the Netherlands in international men's football matches since 1905.
See 1988 and Netherlands national football team
Neven Subotić
Neven Subotić (Serbian Cyrillic: Heвeн Cубoтић,; born 10 December 1988) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
New York (magazine)
New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.
See 1988 and New York (magazine)
Nia Ali
Nia Ali (born October 23, 1988) is an American track and field athlete, who specializes in the 100 m hurdles, heptathlon, and other events.
See 1988 and Nia Ali
Nicklas Bendtner
Nicklas Bendtner (born 16 January 1988) is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Nico Roozen
Nicolaas Josephus Maria "Nico" Roozen (born 22 April 1953, Heemskerk) is a Dutch economist who, in collaboration with Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad, launched Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade certification initiative in 1988.
Nicolas Batum
Nicolas Batum (born 14 December 1988) is a French professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Nicolás Otamendi
Nicolás Hernán Gonzalo Otamendi (born 12 February 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for and captains Primeira Liga club Benfica.
Nikki Reed
Nicole Houston Reed (born May 17, 1988) is an American actress.
Nikola Mektić
Nikola Mektić (born 24 December 1988) is a Croatian professional tennis player who is a former world No. 1 in doubles.
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and administered by the Nobel Foundation.
See 1988 and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry.
See 1988 and Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
See 1988 and Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
See 1988 and Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
See 1988 and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nodar Kumaritashvili
Nodar Kumaritashvili (ნოდარ ქუმარიტაშვილი;; 25 November 198812 February 2010) was a Georgian luge athlete who suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics competition in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on the day of the opening ceremony.
See 1988 and Nodar Kumaritashvili
Noriko Senge
, formerly, is a former member of the Imperial House of Japan and the second daughter of Norihito, Prince Takamado and Hisako, Princess Takamado.
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.
Nuri Şahin
Nuri Şahin (born 5 September 1988) is a Turkish-German football manager and former professional player who played as a midfielder.
O, The Oprah Magazine
O, The Oprah Magazine, also known simply as O, is an American monthly magazine founded by talk show host Oprah Winfrey and Hearst Communications.
See 1988 and O, The Oprah Magazine
Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the Oakland A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.
See 1988 and Oakland Athletics
Odyssey (launch platform)
LP Odyssey is a self-propelled semi-submersible mobile spacecraft launch platform converted from a mobile drilling rig in 1997.
See 1988 and Odyssey (launch platform)
Ojhri Camp disaster
The Ojhri Camp disaster (اوجھڑی کیمپ) took place on 10 April 1988.
See 1988 and Ojhri Camp disaster
Oliver North
Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
Operation Earnest Will
Operation Earnest Will (24 July 1987 – 26 September 1988) was an American military protection of Kuwaiti-owned tankers from Iranian attacks in 1987 and 1988, three years into the Tanker War phase of the Iran–Iraq War.
See 1988 and Operation Earnest Will
Operation Flavius
Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988.
See 1988 and Operation Flavius
Operation Praying Mantis
Operation Praying Mantis was the 18 April 1988 attack by the United States on Iranian naval targets in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for the mining of a U.S. warship four days earlier.
See 1988 and Operation Praying Mantis
Optical fiber
An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other.
Orbit
In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagrange point.
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Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music.
See 1988 and Oricon
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.
Oshakati
Oshakati is a town in northern Namibia.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Palestine Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية) is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people; i.e. the globally dispersed population, not just those in the Palestinian territories who are represented by the Palestinian Authority.
See 1988 and Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestinian Declaration of Independence
The Palestinian Declaration of Independence formally established the State of Palestine, and was written by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and proclaimed by Yasser Arafat on 15 November 1988 (5 Rabiʽ al-Thani 1409) in Algiers, Algeria.
See 1988 and Palestinian Declaration of Independence
Palestinian National Council
The Palestinian National Council (PNC; translit) is the legislative body - in Arabic, the Majlis - of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
See 1988 and Palestinian National Council
Palestinians
Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City.
See 1988 and Pan Am Flight 103
Parineeti Chopra
Parineeti Chopra (born 22 October 1988) is an Indian actress and singer who primarily works in Hindi films.
Park Gyu-ri
Park Gyu-ri (born May 21, 1988), better known by the mononym Gyuri, is a South Korean singer, actress, and radio personality.
Park Seo-joon
Park Yong-kyu (born December 16, 1988), better known by the stage name Park Seo-joon (박서준), is a South Korean actor.
Patrick Kane
Patrick Timothy Kane II (born November 19, 1988) is an American professional ice hockey right winger for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Patty Mills
Patrick Sammie Mills (born 11 August 1988) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Paulinho (footballer, born July 1988)
José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior (born 25 July 1988), known as Paulinho, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Corinthians.
See 1988 and Paulinho (footballer, born July 1988)
People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam
The People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) is a former Tamil militant group that had become a pro-government paramilitary group and political party.
See 1988 and People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam
Perestroika
Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.
Phillip Hughes
Phillip Joel Hughes (30 November 1988 – 27 November 2014) was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire.
Piper Alpha
Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Polio eradication
Polio eradication, the permanent global cessation of circulation of the poliovirus and hence elimination of the poliomyelitis (polio) it causes, is the aim of a multinational public health effort begun in 1988, led by the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Rotary Foundation.
See 1988 and Polio eradication
Political demonstration
A political demonstration is an action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, in order to hear speakers.
See 1988 and Political demonstration
Pope
The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.
See 1988 and Pope
Portia Doubleday
Portia Doubleday is an American actress.
Prachi Desai
Prachi Desai (born 12 September 1988), is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films and television.
President of France
The president of France, officially the president of the French Republic (Président de la République française), is the executive head of state of France, and the commander-in-chief of the French Armed Forces.
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President of Mexico
The president of Mexico (Presidente de México), officially the president of the United Mexican States (Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is the head of state and head of government of Mexico.
See 1988 and President of Mexico
President of Pakistan
The President of Pakistan (صدرِ پاکستان|translit.
See 1988 and President of Pakistan
Prime minister
A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.
Prime Minister of Pakistan
The prime minister of Pakistan (وزِیرِ اعظمپاکستان, romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Princess Beatrice
Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi (Beatrice Elizabeth Mary; born 8 August 1988) is a member of the British royal family.
See 1988 and Princess Beatrice
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
See 1988 and Princeton, New Jersey
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
See 1988 and Provisional Irish Republican Army
Radja Nainggolan
Radja Nainggolan (born 4 May 1988) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder.
Rahimuddin Khan
Rahimuddin Khan (21 July 1926 – 22 August 2022) was a general of the Pakistan Army who served as the 4th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1984 to 1987, after serving as the 7th governor of Balochistan from 1978 to 1984.
Ramstein Air Base
Ramstein Air Base is a United States Air Force base located in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwestern Germany.
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Ramstein air show disaster
The Ramstein air show disaster occurred on Sunday, 28 August 1988 during the Flugtag '88 airshow at USAF Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany.
See 1988 and Ramstein air show disaster
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi (Punjabi) is the third-largest city in the Pakistani province of Punjab.
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
See 1988 and Republican Party (United States)
Ricky Berens
Richard Berens (born April 21, 1988) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and current world record-holder.
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer and businesswoman.
See 1988 and Rihanna
Rin Takanashi
is a Japanese film and television actress.
Robert Huber
Robert Huber (born 20 February 1937) is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Robert Lewandowski
Robert Lewandowski (born 21 August 1988) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Barcelona and captains the Poland national team.
See 1988 and Robert Lewandowski
Robert Tappan Morris
Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur.
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Roberto Bautista Agut
Roberto Bautista Agut (born 14 April 1988) is a Spanish professional tennis player.
See 1988 and Roberto Bautista Agut
Rocío Sánchez Moccia
Rocío Sánchez Moccia (born 2 August 1988) is an Argentine field hockey player.
See 1988 and Rocío Sánchez Moccia
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rabat
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rabat (Archidioecesis Rabatensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Morocco.
See 1988 and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rabat
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Rosie MacLennan
Rosannagh "Rosie" MacLennan (born August 28, 1988) is a Canadian retired trampoline gymnast.
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
Roussel Uclaf
Roussel Uclaf S.A. was a French pharmaceutical company and one of several predecessor companies of today's Sanofi.
Rui Patrício
Rui Pedro dos Santos Patrício (born 15 February 1988) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Portugal national team and last played club football for Serie A club Roma.
Rupert Grint
Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor.
Russell Westbrook
Russell Westbrook III (born November 12, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
See 1988 and Russell Westbrook
Russell Wilson
Russell Carrington Wilson (born November 29, 1988) is an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL).
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.
Salleh Abas
Mohamed Salleh bin Abas (Jawi: محمد صالح بن عباس; ‎25 August 1929 – 16 January 2021) was a Malaysian judge and politician.
Sam Quek
Samantha Ann Quek, MBE (born 18 October 1988) is an English television presenter and former field hockey player.
Sam Warburton
Samuel Kennedy-Warburton, OBE MStJ (born 5 October 1988), commonly known as Sam Warburton, is a Welsh former international rugby union player.
Samir Ujkani
Samir Ujkani (born 5 July 1988) is a former Kosovan professional footballer who is the current sports director of the Kosovo national team.
Sandra Nurmsalu
Sandra Nurmsalu (born 6 December 1988) is an Estonian singer, songwriter, and violinist.
Sargun Mehta
Sargun Mehta Dubey (born 6 September 1988) is an Indian actress and model.
Sarkodie (rapper)
Michael Owusu Addo (born 10 July 1985), known professionally as Sarkodie, is a Ghanaian rapper, songwriter, and entrepreneur from Tema.
See 1988 and Sarkodie (rapper)
Sébastien Buemi
Sébastien Olivier Humbert Buemi (born 31 October 1988) is a Swiss professional racing driver who competes in Formula E for Envision Racing, and in the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota Gazoo Racing.
Scott Arfield
Scott Harry Nathaniel Arfield (born 1 November 1988) is a professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for EFL League One club Bolton Wanderers.
Semyon Varlamov
Semyon Aleksandrovich Varlamov (sʲɪˈmʲɵn vɐrˈlaməf; born 27 April 1988) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
See 1988 and Seoul
Sergei Bobrovsky
Sergei Andreyevich Bobrovsky (Серге́й Андреевич Бобровский; born 20 September 1988) is a Russian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Sergio Agüero
Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo (born 2 June 1988), also known as Kun Agüero, is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Sergio Busquets
Sergio Busquets Burgos (born 16 July 1988) is a Spanish professional footballer from Catalonia who plays as a defensive midfielder for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami.
Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a city and special economic zone on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, and Macau to the southwest.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
Simon Mignolet
Simon Luc Hildebert Mignolet (born 6 March 1988) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Belgian Pro League club Club Brugge.
Simona de Silvestro
Simona de Silvestro (born 1 September 1988) is a Swiss-Italian racing driver, who is currently employed by Porsche as a factory driver.
See 1988 and Simona de Silvestro
Sindh
Sindh (سِنْدھ,; abbr. SD, historically romanized as Sind) is a province of Pakistan.
See 1988 and Sindh
Singing Revolution
The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War.
See 1988 and Singing Revolution
Skrillex
Sonny John Moore (born January 15, 1988), known professionally as Skrillex, is an American DJ, record producer, and singer.
Slovakia
Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovenská republika), is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
Society of Saint Pius X
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX; Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X, FSSPX) is a canonically irregular traditionalist Catholic priestly fraternity founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
See 1988 and Society of Saint Pius X
Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Σωκράτης Παπασταθόπουλος; born 9 June 1988), also known mononymously as Sokratis, is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
See 1988 and Sokratis Papastathopoulos
Solidaridad
The Solidaridad Network is an international civil society organisation founded in 1969.
Somali National Movement
The Somali National Movement (Dhaqdhaqaaqa Wadaniga Soomaaliyeed, الحركة الوطنية الصومالية) was one of the first and most important organized guerilla groups and Mujahideen groups that opposed the Siad Barre regime in the 1980s to the 1990s, as well as being the main anti-government faction during the Somaliland War of Independence.
See 1988 and Somali National Movement
Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
See 1988 and Somalia
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
Soviet Airborne Forces
The Soviet Airborne Forces or VDV (from Vozdushno-desantnye voyska SSSR, Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска СССР, ВДВ; Air-landing Forces) was a separate troops branch of the Soviet Armed Forces.
See 1988 and Soviet Airborne Forces
Soviet Army
The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Sovetskiye sukhoputnye voyska) was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992.
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Pursuant to the Geneva Accords of 14 April 1988, the Soviet Union conducted a total military withdrawal from Afghanistan between 15 May 1988 and 15 February 1989.
See 1988 and Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
See 1988 and Soviet–Afghan War
Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.
Space Shuttle Challenger
Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA.
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Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter.
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Special Air Service
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.
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Sports Reference
Sports Reference, LLC is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer).
Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups
Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups rose to prominence in the 1970s to fight the state of Sri Lanka in order to create an independent Tamil Eelam in the north of Sri Lanka.
See 1988 and Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups
Sri Lankan Tamils
Sri Lankan Tamils, also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka.
See 1988 and Sri Lankan Tamils
Stardust Promotion
is a leading Japanese talent agency, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo.
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State of Palestine
Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia, encompassing the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, within the larger historic Palestine region.
See 1988 and State of Palestine
Stephanie Cayo
Stephanie Cristina Cayo Sanguinetti (born April 8, 1988) is a Peruvian actress, singer and songwriter.
Stephanie Gilmore
Stephanie Louise Gilmore (born 29 January 1988) is an Australian professional surfer and eight-time world champion on the Women's WSL World Tour (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2022).
See 1988 and Stephanie Gilmore
Stephanie Rice
Stephanie Louise Rice, OAM (born 17 June 1988) is an Australian former competitive swimmer.
Stephen Curry
Wardell Stephen Curry II (born March 14, 1988) is an American professional basketball player and point guard for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.
Stichting Max Havelaar
Fairtrade Nederland, formerly known as Max Havelaar, is the Dutch member of Fairtrade International, which unites 23 Fairtrade certification producer and labelling initiatives across Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
See 1988 and Stichting Max Havelaar
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.
STS-26
STS-26 was the 26th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the seventh flight of the orbiter ''Discovery''.
See 1988 and STS-26
STS-51-L
STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle ''Challenger''.
Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapse
The Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapse was a disaster of the Penang Ferry Service which occurred on 31 July 1988, at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry Terminal in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
See 1988 and Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapse
Sumgait
Sumgait (Sumqayıt) is a city in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, on the Absheron Peninsula, about away from the capital Baku.
See 1988 and Sumgait
Sumgait pogrom
The Sumgait pogromՍումգայիթի ջարդեր, Sumgayit'i jarder: "Sumgait massacres"; Sumqayıt hadisələri lit.: "Sumgait events"; Сумгаитский погром, Sumgaitskij pogrom was a pogrom that targeted the Armenian population of the lakeside town of Sumgait in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in late February 1988.
Swara Bhasker
Swara Bhasker (also spelled Bhaskar; born 9 April 1988) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films.
Taeyang
Dong Young-bae (born May 18, 1988), better known by his stage name Taeyang or SOL, is a South Korean singer.
See 1988 and Taeyang
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
See 1988 and Taiwan
Tandara Caixeta
Tandara Alves Caixeta (born 30 October 1988) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player.
TAT-8
TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable and first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, carrying 280 Mbit/s (40,000 telephone circuits) between the United States, United Kingdom and France.
See 1988 and TAT-8
Tatiana Golovin
Tatiana Golovin (r; born 25 January 1988) is a French former professional tennis player.
Tatiana Kosheleva
Tatiana Sergeyevna Kosheleva (Татья́на Серге́евна Ко́шелева, born 23 December 1988) is a Russian volleyball player.
See 1988 and Tatiana Kosheleva
Tô Linh Hương
Tô Linh Hương (born 1988 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese businesswoman.
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The 9th Company
The 9th Company (9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War.
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
See 1988 and The New York Times
The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper.
The San Bernardino Sun
The San Bernardino Sun is a paid daily newspaper in San Bernardino County, California, headquartered in the city of San Bernardino.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
See 1988 and The Sydney Morning Herald
Therese Johaug
Therese Johaug (born 25 June 1988) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier from the village of Dalsbygda in Os municipality who has competed for the clubs Tynset IF and IL Nansen.
Thierry Neuville
Thierry Jean Neuville (born 16 June 1988) is a Belgian rally driver who is competing in the World Rally Championship for Hyundai Motorsport.
Times Community Media
Times Community Media (TCM) is a group of contiguous weeklies in Northern Virginia, United States, and the Piedmont, United States.
See 1988 and Times Community Media
Timm Klose
Timm Klose (born 9 May 1988) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a centre back, most recently for Championship club Bristol City and the Switzerland national team.
Tina Charles (basketball)
Tina Alexandria Charles (born December 5, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
See 1988 and Tina Charles (basketball)
Tinie Tempah
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu (born 7 November 1988), better known by his stage name Tinie (formerly Tinie Tempah), is a British rapper and singer.
Tobin Heath
Tobin Powell Heath (born May 29, 1988) is an American professional soccer player, entrepreneur, and artist.
Transatlantic communications cable
A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other.
See 1988 and Transatlantic communications cable
Trappists
The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae, abbreviated as OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that branched off from the Cistercians.
Tripura
Tripura is a state in Northeast India.
See 1988 and Tripura
Tulisa
Tula Paulinea "Tulisa" Contostavlos (Τούλα Παυλίνα 'Τουλίσα' Κοντόσταυλου; born 13 July 1988) is an English singer, songwriter, rapper, television personality, and actress.
See 1988 and Tulisa
Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
See 1988 and Tunisia
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
See 1988 and Turkey
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news.
Tyler Joseph
Tyler Robert Joseph (born December 1, 1988) is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, musician, and record producer.
Tyson Fury
Tyson Luke Fury (born 12 August 1988) is a British professional boxer.
Udinese Calcio
Udinese Calcio ("Udinese Football") is a professional football club based in Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
UEFA Euro 1988
The 1988 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in West Germany from 10 to 25 June 1988.
Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk
The Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk was the former Soviet frigate (guard ship) Bezzavetnyy of the (NATO codename: Krivak I) built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1970s.
See 1988 and Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk
UMOPAR
The Unidad Móvil Policial para Áreas Rurales (UMOPAR), (English: Mobile Police Unit for Rural Areas), was created in 1984 as a unit with within the Bolivian National Police (Cuerpo de Policía Nacional).
See 1988 and UMOPAR
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988 is one of three major drug control treaties currently in force.
United Nations peacekeeping
Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role of the UN's Department of Peace Operations as an "instrument developed by the organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict to create the conditions for lasting peace".
See 1988 and United Nations peacekeeping
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58)
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) is one of the final ships in the United States Navy's of guided missile frigates (FFG).
See 1988 and USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58)
USS Yorktown (CG-48)
USS Yorktown (DDG-48/CG-48) was a in the United States Navy from 1984 to 2004, named for the American Revolutionary War Battle of Yorktown.
See 1988 and USS Yorktown (CG-48)
Valentina Shevchenko
Valentina Anatolievna Shevchenko (born March 7, 1988) is a Kyrgyzstani and Peruvian professional mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai fighter.
See 1988 and Valentina Shevchenko
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer.
Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa Nuala Kirby (born 18 April 1988) is an English actress.
Vasiliy Lomachenko
Vasiliy Anatolyevich Lomachenko (Василь Анатолійович Ломаченко,; born 17 February 1988), also spelled Vasyl Anatoliyovych Lomachenko, is a Ukrainian professional boxer.
See 1988 and Vasiliy Lomachenko
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
Veronica Roth
Veronica Anne Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her bestselling ''Divergent'' trilogy which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.
Vice President of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.
See 1988 and Vice President of the United States
Victor Anichebe
Victor Chinedu Anichebe (born 23 April 1988) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Victoria Police
Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of the Australian state of Victoria.
Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
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Villa Tunari massacre
The Villa Tunari Massacre was a 27 June 1988 mass murder committed by UMOPAR (Rural Patrol Mobile Unit) troops in response to a protest by coca-growing peasants (cocaleros) in the town of Villa Tunari in Chapare Province, Bolivia.
See 1988 and Villa Tunari massacre
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli (born 5 November 1988) is an Indian international cricketer who plays Test and One Day International (ODI) cricket for the Indian national team.
W (magazine)
W is an American fashion magazine that features stories about style through the lens of culture, fashion, art, celebrity, and film.
Walsh Street police shootings
The Walsh Street police shootings were the 1988 murders of two Victoria Police officers: Constables Steven Tynan, 22, and Damian Eyre, 20.
See 1988 and Walsh Street police shootings
Walt Disney Studios (division)
The Walt Disney Studios is a major division of the Disney Entertainment business segment of The Walt Disney Company best known for housing its multifaceted film studio divisions.
See 1988 and Walt Disney Studios (division)
Wang Yimei
Wang Yimei (born 11 January 1988 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a retired Chinese volleyball player.
Wei Qiuyue
Wei Qiuyue (born 26 September 1988) is a retired Chinese volleyball player.
West Bank
The West Bank (aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).
West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
Wetpaint
Wetpaint was an Internet company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Function(X).
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman.
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Wilfried Bony
Wilfried Guemiand Bony (born 10 December 1988) is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a striker.
William R. Higgins
William Richard Higgins (January 15, 1945 – died July 31, 1989; declared dead July 6, 1990) was a United States Marine Corps colonel who was captured in Lebanon in 1988 while serving on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission.
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Willian (footballer, born 1988)
Willian Borges da Silva (born 9 August 1988), known mononymously as Willian, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder for club Fulham.
See 1988 and Willian (footballer, born 1988)
World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease.
World Expo 88
World Expo 88, also known as Expo 88, was a specialised Expo held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, during a six-month period between Saturday, 30 April 1988 and Sunday, 30 October 1988, inclusive.
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.
See 1988 and World Health Organization
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
Ximena Navarrete
Jimena "Ximena" Navarrete Rosete (born February 22, 1988) is a Mexican actress, tv host, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 2010.
Yann Sommer
Yann Sommer (born 17 December 1988) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Switzerland national team.
Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula (also,; Península de Yucatán) is a large peninsula in southeast Mexico and adjacent portions of Belize and Guatemala.
See 1988 and Yucatán Peninsula
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.
Zebra mussel
The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a small freshwater mussel.
Zhang Jike
Zhang Jike (born 16 February 1988) is a retired Chinese table tennis player.
Zhou Lulu
Zhou Lulu (born March 19, 1988) is a Chinese weightlifter.
Zoë Kravitz
Zoë Isabella Kravitz (born December 1, 1988) is an American actress.
Zosia Mamet
Zosia Russell MametAccording to Vermont Births, 1981–2001, and Vermont Birth Records, 1909–2008, at Ancestry.com.
1988 Armenian earthquake
The 1988 Armenian earthquake, also known as the Spitak earthquake (Spitaki yerkrasharzh), occurred on December 7 at with a surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating).
See 1988 and 1988 Armenian earthquake
1988 Black Sea bumping incident
The Black Sea bumping incident of 12 February 1988 occurred when American cruiser tried to exercise the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea during the Cold War.
See 1988 and 1988 Black Sea bumping incident
1988 Chilean presidential referendum
A referendum on whether Augusto Pinochet, the head of a military dictatorship, should become president for eight years under resumed civilian rule was held in Chile on October 5, 1988.
See 1988 and 1988 Chilean presidential referendum
1988 Gilgit massacre
The 1988 Gilgit massacre refers to the state-sponsored mass killing of Shia civilians in the Gilgit District of Pakistan who revolted against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's Sunni Islamist regime, responsible for vehement persecution of religious minorities as part of its Islamization program.
See 1988 and 1988 Gilgit massacre
1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis
The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis (also known as the 1988 judicial crisis) was a series of events that began with United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party elections in 1987 and ended with the suspension and the eventual removal of the Lord President of the Supreme Court, Tun Salleh Abas, from his seat.
See 1988 and 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis
1988 Maldives coup attempt
The 1988 Maldives coup d'état attempt was by a group of Maldivians led by businessman Abdullah Luthufi and assisted by armed mercenaries of a Tamil secessionist organisation from Sri Lanka, the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), to overthrow the government in the island republic of Maldives.
See 1988 and 1988 Maldives coup attempt
1988 Nepal earthquake
The 1988 Nepal earthquake (विसं २०४५ को भूकम्प) occurred in Nepal near the Indian border and affected much of northern Bihar.
See 1988 and 1988 Nepal earthquake
1988 Oshakati bomb blast
The 1988 Oshakati bomb blast was a bombing in Oshakati, Ovamboland, South West Africa (now Oshana Region, Namibia) which killed 27 people and left 70 others injured on 19 February 1988.
See 1988 and 1988 Oshakati bomb blast
1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad and officially branded as Seoul 1988, were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
See 1988 and 1988 Summer Olympics
1988 United States presidential election
The 1988 United States presidential election was the 51st quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988.
See 1988 and 1988 United States presidential election
1988 Winter Olympics
The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Calgary 1988 (Mohkínsstsisi 1988; Wîchîspa Oyade 1988 or Wenchi Ispase 1988; Otôskwanihk 1988/ᐅᑑᐢᑿᓂᕽ 1988; Guts’ists’i 1988; ʔaknuqtapȼik’ 1988; Klincho-tinay-indihay 1988), were a multi-sport event held from February 13 to 28, 1988, with Calgary, Alberta, Canada as main host city.
See 1988 and 1988 Winter Olympics
1988 World Series
The 1988 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1988 season.
See 1988 and 1988 World Series
1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (De 17.; Dei 17.) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, were an international winter multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway.
See 1988 and 1994 Winter Olympics
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake.
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2014
2014 was designated as.
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2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as.
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2024
So far, this year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war, and the Islamist insurgency in the Sahel. 1988 and 2024 are leap years in the Gregorian calendar.
See 1988 and 2024
20th Century Studios
20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.
See 1988 and 20th Century Studios
345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment
The 345th Guards Airborne Regiment (345th PPD) of the Soviet Airborne Forces, and after 1992, the Russian Airborne Forces, was active from 1944 to 1998.
See 1988 and 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment
8888 Uprising
The 8888 Uprising, also known as the People Power Uprising and the 1988 Uprising, was a series of nationwide protests, marches, and riots in Burma (present-day Myanmar) that peaked in August 1988.
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