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On 11 December 1988, an Ilyushin Il-76M aircraft crashed. Operated by the Soviet Air Force , the flight participated in relief efforts after an earthquake struck Armenia on 7 December. The aircraft crashed into a mountainside during an attempt to land at Leninakan , Armenia (then part of the Soviet Union), killing 77 of the 78 occupants on board.
At 12:00 a.m. on the night of December 13, the RTVE broadcast signal cut out, beginning the 1988 Spanish general strike, called by the Workers' Commissions and Unión General de Trabajadores trade unions against the economic policies of the government of Prime Minister Felipe González. The strike brought Spain to a complete standstill for 24 ...
December 11 is the 345th day of the year ... German Modernist artist, co-creator of Isotype (d. 1988) [22] 1901–present. 1904 – Marge, American cartoonist ...
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. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, while the Boeing 747 "Clipper Maid of the Seas" was in flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, it was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew in what became known ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1988. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Pages in category "December 1988 events" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Deaths in December 1988;
December 2 NBC wins the rights to broadcast the 1992 Summer Olympics from Barcelona, Spain, bidding over $401 million. December 8 Tichina Arnold (later of Martin and Everybody Hates Chris fame) joins the cast of the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope for what will prove to be its final season. December 11
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.