Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
December 11, 1988 (Sunday) [ edit ] An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane carrying rescue workers to Leninakan , a city devastated by the Armenian earthquake, crashed into the side of a mountain, killing 77 people.
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 aboard. [1]
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 ...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master broke Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter ' s record ($11.1 million) for highest weekend debut for a slasher film, and also broke Smokey and the Bandit II ' s record ($10.8 million) for the highest weekend debut in the month of August.
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.
December 9 – The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory. December 12 – Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev begins an official visit to the United States. [11] December 14 – After Yasir Arafat renounces violence, the U.S. says it will open dialogue with the PLO.
This page was last edited on 14 January 2019, at 10:27 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
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.