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December 1, 1988: First World AIDS Day. The first World AIDS Day was held. [3] [4] STS-27: NASA postponed the planned launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis from Kennedy Space Center in Florida due to weather. [5] [6] [7] Born: Ashley Monique Clark, American television actress; in Brooklyn, New York City [8]
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 ...
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;
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.
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.
December 2 - The Toho Subway Line in Sapporo, Japan, opens for service between Sakaemachi Station and Hōsui-Susukino Station. [ 8 ] December 11 - The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority opens the Archer Avenue Lines , and Jamaica – Van Wyck , Sutphin Boulevard , and Parsons/Archer subway stations, in Jamaica, Queens twenty ...
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 ...
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.