1988

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1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
January 2 - Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
January 9 - Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial.

February

February 3 - The United States House of Representatives controlled by the Democratic Party rejects Republican President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support Nicaraguan Contras.
February 6 - Massachusetts celebrates its bicentennial of its statehood.
February 11 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 13 - The 1988 Winter Olympics open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
February 17 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped. (He is later killed by his captors.)
February 21 - In the taping of his own television program, televanglist Jimmy Swaggart confesses that he is guilty of an unspecified sin and will be temporarily leaving the pulpit. The "unspecified sin" was an affair with a prostitute.
February 24 - The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation. (Main article: Hustler Magazine v. Falwell)
February 28 - The 1988 Winter Olympics close.
February 29 - Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations.

March

March 1 - Anthony M. Frank is appointed United States Postmaster General.
March 7 - Operation Flavius: The SAS fatally shoot three unarmed Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
March 8 - Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.
March 9 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a deaf university president.
March 16 - The Halabja poison gas attack was carried out by Iraqi government forces.
March 16 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
March 17 - A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
March 19 - British army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA in the so-called "Corporals killings".
March 24 - An Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
March 29 - Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris

April

The Iranian Frigate, IS Alvand, attacked by US Navy forces during Operation Praying Mantis.

April 4 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
April 10 - The Great Seto Bridge opened to traffic in Japan.
April 12 - Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California.
April 14 - In the Geneva Agreement, Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
April 14 - USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf while deployed on Operation Earnest Will during the Tanker War phase of the Iran-Iraq War.
April 16 - Israeli commandos kill the PLO's Khalil Wazir (Abu Jihad) in Tunisia.
April 16 - In Forlì (Italy), Red Brigades kill Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
April 18 - U.S. Navy forces retaliate for the Roberts mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
April 25 - In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II. He was accused by survivors of being a notorious guard at the Treblinka extermination camp known as "Ivan the Terrible". The conviction was later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.
April 28 - Maryland celebrates its the bicentennial of its statehood.
April 28 - Aloha Flight 243 loses several yards of its upper fuselage while in flight. Extraordinarily, the craft lands with only one fatality.
April 30 - World Expo '88 opens in Brisbane Queensland, Australia. The exhibition runs for 6 months, hosting pavilions from over 70 countries and thrusting the city of Brisbane into the international spotlight.

May

May 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdraw from Afghanistan.
May 16 - A report by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
May 16 - California v. Greenwood: In a 6-2 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States rules that police officers do not need a search warrant to search through discarded garbage.
May 23 - South Carolina celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
May 24 - Section 28 (outlawing promotion of homosexuality in schools) is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.

June

June 6 - Queen Elizabeth strips jockey Lester Piggott of his OBE
June 11 - The name of the General Public License (GPL) is mentioned first time.
June 21 - New Hampshire celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
June 25 - Virginia celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
June 25 - The Netherlands defeat the Soviet Union 2-0 to win Euro 88.
June 28 - Four workers asphyxiated at a metal-plating plant in Auburn, Indiana, in the worst confined-space industrial accident in US history. A fifth victim dies two days later.
June 29 - United States Supreme Court upholds the law allowing special prosecutor to investigate suspected crimes by executive branch officials.
June 30 - Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrated four bishops at Ecône for his apostolate along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer without a Papal mandate.

July

July 1 - Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
July 3 - Iran Air Flight 655 shot down by missiles launched from the USS Vincennes ship
July 6 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners.
July 26 - New York celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
July 30¨- Antonio Gomes dos Santos stands motionless in a Lisbon, Portugal shopping center for 15 hours, 2 minutes and 55 seconds
July 31 - 32 people were killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapsed in Butterworth, Malaysia.

August

August 6–August 7 - "Police riot" in New York City's Tompkins Square Park.
August 8 - Thousands of protestors in Burma (now Myanmar) are killed during demonstrations against the government.
August 9 - Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial transactions in hockey history.
August 17 - Pakistan President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and US Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
August 19 - Ceasefire begins in the Iran-Iraq war
August 20 - Iran-Iraq war ends, with an estimated 1 million lives lost.
August 26 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri ("The terminal man") is stuck in the De Gaulle Airport in Paris, where he continues to reside as of October 2005.
August 28 - A fire destroys part of Chiado quarter, in Lisbon's historical center.
August 29 - The first WWE (WWF at the time) SummerSlam main event — featuring Hulk "Hulkamania" Hogan and "Macho Man" Randy Savage versus André the Giant and "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase — is held in Madison Square Gardens in New York City.

September

The 1988 Summer Olympics open in Seoul, South Korea.

Seoul Olympics Mascot at the Korean Pavilion at World Expo '88

September 1- Acacia pycnantha proclaimed Australia's national floral emblem
September 3- Federal referendums on 4-year terms, recognition of local Government and other issues is defeated in Australia
September 5 - With US$2 billion in federal aid, the Robert M. Bass Group agrees to buy the United States's largest thrift, American Savings and Loan Association
September 12 - Hurricane Gilbert devastated Jamaica, it turns towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula two days later causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
September 17 - Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea open
September 22 - Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea. (See also July 6)
September 24-26 - Large, militant protests against the 1988 World Bank and IMF meetings in West Berlin
September 29 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster

October

October 5 - Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the government of National Liberation Front - by October 10 army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots
October 5 - Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is defeated in a national plebiscite that sought to renew his mandate.
October 11 - Women are allowed to study at Magdalene College, Cambridge, for the first time. Male students wear black armbands and the porter flies a black flag
October 12 - two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings in Australia
October 19 - United Kingdom bans broadcast interviews with IRA members. BBC gets around this by using actors' voices.
October 28 - Abortion: 48 hours after announcing it was abandoning RU-486, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf states that it would resume distribution of the drug, bowing to pressure from the government of France
October 30 - Philip Morris buys Kraft Foods for US$13.1 billion.
October 30 - Expo '88 in Brisbane Australia draws to a close after a 6 month spectacular.
October 30 - Formula One: Ayrton Senna clinches his first World Championship with a phenomenal drive in the Japanese Grand Prix, recovering from 16th place on the first lap to win the race and beat rival Alain Prost into second place.

November

November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1988: George Herbert Walker Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis.
November 11 - In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (seven bodies were eventually found and Puente was convicted of three murders and sentenced to life in prison)
November 15 - In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on her maiden orbital spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle)
November 15 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council meeting in Algiers, by a vote of 253 to 46
November 16 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence
November 16 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister
November 17 - The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet
November 18 - War on Drugs: US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law providing the death penalty for murderous drug traffickers
November 21 - Canadian Federal Election: Brian Mulroney and the Progressive Conservative Party win a second majority government
November 22 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed
November 30 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.

December

The wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103

December 2 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
December 2 - Cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless - thousands dead
December 3 - Date of a claimed apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Estela Ruiz in South Phoenix, Arizona
December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale killed nearly 25,000, injured 15,000 and left 400,000 persons homeless.
December 9 - The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.
December 12 - The Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures 132.
December 19 - The Consumer Product Safety Commission bans the sale of lawn darts following the deaths of three children.
December 20 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
December 21 - Pan Am flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground.
December 22 - Assassination of Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes.

Environmental change

Zebra mussels found in the Great lakes

Unknown dates

Dave Barry wins the Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Singer Fish leaves the band Marillion to pursue a solo career.
Mickey Sadoff is elected president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Births

Shefali Chowdhury, British actress
Mark Davies, British footballer
Delanie Fitzpatrick, American actress
Sean Marquette, American actor
Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
Ateqeh Rajabi (d.2004)
Alejandro Ramirez, Costa Rica chess player
Laura Ross, American chess player
Everlyn Sampi, Australian actor
Michael Shabaz, American tennis player
Tempest Smith (d.2001)
Ghyslain Raza

January

January 1 - Katie Volding, American actress
January 7 - Alan Lowing, Scottish footballer
January 10 - Michael Mcilorum, English rugby player
January 12 - Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballer
January 12 - Andrew Lawrence, American actor
January 13 - Tatev Abrahamyan, American chess player
January 16 - Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
January 17 - Nikki Reed, American actress
January 22 - Greg Oden, American basketball player
January 25 - Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
January 25 - Daniel Haynes, English footballer
January 27 - Kerlon, Brazilian footballer
January 29 - Owen Garvan, Irish footballer
January 29 - Aydın Yılmaz, Turkish soccer player

February

February 4 - Carly Patterson, American gymnast
February 8 - Ryan Pinkston, American actor
February 12 - Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie, Romanian gymnast
February 15 - Daniela Luján, British actress
February 19 - Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
February 21 - Danny Rose, English footballer
February 25 - Kelly Davidson (d.2000)
February 25 - Rúrik Gíslason, Icelandic footballer
February 26 - David Williams, Australian footballer

March

March 1 - Melissandre Fuentes, Andorra figure skater
March 2 - Kathryn Blair, Daughter of British Prime Minister Tony Blair
March 2 - Vito Mannone, Italian footballer
March 3 - Timur Gareev, Asian chess player
March 3 - Michael Morrison, English footballer
March 6 - Elaine and Melanie Silver, American actresses
March 21 - Lee Cattermole, English footballer
March 25 - Erik Knudsen, Canadian actor
March 27 - Brenda Song, American actress
March 28 - Lacey Turner, English actress
March 30 - Kelly Knatchbull, British heir
March 31 - Hogan Ephraim, English football player

April

April 3 - Tim Krul, Dutch soccer player
April 5 - Daniela Luján, Mexican actress
April 6 - Fabrice Muamba, English footballer
April 8 - Philip Dowling, British actor
April 10 - Haley Joel Osment, American actor
April 10 - Özgürcan Özcan, Turkish soccer player
April 10 - Travis Varcoe, Australian footballer
April 13 - Kallie Flynn Childress, American actress
April 20 - Mark Bluvshtein, Canadian chess player
April 20 - Wade Oostendorp, Australian soccer player
April 23 - Erica Mer, American actress
April 29 - Jeff Batchelor, Canadian snowboarder

May

May 1 - Darryl Knights, English footballer
May 5 - Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (d.1996)
May 9 - Princess Nejla bint Asem
May 18 - Ryan Cooley, Canadian actor
May 23 - Christian Lorentzen, British heir
May 23 - Morgan Pressel, American golfer
May 24 - Iyama Yuta, Japanese Go player
May 27 - Heather Marks, Canadian model
May 28 - Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
May 28 - Kuroki Meisa, Japanese actress

June

June 2 - Sergio Agüero, Argentine football (soccer) player
June 2 - Ayaka Saito, Japanese voice actor
June 7 - Michael Cera, Canadian actor
June 7 - Godwin Antwi Ghana footballer
June 9 - Boudewijn Horikx, Dutch tennis player
June 9 - Mae Whitman, American actress
June 11 - Gakky, Japanese model/actress
June 13 - Li Ya, Chinese gymnast
June 23 - Isabell Herlovsen, Norwegian soccer player
June 24 - Micah Richards, English footballer
June 27 - Kate Ziegler, American swimmer

July

Luke Mitchell, Scottish murderer
July 1 - Evan Ellingson, American actor
July 1 - Joseph Groarke, British taekwondo expert
July 2 - Edward Randell. British actor
July 4 - Angelique Boyer, Mexican actress
July 4 - Princess Irina of Prussia
July 6 - Sarah Barrable-Tishauer, Canadian actress
July 8 - Miguel Roque Farrero, American soccer player
July 22 - Constantin, Prince of Nassau
July 23 - Paul Anderson, English footballer
July 25 - Anthony Stokes, Irish footballer
July 27 - Willence Seymour, Nauruan tennis player]]
July 31 - Brackin Karauria-Henry, Australian rugby player

August

August 5 - Fleur Maxwell, Luxembourg figure skater
August 5 - Federica Pellegrini, Italian swimmer
August 8 - Princess Beatrice of York
August 8 - Flavia Bujor, French writer
August 8 - Jake Goldsbie, Canadian actor
August 8 - Jeff Weise, American murderer (d.2005)
August 12 - Leah Pipes, American actress
August 14 - Monette Russo, Australian gymnast
August 16 - Ismaïl Aissati, Morrocan football (soccer) player
August 17 - Belal Mansoor Ali, Kenyan runner
August 17 - Brady Corbet, American actor
August 18 - Jack Hobbs, English footballer
August 19 - Travis Tedford, American actor
August 24 - Rupert Grint, English actor
August 26 - Princess Maria Laura, Archduchess of Austria-Este
August 26 - Rachelle Waterman, American blogger
August 27 - Alexa Vega, American actress

September

September 5 - Nuri Şahin, Turkish football (soccer) player
September 9 - Sana Saeed, Indian actress
September 10 - Jordan Staal, Canadian hockey player
September 20 - Aura Andreea Munteanu, Romanian gymnast
September 24 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
September 26 - Marina Kuroki, Japanese actress

October

October 5 - Bobby Edner, American actor
October 7 - Geneva Locke, Canadian actress
October 13 - Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer
October 14 - Max Thieriot, American actor
October 15 - Aleksandra Szutenberg, Polish gymnast
October 19 - Carly Janiga, American gymnast
October 20 - Adam Butcher, Canadian actor
October 25 - Kaz Patafta, Australian football (soccer) player
October 28 - Devon Murray, Irish actor
October 30 - Scott Dyleski, American convict

November

November 1 - Ai Fukuhara, Japanese tennis player
November 2 - Lindze Letherman, American actor
November 6 - Emily Stone, American actress
November 8 - Tajima Honami, Japanese actress
November 11 - Alexandra Kyle, American actress
November 15 - Zena Grey, American actress
November 15 - Nikolas Besagno, American soccer player
November 18 - Miranda Gaddis - American murder victim (d.2002)
November 19 - Candace Newmaker, American child abuse victim (d.1999)

December

December 2 - Alfred Enoch, British actor
December 2 - Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick
December 4 - Lisa Ingildeeva, Russian gymnast
December 5 - Ross Bagley, American actor
December 7 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
December 8 - Dominic Gates, American Student
December 14 - Vanessa Anne Hudgens, American actress
December 15 - Ilona Senderek, Polish figure skater
December 16 - Anna Popplewell, English actress
December 16 - Jacob Lensky, Canadian soccer player
December 19 - Kristina Coccia, American gymnast
December 19 - Victoria Ribeiro, British heir
December 22 - Eddy Vilard, Mexican actor
December 24 - Piyush Chawla, Indian cricketer
December 29 - Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player

For musicians born in 1988, see 1988 in music.

Deaths

January to March

January 2 - Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901)
January 5 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
January 7 - Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913)
January 11 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b. 1912)
January 13 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
January 14 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902)
January 15 - Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
January 16 - Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904)
January 20 - Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner (b. 1902)
January 22 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
February 1 - Heather O'Rourke, American actress (b. 1975)
February 15 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
February 19 - René Char, French poet (b. 1907)
February 19 - André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
March 1 - Joe Besser, American actor and comedian (b. 1907)
March 5 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
March 7 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
March 8 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
March 9 - Kurt Georg Kiesinger, third Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
March 10 - Andy Gibb, Australian singer (Bee Gees) (b. 1958)
March 31 - William McMahon, twentieth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)

April to June

April 3 - Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
April 15 - Kenneth Williams, English actor and raconteur (b. 1926)
April 17 - Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-born American sculptor (b. 1900)
April 23 - Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1904)
April 26 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
May 3 - Lev Semenovich Pontryagin, Russian mathematician (b. 1908)
May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (b. 1907)
May 10 - Shen Congwen, Chinese writer (b. 1902)
May 11 - Kim Philby, British spy (b. 1912)
May 12 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1929)
May 16 - Charles Keeping, British illustrator (b. 1924)
May 18 - Daws Butler, voice actor (b. 1916)
May 21 - Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (b. 1900)
May 25 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
June 25 - Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)

July to September

July 8 - Ray Barbuti, American athlete (b. 1905)
July 18 - Nico, singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress, Warhol socialite (b. 1938)
July 27 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (b. 1901)
August 9 - Ramon Valdez, Mexican actor (b. 1923)
August 11 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)
August 14 - Enzo Ferrari, Italian car maker (b. 1898)
August 12 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, religious Guru from India (b. 1895)
August 17 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
August 17 - Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, leader of Pakistan (b. 1924)
August 27 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (b. 1907)
September 1 - Luis Alvarez, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
September 5 - Gert Fröbe, German actor (b. 1913)
September 12 - Roger Hargreaves, author of the Mr. Men series (b.1935)
September 21 - Glenn Robert Davis, member of United States Congress (b. 1914)
September 28 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)

October to December

October 1 - Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
October 15 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (b. 1892)
October 19 - Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
October 22 - Henry Armstrong, American boxer (b. 1912)
October 31 - John Houseman, Romanian-born actor and producer (b. 1902)
November 9 - John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General and convicted Watergate criminal (b. 1913)
November 13 - Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (b. 1906)
November 19 - Christina Onassis, American shipping magnate (b. 1950)
December 2 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922)
December 6 - Roy Orbison, American singer (b. 1936)
December 21 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1907)

Nobel Prizes

Templeton Prize

Dr. Inamullah Khan

Right Livelihood Award

International Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims / Dr. Inge Kemp Genefke
José Lutzenberger
John F. Charlewood Turner
Sahabat Alam Malaysia / Mohamed Idris, Harrison Ngau, the Penan people.

Fictional references

The 2001 movie Donnie Darko is set in October 1988.

External links

1988 Coin Pictures

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