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Significant Events and Birthdays of 1988

This quiz tests your knowledge on significant events and notable birthdays from the year 1988, covering a range of topics from literature to military incidents.

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1 ________ – Michael Mancienne, English footballer

2 ________ – Louis L'Amour, American writer (b.

3 ________ – Milt Caniff, American cartoonist (b.

4 ________ – Joseph Groarke, British taekwondo expert

5 November 15 – The very first ________ label, Max Havelaar, is launched by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad in the Netherlands.

6 ________ – War on Drugs: U.S.

7 ________ – In Israel, Ivan Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

8 ________ – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b.

9 March 8 – Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in ________, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.

10 ________ – Rebecca Moore, Miss Alabama USA

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists, which had been limited by the Supreme Court's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling.
  • in 1988, North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
  • the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments have been standard regulation for medical laboratories in the United States since 1988.
  • the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24, 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade, constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893.
  • until 1988, a woman could apply for and receive an Australian Passport in her future married name, before she was actually married.
  • in 1988 the Greek passenger ferry, City of Poros, was the victim of a terrorist attack by members of the Abu Nidal Organisation which left nine tourists dead and 98 injured.
  • a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake.
  • Indian-born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988.
  • Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points.
  • Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998.
  • Sofia Petrovna, a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939-1940, and published in the West in 1960s, was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988.
  • 1988's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955.
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