About the day » Thursday August 18, 1988Calender converter

• Aaron Anthony Ferkranus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada († 2015)
• Jeroen van Vulpen († 2012)

• Anna Naria Griep (83)
• Arent Hazenoot (82)
• Arend Eerhart (83)
• Berend Kamps (70), Groningen, Innersdijk
• Amalia Mollie Koppelman (93), Irvington, Essex, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Carel Jacob Visker (68), Nijmegen
• Bertha Verdoorn (93), Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa
• Adriana Maria Verheijen (77), Gilze en Rijen
• Aaltje Bijsterbosch (80), Sneek (FRL)
• ArenD Hazenoot (82), Noordwijk

• 1984 » Robert Huth, German footballer
• 1984 » Sigourney Bandjar, Dutch footballer
• 1985 » Bryan Ruiz, Costa Rican footballer
• 1985 » Inge Dekker, Dutch swimmer
• 1986 » Evan Gattis, American baseball player
• 1986 » Ross McCormack, Scottish footballer
• 1987 » Joanna Jędrzejczyk, Polish mixed martial artist
• 1988 » Eggert Jónsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1988 » G-Dragon, South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer
• 1988 » Jack Hobbs, English footballer

• 1979 » Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1990 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (b. 1948)
• 2001 » David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931)
• 2002 » Dean Riesner, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 2003 » Tony Jackson, English singer and bassist (b. 1938)
• 2004 » Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1922)

1. Thomas
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Michael
5. Kevin
6. Robert
7. Mark
8. Johannes
9. Tim
10. Frank
11. Patrick
12. Dennis
13. Bart
14. Daniel
15. Nick
16. Pieter

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Sarah
6. Anne
7. Johanna
8. Sandra
9. Samantha
10. Sanne
11. Kim
12. Anna
13. Stephanie
14. Nicole
15. Esther
16. Chantal

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
• March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• April 14 » The USSSamuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
• May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• May 14 » Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
• June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
• August 10 » Japanese American internment: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $20,000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

The temperature on August 18, 1988 was between 10.6 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 20.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.