January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
Day of death November 9, 1988
The temperature on November 9, 1988 was between 5.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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.
March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
March 16 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
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.
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.
June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
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