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Born on Friday January 1, 1988
- Lysanne Gaarenstroom († 1988)
- Nele Van den Maegdenbergh, Brasschaat († 1999)
Died on Friday January 1, 1988
- Aaltje van Gelder (89)
- Antoinette Maria Gijzel de, unbekannt
- Albert van Dijken (65), Wageningen
- Adriana de Kort (96), Dongen
- Albert Dijken van (65), Wageningen
- Elizabeth Tjalsma (90), Bolsward
- Albert Verstraaten (70), Leiden
- Alida Tamis (82), Vaassen, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
- Adrianus Markus Kijkuit (82), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Catharina Huberta Maria Hermans (74)
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from January 1, 1988 at Delpher
Born on January 1
- 1985 » Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
- 1985 » Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player
- 1986 » Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
- 1986 » Ramses Barden, American football player
- 1987 » Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
- 1987 » Patric Hörnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 » Marcel Gecov, Czech footballer
- 1989 » Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player
- 1990 » Julia Glushko, Israeli tennis player
- 1991 » Darius Slay, American football player
Died on January 1
- 1980 » Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1891)
- 1981 » Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Australian pianist (b. 1920)
- 1982 » Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
- 1984 » Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
- 1992 » Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (b. 1906)
- 1994 » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
- 1994 » Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1994 » Edward Arthur Thompson, Irish historian and academic (b. 1914)
- 1995 » Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1996 » Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
Names that were popular for boys in 1988
- Thomas
- Jeroen
- Jan
- Michael
- Kevin
- Robert
- Mark
- Johannes
- Tim
- Frank
- Patrick
- Dennis
- Bart
- Daniel
- Nick
- Pieter
Names that were popular for girls in 1988
- Maria
- Jessica
- Linda
- Laura
- Anne
- Sarah
- Johanna
- Sandra
- Sanne
- Samantha
- Anna
- Kim
- Stephanie
- Nicole
- Esther
- Chantal
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1988
- 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.
- February 12 » Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USSYorktown(CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage.
- June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
- November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
- December 9 » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
- December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.
- December 21 » The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.
Weather January 1, 1988
The temperature on January 1, 1988 was between 6.7 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain during 6.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.