About the day » Thursday October 6, 1988Calender converter

• Martijn van Delden
• Mollie Marie Lueken, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa († 1988)

• Elizabeth (75)
• Dirk (3) Goldschmedimg (69), Tolo, Griekenland
• Ethel Lucille GARGUS (74), Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky
• Cornelis Groen (53), Scheveningen
• Cornelis Hogervorst (91), Venray
• Bernardina Catharina Stokman (67)
• Anna Catharina van der Horst (94), Amsterdam
• Cecilia O'Neill (69), Brockagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Adrianus Cornelius Jacobus Pistorius (62), Tilburg
• ALBERTUS VELLEKOOP (81), NAALDWIJK

• 1985 » Mitchell Cole, English footballer († 2012)
• 1986 » Meg Myers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 » Olivia Thirlby, American actress
• 1987 » Akuila Uate, Fijian-Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Joe Lewis, English footballer
• 1988 » Trey Edward Shults, American film director
• 1989 » Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer († 2014)
• 1989 » Pizzi, Portuguese footballer
• 1989 » Tyler Ennis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Han Sun-hwa, South Korean singer and actress

• 1983 » Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Bahriye Üçok, Turkish sociologist and politician (b. 1919)
• 1991 » Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1992 » Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Larry Walters, American truck driver and pilot (b. 1949)
• 1993 » Nejat Eczacıbaşı, Turkish chemist, businessman, and philanthropist, founded Eczacıbaşı (b. 1913)

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

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

• 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 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
• May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
• July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
• August 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
• November 18 » War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
• December 1 » World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.

The temperature on October 6, 1988 was between 9.2 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain during 8.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.