About the day » Wednesday October 19, 1988Calender converter

• Erwin Haring

• Alphonsus Daniël Marie Vestergaard (79), Beekbergen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barbara GEROLD (89), Ebersberg, Bavaria, Duitsland
• Andrea Martina de Kort (74), Aruba
• Bep Paulissen (83), 's-Hertogenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberta de Wit, Zwolle
• Charles Robert Haas (66), Oregon, Lucas Co., OH
• Cornelis Blok (88), Roosendaal
• Adriana Maria Josepha de Jongh (73), Tilburg
• Anna Adriana Maria Godefrooij (77), Utrecht
• Bernard Berghoff (88), Tishrei Zandvoort

• 1987 » Sam Groth, Australian tennis player
• 1987 » Tsunenori Aoki, Japanese actor
• 1988 » Chris Lawrence, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Markiyan Kamysh, Ukrainian writer
• 1988 » Zeph Ellis, English rapper and producer
• 1989 » James Gavet, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Janine Tugonon, Filipino model and television host
• 1989 » Miroslav Stoch, Slovakian footballer
• 1989 » Rakuto Tochihara, Japanese actor
• 1990 » Tom Kilbey, English footballer

• 1983 » Maurice Bishop, Aruban-Grenadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
• 1984 » Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish priest and activist (b. 1947)
• 1985 » Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
• 1986 » Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, co-founded Newswatch Magazine (b. 1947)
• 1986 » Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1987 » Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist and educator (b. 1945)
• 1988 » Son House, American singer and guitarist (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Magnus Pyke, English scientist and television host (b. 1908)
• 1994 » Martha Raye, American actress and comedian (b. 1916)

• 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 » 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 17 » A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
• March 25 » The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• April 28 » Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• May 29 » The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
• July 8 » The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.

The temperature on October 19, 1988 was between 10.2 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.