About the day » Thursday October 6, 1988Calender converter

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

• Eduard Franciscus Boutens (86), Oostburg
• Cornelia Anna Paulus Plaatsman (94), Zeist, Nederland
• ALBERTUS VELLEKOOP (81), NAALDWIJK
• Arline Grace Gelderman (55), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Diena Susanna de Ruiter (101), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hendrika ROOSEN (76), Lommel Belgie
• Aaltje Venema (43), Vlaardingen
• Christiaan Johannes Boekestijn (98), Varsseveld, Wisch, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Cecilia O'Neill (69), Brockagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Frans (Franciscus) Verdult (53), Bergen op Zoom

• 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. Tim
10. Frank
11. Patrick
12. Dennis
13. Bart
14. Daniel
15. Nick
16. Pieter

1. Jessica
2. Maria
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Anne
6. Sarah
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.
• April 4 » Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
• April 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
• 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.
• June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• September 8 » Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
• November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.

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.