About the day » Monday December 5, 1988Calender converter

• Larissa de Witte

• Antje Pinkster (60), Blijham, Wedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Alida Ma.Jacoba Goemans (85), Overveen(Hlm)
• Abigail Jacoba van Mastrigt (81), 's-Gravenzande
• Alma May Wake (62), Melbourne, VIC, Australia
• Akke Kingma (73), -
• Annie Henstra (48), Harkema Opeinde
• Antje Maria Johanna Molenaars (86), Heiloo
• Aubrey Leland Sullivan (77), San Diego, California, United States
• Antonius Gerhardus Verhoeven (61), Wolseley Zuid Afrika
• Ann Mecca (73), Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten

• 1985 » Frankie Muniz, American actor, drummer, and race car driver
• 1985 » Nico Verdonck, Belgian race car driver
• 1985 » Shikhar Dhawan, Indian cricketer
• 1986 » James Hinchcliffe, Canadian race car driver
• 1986 » Justin Smoak, American baseball player
• 1986 » LeGarrette Blount, American football player
• 1987 » Tommy Fraser, English footballer
• 1988 » Joanna Rowsell, English cyclist
• 1989 » Jurrell Casey, American football player
• 1990 » Montee Ball, American football player

• 1983 » Robert Aldrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician (b. 1894)
• 1986 » Edward Youde, Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
• 1989 » John Pritchard, English conductor and director (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Harry Horner, Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (b. 1910)
• 1995 » Charles Evans, English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (b. 1918)
• 1995 » Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (b. 1922)
• 1995 » Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1995 » L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (b. 1918)

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 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• May 24 » Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
• June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
• June 1 » The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
• August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.

The temperature on December 5, 1988 was between 3.9 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.