About the day » Sunday February 21, 1988Calender converter

• Thierry Philippe JOURNET, Paris 14ème
• Martijn Wenmeckers, Sittard (L)
• James EALAM, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand († 1988)
• Rayke Nelis, Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Abraham DE JAGER (86), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aaltje Bakker (73), Wieringen
• Arie Dijken van (68), Schiedam
• Andries Andriesz Wink (63), Utrecht, ut.nld
• Bento Baptista (74), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• Antje de Bruin (95), Bennekom
• Adrie Knoop (72), Bilthoven, Utrecht, Nederland
• Constance Bernadina Plomp (78)
• Constance Bernardina Plomp (78), Utrecht
• Abraham de Jager (86), Hoogeveen,, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1985 » Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
• 1985 » Jamaal Westerman, American football player
• 1986 » Charlotte Church, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 » Ellen Page, Canadian actress
• 1989 » Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 » Devon Travis, American baseball player
• 1991 » Ji So-yun, South Korean footballer
• 1991 » Joe Alwyn, English actor
• 1991 » Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer

• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (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. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Anne
6. Sarah
7. Johanna
8. Sandra
9. Sanne
10. Samantha
11. Anna
12. Kim
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.
• March 13 » The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
• March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
• March 20 » Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
• August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
• August 31 » Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
• October 27 » Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.

The temperature on February 21, 1988 was between 4.2 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.