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March 30, 1988Born on Thursday March 31, 1988
- Anne Sietzes Pen († 1988)
- Henriët Evelijn Janien Voigt, Meppel, Drenthe, The Netherlands
- Elisabeth Margaretha Clemens, Eindhoven
Died on Thursday March 31, 1988
- Adriana Kornelia Spelt, van der (95), Rotterdam
- Adriana Johanna van der Ven (77), Tilburg
- Camille Gustave Lycke (95), A.Z. Sint Lucas, Sint Lucaslaan 29, Brugge-Assebroek
- Adriaan de Jager (53), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Cornelia Helena Toemen (83), Geldrop
- Albert Duijn (81), Enschede, Nederland
- Anna Blanca Vanraes (77), Westrozebeke
- Astrid, Madeleine BALDUCK (51), Noordschote,8647,West-Vlaanderen,Wvl, België
- Andre Straver (60), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Cornelia Maria van Dongen (75), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from March 31, 1988 at Delpher
Born on March 31
- 1987 » Amaury Bischoff, Portuguese footballer
- 1987 » Hugo Ayala, Mexican footballer
- 1987 » Humpy Koneru, Indian chess player
- 1987 » Kirill Starkov, Danish ice hockey player
- 1987 » Nordin Amrabat, Dutch footballer
- 1988 » Conrad Sewell, Australian singer and songwriter
- 1988 » DeAndre Liggins, American basketball player
- 1988 » Dorin Dickerson, American football player
- 1988 » Louis van der Westhuizen, Namibian cricketer
- 1988 » Thomas De Corte, Belgian footballer
Died on March 31
- 1980 » Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (b. 1913)
- 1980 » Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (b. 1905)
- 1981 » Enid Bagnold, English author and playwright (b. 1889)
- 1983 » Christina Stead, Australian author and academic (b. 1902)
- 1986 » Jerry Paris, American actor and director (b. 1925)
- 1988 » William McMahon, Australian lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
- 1993 » Brandon Lee, American actor and martial artist (b. 1965)
- 1993 » Mitchell Parish, Lithuanian-American songwriter (b. 1900)
- 1995 » Selena, American singer-songwriter (b. 1971)
- 1996 » Dante Giacosa, Italian automobile designer and engineer (b. 1905)
Names that were popular for boys in 1988
Names that were popular for girls in 1988
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1988
- 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.
- January 28 » In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.
- February 29 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
- August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
- September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
- November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
- December 21 » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur in British soil.
Weather March 31, 1988
The temperature on March 31, 1988 was between 3.9 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.