About the day » Wednesday March 9, 1988Calender converter

• Jessus Burowise Ebanks, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands († 2021)

• Alphonse Theodoor Ernest Spijker (87), Haarlem
• Catharina Wilhelmina Bakker (73), Mijdrecht
• Albert Daniel Verstraete (72), Langemark,8920,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Christina Draayer (71), Dokkum
• Anna Maria Duivenvoorde (72), Noordwijk-Zuid-Holland-Nederland
• Archie Everett Abbott (98), Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon, United States of America
• Bastiaan Star (83), Noordwijk aan Zee
• Antje Strijker (82)
• Bastiaan Star (83), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Wilhelmina Bakker (73), Mijdrecht, Nederland

• 1985 » Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
• 1985 » Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer
• 1985 » Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan race car driver
• 1986 » Brittany Snow, American actress and producer
• 1986 » Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Taeyeon, South Korean artist, member of Girls' Generation
• 1990 » Daley Blind, Dutch footballer
• 1990 » Matt Robinson, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » YG (rapper), American rapper

• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 » Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1993 » C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
• 1994 » Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (b. 1928)
• 1994 » Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)

• 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.
• March 16 » Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• May 14 » Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
• June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
• August 20 » "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
• December 1 » World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.

The temperature on March 9, 1988 was between -1.9 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.