About the day » Saturday July 30, 1988Calender converter

• Stephen Ronald VANWALLEGHEM († 1988)
• Kay Rooijackers († 1988)
• Raoul van Rooten († 2008)

• Antonius Leonardus Sacharias (71), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Kaslander (67), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina van Bakel (93), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alcee Sonnier (86), Scott, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States of America
• Bernard Hendrik Huinink (46), Burlington
• Antonie Hendrik Bokhove (95), Tilburg
• Aagje Rijnders (80), Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
• "Suzanne" Antoinette Ghislaine Marie Josèphe de Lannoy (63), Bruxelles
• Albertus Martinus de Boer (83), Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands
• Aafke Jannita Bos (0), Espel (gem. Noordoostpolder)

• 1985 » Chris Guccione, Australian tennis player
• 1985 » Daniel Fredheim Holm, Norwegian footballer
• 1986 » Tiago Alencar, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 » William Zillman, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Anton Fink, German footballer
• 1987 » Sam Saunders, American golfer
• 1988 » Wen Chean Lim, Malaysian rhythmic gymnast
• 1989 » Aleix Espargaró, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1989 » Wayne Parnell, South African cricketer
• 1990 » Chris Maxwell, Welsh footballer

• 1983 » Howard Dietz, American songwriter and publicist (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Lynn Fontanne, English actress (b. 1887)
• 1985 » Julia Robinson, American mathematician and theorist (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Lane Frost, American professional bull rider (b. 1963)
• 1990 » Ian Gow, British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA (b. 1937)
• 1992 » Brenda Marshall, Filipino-American actress and singer (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (b. 1914)
• 1996 » Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (b. 1903)
• 1997 » Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (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.
• August 31 » Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
• September 8 » Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
• October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
• October 12 » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
• November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
• 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.

The temperature on July 30, 1988 was between 12.1 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.