About the day » Friday August 12, 1988Calender converter

• Annick Calaerts, Herentals, 2200, Antwerpen, België
• Hendrik Fokke Bronsema († 1988)
• Maraka Joan Bouwens, Vacaville, California, Verenigde Staten

• Burchard de Prusse (71)
• Burchard Friedrich of Germany (71), Hof bei Salzburg
• Albert Vandewaeter (67), Roeselare
• Angela Wessels (79), Heerde
• Aleida Smid (59), Beilen (gem. Midden-Drenthe)
• Allegonda Petronella van de Goor (85), Oss
• Aartje Kleijer (78), Harderwijk
• Alphonse Coghe (72), Roeselare
• Antonia Jannetje van Plateringen (62), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Carolyn Jeannette Folsom (68)

• 1986 » Andrei Agius, Maltese footballer
• 1986 » Kyle Arrington, American football player
• 1987 » Vanessa Watts, West Indian cricketer
• 1988 » Matt Gillett, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Tyson Fury, English boxer
• 1989 » Hong Jeong-ho, South Korean footballer
• 1989 » Sunye, South Korean singer
• 1989 » Tom Cleverley, English footballer
• 1990 » Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Marvin Zeegelaar, Dutch footballer

• 1982 » Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (b. 1892)
• 1984 » Ladi Kwali, Nigerian potter (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1985 » Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
• 1986 » Evaline Ness, American author and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Jean-Michel Basquiat, American painter (b. 1960)
• 1989 » William Shockley, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1990 » Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress (b. 1903)
• 1992 » John Cage, American composer and theorist (b. 1912)

• 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.
• May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• May 15 » Soviet–Afghan War: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdraw 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
• August 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
• October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
• December 8 » A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
• December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

The temperature on August 12, 1988 was between 14.7 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.