February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
Day of death September 28, 1988
The temperature on September 28, 1988 was between 11.3 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
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.
June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
November 16 » The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
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