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1988 (MCMLXXXVIII )was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium , the 88th year of the 20th century , and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
Yellowstone fires of 1988 near Old Faithful February 13 – Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California . He calls his new home "Neverland".March 12 – Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of $5 million, which was raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.April 19 – Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono becomes the mayor of Palm Springs, California .May 1 – Citing the 1st Amendment, a judge drops all charges filed against singer Billy Joel . Joel was being sued by Jack Powers for defamation following an interview with Playboy in which he called Powers a "creep".June 14 – A small wildfire starts in Montana near Yellowstone National Park . It joins other fires. Eventually, over 750,000 acres (3,000 km2 ) of Yellowstone burns before firefighters gain control in late September.July 1 – Quartetto Cetra's last concertAugust 20 – The Iran–Iraq War endsSeptember 16 – rapper Eazy-E releases his first album Eazy-Duz-It November 1 – Bad Religion releases Suffer Hurricane Gilbert strikes the Caribbean, Mexico and south TexasNovember 24 – Mystery Science Theater 3000 premieresDecember 7 – A powerful earthquake kills nearly 25,000 people in Soviet Armenia December 21 – A Pan-Am airplane explodes over Lockerbie , Scotland , killing more than 270 peopleAnkst music label foundedPeter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra "I Heard It Through the Grapevine " experiences a surge in popularity sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at No. 84 on Billboard's Hot 100. Adele in 2016Virat Kohli in 2017January 12 – Chris Casement, Northern Irish footballerFebruary 20 – Rihanna , Barbadian singerFebruary 29 – Lena Gercke , German modelMarch 27 – Brenda Song , American actress and singerApril 27 – Lizzo , American musicianApril 29 – Jonathan Toews , Canadian Professional ice hockey player for the Chicago Blackhawks May 5 – Adele , British singer-songwriterJune 6 – Ajinkya Rahane , Indian cricketerJune 7 – Michael Cera , Canadian actorJuly 14 – Conor McGregor , Irish boxerJuly 16 – Sergio Busquets , Spanish footballerAugust 10 – Kateryna Pavlenko , Ukrainian singer, composer and folkloristAugust 25 – Alexandra Burke , British singerOctober 15 – Mesut Özil , German footballer November 5 – Virat Kohli , Indian cricketerNovember 6 – Emma Stone , American actressNovember 8 - Chris McNally , Canadian actorNovember 19 – Patrick Kane , American professional ice hockey for the Chicago Blackhawks November 25 – Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (d. 2010 )December 14 – Vanessa Hudgens , American actressChiang Ching-kuo Georgy Malenkov January 3 – Rose Auslander, German poet (b. 1901 )January 3 – Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1905 )January 5 – Pete Maravich , basketball player (b. 1947 )January 7 – Trevor Howard , English actor (b. 1913 )January 11 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist (b. 1898 )January 13 – Chiang Ching-kuo , 3rd President of the Republic of China (b. 1910 )January 14 – Georgy Malenkov , 5th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1902 )January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904 )January 16 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904 )Richard Feynman Kurt Georg Kiesinger Andy Gibb William McMahon Alan Paton Robert A. Heinlein Giuseppe Saragat Judith Barsi Enzo Ferrari Lazarus Salii Jack Marshall Luis Walter Alvarez Franz Josef Strauß Takeo Miki Roy Orbison
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