Margaret Thatcher holds her controversial Sermon on the Mound before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Margaret Thatcher’s “Sermon on the Mound” was…
Tag: 1988
1 December 1988
World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states. World AIDS Day is observed annually on December 1st and serves as a global…
12 February 1988
The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial…
2 November 1988
The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
7 April 1988
Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
13 December 1988
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…
1 December 1988
World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_AIDS_Day’]