1st » Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
2nd » Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
6th » The history of the Australian Capital Territory e.g Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
7th » 1988 Spitak earthquake named Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter magnitude scale known as Richter scale kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000.
7th » Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
8th » A United States Air Force Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II called A-10 Thunderbolt II 1988 Remscheid A-10 crash e.g crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
9th » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.
12th » The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
13th » Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a United Nations General Assembly UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a Visa (document) vis
14th » The ET3 (Greece) called ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece.
20th » The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna, Austria.
21st » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
22nd » Chico Mendes, a Brazilian Rubber tapping rubber tapper, Trade union unionist and Environmentalism environmental activist, is assassination assassinated.
31st » First Winter Ascent of Lhotse (8,516m) by Krzysztof Wielicki (solo).