1988

1988 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1988 ; MCMLXXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2741
Armenian calendar	1437 ; ?? ????
Assyrian calendar	6738
Baha'i calendar	144?145
Balinese saka calendar	1909?1910
Bengali calendar	1395
Berber calendar	2938
British Regnal year	36 Eliz. 2 ? 37 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2532
Burmese calendar	1350
Byzantine calendar	7496?7497
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit ) ; 4684 or 4624 ; ? to ? ; 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon ) ; 4685 or 4625
Coptic calendar	1704?1705
Discordian calendar	3154
Ethiopian calendar	1980?1981
Hebrew calendar	5748?5749
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2044?2045
- Shaka Samvat	1909?1910
- Kali Yuga	5088?5089
Holocene calendar	11988
Igbo calendar	988?989
Iranian calendar	1366?1367
Islamic calendar	1408?1409
Japanese calendar	Sh?wa 63 ; (昭和６３年)
Javanese calendar	1920?1921
Juche calendar	77
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4321
Minguo calendar	ROC 77 ; 民國77年
Nanakshahi calendar	520
Thai solar calendar	2531
Tibetan calendar	?火?年 ; (female Fire- Rabbit ) ; 2114 or 1733 or 961 ; ? to ? ; ?土?年 ; (male Earth- Dragon ) ; 2115 or 1734 or 962
Unix time	567993600 ? 599615999

Millennium :	2nd millennium
Centuries :	19th century ? 20th century ? 21st century
Decades :	1950s 1960s 1970s ? 1980s ? 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years :	1985 1986 1987 ? 1988 ? 1989 1990 1991

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.

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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 km ²) of Yellowstone burns before firefighters gain control in late September.
July 1 ? Quartetto Cetra 's last concert
August 20 – The Iran?Iraq War ends
September 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 Texas
November 24 ? Mystery Science Theater 3000 premieres
December 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 people
Ankst music label founded
Peter 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.