✦ History

Explore January 7, 1988 – January 8, 1988

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Magistral 1987-11-19 - 1988-01-10
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
Battle for Hill 3234 1988-01-07 - 1988-01-08

People

Ronald Reagan age 76
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 61
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 61
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 56
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Saddam Hussein age 50
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 48
President - Iran
Hirohito age 86
Emperor - Japan
Hosni Mubarak age 59
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 71
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 85
Supreme Leader - Iran
Erich Honecker age 75
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 57
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 67
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 57
King - Belgium
Zhao Ziyang age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo age 77
President - Republic of China
José Sarney age 57
President - Brazil
Li Xiannian age 78
President - People's Republic of China
Vo Chi Cong age 75
President - Vietnam
Vinicio Cerezo age 45
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 75
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Miguel de la Madrid age 53
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 68
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jacques Chirac age 55
Prime Minister - France
Deng Xiaoping age 83
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 57
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 43
Prime Minister - India
Isaac Shamir age 72
Prime Minister - Israel
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 67
President - International Olympic Committee
Jacques Delors age 62
President - European Commission
Noboru Takeshita age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 58
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Giovanni Goria age 44
Prime Minister - Italy
Kaysone Phomvihane age 67
Prime Minister - Laos
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 68
Secretary General - NATO
Charles Haughey age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pham Hung age 75
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Atef Sedki age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 64
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud Zuabi age 53
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 65
President - World Bank
Yu Kuo-hwa age 74
Premier - Republic of China
William Rehnquist age 63
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 63
Vice President - United States
Lee Teng-hui age 65
Vice President - Republic of China
William J. Crowe age 63
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
James Baker age 57
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
George Shultz age 67
Secretary Of State - United States
Nigel Lawson age 55
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Frank Carlucci age 57
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Douglas Hurd age 57
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edwin Meese age 56
Attorney General - United States
Carl E. Vuono age 53
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William S. Sessions age 57
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Antonin Scalia age 51
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 79
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 67
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 81
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 70
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 45
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 49
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 70
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 39
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 54
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 49
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 51
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 45
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 39
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 44
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 40
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 63
Senate - United States
Dick Cheney age 46
House of Representatives - United States
John Lewis age 47
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 67
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 60
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 63
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 50
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 72
President - Chile
Suharto age 66
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 69
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 47
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 54
President - Philippines
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 41
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 49
Queen - Netherlands
Daniel Ortega age 42
President - Nicaragua
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 47
Sultan - Oman
Kurt Waldheim age 69
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 57
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yoweri Museveni age 43
President - Uganda
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 51
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 59
President - Italy
José Eduardo dos Santos age 45
President - Angola
Mswati III age 19
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 54
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 52
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 45
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 98
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 57
President - Iceland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 46
President - Costa Rica
Hassan II age 58
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 63
President - Zambia
Alan García age 38
President - Peru
Kenan Evren age 70
President - Turkey
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 63
President - Pakistan
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 50
President - Ethiopia
Olav V of Norway age 84
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 75
President - Paraguay
Mauno Koivisto age 64
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 36
President - Burkina Faso
Raúl Alfonsín age 60
President - Argentina
Chun Doo-hwan age 57
President - South Korea
Mohammad Najibullah age 40
President - Afghanistan
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 82
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 63
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 64
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 63
President - Portugal
Mathieu Kérékou age 54
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 32
King - Bhutan
R. Venkataraman age 77
President - India
Siad Barre age 68
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 48
President - Mozambique
Juvénal Habyarimana age 50
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 69
President - United Arab Emirates
P. W. Botha age 72
State President - South Africa
Jerry Rawlings age 40
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 48
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 69
President - Israel
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 50
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 52
President - Togo
Lansana Conté age 53
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 52
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 45
President - Chad
Samuel Doe age 36
President - Liberia
Quett Masire age 62
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 67
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 71
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 58
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 64
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 51
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 46
President - Nigeria
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 63
President - The Gambia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 61
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 62
President - Tanzania
Souphanouvong age 78
President - Laos
Julio María Sanguinetti age 52
President - Uruguay
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 80
President - Bolivia
Didier Ratsiraka age 51
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 69
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 81
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 52
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 50
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 57
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 38
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 64
President - Ireland
Amine Gemayel age 45
President - Lebanon
Junius Richard Jayewardene age 81
President - Sri Lanka
Isa II of Bahrain age 54
Emir - Bahrain
León Febres-Cordero age 56
President - Ecuador
Wee Kim Wee age 72
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 66
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 58
President - Greece
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 55
Emir - Qatar
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 46
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 51
President - Central African Republic
Ahmed Abdallah age 68
President - Comoros
Jaime Lusinchi age 63
President - Venezuela
Spiros Cyprianou age 55
President - Cyprus
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 49
King - Lesotho
Raif Dizdarević age 61
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
José Napoleón Duarte age 62
President - El Salvador
Hammer DeRoburt age 65
President - Nauru
Ali Saibou age 47
President - Niger
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 50
President - Sierra Leone
Ahmed al-Mirghani age 46
President - Sudan
Desmond Hoyte age 58
President - Guyana
Henri Namphy age 55
President - Haiti
José Azcona del Hoyo age 60
President - Honduras
Paul Xuereb age 64
President - Malta
Kazimierz Sabbat age 74
President - Poland
John Haglelgam age 38
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Otto Stich age 61
President - Switzerland
Fred Ramdat Misier age 61
President - Suriname
Eric Arturo Delvalle age 50
President - Panama
Penaia Ganilau age 69
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 78
President - Laos
Ieremia Tabai age 38
President - Kiribati
San Yu age 69
President - Myanmar
Noor Hassanali age 69
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Lazarus Salii age 51
President - Palau
Ati George Sokomanu age 52
President - Vanuatu
Sebastiano Baggio age 74
President - Vatican City
Gianfranco Terenzi age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Janez Stanovnik age 65
President - Slovenia
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 66
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 62
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Lee Kuan Yew age 64
Prime Minister - Singapore
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 48
Prime Minister - Norway