WHAT ALL HAPPENED SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 1988
Find out what all happened September to November 1988

The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands. (15. November 1988)

Birchandra Manu massacre in Tripura, India (12. October 1988)

Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia. (19. November 1988)

Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires. (8. September 1988)

In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan. (16. November 1988)

José Canseco of the Oakland Athletics becomes the first member of the 40–40 club. (23. September 1988)

Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure. (27. October 1988)

The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups. (19. October 1988)

In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight. (15. November 1988)

War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers. (18. November 1988)

Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down executional style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia. (12. October 1988)

The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT. (2. November 1988)

The St Jean Bosco massacre takes place in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (11. September 1988)

U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud. (4. October 1988)

Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours. (3. November 1988)

National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar. (27. September 1988)

An Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. (7. October 1988)

Jaffna University Helidrop: Commandos of Indian Peace Keeping Force raided the Jaffna University campus to capture the LTTE chief and walked into a trap. (12. October 1988)

Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure). (13. September 1988)

The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year. (5. October 1988)