WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1988
Find out what all happened October to December 1988

Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council. (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)

First Winter Ascent of Lhotse (8,516m) by Krzysztof Wielicki (solo). (31. December 1988)

Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan. (1. December 1988)

The ET3 television network is launched in Thessaloniki, Greece. (14. December 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)

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)

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

Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated. (22. December 1988)

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. (12. December 1988)

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

Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist. (7. December 1988)

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

Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux becomes the only National Hockey League player to score goals in five different ways: even strength, shorthanded, power play, penalty shot, and empty net, during a 8–6 win over the New Jersey Devils. (31. December 1988)

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

Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride. (13. November 1988)

The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government. (6. December 1988)

Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000. (7. December 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)

Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state. (2. December 1988)