Real-Life Villains

1988

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Events edit

  • February 17 - Colonel William R. Higgins, the leader of a U.S. Army observation unit in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah.
  • March 6 - Three Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot to death by the SAS while attending to bomb British military personnel in Gibraltar.
  • March 16 - Milltown Cemetery massacre: Michael Stone attacks the funeral of the Gibraltar Three, killing three mourners.
  • March 19 - Two British army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, are lynched by Irish republicans after accidentally driving into the funeral of one of the Milltown massacre victims.
  • March 30 - Fidesz is founded.
  • May 20 - Laurie Dann shoots and kills one boy, Nick Corwin, and wounds two girls and three boys in a Winnetka, Illinois elementary school. She then takes a family hostage and shoots another man, non-fatally, before killing herself.
  • May 22 - János Kádár steps down as General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party.
  • July 6 - PRI nominee Carlos Salinas de Gortiari wins the Mexican presidential election, thanks to fraud by his party.
  • July 17 - Professional wrestler Frank "Bruiser Brody" Goodish is stabbed to death backstage during a wrestling show in San Juan, Puerto Rico by fellow wrestler José González.
  • July 25-27 - József Barsi murders his wife Maria Barsi and daughter, child actress Judith Barsi, at their home in Canoga Park, California before committing suicide.
  • August 1 - The Provisional IRA bombs Inglis Barracks, London, killing one soldier and injuring nine.
  • August 11 - Al-Qaeda is founded is by Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam.
  • August 20 - The Iran-Iraq War ends in a stalemate, with both Iran and Iraq claiming victory.
  • August 22 - Tsutomu Miyazaki kills his first victim Mari Konno.
  • September 18 - The State Peace and Development Council, under the leadership of General Saw Maung, seizes power in Burma.
  • September 23 - Mel Ignatow & Mary Ann Shore, kidnapped, raped and murdered Ignatow's former girlfriend Brenda Sue Schaefer.
  • December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew. Muammar Gaddafi claims responsibility for the attack.
  • December 22 - The Angolan Tripartite Accord is signed by Cuba, Angola, and South Africa, ending direct involvement of foreign troops in the Angolan Civil War. 
  • Unknown - The Janjaweed is founded.

Births edit

Villains births edit

Victim births edit

  • January 4 - Tonya Jarman
  • January 15 - Giulio Regeni
  • February 15 - Matthew David Barton
  • March 21 - Micheal Hughes
  • March 29 - Brianna Denison
  • April 3 - Yvette Velasco
  • April 24 - Austin Cloyd
  • April 27 - Brittney Fisher
  • May 10 - Adam Ward and Emma Hall
  • June 1 - Alexander "Alex" Teves
  • June 3 - Anastasia De Sousa
  • June 15 - Sierra Clayborn
  • July 15 - Bianca McGaughey
  • June 20 - Austin Davis
  • June 25 - Milly Dowler
  • August 7 - Asia Mcgowan
  • August 14 - Kayla Mueller
  • August 27 - Meagan Hockaday
  • September 8 - Hannah Clarke
  • October 2 - Derrick Robie
  • November 18 - Miranda Gaddis

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

Victim deaths edit

  • February 9 - Helen McCourt
  • April 1 - April Tinsley
  • March 16 - Thomas McErlean, John Murray & Kevin Brady
  • March 19 - Derek Wood & David Howes
  • May 20 - Nick Corwin
  • July 17 - Frank "Bruiser Brody" Goodish
  • July 25 - Maria & Judith Barsi
  • August 22 - Mari Konno
  • September 23 - Brenda Schaefer.
  • November 13 - Mulugeta Seraw
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