Editing 1988

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==Events==
*February 17 - Colonel William R. Higgins, the leader of a U.S. Army observation unit in Lebanon, is [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]] by [[Hezbollah]].
*March 6 - [[Gibraltar Three|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 (Ulster loyalist)|Michael Stone]] attacks the funeral of the Gibraltar Three, killing three mourners.
*March 19 - Two British army corporals, Derek Wood and David Howes, are [[Lynching|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 - [[Institutional Revolutionary Party|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]] [[murder]]s 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 18 - The [[Hamas]] Charter is signed and issued.
*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 [[Lockerbie bombing|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==
===Villains births===
*January 23 - [[Ahmed Khan Rahimi]]
*February 8 - [[Sayfullo Saipov]]
*March 1 - [[Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs|Viktor Sayenko]]
*March 3 - [[Josh Duggar]]
*March 12 - [[Pavlo Lapshyn]]
*March 13 - [[Joel Guy Jr|Joel Guy Jr.]]
*April 4 - [[Jakrapanth Thomma]]
*April 20 - [[Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs|Igor Suprunyuk]]
*April 29 - [[Sebastian Bosse]]
*May 17 - [[Robert Hawkins]]
*June 4 - [[Panya Kamrab]]
*July 7 - [[Marcos Wilton]]
*July 20 - [[Phillip Adams]]
*August 2 - [[Abdulkadir Masharipov]]
*August 8 - [[Jeff Weise]]
*August 9 - [[Amber Guyger]]
*August 17 - [[Jihadi John]]
*August 27 - [[Lázaro Barbosa de Sousa]]
*September 10 - [[Jared Lee Loughner]]
*October 10 - [[Mohammed Merah]]
*October 30 - [[Scott Dyleski]]
*November 1 - [[Matthew Falder]]
*Unknown - [[Jake Angeli]]

=== Victim births ===
* 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==
===Villain deaths===
*February 8 - [[Hans Krueger]]
*March 6 - [[Gibraltar Three|Seán Savage, Daniel McCann & Mairéad Farrell]]
*March 18 - [[Karl-Maria Demelhuber]]
*April 25 - [[Valerie Solanas]]
*May 11 - [[Kim Philby]]
*May 20 - [[Laurie Dann]]
*June 10 - [[Arthur Gary Bishop]]
*June 25 - [[Mildred Gillars]]
*July 27 - [[József Barsi]]
*August 17 - [[Muhammad Zia-ul Haq]]
*August 29 - [[Algirdas_Klimaitis(1910)|Algirdas Klimaitis]]
*October 3 - [[Clarence Carnes]]
*October 15 - [[James Pratt Craig]]
*November 9 - [[John N. Mitchell]]
*Unknown - [[Vytautas Reivytis]]

===Victim deaths===
*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