National & International Segments (Fall 1988: II)
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December 2nd, 1988: Benazir Bhutto sworn into office as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan.
STS-27 is launched into space by NASA.
December 6th, 1988: President Bush names Thomas Pickering as the new US Ambassador to the United Nations.
December 7th, 1988: Soviet President Mikhali Gorbachev makes an official visit to the United States meeting with US President George HW Bush at the Governors Island Summit.
December 8th, 1988: The British government announcing the closure of North East Shipbuilders, which resulted in a loss of 2,400 jobs.
US Supreme Court Associate Justice William Brennan, Jr., was hospitalized with pneumonia at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD.
December 9th, 1988: Final Dodge Aries & Plymouth Reliant rolls off the assembly line in Chrysler factories.
December 10th, 1988: Artic II capsized by large wave of water & sank about 55 miles north of Unimark Pass in AK; All five crewmembers boarded a lifeboat, but captain Stan Micnka & crewman Gary Hieney were both swept off the raft & lost. Three remaining survivors were rescued by fishing vessel American Beauty.
December 11th, 1988: Explosion at an illegal fireworks shop at La Merced Market in Mexico City, Mexico caused multiple explosions & fires killing over 60+ people.
December 16th, 1988: US President George HW Bush announced he was nominating US Rep. Dick Cheney (R-WY) as US Secretary of Defense pending Senate confirmation.
STS-27 is launched into space by NASA.
December 6th, 1988: President Bush names Thomas Pickering as the new US Ambassador to the United Nations.
December 7th, 1988: Soviet President Mikhali Gorbachev makes an official visit to the United States meeting with US President George HW Bush at the Governors Island Summit.
December 8th, 1988: The British government announcing the closure of North East Shipbuilders, which resulted in a loss of 2,400 jobs.
US Supreme Court Associate Justice William Brennan, Jr., was hospitalized with pneumonia at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, MD.
December 9th, 1988: Final Dodge Aries & Plymouth Reliant rolls off the assembly line in Chrysler factories.
December 10th, 1988: Artic II capsized by large wave of water & sank about 55 miles north of Unimark Pass in AK; All five crewmembers boarded a lifeboat, but captain Stan Micnka & crewman Gary Hieney were both swept off the raft & lost. Three remaining survivors were rescued by fishing vessel American Beauty.
December 11th, 1988: Explosion at an illegal fireworks shop at La Merced Market in Mexico City, Mexico caused multiple explosions & fires killing over 60+ people.
December 16th, 1988: US President George HW Bush announced he was nominating US Rep. Dick Cheney (R-WY) as US Secretary of Defense pending Senate confirmation.
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