January 17 – The
Jumalan teatteri ("The theatre of God") theatre students' group cause a huge scandal at the
Oulu City Theatre in
Oulu,
Finland by throwing excrement, eggs and yoghurt on the audience during their two-minute performance.[4]
February 6 – The Soviet oil tanker
Antonio Gramsci suffers a minor shipwreck in
Finnish waters en route to the
Neste oil refinery in
Porvoo, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 570–650 tons.[5]
The World Wrestling Federation (later WWE) produces
WrestleMania III from the
Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The event is particularly notable for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America until February 14, 2010, when the
2010 NBA All-Star Game has an attendance of 108,713 at
AT&T Stadium.
In one of the densest concentrations of humanity in history, a crowd of 800,000+ packed shoulder-to-shoulder onto the
Golden Gate Bridge and its approaches for its 50th Anniversary celebration.
May 28 – Eighteen-year-old West German pilot
Mathias Rust evades
Soviet air defenses and lands a private plane on
Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained (released on August 3, 1988).
Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.
Iraqi warplanes drop mustard-gas bombs on the Iranian town of
Sardasht in two separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas. This is the first time a civilian town has been targeted by chemical weapons.
June 29 – South Korean politician, presidential candidate of the ruling party
Roh Tae-woo makes a speech promising a wide program of nationwide reforms, the result of the
June Democracy Movement.
June 30 – Canada introduces a one-dollar coin, nicknamed the "
Loonie".
An
F4-rated tornado devastates eastern
Edmonton,
Alberta; hardest hit are an industrial park and a trailer park. 27 people are killed and hundreds injured, with hundreds more left homeless and jobless.
The followers of the
Harmonic Convergence claim it is observed around the world.
August 17 –
Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in
Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon demolished.
August 31 –
Michael Jackson releases Bad, his first studio album since Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. The album would produce five number one singles in the US, a record which has not been broken.
September 13 –
Goiânia accident: Metal scrappers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in
Goiânia, Brazil, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an urban area.
December 20 – In history's worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry
MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
December 23 –
Nikki Sixx,
Mötley Crüe's bassist overdoses on heroin and is declared clinically dead for two minutes before a paramedic revives him with two syringes full of adrenaline.[18]
^Waddington, Raymond B. (1993). "Elizabeth I and the Order of the Garter". Sixteenth Century Journal. 24 (1). The Sixteenth Century Journal: 97–113.
doi:
10.2307/2541800.
JSTOR2541800.
S2CID165893968.
January 17 – The
Jumalan teatteri ("The theatre of God") theatre students' group cause a huge scandal at the
Oulu City Theatre in
Oulu,
Finland by throwing excrement, eggs and yoghurt on the audience during their two-minute performance.[4]
February 6 – The Soviet oil tanker
Antonio Gramsci suffers a minor shipwreck in
Finnish waters en route to the
Neste oil refinery in
Porvoo, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 570–650 tons.[5]
The World Wrestling Federation (later WWE) produces
WrestleMania III from the
Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The event is particularly notable for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America until February 14, 2010, when the
2010 NBA All-Star Game has an attendance of 108,713 at
AT&T Stadium.
In one of the densest concentrations of humanity in history, a crowd of 800,000+ packed shoulder-to-shoulder onto the
Golden Gate Bridge and its approaches for its 50th Anniversary celebration.
May 28 – Eighteen-year-old West German pilot
Mathias Rust evades
Soviet air defenses and lands a private plane on
Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained (released on August 3, 1988).
Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.
Iraqi warplanes drop mustard-gas bombs on the Iranian town of
Sardasht in two separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas. This is the first time a civilian town has been targeted by chemical weapons.
June 29 – South Korean politician, presidential candidate of the ruling party
Roh Tae-woo makes a speech promising a wide program of nationwide reforms, the result of the
June Democracy Movement.
June 30 – Canada introduces a one-dollar coin, nicknamed the "
Loonie".
An
F4-rated tornado devastates eastern
Edmonton,
Alberta; hardest hit are an industrial park and a trailer park. 27 people are killed and hundreds injured, with hundreds more left homeless and jobless.
The followers of the
Harmonic Convergence claim it is observed around the world.
August 17 –
Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in
Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon demolished.
August 31 –
Michael Jackson releases Bad, his first studio album since Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. The album would produce five number one singles in the US, a record which has not been broken.
September 13 –
Goiânia accident: Metal scrappers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in
Goiânia, Brazil, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an urban area.
December 20 – In history's worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry
MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
December 23 –
Nikki Sixx,
Mötley Crüe's bassist overdoses on heroin and is declared clinically dead for two minutes before a paramedic revives him with two syringes full of adrenaline.[18]
^Waddington, Raymond B. (1993). "Elizabeth I and the Order of the Garter". Sixteenth Century Journal. 24 (1). The Sixteenth Century Journal: 97–113.
doi:
10.2307/2541800.
JSTOR2541800.
S2CID165893968.