1988 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1988 in the United Kingdom.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 References

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February 3- Nurses throughout the UK strike for higher pay and more cash for the National Health Service. ^[1]
5 February - The first Red Nose Day raises £15 million for charity. ^[2]
March 6- The SAS shoot dead 3 IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. ^[3]
March 10- The Prince of Wales narrowly avoids death in an avalanche while on a ski-ing holiday in Switzerland. Major Hugh Lindsay, former equerry to the Queen, is killed. ^[4]
March 16- Milltown Cemetery attack: An Ulster Freedom Fighters terrorist, Michael Stone attacks and kills six mourners at the funeral of the three IRA members who died in Gibraltar. ^[5]
March 19 - Two British Army Corporals are killed by a mob after accidentally driving into a funeral cortege for the victims of the March 16 terrorist attack. ^[6]
6 May - Graeme Hick makes English cricket history by scoring 405 runs in a county championship match. ^[7]
July 6- Piper Alpha disaster oil rig in the North Sea explodes and results in the death of 167 workers. ^[8]
July 28- Paddy Ashdown is elected as leader of the Liberal Democrats. ^[9]
September 30- A Gibraltar jury decides that the 3 IRA members killed on March 6 were killed "lawfully". ^[10]
13 October - the House of Lords rules that extracts of the banned book Spycatcher can be published in the media. ^[11]
December 3- Health minister Edwina Currie provokes outrage by stating that most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria, causing an immediate nationwide fall in egg sales. ^[12]
December 12- 35 people are killed in a collision between three trains at Clapham in London.^[13]
December 21- Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway and kills a total of 270 people - including all 259 who were on board. It is believed that the cause of the explosion was a terrorist bomb. ^[14]