What Happened on December 21, 1988

Historical Events

Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine

Lockerbie Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

Lockerbie disaster: A terrorist bomb destroys Pan Am Flight 103 mid-air, over Scotland; killing all 259 passengers and crew on board, and 11 people on the ground [1]

The remains of the forward section of the Pan Am Boeing 747 named Clipper Maid of the Seas on Tundergarth Hill near Lockerbie

Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien

Events in 1988

Famous Deaths

Bob Steele [Robert Adrian Bradbury], American actor (Monogram, Supreme, Tiffany), dies of emphysema at 81
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-British biologist and zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 81

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