page_title: 1988
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1988 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Isidor Isaac Rabi
context_page_description: 1988 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
  1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United States and Europe as well as the first Internet-based chat protocol, Internet Relay Chat. The concept of the World Wide Web was first discussed at CERN in 1988.
  The Soviet Union began its major deconstructing towards a mixed economy at the beginning of 1988 and began its gradual dissolution. The Iron Curtain began to disintegrate in 1988 as Hungary began allowing freer travel to the West. The first extrasolar planet, Gamma Cephei Ab was detected this year and the World Health Organization began its mission to eradicate polio.
  In the 20th century, the year 1988 has the most Roman numeral digits.
context_section_description: January 2 – E. B. Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901)
  January 3
  Gaston Eyskens, Belgian politician, 35th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1905)
  Rose Ausländer, German poet (b. 1901)
  Joie Chitwood, American racecar driver and businessman (b. 1912)
  January 5 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
  January 7 – Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
  January 9 – Peter L. Rypdal, Norwegian fiddler and folk music composer (b. 1909)
  January 11
  Pappy Boyington, American pilot, United States Marine Corps fighter ace (b. 1912)
  Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1898)
  January 12 – Hiram Bingham IV, American diplomat (b. 1903)
  January 13 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)
  January 14 – Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1902)
  January 15 – Seán MacBride, Irish Republican Army leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
  January 16 – Ballard Berkeley, British actor (b. 1904)
  January 18 – Cataldo Agostinelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1894)
  January 20 – Philippe de Rothschild, French vineyard owner (b. 1902)
  January 21 – Vincent Lingiari, Australian Aboriginal rights activist (b. 1908)
  January 25 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899)
  January 27 – Kemal Faruki, Turkish football player (b. 1910)
  January 28 – Klaus Fuchs, German-British physicist and spy (b. 1911)
caption: Isidor Isaac Rabi
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