What day of the week was December 21, 1988?

The day of the week December 21st, 1988 fell on was a Wednesday.

There were 4 days until Christmas.

Paul Jeffreys the English bass player (Be-Bop Deluxe) (b. 1952) died on this day in 1988. As did Nikolaas Tinbergen the Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) .

A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie the Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.