What day of the week was May 8, 1988?

The day of the week May 8th, 1988 fell on was a Sunday.

Tanel Kurbas the Estonian basketball player was born on 08 May in 1988. As was Maicon Pereira de Oliveira the Brazilian footballer (d. 2014) .

Robert A. Heinlein the American author (b. 1907) died on this day in 1988.

A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".