Editing 1988 (section)

===February===
* [[February 12]] – The [[1988 Black Sea bumping incident]]: Soviet frigate ''[[Ukrainian frigate Dnipropetrovsk|Bezzavetnyy]]'' intentionally rams [[USS Yorktown (CG-48)|USS ''Yorktown'']] in Soviet territorial waters while ''Yorktown'' claims [[innocent passage]]. The accompanying US [[destroyer]] {{USS|Caron|DD-970|6}} escapes damage.<ref>{{cite journal |author=William J. Aceves |title= Diplomacy at Sea: U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations in the Black Sea|journal= International Law Studies|volume=68}}</ref> 
* [[February 13]]–[[February 28|28]] – The [[1988 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Canada.<ref>{{cite book|title=Michigan Municipal Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnqQAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Michigan Municipal League|page=3|access-date=March 29, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207091222/https://books.google.com/books?id=LnqQAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 17]]
** [[1988 Oshakati bomb blast]]: A bomb explodes outside the [[First National Bank (South Africa)|First National Bank]] in [[Oshakati]], [[Namibia]], killing 27 and injuring 70.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/20/world/bomb-kills-14-near-a-base-in-namibia.html|title=Bomb Kills 14 Near a Base in Namibia|work=The New York Times|date=1988-02-20|access-date=March 29, 2020|archive-date=March 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329120833/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/20/world/bomb-kills-14-near-a-base-in-namibia.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** U.S. Lieutenant Colonel [[William R. Higgins]], serving with a [[United Nations]] group monitoring a truce in southern [[Lebanon]], is kidnapped (and later killed by his captors).
* [[February 20]] – The [[Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast]] votes to secede from the [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic]] and join the [[Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic|Armenian SSR]], triggering the [[First Nagorno-Karabakh War]].
* [[February 23]] – Start of [[Anfal campaign]], a genocidal [[counterinsurgency]] operation within the [[Iran–Iraq War]] carried out by [[Ba'athist Iraq]]i forces led by [[Ali Hassan al-Majid]] on the orders of President [[Saddam Hussein]] that will kill between 50,000 and 182,000 [[Kurds]] in [[Iraqi Kurdistan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/|title=Genocide in Iraq|publisher=Human Rights Watch|location=New York|date=July 1993|access-date=2021-06-18|archive-date=July 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722223330/https://www.hrw.org/reports/1993/iraqanfal/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iraq501/events_anfal.html|title=The Crimes of Saddam Hussein – 1988: The Anfal Campaign|first=Dave|last=Johns|work=PBS Frontline|date=2006-01-24|access-date=2021-06-18|archive-date=January 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112000344/http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iraq501/events_anfal.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] – The constitution of the [[Sixth Republic of Korea]] comes into effect.
* [[February 27]]–[[February 29|29]] – [[Collapse of the Soviet Union]]: The [[Sumgait pogrom]] of Armenians occurs in [[Sumqayit]].
* [[February 29]] – A [[Nazi]] document implicates [[Kurt Waldheim]] in [[World War II]] deportations.