Editing 1988 (section)

===July===
* [[July 1]] – The Soviet Union votes to end the [[CPSU]]'s monopoly on economic and other non-political power and to further economic changes towards a less rigidly [[Marxist-Leninist]] economy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-02-mn-5121-story.html|title=Soviet Party Votes End to Monopoly on Power: Communist Delegates OK Gorbachev Reforms, Approve Revision of Country's Political System|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=July 2, 1988|access-date=September 20, 2015|archive-date=December 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222173001/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-02/news/mn-5121_1_communist-party|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 3]]
** The [[Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge]] in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]], is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the [[Bosphorus]].
** [[Iran Air Flight 655]] is shot down by a missile launched from the {{USS|Vincennes|CG-49|6}}, killing a total of 290 people on board.
* [[July 6]] – The [[Piper Alpha]] production platform in the [[North Sea]] is destroyed by explosions and fires, killing 165 oil workers and 2 rescue mariners. 61 workers survive.<ref>{{cite book|title=Informal Logic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8bXAAAAMAAJ|year=2002|publisher=P.F. Wilkinson|page=304|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207091959/https://books.google.com/books?id=p8bXAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 9]] – The ruling [[Party of Labour of Albania|Communist Party]] of [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albania]] criticizes Gorbachev's [[Perestroika|Soviet reforms]], alleging they have "opened doors to all the anti-Communist and counterrevolutionary elements to slander and attack everything sound, socialist, and revolutionary in the life of the Soviet Union."<ref name=":1" />
* [[July 18]] – [[Iran–Iraq War|Iran-Iraq War]]: [[Iran]] agrees to United Nations Security Council [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 598|Resolution 598]] negotiating a ceasefire.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 22, 1988 |title=Iran-Iraq War: Eight Brutal Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/22/world/iran-iraq-war-eight-brutal-years.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[July 22]] – [[Eastern Air Lines]] announces layoffs for 4,000 employees and elimination of service to 14 U.S. cities; labor union efforts to block the layoffs will fail in federal court in September.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Salpukas |first=Agis |date=October 1, 1988 |title=U.S. Appeals Court Backs Eastern on Layoffs of 4,000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/01/business/us-appeals-court-backs-eastern-on-layoffs-of-4000.html |work=New York Times}}</ref>
* [[July 31]] – Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the [[Sultan Abdul Halim]] Ferry terminal [[Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapse|collapses]] in [[Butterworth, Penang]], [[Malaysia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Jakarta|title=Accessions List, Southeast Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TrjmAAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Library of Congress Office, Jakarta|page=464|access-date=June 21, 2021|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207091958/https://books.google.com/books?id=TrjmAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>