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  • Tbilisi, Georgia
    Nov, 1988
    Dissolution of the Soviet Union

    Demonstrators calling for Georgia's independence

    Tbilisi, Georgia
    Nov, 1988

    In Tbilisi, capital of Soviet Georgia, many demonstrators camped out in front of the republic's legislature in November 1988 calling for Georgia's independence and in support of Estonia's declaration of sovereignty.




  • Kosovo
    Nov, 1988
    Kosovo War

    Kosovo's head of the provincial committee was arrested

    Kosovo
    Nov, 1988

    In November 1988 Kosovo's head of the provincial committee was arrested.




  • The District committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, Osh region, Soviet Union (now Kyrgyzstan)
    Nov, 1988
    Sooronbay Jeenbekov

    Instructor in the District Committee

    The District committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, Osh region, Soviet Union (now Kyrgyzstan)
    Nov, 1988

    In November 1988, he managed to obtain a job as an instructor in the district committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan in the Soviet district of the Osh region. After a few years, he became the director of the party committee.




  • Delhi, India
    Saturday Nov 5, 1988
    Virat Kohli

    The birth of Virat Kohli

    Delhi, India
    Saturday Nov 5, 1988

    Virat Kohli was born on 5 November 1988 in Delhi into a Punjabi Hindu family. His father, Prem Kohli, worked as a criminal lawyer and his mother, Saroj Kohli, is a housewife. He has an older brother, Vikas, and an older sister, Bhavna. According to his family, when he was three-years old, Kohli would pick up a cricket bat, start swinging it and ask his father to bowl at him.




  • Estonia
    Wednesday Nov 16, 1988
    Dissolution of the Soviet Union

    Estonian laws would take precedence over of the Soviet Union's

    Estonia
    Wednesday Nov 16, 1988

    On November 16, 1988, the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR adopted a declaration of national sovereignty under which Estonian laws would take precedence over those of the Soviet Union.




  • Kosovo
    Thursday Nov 17, 1988
    Kosovo War

    Resignations from the leadership of the League of Communists of Kosovo (LCK)

    Kosovo
    Thursday Nov 17, 1988

    On 17 November 1988, Kaqusha Jashari and Azem Vllasi were forced to resign from the leadership of the League of Communists of Kosovo (LCK).




  • Belgrade, Serbia
    Saturday Nov 19, 1988
    Slobodan Milošević

    Belgrade Speech

    Belgrade, Serbia
    Saturday Nov 19, 1988

    Milošević appealed to nationalist and populist passion by speaking of Serbia's importance to the world and in a Belgrade speech on 19 November 1988, he spoke of Serbia as facing battles against both internal and external enemies.


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