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December 2 - A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million homeless and thousands dead.

December 7 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless.

December 7 - Estonian becomes the official language of Estonia.

December 9 - The last Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant roll off the assembly line in a Chrysler factory.

December 12 - The Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures 132.

December 20 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a total of 270 people. Those responsible are believed to be of either Iranian or Libyan origin.

December 22 - Brazilian union and environmental activist Chico Mendes is assassinated.

The Labtec mouse was created in 1988.

TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed.