Unix Timestamp: 571708800
Saturday, February 13. 1988, 12:00:00 AM UTC

February 28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (he is later killed by his captors).

A bomb explodes outside of the First National Bank in Oshakati, Namibia, killing 27 and injuring 70 others.