1988
one
thousand nine
hundred and eighty-eight
eenduizend negenhonderdachtentachtig
eintausendneunhundertachtundachtzig
mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-huit
un mil novecientos
ochenta
y ocho
um
mil novecentos
oitenta
e oito
mille e novecentoottantaotto
MCMLXXXVIII
Comic Relief. House of Commons televised. Hurricane in UK. SAS shoot 3 IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Clapham rail disaster. Piper Alpha oil rig explodes killing 167 workers. Pan Am jumbo explodes over Lockerbie.