Modern Era · Middle East · War
1988
Iran-Iraq War ends
August 20, 1988
After eight years and perhaps a million dead, Khomeini accepted a UN ceasefire, calling it drinking a chalice of poison. Iran and Iraq returned to their prewar borders. Saddam Hussein emerged with a large battle-hardened army and massive debts to Kuwait, which he would try to solve in 1990 by invading his creditor.
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Also in 1988 (4 other events on record)
- Lockerbie bombing · Europe · War
- Geneva Accords on Afghanistan · Central Asia · Politics
- Seoul Olympics · East Asia · Culture
- Armenian earthquake · Central Asia · Disaster
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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