Narayanan – AIR India Reporter 1988 Court Page No. 1381 ; 1988 Volume No. 3 SCC Court Cases Page No. 366 ; 1988 PLJR 78 – Although an affidavit may be taken as proof of the facts stated therein, the Courts have no jurisdiction to admit evidence by way of affidavit.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

* 1904 – Kurt Kiesinger, German politician ( d. 1988 )

* 1988 – Leigh Adams, Australian footballer

* 1988 – Mike Bailey, English actor and singer

* 1988 – Melisa Cantiveros, Filipina actress, comedienne, and television personality

* 1988 – Daniele Gasparetto, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Carlton Mitchell, American football player

* 1988 – Fabrice Muamba, Congolese-English footballer

* 1988 – Ivonne Orsini, Puerto Rician actress and model

* 1988 – Jucilei da Silva, Brazilian footballer

* 1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician 2nd Vice President of Indonesia ( d. 1988 )

* 1988 – Ricardo Gabriel Álvarez, Argentine footballer

* 1988 – Stephen Brogan, English footballer

* 1988 – Amedeo Calliari, Italian footballer

* 1988 – Jessie James, American singer-songwriter

* 1988 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opens World Expo ' 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

* 1988 – Alexa Vega, American actress and singer

* 1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Riot in New York City spurs a reform of the NYPD, held responsible for the event.

* 1920 – Ella Raines, American actress ( d. 1988 )

On 16 March 1988, the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked with a mix of mustard gas and nerve agents, killing 5, 000 civilians, and maiming, disfiguring, or seriously debilitating 10, 000 more.

( see Halabja poison gas attack ) The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces.

* 1988: Over the span of two days in March, the ethnic Kurd city of Halabja in northern Iraq ( population 70, 000 ) was bombarded with chemical and cluster bombs, which included sarin, in the Halabja poison gas attack.

On March 23, 1988 western media sources reported from Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan, that several days before Iraq had launched a large scale chemical assault on the town.

The Halabja poison gas attack ( Kurdish: Kîmyabarana Helebce ), also known as Halabja massacre or Bloody Friday, was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran – Iraq War, when chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan.

* The 1988 Chemical Weapons Attack on Halabja, Iraq by Christine M. Gosden, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Liverpool, 2001

* Saddam's Chemical Weapons Campaign: Halabja, 16 March 1988, U. S. State Department, 14 March 2003

* Halabja 1988: Largest poison gas massacre of civilians since the Second World War, Society for Threatened Peoples, 13 March 2008

In 1988 he broke the news that Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons in Halabja, killing 5000 Kurds.

On March 16, 1988, there was a genocidal poison gas attack on the city of Halabja in which four to five thousand Kurdish people were killed, most of them women and children.

In Iraq, the Saddam Hussein regime used white phosphorus, as well as chemical weapons that are scheduled in the Chemical Weapons Convention, in the Halabja poison gas attack during the Iran – Iraq War in 1988, according to the ANSA news agency.

During 1988 after the Halabja poison gas attack 36, 000 Kurdish refugees were located in Diyarbakir.

In 1988, working as a freelance photographer, he took the first pictures of the aftermath of Halabja poison gas attack during the Iran-Iraq War.

Since World War II, Iraq's use of mustard gas against Iranian troops and Kurds ( Iran-Iraq war of 1981 – 1988 ) has been the only large-scale use of any chemical weapons.

In 1988, Leuchter traveled to several sites of structures identified as gas chambers, where, although he did not have permission to do so, he collected samples from walls, ceilings and floors, using a chisel and hammer to chip and scrape off pieces of the masonry.

Observations of Chiron in 1988 and 1989 near its perihelion found it to display a coma ( a cloud of gas and dust evaporating from its surface ).

Then in 1988, Sun undertook a major restructuring to segregate its domestic oil and gas exploration and production business and the focus the company on its refining and marketing business.

In 1988, just after Saddam Hussein had earned international condemnation for using poisonous gas against thousands of Kurds, Bechtel signed contracts with Iraq to build a chemical plant.

He was promoted to the opposition frontbench by Neil Kinnock in 1988 as a spokesperson on energy, leading on oil and gas.

A number of companies dominated the economic life of the municipality in the 19th and 20th Century: a gas factory ( 1867 – 1932 ), the transport company Friderici AG ( 1890 ), the biscuit factory Oulevay AG ( 1899 – 1992 ), the metal construction workshop Société industrielle de Lausanne ( 1907 – 79 ), the foundry Neeser AG ( 1947 ) and the pasta factory Gala ( 1988 – 2005 ).

An explosion and the resulting oil and gas fires destroyed it on 6 July 1988, killing 167 men, with only 61 survivors.

During the late ' 70s, major works were carried out to enable the platform to meet UK Government gas export requirements and after this work had been completed, Piper Alpha was operating in what was known as phase 2 mode ( operating with the Gas Conservation Module ( GCM )) since the end of 1980 up until July 1988 ; phase 2 mode was its normal operating state.

1988 Peugeot 505 STX V6, showing different placement of gas tank lid and antenna, as well as North America-specific taillights and exhaust on the left

In 1988 he became General Manager, Gas, BP Exploration Europe, responsible for the operation, new business development and asset management, of BP and Britoil ’ s European gas portfolio.

American holdings also include Texas properties containing over 200 oil wells and lands rich in natural gas, pipeline and production firms, and an ethylene plant in Point Comfort, Texas that was constructed in 1988.

Capstone Turbine Corporation (), incorporated in 1988, is a California based gas turbine manufacturer that specializes in microturbine power along with heating and cooling cogeneration systems.

* In July 1988, 167 people died when Occidental Petroleum's Alpha offshore production platform, on the Piper field in the North Sea, exploded after a gas leak.