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 )

* 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

Category: 1988 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

The Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) was a centrist political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988.

In 1988, after prompting from the United States Congress, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences ( National Institutes of Health ) ( NIGMS ) instituted a funding mechanism for biotechnology training.

A high volume of trade and migration between the United States and Canada has generated closer ties, especially after the signing of the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988.

Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question since 1945 ( 1988 )

Historians including Donald Grinde, Bruce Johansen and others believe that the Iroquois constitution provided inspiration for the United States Constitution and in 1988 was recognised by a resolution in Congress.

For example, in 1988 the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination, affirmed that " a ) All persons, regardless of their sexual orientation, who profess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, are welcome to be or become full member of the Church ; and b ) All members of the Church are eligible to be considered for the Ordered Ministry.

* 1988 – A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.

Category: United States presidential candidates, 1988

The Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ) of Dublin, Ohio, United States, acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the DDC when it bought Forest Press in 1988.

* 1988 – The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna.

* 1988 – Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.

In 1988, the United States donated a 68-foot patrol boat to the Equatoguinean navy to patrol its exclusive economic zone.

In a dystopian 1988, crime in the United States has increased 400 %, so the island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison.

After examining the position of women around the world, the Washington-based Population Crisis Committee reported in 1988 that Finland, slightly behind top-ranked Sweden and just ahead of the United States, was one of the very best places in which a woman could live.

Fatah used to be designated terrorist under Israeli law and was considered terrorist by the United States Department of State and United States Congress until it renounced terrorism in 1988.

In the United States, the mass media devoted little coverage to global warming until the drought of 1988, and James E. Hansen's testimony to the Senate, which explicitly attributed " the abnormally hot weather plaguing our nation " to global warming.

Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.

Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.

It was first established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) and the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ), and later endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 43 / 53.

In 1988, Morocco and the Polisario Front finally agreed on a United Nations ( UN ) peace plan, and a cease-fire and settlement plan went into effect in 1991.

* United Nations Environment Programme Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement ( The Global 500 ), 1988

The Netherlands is a party to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.

In 1988, she became the first First Lady invited to address the United Nations General Assembly, where she spoke on international drug interdiction and trafficking laws.

* 2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

Despite several calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.

It has also been successful in helping to reduce cases by 99 % since the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was launched in 1988, which partnered WHO with Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) and the United Nations Children ’ s Fund ( UNICEF ), as well as smaller organizations.

In 1988, Bhutan was reported to have evicted some number of Nepali-speaking residents ( Bhutanese reports say about 5, 000 and Refugee reports says over 100, 000 ) from districts in southern Bhutan, creating a large refugee community that is now being detained in seven temporary United Nations refugee camps in Nepal and Sikkim.

In an attempt to obtain international acceptance for the legal recognition of traditional use of coca in their respective countries, Peru and Bolivia successfully led an amendment, paragraph 2 of Article 14 into the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, stipulating that measures to eradicate illicit cultivation and to eliminate illicit demand “ should take due account of traditional licit use, where there is historic evidence of such use .” Bolivia also made a formal reservation to the 1988 Convention, which required countries to adopt measures to establish the use, consumption, possession, purchase or cultivation of the coca leaf for personal consumption as a criminal offence.

However, the International Narcotics Control Board ( INCB ) – the independent and quasi-judicial control organ for the implementation of the United Nations drug conventions – denied the validity of article 14 in the 1988 Convention over the requirements of the 1961 Convention, or any reservation made by parties, since it does not " absolve a party of its rights and obligations under the other international drug control treaties.

In 1988, amid the ATA's Return Our Land Movement, in which aborigines demanded the return of lands to the original inhabitants, the ATA sent its first representative to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

The Tripartite Accord, comprising a bilateral agreement between Cuba and Angola, and a tripartite agreement between Angola, Cuba and South Africa whereby South Africa agreed to hand control of Namibia to the United Nations, were signed at UN headquarters in New York City on 22 December 1988.

* United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO )-5 May 1988

In 1987 after the United Nations had declared Burma a " Least Developed Country ", Ne Win, resigned on 23 July 1988 as chairman of the ruling Burma Socialist Programme Party at the height of the uprising against one-party rule.

Following the death of a later UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, on Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 – on the eve of the signing of the Tripartite Accord at UN headquarters – Ahtisaari was sent to Namibia in April 1989 as the UN Special Representative to head the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ( UNTAG ).

The airline suffered a setback due to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 748, which was adopted on 31 March 1992 as a consequence of the Libyan government allegedly having supported the terrorists responsible for the bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 ( on 21 December 1988 ) and UTA Flight 772 ( on 19 September 1989 ).