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 )

* 1924 – Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani politician, 6th President of Pakistan ( d. 1988 )

* 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.

Later, as president, Clinton was the first President to pardon a death-row inmate since the federal death penalty was reintroduced in 1988.

From 1981 to 1988, he was one of President Reagan's senior speech writers.

Ba ' ath Party founder Michel Aflaq ( left ) with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ( right ) in 1988.

The 1988 elections led to Professor Leslie Manigat becoming President, but three months later he too was ousted by the military.

President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, for example, was forced to cohabit with the neo-Gaullist ( right wing ) Jacques Chirac, who became his prime minister from 1986 to 1988.

Bardeen was one of 11 recipients given the Third Century Award from President George H. W. Bush in 1990 for " exceptional contributions to American society " and was granted a gold medal from the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1988.

President Ronald Reagan, who played George Gipp in the movie " Knute Rockne, All American ", gave an address at the Athletic & Convocation Center at the University of Notre Dame on March 9, 1988, and officially unveiled the Rockne stamp.

President Gemayel's term of office expired in September 1988.

He was succeeded by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who was elected President in 1978 and re-elected in 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, and 2003.

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

* 1988 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

* 1988 – War on Drugs: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.

The mission statement was written just 18 months after Slaughter was appointed President in 1988.

In April 1988, President Reagan invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, freezing Panamanian Government assets in U. S. banks, withholding fees for using the canal, and prohibiting payments by American agencies, firms, and individuals to the Noriega regime.

On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento and drawing the attention of former ABC Radio President Edward F. McLaughlin, Limbaugh moved to New York City and began his national radio show.

Later in October 1965 he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until being forced to leave in 1978, after then-Vice President Saddam Hussein told him that it's better to leave ( the two countries would fight a bitter eight year war 1980 – 1988 only a year after the two reached power in 1979 ) after which he went to Neauphle-le-Château, suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa, apparently not seeking political asylum, where he stayed for four months.

* 1898 – Giuseppe Saragat, Italian politician, 5th President of Italy ( d. 1988 )

* Clear and Present Danger ( 1988 )-This novel, like all previous novels, refers to POTUS as " the President " instead of giving a name, allowing the materials in the novel to be " inserted " into history.

* Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss-First female Lord Justice of Appeal ( 1988 – 1999 ); President of the Family Division, High Court of Justice ( 1999 – 2005 )

Of the thirteen Presidential elections from 1956 to 2004, nine featured the incumbent President ; the other four ( 1960, 1968, 1988, 2000 ) all featured the incumbent Vice President.