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 )

The current conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh ( NK ) began in 1988 when Armenian demonstrations against Azerbaijani rule broke out in both Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Supreme Soviet voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia.

* 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

On 1 December 1988, the Supreme Soviet amended the Soviet constitution to allow for the establishment of a Congress of People's Deputies as the Soviet Union's new supreme legislative body.

Soviet authories published Latvijas PSR mazās enciklopēdijas ( 3 volumes, 1967 – 1970 ) and Latvijas padomju enciklopēdija ( 10 volumes, 1981 – 1988 ).

Soviet authorities published Mažoji lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija ( 3 volumes, 1966 – 1971 ), Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija ( 12 volumes, 1976 – 1985 ), and Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija ( 4 volumes, 1985 – 1988 ).

* Little Vera ( 1988 ) notable as one of the first Soviet films with sexually explicit scenes

Soviet troops ( in right row ) withdrawing from Afghanistan in 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.

* 1902 – Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician ( d. 1988 )

Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.

The current world record for women is held by Galina Chistyakova of the former Soviet Union who leapt in Leningrad on June 11, 1988, a mark that has stood for 24 years.

* 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.

Two months later, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to sign a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, and the Supreme Soviet ordered Rust to be released in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture to the west.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, or Gorbachov ( more accurately reflecting the pronunciation of his name ) (; born 2 March 1931 ), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

* 1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is " sovereign " but stops short of declaring independence.

* 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

* Sklar, H. ( 1988 ) " Washington's war on Nicaragua " South End Press.

From his 1988 book Infinite in All Directions, he offered some criticism of then current models predicting a devastating nuclear winter in the event of a large-scale nuclear war:

Hence in 1988 it was likely that a solution would have to wait until the war ended.

In 1988 Iraq's main foreign policy issue was the war with Iran.

The Iran – Iraq War ( also known as the First Persian Gulf War ) was an armed conflict between Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the 20th century.

* 1988 – Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal ( b. 1899 )

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.

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.

With the end of the war in August 1988, Syria began a slow process of reintegration with the other Arab states.

* Iran – Iraq War ( 1980 – 1988 ), the numbering of conflicts in Persian Gulf depends on whether this is called the First Gulf War, which would make the 1990 war the Second and the 2003 war the Third.

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General Sun was a popular Chinese war hero from the Burma Campaign against the Japanese and remained under house arrest until Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988.

Exhausted by the war, Iran signed UN Security Council Resolution 598 in July 1988, after the United States and Germany began supplying Iraq with chemical weapons.

* 1980 – 1988: Iraq used sarin against Iran during the 1980 – 88 war.

Fort Dix was the setting home base in the 1988 C64 and Nintendo video game Rocket Ranger based on an alternate World War II scenario, where the Nazis discovered lunarium which would allow them to win the war and a young American scientist must stop it from happening.

The war was fictionalized in several Hollywood films, including: John Wayne's Chisum in 1970, and the 1988 film Young Guns.

In addition to this, in 1988 the New Zealand Government issued reparations for those who were prisoners of war in Germany during World War Two and not those in Japan, which Drake alleged was discrimination.

Dean chairman Joe Trippi ( who had previously worked for Gephardt in 1988 ) and Gephardt chairman Steve Murphy became involved in a war of words over that incident.

The Davos Declaration was signed in 1988 by Greece and Turkey, helping them turn back from the brink of war.

On September 18, 1980, the Iran – Iraq War broke out, and Kharazi served as a member of the Supreme Defense Council of Iran and headed the War Information Headquarters for most of the war ( September, 1980 to September, 1988 ).

Throughout the 1980s with the U. S. supported Contra War ( or Contra-revolutionary war ) which continued up until 1988, and the economic collapse of the country many more Nicaraguans migrated to the United States amongst other countries.

* 1980 – 1988 Iran-Iraq war