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

* 1988 – Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ( 1890 – 20 January 1988 ) () was an Afghan Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India.

* Tun Abdul Hamid Omar: 1988 to 1994

Abdul Ahad Momand (, born January 1, 1959 ) is a former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first Afghan and 4th Muslim in space when he spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as a Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.

* Abdul Ahad Mohmand-The First Afghan in Space ( August 29 to September 6, 1988 )

Established in 1951, the U-shaped, double-storey market complex originally had 154 shops and 74 flats on the first floor for shopkeepers, Many of these shops were allocated as seed land to immigrants from the North-West Frontier Province after the partition of India, Khan Market is named in honor of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ( 1890 – 1988 ), a Pashtun political and spiritual leader whose memory is deeply respected throughout India.

* Royal Commission of Inquiry on the collapse of the upper deck of the Pengkalan Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal in Butterworth ( 1988 )

The two closest friends of King Fahd were Prince Mohammed bin Abdullah ( son of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's youngest brother ) who died in the early 1980s and Salem bin Laden who died in 1988, when an ultralight aircraft that he was flying flew into powerlines in San Antonio, Texas.

* Abdul Wachyan ( 1988 – 1991 )

Al-Majid would receive three more death sentences for other crimes: one for the 1991 suppression of a Shi ' a uprising along with Abdul-Ghani Abdul Ghafur on December 2, 2008 ; one for the 1999 crackdown in the assassination of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad al-Sadr on March 2, 2009 ; and lastly on January 17, 2010 for the gassing of the Kurds in 1988.

* Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud ( 1910 – 1988 ), prince in Saudi Arabia

* Abdul Sattar Edhi ( 1988 )

President Hans Koechler, left, with Field Marshal Abdul Rahman Sowar El-Dahab, former Head of State of Sudan, right, at UN headquarters in New York, 17 June 1988

R Narasimha, APJ Abdul Kalam ) Indian Academy of Sciences, 1988.

* Tauheed Educational Trust, Established in the year 1988 by Founder Chairman Abdul Matin Salafi.

* Conferred the Darjah Kebesaran Dato ’ Paduka Mahkota Selangor ( DPMS, carrying the title of “ Dato ’”) by DYMM Sultan Selangor Darul Ehsan, Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al Haj on 8 March 1988.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ( 1890 – 20 January 1988 ) ( Pashto: خاں عبدالغفار خاں ,) was a Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India.

" Straight Up " is a 1988 hit single by American singer Paula Abdul, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and brought her widespread public attention.

In 1988 Apple had released MacTCP, a system that allowed the Mac to support TCP / IP on machines with suitable Ethernet hardware.

COCONET, a BBS system made by Coconut Computing, Inc., was released in 1988 and only supported a GUI interface ( no text interface was available ), and worked in EGA / VGA graphics mode, which made it stand out from the text-based BBS systems.

Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

In subsequent years, Manço released Değmesin Yağlı Boya ( 1986 ), Sahibinden İhtiyaçtan ( 1988 ) and Darısı Başınıza ( 1989 ), all containing a couple of hit songs and demonstrating his new sound.

The next Coldcut single, released in February 1988, was " Doctorin ' the House ", featuring singer Yazz.

Eventually titled Temple of Low Men, their second album was released in July 1988 with strong promotion by Capitol Records.

A 1993 compilation called Lucky Thirteen was released, but it only covered Young's 1982 – 1988 output.

Initial version, released in 1984, was nothing but MS-DOS 1. 0 ported to Z80 ; but in 1988 it evolved to version 2, offering facilities such as subdirectories, memory management and environment strings.

Version 2. 0 of the benchmark, released by Weicker and Richardson in March 1988, had a number of changes intended to foil a range of compiler techniques.

During the interim, Mark Mothersbaugh began composing music for the TV show Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and released an elaborately packaged solo cassette, Musik for Insomniaks, which was later expanded and released as two CDs in 1988.

The band released Total Devo in 1988 on Enigma Records.

In 1988 Dark Horse Comics released a six-issue limited series, Godzilla, which was an American adaptation of the Japanese manga adaptation of The Return of Godzilla.

Software house Gremlin released Gary Lineker's Superstar Soccer in 1987, Gary Lineker's Superskills in 1988, and Gary Lineker's Hot Shot in 1989 for 8-bit platforms.

Carcass released Reek of Putrefaction in 1988, which John Peel declared his favorite album of the year despite its very poor production.

A GUI, called the Presentation Manager ( PM ), was not available with OS / 2 until version 1. 1, released in 1988.

His next album Power was released in 1988, under his own label Rhyme Syndicate, and it was a more assured and impressive record, earning him strong reviews and his second gold record.

In 1988, the animated film Akira was released.

To mark the club's appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released a song known as the " Anfield Rap ", featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad.

It was publicly released in November 1988.

He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.

The first release as Irresistible Force was the single, " I Want To " ( 1988 ), but success came with the first album, Flying High, released in 1992 on Rising High Records.

They released their first design, the R2000, in 1985, improving the design as the R3000 in 1988.

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.

While, in 1988, Windows / 386 2. 1 could run several cooperatively multitasked DOS applications, including expanded memory ( EMS ) emulation, OS / 2 1. 3, released in 1991, was still limited to one " DOS box ".