Seeing the demographic writing on the wall after a population census in 1988, Bhutan expelled some 100, 000 ethnic Nepalese who became Bhutanese refugees in camps in southeastern Nepal.

Bhutan competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

This led the government to propose reconstruction of the Armenian Atomic Power Station at Metsamor, which was closed after the 1988 earthquake because of its location in an earthquake-prone area and which had the same safety problems as reactors listed as dangerous in Bulgaria, Russia, and Slovakia.

Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

The Grothendieck Festschrift was a three-volume collection of research papers to mark his sixtieth birthday ( falling in 1988 ), and published in 1990.

Grothendieck was co-awarded ( but declined ) the Crafoord Prize with Pierre Deligne in 1988.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

( in fact, the Earl of St. Andrews had already lost his place in the line of succession when he married the Roman Catholic Canadian Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988, but St. Andrews ' place in the line of succession was significantly lower than Phillips '.

In 1988 the Winland Rice was formed as an umbrella organization of Theodish groups.

However, it was taken over by Wild Leitz in 1988, and was closed in 1991.

* Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 1988 ) academic, critic and writer was born and brought up locally.

In 1988, Sakharov was given the International Humanist Award by the International Humanist and Ethical Union.

The Sakharov Prize, established in 1988 and awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, was named in his honor.

After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

The Aleut Restitution Act of 1988 was an attempt by Congress to compensate the survivors.

A plaque was erected in their memory in 1988 in the local hospital at No. 38 Feuchtwangerstrasse.

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

He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

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.

The Canadian press reported that in interviews, first-year psychology students who took Rushton's classes said that he had conducted a survey of students ' sexual habits in 1988, asking " such questions as how large their penises are, how many sex partners they have had, and how far they can ejaculate.

In 1988, Mr. T starred in the television series T. and T. Mr. T was once reported to be earning around $ 80, 000 a week for his role in The A-Team and earning $ 15, 000 for personal appearances.

The observation of a further two atoms of < sup > 266 </ sup > Mt from the same reaction was reported in 1988 and of another 12 in 1997 by the German team at GSI.

Analysis of MPI results by Turk and Rudy ( 1988 ) found three classes of chronic pain patient: "( a ) dysfunctional, people who perceived the severity of their pain to be high, reported that pain interfered with much of their lives, reported a higher degree of psychological distress caused by pain, and reported low levels of activity ; ( b ) interpersonally distressed, people with a common perception that significant others were not very supportive of their pain problems ; and ( c ) adaptive copers, patients who reported high levels of social support, relatively low levels of pain and perceived interference, and relatively high levels of activity.

In a study published in 1988, John S. Michael reported that Samuel G. Morton ’ s original 19th-century data were more accurate than Gould had described ; that " contrary to Gould's interpretation.

Measles cases reported in England and Wales before and after the introduction of the vaccine, coverage was not widespread enough for herd immunity to interrupt episodic outbreaks until after the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1988.

Liverpool and Nottingham Forest met in the semi-final at Hillsborough the previous year, 1988, and fans reported crushing at the Leppings Lane end leading to Liverpool lodging a complaint before the match in 1989.

In its annual report of 26 August 1988, the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices reported about the intifada in detail.

In July 2008 World magazine reported that Norman had fathered a child with an Australian woman Jennifer Wallace ( née Robinson ) during a tour in Australia in 1988 that she organized.

The tavern site of one of the reported gang members — Samuel Young of Marion County — was excavated by archaeologists working for the Illinois Department of Transportation in 1988 prior to its destruction by a highway project

The 1980 census showed a population of 3, 864, but by 1988, the Texas Almanac reported 4, 162.

Woodsboro had fifty-two businesses in 1980, but by 1988 only thirty-three were reported in the town.

Holmdel High School became the center of a scandal due to a hazing incident at a football camp in 1988 that was reported in the press and received considerable notoriety.

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.

In late 1988 ACG / Rare Ltd. bought back all the rights sold to U. S. Gold and were reported to be developing games again.

In 1988 Ertel ’ s investigation was published in The Journal of Scientific Exploration and the next year Müller published a new analysis of 402 Italian writers that failed to replicate Gauquelin ’ s results showing a significant correlation with the position of the Moon but reported significant correlations for Jupiter together with the significant negative result for Saturn previously noted by Gauquelin with respect to journalists.

He served as a Democratic Senator representing Colorado ( 1975 – 1987 ), and ran in the U. S. presidential elections in 1984 and again in 1988, when he was considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination until various news organizations reported that he was having an extramarital affair.

In March 1988, China agreed to stop supplying Iran with HY-2 missiles, though it is reported that supply continued into 1989.

In 1988, Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch reported seeing an individual accompanied by a shortfin pilot whale.

The first clinical case of UPD was reported in 1988 and involved a girl with cystic fibrosis and unusually short stature who carried two copies of maternal chromosome 7.