* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.

She appeared partially nude in Prime Suspect ( 1988 ) and Compelling Evidence ( 1995 ), but her most infamous film is 1997's Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jill ... and Jill.

* 1908 – William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1988 )

In early 1988, the Turkish and Greek Prime Ministers met at Davos, Switzerland, and later in Brussels.

* 1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.

With the death of Zia-ul-Haq in 1988, Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.

On April 16, 1988, in Forlì, Red Brigades-PCC killed Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.

In 1988, Thailand became more democratic after General Prem Tinsulanonda decided to step down and was succeeded by Major General ( later, General ) Chatichai Choonhavan, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Thailand since 1976.

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's 1988 victory in Pakistan makes women leaders in Muslim states unextraordinary.

* February 23 – William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1988 )

* March 17 – Takeo Miki, former Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1988 )

He was replaced by Forlani in 1989, after that he had become Prime Minister in 1988.

He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 ( making him the only person to hold the position of Prime Minister twice under the Fifth Republic ), and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.

After less statist policy when he was Prime Minister ( 1986 – 1988 ), he changed his method.

Prime minister: 1974 – 1976 ( Resignation ) / 1986 – 1988.

Member of the National Assembly of France for Corrèze: March – April 1967 ( Became Secretary of State in April 1967 ) Reelected in 1968, 1973, but he stays minister / 1976 – 1986 ( Became Prime minister in 1986 ) / 1988 – 1995 ( Resignation, became President of the French Republic in 1995 ).

During the third state reform in 1988 and 1989, under Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, the Brussels-Capital Region was established with its own regional institutions, as well as Dutch and French institutions for community matters.

Other hits included the political satire Yes Minister ( 1980 – 84 ) and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister ( 1986 – 88 ), Esmonde and Larbey's suburban sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles ( 1984 – 89 ) and the sci-fi-comedy Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99 ).

Koizumi gained his first senior post in 1979 as Parliamentary Vice Minister of Finance, and his first ministerial post in 1988 as Minister of Health and Welfare under Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.

Sir William McMahon, GCMG, CH ( 23 February 190831 March 1988 ), was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia.

By the time the soap opera had been cancelled, Collins followed in her sister's footsteps and published her first novel Prime Time ( 1988 ) which became a bestseller despite critical pans.

This area is now the site of many of the most important government buildings, including the Senate House and the Office of the Prime Minister, now renamed for the use of President Mugabe after the position was abolished in January 1988.

In 1988, after Mitterrand's re-election, he left the PS leadership, and, though the President considered naming him Prime Minister, he was nominated Minister of Education.

In 1988, when the ACT gained self-government, Jervis Bay became a separate territory administered by the Australian Government Minister responsible for Territories, presently the Minister for Home Affairs ( Australia ).

From 1988 to 1993 he served as Minister of the Interior and in May 1993, the Bavarian Landtag ( parliament ) elected him as minister-president succeeding Max Streibl.

In 1987 he also became Minister of External Relations and in 1988 Deputy Minister of Finance.

* Minister for the America ’ s Cup 1988 – 90

* Minister of External Relations and Trade 1988 – 90

* Deputy Minister of Finance 1988 – 90

British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

The British press also changed its coverage at the end of 1988, following a speech by Margaret Thatcher to the Royal Society advocating action against human-induced climate change.

* 1988 Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye

This ban was imposed by the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher on 19 October 1988, the reason given being to " starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend " after the BBC interviewed Martin McGuinness and Adams had been the focus of a row over an edition of After Dark, an intended Channel 4 discussion programme which was never made.

File: Denis Thatcher Nancy Reagan 1988. jpg | Denis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, kissing the hand of Nancy Reagan wife of US President in 1988

Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide, 1988 – 2005.

Also in 1988, Keaggy and Stonehill would team up with singer Margaret Becker, former Wings drummer Joe English and others as the Compassion All Star Band.

Keaggy and Stonehill would also team up with singer Margaret Becker, drummer Joe English ( former member of Paul McCartney and Wings ) and others, in 1988 for the Compassion All Star Band's album One by One.

Pike has significant roles in the Pocket Books novels Enterprise: The First Adventure ( Vonda N. McIntyre, 1986 ), Final Frontier ( Diane Carey, 1988 ), Vulcan's Glory ( D. C. Fontana, 1989 ), and Burning Dreams ( Margaret Wander Bonanno, 2006 ).

Mae Margaret Whitman ( born June 9, 1988 ) is an American television, movie and voice actress.

William Whitelaw was Margaret Thatcher's deputy from 1979 – 1988, a post he combined with that of Home Secretary in 1979 – 83 and Leader of the House of Lords after 1983.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher responded with her famous Bruges Speech in September 1988, in which she said that she had not rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them reimposed by a Brussels superstate.

She supported John Prescott in the Labour deputy-leadership election in 1988 ( against Eric Heffer and the incumbent Roy Hattersley ), leaving the Socialist Campaign Group, along with Margaret Beckett, as a result of Tony Benn's decision to challenge Neil Kinnock for the leadership.

When asked in a conversation with Woodrow Wyatt on 18 December 1988 whether she would have Owen in her government if approached by him, Margaret Thatcher replied: " Well, not straight away.

Returning to the House of Commons, Margaret Beckett gradually moved away from the hard left, supporting incumbent leader Neil Kinnock against Benn in 1988.

Margaret, Duchess of Argyll appearing on After Dark ( TV series ) | After Dark in 1988

She also did voice-over work on TV and films including the voice of Southern author Margaret Mitchell in the documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind in 1988.

They have one daughter, Hannah Margaret Mack Selleck ( born December 16, 1988 ).

* Marion Crawford CVO ( 1909 – 1988 ), known as Crawfie, nanny of the future Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

He then co-wrote songs with Margaret Becker in the fall of 1988 and the subsequent album, Immigrant's Daughter was nominated for a Grammy award.

Dorrell was promoted to government after the 1987 General Election by the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as an Assistant Government Whip, and in 1988 became a Lord Commissioner to the Treasury ' full whip '.

Having divorced Margaret Deaves in 1985, in 1988 he remarried to Carolyn Somerville.

He served as a junior minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major between 1988 and 1997.