It has been celebrated as The Emperor's Birthday from 1927 to 1988, then renamed as Greenery Day after Hirohito's death in 1989.

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.

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.

Vinge first used the concepts of " Zones of Thought " in a 1988 novella, " The Blabber ", which occurs after Fire.

The modern American Media came into being after Generoso Pope, Jr., longtime owner of The National Enquirer, died in 1988, and his tabloids came under new ownership.

Brazil's arms industry nearly collapsed after 1988, as a result of the termination of the Iran-Iraq War ( 1980 – 88 ), a reduction in world demand for armaments, and the decline in state support for the industry.

A Broadway staging in April 1988 received disastrous reviews, and closed after just two months.

In 1988, after prompting from the United States Congress, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences ( National Institutes of Health ) ( NIGMS ) instituted a funding mechanism for biotechnology training.

The result of this policy was an aura of mystery, even a decade after the cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 following an internal fight.

Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.

A high volume of trade and migration between the United States and Canada has generated closer ties, especially after the signing of the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988.

In 1988, five Mexican fishermen became lost at sea after a storm that occurred during their trip along the coast of Costa Rica.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.

However, this sort of story became much more popular after the coining of the phrase " serial killer " in the 1970s and the publication of The Silence of the Lambs in 1988.

On 21 December 1988, Dewar was in Lockerbie after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as the member of the Shadow Cabinet in charge of Scottish affairs.

* 1988 – Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.

* Greek ( opera ) ( 1988 ), by Mark-Antony Turnage, after Steven Berkoff's play

Domestically, Bush reneged on a 1988 campaign promise and after a struggle with Congress, signed an increase in taxes that Congress had passed.

Relations between Ghana and Côte d ' Ivoire improved significantly, however, after 1988.

Chapman died on 4 October 1989 after suffering from tonsil cancer, which he had been diagnosed with in November 1988, and secondary spinal cancer.

* 1988 – General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.

On September 26, 1988, one day after moving into his apartment, he was arrested for drugging and sexually fondling a 13-year-old boy in Milwaukee.

The Wound-Dresser ( 1988 ): John Adams's setting of Walt Whitman's poem, " The Wound-Dresser ", which Whitman wrote after visiting wounded soldiers during the American Civil War.

Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.

Norman Van Aken embraced a Floridian type cuisine fused with many ethnic and globalized elements in his Feast of Sunlight cookbook in 1988.

Lead Me On ( 1988 ) contained many songs that were about Christianity and love relationships, but some interpreted it as not being an obviously " Christian " record.

Rabbi Steinsaltz has received many awards and prizes, among them the Israel Prize for Jewish studies in 1988.

Between 1988 and 1989, many aspects of the show were modernised by new producer, David Liddiment.

Notably, from 1985 to 1988, author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before 1985, when events on screen took place.

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.

Though Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions, and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman's mustard, and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce, his KGB-appointed wife Rufina later described Philby as " disappointed in many ways " by what he found in Moscow.

Despite being modest in number ( perhaps 7, 000 units total as of 1988 ), Lisp machines commercially pioneered many now-commonplace technologies – including effective garbage collection, laser printing, windowing systems, computer mice, high-resolution bit-mapped graphics, computer graphic rendering, and networking innovations like CHAOSNet.

Over the course of the 1988 – 89 television season, his TV show suffered a decline in viewership, resulting in many markets downgrading its time slot ; even flagship station WWOR moved Downey's program from its original 9: 00 PM slot to 11: 30 PM in January 1989, where it was followed by the then-new Arsenio Hall Show.

In late 1988 it was ported to C, which enabled it to spread rapidly to many Unix platforms upon its release in 1989.

Polls showed that Kach would have likely received three to four seats in the coming November 1988 elections, with some earlier polls forecasting as many as twelve seats ( 10 % of popular vote ), possibly making Kach Israel's third largest party.

* State of Palestine, state declared by the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1988 ' in absentia by Yasser Arafat and recognised by many other states

PDP-1 # 44 was found in a barn in Wichita, Kansas in 1988, apparently formerly owned by one of the many aviation companies in the area, and rescued for the Digital Historical Collection, also eventually ending up at the CHM.

In 1988, however, Peckinpah's director's cut was released on video and led to a reevaluation, with many critics hailing it as a mistreated classic and one of the era's best films.

Even more unusually, however, many of the solo songs on Maxinquaye featured little of Tricky's own voice: his then-lover, Martina Topley-Bird, sang them, including her reimagining of Public Enemy's militant 1988 rap " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ", while other songs were male-female duets dealing with sex and love in oblique ways, over beds of sometimes dissonant samples.

The Ultramagnetic MC's released a new school classic in 1988, Critical Beatdown, introducing many new sampling techniques.

* Crisis ( 1988 – 1991 ) was a sister publication that did not follow the format of 2000 AD, but did share many editorial staff and creative teams.

In 1988, the government census led to the branding of many ethnic Nepalis as illegal immigrants.

After Thatcher's Bruges speech in September 1988 and her increasing hostility to a European currency in the last years of her premiership, Powell made many speeches publicly supporting her attitude to Europe.

However, the success of the conservative opposition forced the moderate Bush to move further to the right than in 1988, and to incorporate many socially conservative planks in the party platform.

Reruns of The Muppet Show aired in syndication for many years and eventually turned up on TNT from the channel's sign-on in 1988 to 1992.

* Carrier Command, a 1988 simulator game for Amiga and many other platforms

The 1988 biography of Burton by Melvyn Bragg provides a detailed description of the many health issues that plagued Burton throughout his life.

There are many examples of considered urban design in the Middle Ages ( see, e. g., David Friedman, Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages, MIT 1988 ).

This caused many of AT & T's other licensees of UNIX System V to become concerned that this would put Sun in an advantaged position, and it ultimately led to Digital Equipment, HP, IBM, and others forming the Open Software Foundation ( OSF ) in 1988.