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.

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.

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

In 1988 the EPLF captured Afabet, headquarters of the Ethiopian Army in northeastern Eritrea, putting approximately a third of the Ethiopian Army out of action, prompting the Ethiopian Army to withdraw from its garrisons in Eritrea's western lowlands.

He made his professional debut for Southampton on 26 March 1988, coming on as a substitute in a First Division fixture at Chelsea, before prompting national headlines in his full debut at The Dell two weeks later.

) In 1988, on Saturday Night Lives " Weekend Update ," comedian Dennis Miller opened the sports with, " In Calgary tonight, Katarina Witt won the gold medal in figure skating, prompting Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to fire manager Billy Martin.

During batting practice in 1988, the 6 ' 10 " Johnson, then with the Montreal Expos, collided head-first with outfielder Tim Raines, prompting his teammate to exclaim, " You're a big unit!

AVB's popularity and ministry quickly grew, prompting Lancaster to launch AVB as a full-time touring group in 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.

In his book The Physician ( 1988 ) Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.

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

He formally retired in 1988 and within a few years moved to the Pyrenees, where he currently lives in isolation from human society.

His Esquisse d ' un programme ( 1984 ) is a proposal for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which he held from 1984 to his retirement 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 1988, AZ were relegated from the Eredivisie.

Versions of AutoCAD from Release 10 ( October 1988 ) and up support both ASCII and binary forms of DXF.

* Lamotte, Etienne: History of Indian Buddhism from the Origins to the Śaka Era, Louvain-la-Neuve 1988 ISBN 90-6831-100-X

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.

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

Brunei recognised Bangladesh quickly with other Southeast Asian countries and Bangladesh established residential Diplomatic mission in 1985, although it was closed down from 1988 to 1997 due to financial constraints.

Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge ( 1988 ) as seen from the Rumelihisarı | Rumeli Castle ( 1452 )

Another is the 1988 Koko case in which 5 ships transported 8, 000 barrels of hazardous waste from Italy to the small town of Koko in Nigeria in exchange for $ 100 monthly rent which was paid to a Nigerian for the use of his farmland.

Its pediment was originally from the old Dominican convent and was identified in 1988.

The Orioles have had their games broadcast on WBAL for much of the team's history in Baltimore over three separate stints ( the other two were from 1957 to 1978, and 1988 to 2006 ).

A cease-fire between Chad and Libya held from 1987 to 1988, and negotiations over the next several years led to the 1994 International Court of Justice decision granting Chad sovereignty over the Aouzou strip, effectively ending Libyan occupation.

Franz Josef Strauss ( 1915 – 1988 ) had left behind the strongest legacy as a leader of the party, having led the party from 1961 until his death in 1988.

Because of this the network launch was delayed from September 1, 1988 to July 31, 1989.

* Dennis W. Hess, CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIELECTRIC AND METAL FILMSfree-download from Electronic Materials and Processing: Proceedings of the First Electronic Materials and Processing Congress held in conjunction with the 1988 World Materials Congress Chicago, Illinois, USA, 24-30 September 1988, Edited by Prabjit Singh ( Sponsored by the Electronic Materials and Processing Division of ASM INTERNATIONAL )