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In 1988, an 18-year-old African elephant, Dunda, was subject to controversial training methods which, according to San Diego City Attorney John W. Witt, included " chaining her four feet, hauling her down to her knees and repeatedly smacking her on the top of the head, where the skull is thick, with ax handles and the wooden end of elephant hooks.
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1988 and 18-year-old
At the 1988 Winter Olympics, Mogilny made his senior debut with the Soviet national team as a 18-year-old in Canada.
The 1988 World Fantasy Award went to Grimwood for his novel Replay ( Arbor House, 1987 ), the compelling account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston, who dies and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body.
* Robert Chambers, the " Preppie Killer " ( 1988 ): After confessing to killing an 18-year-old girl, Chambers was convicted of manslaughter and served 15 years in prison.
Replay is the account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston, who dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body as a student at Atlanta's Emory University.
1988 and African
( 1988 ) The race to Fashoda: European colonialism and African resistance in the scramble for Africa, 1st ed., London: Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-0113-0
* 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
* 1903 – Alan Paton, South African writer ( d. 1988 )
* 1938 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist ( d. 1988 )
Malawians were viewed as important workers in the South African mines due to their " skills, work discipline and lack of militancy " From 1988 to 1992, around 13, 000 Malawian migrant laborers were forcefully repatriated out of South Africa.
In May 1988, a US mediation team – headed by Chester A. Crocker, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs – brought negotiators from Angola, Cuba, and South Africa, and observers from the Soviet Union together in London.
Finally, in 1988 Libya was invited to participate in the inter-Maghrib commission that was responsible for developing the North African union.
Alan Stewart Paton ( 11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988 ) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.
In 1988 he founded America ’ s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee to preserve the history of African Americans who had faced the terror and violence of lynching.
* At a " Free Nelson Mandela " concert at Wembley: called the African National Congress a " Typical terrorist organisation " ( June 1988 ).
Essays on African history: From the slave trade to neo-colonialism ( Hurst, London 1988 ).
* African Soldier ( 1988, Black Roots )
* February 11-Alan Paton, South African writer ( died 1988 )
He played a large role in bringing the two major groups of independence fighters, ZANU and ZAPU, together to form the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, a merger that took place in 1988.
Uniquely, the South African market also saw the introduction of a 5. 0L XR8 between 1986 and 1988.
* Shadow Man ( album ), a 1988 studio album from South African artist Johnny Clegg and his band Savuka
The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front ( ZANU-PF ) has been the ruling party in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, led by Robert Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the party simply known as ZANU, and then as President from 1988 after taking over ZAPU and retaining the name ZANU-PF.
Between 1985 and 1988, the Zoo completed construction of the African lion, Indochinese tiger and small cat exhibits.
In 1988 Ouyahia became the general director of the African Department of the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry.
* Wilhelm Otto Kühne ( 1924 – 1988 ), a South African writer
When, in 1988, the US government proposed the addition of the category of " bi-racial " or " multiracial " to official documents and statistics, some African American organizations and African American leaders such as Watson and Representative Augustus Hawkins were particularly vocal in their rejection and opposition of the category.
Category: 1988 African Cup of Nations players
In 1988 he was briefly overthrown by members of a military police unit, and was reinstated following intervention by the South African Defence Force.
1988 and elephant
In 1988, the elephant was restored as the symbol of the Athletics and currently adorns the left sleeve of home and road uniforms.
1988 and was
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.
1.186 seconds.