* 1988 – The strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.

However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

One possible origin is Chun Shui Tang teahouse in Taichung, where Ms. Lin Hsiu Hui ( product development manager ) poured sweetened tapioca balls into the tea during a meeting in 1988.

A Beltane Fire Festival has been held every year since 1988 during the night of 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland and attended by up to 15, 000 people.

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

The Law on Cooperatives enacted in May 1988 was perhaps the most radical of the economic reforms during the early part of the Gorbachev era.

There was a strong La Niña episode during 1988 – 1989.

* 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

Japan's aid to the ASEAN countries totaled US $ 1. 9 billion in Japanese fiscal year ( FY ) 1988 versus about US $ 333 million for the United States during U. S. FY 1988.

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.

On March 10, 1988, Rockne opened its post office for one day, during which a Knute Rockne twenty-two-cent commemorative stamp was issued.

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.

Games known to be in development for the system during 1988 included Llamasoft's Attack of the Mutant Camels, System 3's Last Ninja 2, Vivid Image's Hamerfist, and Logotron's Star Ray.

Liverpool was involved in the closest finish to a league season during the 1988 – 89 season.

The Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, founded in 1988 by the Swedish art collector and financier Fredrik Roos and housed in a former power station which had been built in 1900, was one of the foremost centres for contemporary art in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s.

* 1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.

Monica's parents ' acrimonious separation and divorce during 1987 and 1988 had a significant effect on her.

The Jets met the Giants in 1988 during the final game of the regular season.

Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware plagiarized one of Kinnock's speeches during his 1988 presidential campaign in a speech at a Democratic debate in Iowa in August 1987.

The chief conspirators, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, met in 1988 at Fort Benning during basic training for the U. S. Army.

From 1988 to 1996, the Eagles qualified for the playoffs during 6 out of those 9 seasons, but they won the NFC East only once, in 1988.

Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

interview in 1988, Kazan said, " I did whatever was necessary to get a good performance including so-called Method acting.

He himself regards these so-called Approach pictures ( 1987 – 1988 ) as " first work before I even owned a camera ".

In September 1988, Billboard introduced the Modern Rock Tracks chart which monitored airplay on so-called " modern rock " and college radio stations.

The Wittgenstein scholar A. C. Grayling ( Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press, ( Oxford ), 1988, p. 114 ) is certain that, despite the fact that Wittgenstein ’ s work might have played some " second or third-hand in the promotion of the philosophical concern for language which was dominant in the mid-century ", neither Gilbert Ryle nor any of those in the so-called " ordinary language philosophy " school that is chiefly associated with J. L. Austin were Wittgensteinians.

He had another major role in Memories of Me ( 1988 ) as the so-called " king of the Hollywood extras ," portraying Billy Crystal's terminally ill father.

Andrzej Gwiazda, who was one of the leaders of the so-called First Solidarity ( August 1980 – December 1981 ), claims that the Round Table Agreement and the negotiations that took place before it at a Communist government's Ministry of the Interior and Administration ( Poland ) conference center ( late 1988 and early 1989 ) in the village of Magdalenka had been arranged by Moscow.

This so-called 10 Agorot controversy is named after the Israeli coin brandished by PLO chairman Yasser Arafat in 1988 as evidence for this accusation.

After the lifting on sanctions restricting the time spent playing music ( so-called ' needle time ') in 1988, GWR FM became more and more music-led, playing Top 40 chart music during the daytime, and specialist music ( big band music, rock, rap etc.

After the lifting on sanctions restricting the time spent playing music ( so-called ' needle time ') in 1988, GWR FM became more and more music-led, playing Top 40 chart music during the daytime, and specialist music ( Big Band music, rock, rap etc.

During the political crisis caused by the so-called Ljubljana trial in the spring and summer of 1988, Pahor publicly proposed that the Communist Party renounce the monopoly over the Slovenian political life by allowing political pluralism.

Shortly after, a worm hit the Internet on November 3, 1988, when the so-called Morris Worm paralysed a good percentage of it.

The alleged connection between Klarwein and the so-called psychedelic art of the period is not entirely unfounded, as he has detailed his experience with LSD in his 1988 book Collected Works ; however, Klarwein also explains that drugs were never his prime inspirational source, and in one interview, denies their influence entirely.

He died of respiratory failure in Campos, refusing to sign a so-called " formula of reconciliation " ( which would include an admission that excommunication was really incurred and, that no situation of necessity-as claimed by Lefebvre and Castro Mayer-had existed in 1988 ) proposed by Vatican delegates at his death bed.

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

rightThe 88open Consortium was an industry standards group set up by Motorola in 1988 to standardize Unix systems on their Motorola 88000 RISC processor systems.

In 1988 a number of vendors, mostly from the Unix and database communities, formed the SQL Access Group ( SAG ) in an effort to produce a single basic standard for the SQL language.

agrep ( approximate grep ) is a proprietary fuzzy string searching program, developed by Udi Manber and Sun Wu between 1988 and 1991, for use with the Unix operating system.

He worked at Tektronix, Inc. in Wilsonville, Oregon designing X terminals and Unix workstations from 1983 until 1988.

The FreeBSD web site has noted Evi Nemeth's 1988 remarks about cultural-historical daemons in the Unix System Administration Handbook: " The ancient Greeks ' concept of a ' personal daemon ' was similar to the modern concept of a ' guardian angel ' ... As a rule, UNIX systems seem to be infested with both daemons and demons.

For use on their Cray supercomputer, Chrysler Corporation bought a Unix source license from AT & T on September 2, 1988.