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.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

Soon the hobby spread to other sports as well and by 1988, USA Today estimated that five hundred thousand people were playing.

Researchers have adapted, elaborated, or otherwise changed Organ's ( 1988 ) five OCB categories, but they remain popular today.

Between 1976 and 1988, New Caledonia adopted five different statutes, with each proving to be a source of discontent and, at times, serious disorder, culminating in 1988 with a bloody hostage taking in Ouvéa.

During their history, the Mets have won two World Series titles ( 1969 and 1986 ), four National League pennants ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000 ) and five National League East titles ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2006 ).

The band performed the suite in concert on five occasions: in 1988, 1991, 1993, and twice in 1994 without replicating the song list.

Heinlein's surgical treatment re-energized him, and he wrote five novels from 1980 until he died in his sleep from emphysema and heart failure on May 8, 1988.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

Written by all five men, it was recorded over a ten-day period in May 1988, and released on October 18.

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

The events surrounding the Jamaica bobsled team in 1988 would lead to the creation of the Disney movie Cool Runnings five years later which was based on Jamaica's 1988 bobsled team.

The previous LLNL record of seven awards was reached five times – in 1987, 1988, 1997, 1998 and 2006.

During his second term in office, in May – June 1988, more than five years after using the term " evil empire ," Reagan visited the new reformist General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow.

In 1974 that Corporation was abolished, and the town became part of the much larger Monmouth District ( becoming Monmouth Borough in 1988 ), which until 1996 formed one of the five districts of Gwent.

At the UEFA Euro 1988, Van Basten scored a total of five goals, including a hat trick against England, the winning goal in the semi-final against West Germany, and a spectacular volley in the final against the Soviet Union.

Pentagonal Revisionism is a plan consisting of five major goals written in 1988 by founder Anton Szandor LaVey:

* May 20, 1988: Winnetka, Illinois 30 year old Laurie Dann shot and killed one elementary school student and wounded five others, then took a family hostage and shot a man before killing herself.

On December 31, 1988, Lemieux became the only player in history to score a goal in all five possible game situations in the same game ( even strength, shorthanded, penalty shot, power play, and empty net ).

* In 1988, a Broadway musical of the same name starring Betty Buckley, Linzi Hateley, and Darlene Love closed after only five performances and 16 previews, leading to it being viewed as one of the biggest Broadway flops of all time.

In the next seven seasons, plagued by injury including to Sampson who would be traded in 1988, they lost in the first round of the playoffs five times, until finally advancing in 1993 past the L. A. Clippers and battle the rival Seattle SuperSonics to the bitter end before falling short in an overtime Game 7.

Soon thereafter, in February 1988, he released Nada como el sol, a selection of five songs from Sun sung ( by Sting himself ) in Spanish and Portuguese.

* 1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model, Miss International 2009

* 1988 – Enrique Esqueda Mexican footballer

* 1988 – Ximena Navarrete, Mexican beauty queen, Miss Universe 2010

* 1988 – Javier Hernández Balcázar, Mexican footballer

* 1988 – César Villaluz, Mexican footballer

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

The Article 89, Section 10 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States states the principles of the Mexican foreign policy, which were officially incorporated in 1988.

* April 6 – Ramon Valdes, Mexican comedian ( d. 1988 )

Carlos Salinas de Gortari () ( born April 3, 1948 ) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) who served as President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.

Daniela Luján ( born Daniela Barrios Rodriguez April 5, 1988 ) is a Mexican pop singer and actress.

In 1988 they followed with another album, titled La Pistola y El Corazón featuring original and traditional Mexican songs.

Category: Mexican presidential candidates ( 1988 )

Agustín Yáñez justifies this often criticized " moralizing " tendency in Lizardi as " a constant in the artistic production of Mexico … and moreover, it is a constant in Mexican life " (" El Pensador Mexicano ," in Cedomil Goic, ed., Historia y crítica de la literatura hispanoamericana, t. I, Época colonial, Barcelona: Grijalbo, 1988, pp. 428 – 29 ).

Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado ( December 12, 1934 – April 1, 2012 ) was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) who served as 52nd President of Mexico from 1982 to 1988.

* Pee Wee ( entertainer ) ( born 1988 ), Mexican American singer and actor

Tres Valles ( Three Valleys ) is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz, created as a free municipality by decree on November 25, 1988.

Ramón Gómez Valdés de Castillo ( September 2, 1923 – August 9, 1988 ), often credited as Ramón Valdéz, was a Mexican actor of film and television best known for his portrayal of Don Ramón in the popular sitcom El Chavo del Ocho.

In 1988, a luxury variant – the Volkswagen Caravelle – made its debut in the Mexican market to compete with the Nissan Ichi Van, which was available in cargo, passenger and luxury versions.

Additional Deep Thoughts appeared in the October and November 1984 editions as well as in the short-lived comedy magazine Army Man, while more appeared in 1988 in The New Mexican.

** Ramón Valdés ( 1923 – 1988 ), Mexican actor

* Ever Guzmán ( born 1988 ), a Mexican football ( soccer ) player

Víctor Manuel Cervera Pacheco ( April 23, 1936-August 15, 2004 ) was a Mexican politician who served as Governor of Yucatán from 1984 to 1988, and again from 1995 through 2001.

The K-car based Mexican Dodge Magnum was a sporty 2-door compact, based on the Dodge Aries coupé body ( with blackout 1982-1985 Dodge 400 grille in 1983-1985 and a blackout 1986-1988 Plymouth Caravelle grille in 1986-1988 ) offered from 1983 to 1988 with available turbocharger (" TurboChrysler " engine ) from 1984 on.