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.

Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1988 and the society's Reuben Award in 1986 ; he was the youngest person ever to receive the latter award.

In 1988, she made her first International Norm in the International B section of the New York Open and by November 1988 she was awarded the International Master title, at the time the youngest ever to have achieved the distinction.

He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes including the Tswett Medal ( 1975 ), an American Chemical Society chromatography award ( 1980 ), the World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier Prize ( 1988 ), the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for the Environment ( 1990 ) and the Royal Geographical Society Discovery Lifetime award ( 2001 ).

In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Science.

Since 1988, the Millennium Trophy has been awarded to the winner of the game between England and Ireland.

In 1988 she was awarded a Ph. D. in space physics and astronomy from Rice University.

Note 4: GSA awarded two 10-year, fixed-price contracts covering FTS2000 services on December 7, 1988.

One particularly notable development, which has gained quite wide acceptance in chess, was proposed by former world champion Bobby Fischer, who in 1988 filed for ( awarded in 1989 ) for a new type of digital chess clock.

In 1988, Rouse was awarded the second Honor Award from the National Building Museum.

In 1988, she was awarded a scholarship to an exclusive girls ' school, Fairholme College in Toowoomba.

On April 5, 1987, NBA Commissioner David Stern called Shinn to tell him that his group had been awarded the 24th franchise of the NBA, to begin play in 1988.

In 2008, he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award as well as a Caps grant in 1983, an award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988 and a NYSCA grant in 1998, all for music composition.

* In 1988 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports and the Peace Prize awarded by South Korea.

After retiring from the Senate, Mansfield served as U. S. Ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988, and upon retiring as ambassador, was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom ( 1989 ), in part for his role in the impeachment of Republican President Richard Nixon Mansfield is the longest serving American ambassador to Japan in history.

He was also awarded the The Ring Lightweight Championship in 1988.

Lillehammer was awarded the 1994 Winter Olympics in 1988, after beating Anchorage, United States ; Östersund, Sweden ; and Sofia, Bulgaria.

Antiferromagnetism plays a crucial role in giant magnetoresistance, as had been discovered in 1988 by the Nobel prize winners Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg ( awarded in 2007 ).

In 1988, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

* Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1988, awarded in recognition for an " outstanding and invaluable " contribution to military cooperation between the UK and the US, particularly during the Falklands War of 1982.

* In 1988, he was awarded an Honorary Degree ( Doctor of Science ) by the University of Bath.

In 1988, he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Catholic University of Louvain, and in 1991, was raised into the Belgian nobility by King Baudouin with the hereditary title of Count Harmel ( Dutch: graaf Harmel ).