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.

In subsequent years, Manço released Değmesin Yağlı Boya ( 1986 ), Sahibinden İhtiyaçtan ( 1988 ) and Darısı Başınıza ( 1989 ), all containing a couple of hit songs and demonstrating his new sound.

Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song " Orinoco Flow " ( sometimes incorrectly known as " Sail Away ").

Powerful hurricanes which have hit the island directly causing death and destruction include Hurricane Charlie in 1951 and Hurricane Gilbert in 1988.

In addition, another controversy that hit the band in 1988 was a law suit made by Matthew Trippe.

The group released the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988, which performed better in the charts than their previous release, and included the hit single " Don't Believe the Hype " in addition to " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ".

He also scored a moderate UK hit in 1988 with a version of " He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother.

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

Following the success of their cover of The Kinks ' " All Day And All Of The Night ", a UK No. 7 hit in 1988, The Stranglers released another ' 60s cover, " 96 Tears " as their first single from 10 ; it reached No. 17 in the UK.

On 16 April 1988, as the Intifada was raging, Abu Jihad was assassinated in his Tunis household, allegedly by an Israeli hit squad.

Loadsamoney spawned a hit single in 1988 and a sell-out live tour.

Numan signed to IRS Records and his final studio album of the 1980s, the edgy, industrial-funk Metal Rhythm ( 1988 ) found favour with fans and scored some positive reviews in the UK music press, but it sold poorly despite two hit singles.

After her performance as leading woman to Dudley Moore in 1981's hit film Arthur, Minnelli made fewer film appearances although she returned to the big screen in 1988 for Arthur 2: On the Rocks and in 1991 for Stepping Out, a musical dramedy.

On 18 July 1988, while on holiday with her son Ari, Nico had a minor heart attack while riding a bicycle and hit her head as she fell.

In 1988, Front by Front was released, and in December of that same year, " Headhunter " ( with a video by Anton Corbijn ), became the band's first club hit, reaching # 13 on the US Billboard Dance / Club Play Songs chart.

Between 1947 and 1988, 13 severe cyclones hit Bangladesh, causing enormous loss of life and property.

In 1988 it featured scenes in the comedy hit Coming to America.

In 1988, Olerud hit. 464 with 23 HR, 81 RBIs, 108 hits, 204 total bases, and a. 876 Slugging percentage.

In 1988 tests started on an improved warhead using a proximity fuse, in order to give Rapier capability against smaller targets that would be difficult to hit directly, notably high-speed remotely piloted vehicles.

In 1988 he hit a career high. 303.

However their version of the song was a hit on US college radio in 1988, which led to the group being offered a major label deal at Uni / MCA.

In 1988, a youth group from the First Assembly of God in Radcliff was involved in the worst drunk-driving accident in U. S. history, a bus accident in which a drunk driver going the wrong way on Interstate 71 hit the group's vehicle, killing 27 people in the crash and the resulting fire.

* Lori Loughlin, actress on the hit television family-comedy series Full House, played the role of Rebecca Donaldson, 1988 – 1995

The statue has twice been hit by automobiles — the first occurrence in 1930 and the second occurrence in 1988.

Bluth's 1988 follow-up The Land Before Time was a slightly bigger hit, grossing $ 48, 092, 846 ($ in today's dollars ) and spawning 12 sequels and a TV series.