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.

During the Cold War the People's Republic of Bulgaria maintained one of the largest militaries in the Warsaw Pact, numbering an estimated 152, 000 troops in 1988.

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

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

The Marxist FUTH, with an estimated 16, 000 members in the early 1990s, was first organized in 1980 by three communist-influenced unions, but did not receive legal status until 1988.

One source estimated them at no more than 100 members as of 1988.

In 1988 approximately 75 million households owned television sets, and an estimated 93 percent of the population watched television.

In 1988 the Economic Planning Board estimated that the urban portion of the population will reach 78. 3 % by the end of the twentieth century.

Total production ( including buses and trucks ) for 1988 totaled 1. 1 million units, a 10. 6 percent increase over 1987, and grew to an estimated 1. 3 million vehicles ( predominantly passenger cars ) in 1989.

* 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica ; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $ 5 billion in damage.

At an estimated cost of DKK 21. 4 billion ( 1988 prices ), the link is the largest construction project in Danish history.

In 1988, it is estimated that 157-236 million people took part in ecotourism.

Some argue that the Bolsheviks were guilty of the mass extermination of the Don Cossack people, killing an estimated 70 percent ( or 700, 000 persons ) of the Don Cossack population ( Heller and Nekrich, 1988: 87 ).

In 1988, the estimated population was 265, 000, with an area of 980 km².

Using a new vertical datum established in 1988 ( NAVD88 ) the benchmark is now estimated to be at.

In 1988, the Isneg were estimated to number around 45, 000.

Later re-examinations of the remains confirmed Smith's original identification of the mummy as belonging to a young male ( although with feminine trends )< ref name =" aldred p. 201 "> Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) p. 201 </ ref > but pushed the estimated age of death back to around 20 years .< ref name =" aldred p. 201-202 "> Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) p. 201-202 </ ref > These re-examinations also indicated that the body showed no signs of delayed maturation < ref name =" davis p. xi "> Davis, T. M., < cite > The Tomb of Queen Tiyi </ cite >, ( KMT Communications, 1990 ) p. xi </ ref > and that, while the skull was of unusual shape, it certainly wasn't abnormal, and showed no indication of hydrocephalus.

The KV55 mummy was originally given an estimated age of death from about twenty to twenty five years, which was seen as being far too young to be Akhenaten himself .< ref > Aldred, C., < cite > Akhenaten, King of Egypt </ cite > ( Thames and Hudson, 1988 ) pp. 201-202 </ ref > However, this identification was problematic as the archaeological evidence and inscriptions found in this tomb suggested that the body in KV55 was that of Akhenaten .< ref > Davis, T. M., < cite > The Tomb of Queen Tiyi </ cite >, ( KMT Communications.

A study by Laband and Sophocleus in 1988 estimated that rent-seeking had decreased total income in the country by 45 percent.

The impact of the PASOK Government ’ s social and economic policies was such that it was estimated in 1988 that two-thirds of the decrease in inequality that occurred in Greece between 1974 and 1982 took place between 1981 and 1982.

In 1988 the United States Department of State estimated that they constituted 37 percent of the population.

In 1988 they made up an estimated 25 percent of the Angolan population.

The hyphenated category Lunda-Chokwe constituted an estimated 8 percent of the Angolan population in 1988.

The Lwena and Luchazi, roughly equal in number, constituted about a third of the census category of Nganguela, which in 1988 accounted for an estimated 6 percent of the Angolan population.