* 1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.

* 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

* 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.

Category: 1988 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

The Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) was a centrist political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988.

In 1988, after prompting from the United States Congress, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences ( National Institutes of Health ) ( NIGMS ) instituted a funding mechanism for biotechnology training.

A high volume of trade and migration between the United States and Canada has generated closer ties, especially after the signing of the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988.

Germany and the United States: The Transformation of the German Question since 1945 ( 1988 )

Historians including Donald Grinde, Bruce Johansen and others believe that the Iroquois constitution provided inspiration for the United States Constitution and in 1988 was recognised by a resolution in Congress.

For example, in 1988 the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination, affirmed that " a ) All persons, regardless of their sexual orientation, who profess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, are welcome to be or become full member of the Church ; and b ) All members of the Church are eligible to be considered for the Ordered Ministry.

* 1988 – A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.

Category: United States presidential candidates, 1988

The Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ) of Dublin, Ohio, United States, acquired the trademark and copyrights associated with the DDC when it bought Forest Press in 1988.

* 1988 – The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna.

* 1988 – Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.

In a dystopian 1988, crime in the United States has increased 400 %, so the island of Manhattan has been converted into a giant maximum security prison.

After examining the position of women around the world, the Washington-based Population Crisis Committee reported in 1988 that Finland, slightly behind top-ranked Sweden and just ahead of the United States, was one of the very best places in which a woman could live.

Fatah used to be designated terrorist under Israeli law and was considered terrorist by the United States Department of State and United States Congress until it renounced terrorism in 1988.

In the United States, the mass media devoted little coverage to global warming until the drought of 1988, and James E. Hansen's testimony to the Senate, which explicitly attributed " the abnormally hot weather plaguing our nation " to global warming.

Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988.

The adoption of the ITRs in 1988 is often taken as the start of the wider liberalization process in international telecommunications, though a few countries, including United States and United Kingdom, had made steps to liberalize their markets before 1988.

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.

* 1988 – United States Navy warship shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.

Category: United States vice-presidential candidates, 1988

In 1988, if Kemp had won his campaign for the United States Presidency, it would have made him the first person to move from the United States House of Representatives to the White House since James Garfield.

Moffett Campus was donated to IIT by CPC International Inc. in 1988.

Gretchen and the Jordan children donated the manuscripts of Smackout and Fibber McGee and Molly to Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications after his death in 1988.

It also contains a bronze statue of the famous racehorse Phar Lap, which was donated to the Club as part of Australia's bicentenary celebrations in 1988.

The couple donated the collection two years before a major exhibition of the collection was mounted at LACMA ; the display included photos of and by artistic photographers ranging from chemist Alphonse Poitevin in 1853 to Robert Mapplethorpe in 1988.

The site was donated to the Manx Wildlife Trust in 1988 and is open to the public for viewing and has a footpath which is suitable for wheelchair users.

In 1988, the lighthouse was removed from Seven Foot Knoll, carried by barge, and placed ashore in Baltimore's Inner Harbor where it was donated to the city.

In front of the monument is a rectangular concrete pillar that is the trig point and it is topped with a metal plaque donated in 1988 that points to true north and to the following distant features: The Cotswolds ( 53 miles ), Brill Hill ( 13 miles ), Waddesdon Manor ( 10 miles ), Calvert Chimneys ( 15 miles ), Aylesbury Church ( 5 miles ), Mursley Water Tower ( 15 miles ), Wingrave Church ( 8 miles ), Leighton Buzzard ( 12 miles ), Mentmore ( 9 miles ), Edlesborough Church ( 11 miles ) and Ivinghoe Beacon ( 9 miles ).

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ( PETA ) and the foundation that manages it — the Foundation to Support Animal Protection, also known as the PETA Foundation — donated over $ 850, 000 to PCRM between 1988 and 2000, and Barnard sat on the Foundation's board until 2005.

Work started on the Tulloch farmland donated by Bruce McDiarmid in December 1988 and was finished by the following August in time for the start of the 1989 – 90 season.

The award was endowed by James A. Michener, who donated the Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel Journey.

On October 23, 1988, Michael Jackson donated a personal black Fedora hat, white studded right-hand glove, along with $ 125, 000, the net proceeds to first show of his Bad World Tour on October 24th in The Palace of Auburn Hills, to the Motown Museum.

He also had a small role in the Danny DeVito / Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy film Twins ( 1988 ), as one of several men who had " donated " the DNA that later became the " twins ".

From 1986 to 1988, 676 cherry trees were planted using US $ 101, 000 in private funds donated to the National Park Service to restore the trees to the number at the time of the original gift.

In 1988 the Walgreens family donated their Morgan Park family mansion on 116th & Longwood drive to the Mercy Home for Girls.

After the June 1988 Kentlands Charrette, several historic buildings were donated to the city,.

The Walter & Emilie Spivey Foundation donated $ 2. 5 million to the construction which began in November 1988 ( total cost, $ 4. 5 million ).

The school was later donated to the People's Republic of China government, and Puren continued working as a teacher until retiring in 1988.

The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, which began on March 7, were mentioned several times during the evening: host Chevy Chase claimed his " entire monologue was generously donated by five Teamsters " and Sean Connery referred to the strike in his acceptance speech.

The St Martin-in-the-Fields bells were donated to the State of Western Australia as part of the 1988 Australian bicentenary celebrations ; the additional bells were cast with a subsequent donation of metals mined in Western Australia.

Due to be recast leading up to 1988, instead they were tuned and restored at London's Whitechapel Bell Foundry and donated to Western Australia, on the initiative of local bellringer and businessman Laith Reynolds.

In 1988, International League President Harold Cooper donated the trophy to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, where it is on permanent display.