The original project was intended for completion on the auspicious date of 8 August 1988.

Disbarment by the Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed on August 19, 1988.

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

On August 10, 1988, the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, based on the CWRIC recommendations, was signed into law by Ronald Reagan.

Microsoft hired him in August 1988 to create a successor to OS / 2, but Cutler created a completely new system instead.

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

The Iran – Iraq War ( also known as the First Persian Gulf War ) was an armed conflict between Iraq and Iran lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the longest conventional war of the 20th century.

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat ( December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988 ) was an American artist.

The Social Studies 79 ( July – August 1988 ): 153 – 60.

* Khoon Bhari Maang ( 12 August 1988 ) ( Released ) ... Sanjay Verma

Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007 ) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important ( Barrett 1988, 45 ; Harvey 1975b, 705 ; Hopkins 1972, 33 ; Klein 1968, 117 ) but also controversial ( Power 1990, 30 ) composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

He is immediately detained and will not be released until August 3, 1988.

In his apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem (" On the dignity and vocation of women ", part 67-69 ) dated 15 August 1988, Pope John Paul II dealt with the Easter events in relation to the women being present at the tomb after the Resurrection, in a section entitled ' First Witness of the Resurrection ': " The women are the first at the tomb.

Two months later, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to sign a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, and the Supreme Soviet ordered Rust to be released in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture to the west.

Rust's return to Germany on 3 August 1988 was accompanied by huge media attention, but he did not talk to the assembled journalists ; his family had sold the exclusive rights to the story to the German magazine Stern for DM 100, 000.

Kinnock gained attention in the United States in 1987 when it was discovered that then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware plagiarized one of Kinnock's speeches during his 1988 presidential campaign in a speech at a Democratic debate in Iowa in August 1987.

Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006 ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Palau's third president, Lazarus Salii, committed suicide in August 1988 amid bribery allegations.

On August 1, 1988, after achieving success in Sacramento and drawing the attention of former ABC Radio President Edward F. McLaughlin, Limbaugh moved to New York City and began his national radio show.

Limbaugh's show was first nationally syndicated in August 1988, in a later stage of AM's decline.

Robert Calvert ( 9 March 1944 – 14 August 1988 ) was a writer, poet, and musician.

Gorbachev had signaled Soviet interest in improving relations with all countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including South Korea, as explained in his July 1986 Vladivostok and August 1988 Krasnoyarsk speeches.

With the end of the war in August 1988, Syria began a slow process of reintegration with the other Arab states.

Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer discovered a new element on August 18, 1868 while looking at the chromosphere of the Sun, and named it helium after the Greek word for the Sun, ( or ).

Already in 1059 he had persuaded Robert Guiscard and Richard of Capua to become vassals of St. Peter for their newly-conquered territories: now Gregory VII immediately after his election sent for him to give an account of the state of Norman Italy and entrusted him with the negotiation of an interview with Robert Guiscard on 2 August 1073, at Benevento.

Amalfi, one of the Maritime Republics ( though already declining under Norman rule ), was conquered on 6 August 1136: the Pisans destroyed the ships in the port, assaulted the castles in the surrounding areas and drove back an army sent by Roger from Aversa.

Sir William Wallace ( Medieval Gaelic: Uilliam Uallas ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Uilleam Uallas ; Norman French: William le Waleys ; ; died 23 August 1305 ) was a Scottish knight and landowner who became one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence.

William II ( Old Norman: Williame II ; – 2 August 1100 ), the third son of William I of England, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland.

* August 6 – Norman Wexler, Academy Award nominated Screen writer

* August 27 – Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin.

* August 10 – Norman Scott, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1942 )

* August 24 – Tom Norman, English freak showman ( b. 1860 )

* August 22 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U. S. Army general

* August 9 – Failure of a Norman campaign in North Africa, the Norman troops are massacred near Mahdia at the battle of al-Dimas.

In August 1859 Lincoln at the behest of M & M attorney Norman Judd traveled to Council Bluffs to inspect M & M facilities that were to be used to secure a $ 3, 000 loan Lincoln was to hold.

* August 12 – King Henry V of England begins using English in correspondence ( back to England from France whilst on campaign ), marking the beginning of this king's continuous usage of English in prose, and the beginning of the restoration of English as an official language for the first time since the Norman Conquest, some 350 years earlier.

* August 10 – Second Battle of Athenry ends with over 5, 000 dead, and Norman rule retained in Ireland.

* August 24 – the Byzantine city of Thessalonica is sacked by the Norman Sicilian troops.

During August 1813, escaped prisoners from Norman Cross were discovered as far away as Hampshire.

On August 12, 1970 Stonehill was led to Christ by Larry Norman in the kitchen of Norman's apartment at 1140 North Gower Street, Hollywood.

Norman and Mason reunited in 1974 for a benefit concert for Israel at UCLA, later released in 1980 as the live album Larry Norman and People !— The Israel Tapes — 1974 A. D. Norman, Fridkin and Mason came together in August 2006 for a People!

In October 1970 Norman and Randy Stonehill, who had only become a Christian in August, were among those who performed at an Earth Harvest concert at Thy Brother's House, a Jesus coffee house near the campus of California State University at Fullerton, California.

By August 1970 Norman had moved to a three room " little white cottage " at 6007 Carlos Avenue, Hollywood, near the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood.

" In 1971 Norman produced an album ( Born Twice ) for Randy Stonehill, who had been converted in August 1970 in Norman's kitchen.