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.

The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988.

On 1 December 1988, the Supreme Soviet amended the Soviet constitution to allow for the establishment of a Congress of People's Deputies as the Soviet Union's new supreme legislative body.

Quartermaster Professional Bulletin, December, 1988.

The last Cowboys game with Tom Landry as coach was a win over Washington on December 11, 1988.

On 21 December 1988, Dewar was in Lockerbie after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as the member of the Shadow Cabinet in charge of Scottish affairs.

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 December 4, 1988, Busey was severely injured in a motorcycle accident in which he was not wearing a helmet.

High Sierra was adopted in December 1986 ( with changes ) as an international standard by Ecma International as ECMA-119 and submitted for fast tracking to the ISO, where it was eventually accepted as ISO 9660: 1988.

His son Chris Lemmon ( b. 1954 ), was his first child by his first wife, actress Cynthia Stone ( b. February 26, 1926, Peoria, Illinois, d. December 26, 1988 ).

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

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.

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.

In 1991, two Libyan intelligence agents were indicted by prosecutors in the United States and United Kingdom for their involvement in the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

In November 1991, two Libyan intelligence agents, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, were charged with the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing.

The first SES Astra satellite, the 16-channel RCA 4000 Astra 1A, was launched by the Ariane Rocket in December 1988.

In December 1988, he returned to Warsaw, due to his promotion to the position of the Secretary of the PZPR Central Committee.

On December 21, 1988, Drexel pleaded nolo contendere to six counts of stock parking and stock manipulation, and agreed that Milken had to leave the firm if indicted.

# Falling Free ( December 1987-February 1988, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine )

You will no doubt recall that the Angola accords were signed in Luanda on 22 December 1988.

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

On 14 December 1988, following an outcry from his 13 December General Assembly speech, Yasser Arafat called a press conference in Geneva to clarify his earlier statement by specifically mentioning the right of all parties concerned in the Middle East conflict to exist in peace and security, including the State of Palestine, Israel, and their neighbours.

Roy Kelton Orbison ( April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988 ) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads.

In December 1943, President Roosevelt decided that Eisenhower — not Marshall — would be Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

The Columbia trustees refused to accept his resignation in December 1950, when he took leave from the university to become the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), and was given operational command of NATO forces in Europe.

** Emilio Aguinaldo, the last President of the Supreme Government Council 23 March 1897-16 December 1897 and chairman of the Revolutionary Government from 23 June to 1 November 1897, was dictator from 12 June 1898-23 January.

In December 2004, the Supreme Court lifted a stay thereby allowing the Brazil-based União do Vegetal ( UDV ) church to use a decoction containing DMT in their Christmas services that year.

In December 2004, Gutiérrez unconstitutionally dissolved and appointed new judges to the Supreme Court.

A bare majority of Congress, acting in a special session called by former President Lucio Gutiérrez in December, 2004, ousted 27 of the 31 justices and replaced them with new members chosen by Congress, notwithstanding the lack of any provisions permitting impeachment of Supreme Court justices by Congress and the specific provisions giving the Court the power to select new members.

In December 2008, Iran ’ s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili visited Ecuador.

In addition to Greek Foreign Ministry meetings with Turkish officials, Greece ’ s Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes launched an emergency inquiry on 27 December, ordering the investigations into the mid-1990s wildfires blamed on arson to be reopened with regard to the initial claims reportedly made by Yılmaz.

Alexander remained in command of 15th Army Group, as well as its successor, the Allied Armies in Italy, for most of the Italian Campaign, until December 1944, when he relinquished his command to Clark and took over as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Headquarters, responsible for all military operations in the Mediterranean Theatre.

On 15 December 1990, the Supreme Soviet voted to change the republic's name to the Republic of Kyrgyzstan.

Buma / Stemra lost its appeal before the Dutch Supreme Court in December 2003.

A Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers | SCAP coroner performing a postmortem on Konoe ( 17 December 1945 )

Beria and the others were tried by a special session (" Spetsialnoye Sudebnoye Prisutstvie ") of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on 23 December 1953 with no defense counsel and no right of appeal.

In December 1998, Paraguay's Supreme Court declared these actions unconstitutional.

Although the constitution prescribed a new form of legislature, the PDPU-dominated Supreme Soviet remained in office for nearly two years until the first election to the new parliament, the Supreme Assembly of Uzbekistan ( Oliy Majlis ), which took place in December 1994 and January 1995.

The following month, however, the Vanuatu government of Prime Minister Sato Kilman was voided by the Supreme Court, on the grounds that Kilman's election in December 2010 had not conformed to constitutional requirements.

Soviet calendar 12 December 1937 ( Below 12 :) " Sixth day of the six-day week " ————————— " Election day for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "

* December 13 – Bush v. Gore: The U. S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.

* December 14 – Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States ( 379 US 241 1964 ): The U. S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public accommodations must refrain from racial discrimination.

* December 16 – Brazil's Supreme Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption.

* December 5 – Minita Chico-Nazario, Filipino Supreme Court jurist

* December 24 – World War II: U. S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.