* 1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, British author ( d. 1988 )

* Alexandra Burke ( born 1988 ), British singer

* Edwina Currie resigns as a junior Health minister for incorrectly claiming that millions of British eggs were infected with salmonella, stating that " most of egg production " was infected ( 1988 )

This was converted to a public limited company, British Steel PLC, and privatised in 1988.

British Steel was privatised in 1988 by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher.

" The European Steel Unions and the Steel Crisis, 1974-84: A Study in the Demise of Traditional Unionism ," British Journal of Political Science, Apr 1988, Vol.

* British Steel Corporation, 1988 Competition Commission report

An eastbound CPR freight at Stoney Creek Bridge in Rogers Pass ( British Columbia ) | Rogers Pass as seen in a 1988 photo by David R. Spencer.

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

In 1988 the British artist and friend of Weizenbaum Brian Reffin Smith created and showed at the exhibition ' Salamandre ', in the Musée du Berry, Bourges, France, two art-oriented ELIZA-style programs written in BASIC, one called ' Critic ' and the other ' Artist ', running on two separate Amiga 1000 computers.

* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).

The National Tremor Foundation ( NTF ), founded in 1992, is a British friendly organisation based in Essex, England, an affiliate of the International Tremor Foundation, which was founded in 1988.

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

On 1 January 1988, British Telecom ( BT ) and the Government of Gibraltar formed a joint venture company called Gibraltar Telecommunications International Ltd ( known by its commercial brand Gibtel ) to operate Gibraltar's international telecommunications services.

1988 saw the setting up of the monument Gure Aitaren Etxea, by Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida, and in 1990 Large Figure in a Shelter, by British sculptor Henry Moore, was erected beside it.

The British press also changed its coverage at the end of 1988, following a speech by Margaret Thatcher to the Royal Society advocating action against human-induced climate change.

In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience, 1650-1850 ( 1988 ).

* 1913 – Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener ( d. 1988 )

Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.

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.

The ongoing commercial success of the original Land Rover series models, and latterly the Range Rover in the 1970s in the midst of BL ’ s well documented business troubles prompted the establishment of a separate Land Rover company but still under the BL umbrella, remaining part of the subsequent Rover Group in 1988 under the ownership of British Aerospace after the remains of British Leyland were broken up and privatised.

* 1988: Rover Group is privatised and becomes part of British Aerospace, and is now known simply as Rover

Executive producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove were responsible for both Matlock and Jake and the Fatman as well as Diagnosis: Murder, created by Joyce Burditt ( which itself was a spin-off of Jake and the Fatman ) in 1993, also on CBS ; Father Dowling Mysteries in 1988 on NBC, CBS, ABC ; and the 30 Perry Mason made-for-TV movies from 1985 until 1995 on NBC.

He also appeared in the made-for-TV films Shooter ( 1988 ) and The Cover Girl Murder ( 1993 ) which starred Lee Majors.

with Al Pacino, Deathtrap ( 1982 ) with Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine, Caddyshack II ( 1988 ), as well as several made-for-TV movies.

In a 1988 made-for-TV movie based on the series, Dobie and Zelda were portrayed as being married.

In 1988, a made-for-TV movie, Around the World with the Wacky Racers, was planned as part of Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 series of TV movies, but it never got past the concept stage.

The series had three seasons ( 1985 – 1988 ) with a total of 66 episodes, and was followed by four made-for-TV movies ( 1993 – 1995 ).

Other roles were as Kid Belz in the movie The Wrong Guys in 1988 and Max Plotkin in the made-for-TV movie Camp Cucamonga in 1990.

She got her first big break in the 1988 made-for-TV movie A Father's Homecoming.

Lincoln, a made-for-TV film based on the novel, first aired in 1988.

After Tall Tales and Legends ended in 1988, Duvall founded a new production company called Think Entertainment to develop programs and made-for-TV movies for cable channels.

DVD Cover ArtThe Great Escape II: The Untold Story ( 1988 ) was a highly-fictionalized, 178 minute, made-for-TV sequel to the 1963 movie The Great Escape.

* In the made-for-TV movie Dance ' til Dawn ( 1988 ), the prom theme is " Paris in Puce.

In December 1988, ABC aired a two-hour made-for-TV movie: Roots: The Gift.

The 1988 made-for-TV film Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story, was based on the life of former Los Gatos High School head football coach Charlie Wedemeyer, who was stricken with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and continued to coach the football team for several years.

In 1988, Lowe co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Urich in the made-for-TV film April Morning, which depicted the battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War.

A made-for-TV movie aired on the CBS TV network, Pancho Barnes ( 1988 ), starring Valerie Bertinelli as Pancho, featured a fictionalized version of Barnes ' life and events relating to The Happy Bottom Riding Club.

Her battle with the disease was chronicled in the top-rated 1988 made-for-TV film, The Ann Jillian Story, in which Jillian portrayed herself.

* Too Good to Be True ( film ), a 1988 made-for-TV movie

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

President Ronald Reagan, who played George Gipp in the movie " Knute Rockne, All American ", gave an address at the Athletic & Convocation Center at the University of Notre Dame on March 9, 1988, and officially unveiled the Rockne stamp.

" In 1988, Waits performed in Big Time, a surreal concert movie and soundtrack which he cowrote with his wife.

The events surrounding the Jamaica bobsled team in 1988 would lead to the creation of the Disney movie Cool Runnings five years later which was based on Jamaica's 1988 bobsled team.

The John Hancock Center was featured in the 1988 movie Poltergeist III.

In 1988, a made-for-television movie entitled Breaking all the Rules: The Creation of Trivial Pursuit aired.

Porky has a cameo at the end of the 1988 Disney / Amblin film Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), where, paired with Disney's Tinkerbell, has the duty of closing the movie with his famous line " Th-Th-Th-That's All Folks !".

The 1988 movie, Tucker: The Man and His Dream is based on Tucker's spirit and the saga surrounding the car's production.

The event occurred in 1979, and the movie was released in 1988.

Though the 1986 movie The Golden Child implemented very crude morphing effects from animal to human and back, the first movie to employ detailed morphing was Willow, in 1988.

However, it was his then-unexpected turn in the film Die Hard ( 1988 ) that catapulted him to movie star status.

Due to the general perception of the character by audiences, Scrappy-Doo has not appeared in any Scooby-related spinoffs since the made-for-television movie Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf in 1988, with three exceptions:

Willie the Giant makes a brief cameo in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit on a poster in a movie theater in Toontown.

TNT, as a cable service, was launched with a showing of the 1939 classic movie Gone with the Wind ( to which Ted Turner had acquired the rights ), on October 3, 1988.

Sykes produced one further silent movie for Thames in 1988, Mr. H. Is Late, set at a funeral.

A covered bridge is also prominently featured in the story Never Bet the Devil Your Head, by Edgar Allan Poe and a dilapidated covered bridge serves as a major plot point in the 1988 movie Funny Farm.

Piglet also made a brief cameo in the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

* In the 1988 movie Scrooged had a cameo as himself, acting in a movie directed by Bill Murray's character.

The crime and decades-long legal aftermath inspired the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.

File: Chambers County, AL Courthouse ( NRHP ). JPG | The Chambers County Courthouse in LaFayette is featured prominently in the 1988 movie, Mississippi Burning.