1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. 1988 - Events. January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. January 2 - Georgia celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 9 - Connecticut celebrates its bicentennial statehood. January 26 - Australia celebrates its bicentennial. 1988 - February. ...

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1988 - January to March. January 2 - Edmund Brisco Ford, British geneticist (b. 1901) January 5 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947) January 7 - Trevor Howard, British actor (b. 1913) January 11 - Pappy Boyington, American pilot (b. 1912) January 13 - Chiang Ching-kuo, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910) January 14 - Georgi Malenkov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (b. 1902) January 15 - Se ...

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1988 in South Africa - January. 1 January - Nordic countries implement comprehensive sanctions against South Africa and South West Africa which are intended to counteract apartheid 10 January - 6 African National Congress members are injured in a car bomb explosion in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 25 January - Guerrillas wound a policeman when they open fire at a police roadblock set up at Ugie A Limpet mine explodes at the Kokstad Men's Club opposite the police station 27 January - Guerrillas open fire on a police vehicle in Soweto a ...

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Pamela Rosenberg came from a background of operatic productions in Germany and, specifically, from the Stuttgart Opera. In January of 2001, Pamela Rosenberg announced her first artistic initiative for San Francisco Opera, “Animating Opera”, a multi-year plan of interwoven themes and series. These included “Seminal Works of Modern Times”, “The Faust Project”, “Composer Portrait: Janacek/Berlioz”, “Women Outside of Society: Laws Unto Themselves”, “Metamorphosis: From Fairy Tales to Nightmares”, and “Outsiders o ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Fresh from 33 years of directing the Houston Grand Opera, Gockley took up his post on 1st January 2006 and plans to announce the 2006/2007 season on 11th January. Gockley's achievements in Houston were ennormous. He oversaw the major growth of the company and has been especially innovative in the presentation of 28 world premieres and six American premieres. ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Since 1923, SFO has presented the American debut of numerous artists, including Vladimir Atlantov, Inge Borkh, Boris Christoff, Marie Collier, Geraint Evans, Mafalda Favero, Tito Gobbi, Sena Jurinac, Mario del Monaco, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Margaret Price, Leonie Rysanek, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giulietta Simionato, Ebe Stignani, Renata Tebaldi and Ingvar Wixell; conductors Gerd Albrecht, Valery Gergiev, Georg Solti and Silvio Varviso; and d ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (August 12, 1924–August 17, 1988) ruled Pakistan from 1977 to 1988. Zia-ul-Haq was the third person in the history of Pakistan to enforce martial law and halt civilian rule in the country. He was born in Jalandhar (in India) in 1924 as the second child of a school teacher named Mohammad Akbar. He completed his initial education in Simla and then at St. Stephen's College in Delhi. He was commissioned in the British Army in 1943 and served during World War II. At independence, Zia joined the Pakistan ...

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David Koresh, born Vernon Wayne Howell (August 17, 1959 - April 19, 1993) was a self-proclaimed head of the Branch Davidians from 1988 until a raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and subsequent siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended with the burning of Branch Davidian ranch, the Mount Carmel Center. David Koresh - Early life. Vernon Wayne Howell was born on August 17, 1959 in Houston, Texas to a not-quite-15-year-old single mother. He never knew his father and was raised ...

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Ateqeh Rajabi (1988 to August 15, 2004) was a sixteen year-old Iranian girl who was executed in Iran after being sentenced to death by an Iranian judge, Haji Rezaii, for allegedly having committed "acts incompatible with chastity" (having sexual intercourse with an older man), and for removing her hijab while arguing with her judge in court. Ateqeh reportedly had no access to legal counsel and her death sentence was upheld by a Supreme Court of conservative mullahs. Haji Rezaii, the religious judge, was reportedly so incensed w ...

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Avery Robert Cardinal Dulles, S.J. (born August 24, 1918 in Auburn, New York) is currently the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. He is an internationally known author and lecturer. He was born in Auburn, New York, the son of former US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Janet Pomeroy Avery Dulles. He received his primary school education in New York City, and attended secondary schools in Switzerland and New England. After graduating from Harva ...

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William Walters Sargant (April 24, 1907 - August 27, 1988), British psychiatrist, Founder and Director of the Department of Psychological Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital in London, where he established a laboratory for mind control experiments. He was also a consultant to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI5/MI6). William Sargant was a pioneer in methods of placing false memories into patients. He attested at the 1977 U.S. Senate hearing, "that the therapist should deliberately distort the facts of the patient's life-ex ...

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David LeFevre Dodd is an academic colleague of Benjamin Graham at 'Columbia University'. Co-wrote 1934 classic book 'Security Analysis' with Benjamin Graham. Obit: Born August 23, 1895, Berkeley County, WV; died of respiratory failure, September 18, 1988, in Portland, Me. Financial analyst, educator, and author. A respected expert in the field of finance, Dodd taught business at Columbia University for almost forty years. He served as associate dean of the Columbia Business School from 1948 to 1952 and retired from the Columbia ...

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Kurt Herbert Adler (1905, Vienna, Austria – 9 February 1988, Marin County, California) came to the United States in 1938 after early experience and training in many aspects of music and theatre in Austria, Germany, and Italy. For five years, he worked to build the chorus of the Chicago Opera Company. Merola heard of him and, over the telephone, invited him to San Francisco opera in 1943 as chorus director. He took on more and more administrative details as Merola’s health and energy diminished, but Adler was not the Board’s natu ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Alejandro González Iñárritu (August 15, 1963, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican film director. He started his career as a DJ in 1984 at the top-rated Mexican radio station WFM. In 1988 he began composing music for six Mexican feature films, including "Garra de tigre" (1989). He studied filmmaking in Maine and Los Angeles, under Polish film director Ludwik Margules and studied directing under Judith Weston in Los Angeles. In the nineties he was in charge of the production of Televisa, a Mexican TV company. ...

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Background Christianity Protestant Reformation Apostolic Succession Roman Catholicism People Thomas Cranmer Henry VIII Richard Hooker Governance Episcopal structure Lambeth Conferences Archbishop of Canterbury Liturgy and Worship Book of Common Prayer High Church · Low Church Broad Church Ox ...

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Lambeth Conferences, Lambeth Conferences - Origin, Lambeth Conferences - Timeline, Lambeth Conferences - First Conference September 24-28 1867, Lambeth Conferences - Second Conference July 2-27 1878, Lambeth Conferences - Third Conference July 3-27 1888, Lambeth Conferences - Fourth Conference July 5-31 1897, Lambeth Conferences - Fifth Conference July 6-August 5 1908, Lambeth Conferences - Sixth Conference 1920, Lambeth Conferences - Seventh Conference 1930, Lambeth Conferences - Eighth Conference 1948, Lambeth Conferences - Ninth Conference 1958, Lambeth Conferences - Tenth Conference 1968, Lambeth Conferences - Eleventh Conference 1978, Lambeth Conferences - Twelfth Conference 1988, Lambeth Conferences - Thirteenth Conference July 18 - August 9 1998

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Following Adler's retirement announcement in June 1979, ”Terry” McEwen (b. Thunder Bay, Ontario 1929) was Adler’s hand-picked successor. Growing up in the Montreal area of Canada, McEwen learned to love opera at an early age, listened to the Met broadcasts, and at age 14, made a trip to New York one winter break to hear several of his favorite operas, which included Bidó Sayão and Jussi Bjorling in Rigoletto. As a singer, Sayão was forever to remain his ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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While the first performance of the San Francisco Opera was La bohème, with Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli, on September 26, 1923, in the city's Civic Auditorium and conducted by Merola, his involvement in opera in the San Francisco Bay Area had been ongoing since his first visit in 1906. Merola actually launched the company in 1922, convinced that the city could support a full-time opera organization and not depend upon visiting companies, which had been coming to the City since Gold Rush days. In fact, Merola’s initia ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Lotfi Mansouri (b. 19??, Iran - ) was already a known quantity when Terry McEwen announced his retirement. Then head of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, Mansouri had received an education in medicine in Los Angeles, but gave it all up upon becoming fixated on opera, first as a young tenor with UCLA’s Opera Workshop, and then with opera in general. As early as 1962, with Mansouri having found work as director in Los Angeles followed by his becoming resident stage director at the Zurich Opera, Adler came to see him at work and h ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Jacques Chirac - Action as a mayor. By an astute move, Chirac secured his election as secretary-general of the Gaullist UDR in the face of potential opposition from the party "barons" and soon afterwards consolidated his hold over the majority by easily defeating an opposition motion of censure. Chirac also formed the conservative Rally for the Republic movement in 1976 ...

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