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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1988 in rail transport - February events. February 1 - MBTA restores passenger train service to Rhode Island, but only during peak rush-hour times. February 29 - Illinois Central Gulf Railroad drops the word "Gulf" from its name, returning to the premerger Illinois Central Railroad company name. 1988 in rail transport - June events. June 27 - A runaway train hits a stationary rush-hour train at Gare de Lyon in France, killing 5 ...

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Seasons 1-3 and 5 were half-hour shows; season 4 ran a full hour per episode. The series was hosted by Rod Serling. see The Twilight Zone (original series). List of The Twilight Zone episodes - Season 1 October 2 1959 – July 1 1960. "Where Is Everybody?" "One for the Angels" "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" "Walking Distance" "Escape Clause" "The Lonely" "Time Enough at Last" "Perchance to Dream"< ...

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After graduating from Phillips Academy in June, 1942, he joined the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday to become an aviator. After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve on June 9, 1943, several days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date. After finishing flight training he was assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT-51) as photographic officer in September 1943. As part of Air Group 51, his squadron was based on U.S.S. San Jacinto in the spring ...

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The 1988 European Football Championship (Euro 88) final tournament was held at West Germany. It was the 8th edition of the European Football Championship, held every four years and supported by UEFA. The final tournament took place between June 10 and June 25, 1988. At the time, only eight countries could dispute the final tournament. Seven countries had to qualify for the final stage. West Germany qualified automatically as hosts of the event. 1988 European Football Championship - Venues. < ...

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1988 European Football Championship - The Winning Squad

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Chellsie Marie Memmel (born June 23, 1988 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American gymnast. Other related archives1988, June 23, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, gymnast

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What If is a comic book series first published intermittently (originally bimonthly) in the late 1970s by Marvel Comics that explores "the road not traveled" by its own various characters. All of the stories are set with the alien Uatu the Watcher as narrator. As the observer of events transpiring on Earth from his base on the moon, Uatu is also able to observe what transpires in "alternate realities" — that is, on worlds where the history depicted in the comic books took a different turn. The first What If issu ...

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Virginia Satir (26 June 1916 - 10 September 1988) was a noted psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy. Her most well-known books are Conjoint Family Therapy, 1964, Peoplemaking, 1972, and The New Peoplemaking, 1988. Her work was extensively studied by Richard Bandler and John Grinder who used it as one of the three primary models of NLP. However Virginia herself was known to be rather uneasy about the distillation of her work - best summed up by Jerry (Gerald) Weinberg who studied directly with Virginia Satir for over a decade after investigating NLP and decidin ...

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Carl Owen Hubbell (June 22, 1903 - November 21, 1988) was a left-handed screwball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the New York Giants in the National League from 1928 to 1943. Hubbell was born in Carthage, Missouri. Nicknamed "King Carl" by the fans and "The Meal Ticket" by his teammates, Hubbell's first major-league victory was a 4-0 shutout of the Philadelphia Phillies. Making a late entry to the majors at age 25, Hubbell would go 10-6 in his first season, and would pitch his entire career for t ...

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Vishwanath Pratap Singh (born 25 June 1931) was the seventh Prime Minister of the Republic of India. After resigning as Congress cabinet minister under Rajiv Gandhi's government, Singh floated an opposition party Jan Morcha to protest a defense contract. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Allahabad defeating Anil Shastri. On 11 October 1988, the birthday of Jayaprakash Narayan Janata dal was formed by merger of Jan Morcha, Janata Party, Lok dal and Congress(s). Janatha Dal fought elections in 1989, alongside BJP and the Communist ...

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Alex Sanders (June 6, 1926 - April 30, 1988), born Orrell Alexander Carter, was the founder of the Alexandrian tradition of Wicca. Sanders' first contact with Gardenerian Wicca was in the early 1960s, through correspondence and meetings with with Patricia Crowther. In September 1962, he succeeded in convincing the Manchester Evening News to run a front-page article on Wicca. This publicity had several unfortunate side-effects for Sanders, including the loss of his job (due to evidence provided in the article that ...

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Alastair Lynch (born 19 June 1968) is an Australian Football League full forward from Burnie, Tasmania who had a highly-successful career, despite chronic illness and injury. He began his senior football career at Fitzroy in 1988. He was an intimidating player in defence even from the beginning with the ability to take a strong mark and lay a heavy tackle. However, he was not noted for his goalkicking at this time. He left Fitzroy after the 1993 season to join the then struggling Brisbane Bears who were coached by Premie ...

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After graduating from Phillips Academy in June, 1942, he joined the U.S. Navy on his 18th birthday to become an aviator. After completing the 10-month course, he was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Naval Reserve on June 9, 1943, several days before his 19th birthday, which made him the youngest naval aviator to that date. After finishing flight training he was assigned to Torpedo Squadron (VT-51) as photographic officer in September 1943. As part of Air Group 51, his squadron was based on U.S.S. San Jacinto in the spring ...

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George H. W. Bush, George H. W. Bush - Early life, George H. W. Bush - World War II: decorated naval aviator, George H. W. Bush - Postwar: Yale family oil business, George H. W. Bush - Congressman and failed Senate campaigns, George H. W. Bush - 1970s appointive offices, George H. W. Bush - 1980 presidential campaign, George H. W. Bush - Vice President, George H. W. Bush - 1988 presidential campaign, George H. W. Bush - Presidency, George H. W. Bush - Tiananmen Square April-June 1989, George H. W. Bush - Fall of the Berlin Wall November 1989, George H. W. Bush - Invasion of Panama December 1989, George H. W. Bush - Gulf War January-February 1991, George H. W. Bush - U.S.-Soviet cooperation fall of the Soviet Union and a New World Order 1989-1991, George H. W. Bush - NAFTA 1992, George H. W. Bush - Pardons December 1992, George H. W. Bush - Cabinet, George H. W. Bush - Supreme Court appointments, George H. W. Bush - 1992 re-election campaign, George H. W. Bush - Post-presidency, George H. W. Bush - Trivia

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The DOS Shell is a file manager first debuted in MS-DOS and PC-DOS 4.0 (June 1988) and discontinued after version 6.0 but part of the "Supplemental Disk" until 6.22 for MS-DOS - as such was not a core part of the operating system throughout its evolution but rather an add-on. The shell was intended as a graphical alternative to command.com and was not compatible with later versions of ...

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Andy Robinson (born 3 April 1964 in Taunton) is a former English rugby union footballer who played openside flanker for Bath and England. He is now the head coach of England. Robinson made his England debut against Australia on 12 June 1988, and gained eight caps before playing last his match 18 November 1995 against South Africa. Robinson was quite small for a back row forward, being only 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), and weighing 194 lb (88 kg), and his career may have suffered from being "too small". Other small opensides, most no ...

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Chris Isaak (born Christopher Joseph Isaak June 26, 1956 in Stockton, California) is an American indie rock, pop, and rock and roll singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Isaak's music can be described as a blend of country, blues, rock and roll, pop and surf rock. He signed a contract to Warner Brothers Records in 1984 for his first album Silvertone. Isaak's contract was renewed in 1988 when Warner Brothers moved him to their Reprise Records label. Image:Cs2.jpg His best-known song is "Wicked Game". Though rel ...

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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) (Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei) is the oldest of the nine congregations of the Roman Curia. Among the most active of these major Curial departments, it oversees Catholic doctrine. It is historically related to the Roman Inquisition. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - Role. According to Article 48 of the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia, Pastor Bonus, promulgated by Pope John Paul II on June 28, 1988: "the duty proper to t ...

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