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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List of MacArthur Fellows organized by terms of their awards... MacArthur Foundation - October 2005 through September 2010. Marin Alsop, symphony conductor Ted Ames, fisherman Terry Belanger, rare book preservationist Edet Belzberg, Documentary Filmmaker Majora Carter, Urban Revitalization Strategist Lu Chen, Neuroscientist Michael Cohen, pharmacist Joseph Curtin, violinmaker Aaron Dworkin, Music Educator T ...

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William T. Kirby, a founding member of the board of directors, suggested that the MacArthur Foundation create the Fellows Program. It was his doctor, Dr. George Burch of Tulane University, who first brought this idea to Mr. Kirby's attention. The complete story of how this program began can be found at http://macarthur-foundation.blogspot.com/ The MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award issued by the MacArthur Foundation each year, to typically 20 to 40 citizens or residents of the USA, of any age and working in any field, who "show exceptional ...

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Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963 in Millwood, New York) is a pop/R&B singer and actress who made history when she became the first African American woman to be crowned Miss America in September, 1983. She resigned close to the end of her reign on July 23, 1984, however, when it was discovered that she had posed nude for photographs that were later published in the September 1984 issue adult magazine Penthouse without her permission. The crown w ...

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See also: 1987 in music, other events of 1988, 1989 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1988 in music - Events. Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra. January – Broadcast of the Cinemax television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, California. February 13 - Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California. H ...

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The Games of the XXIV Olympiad were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. The host was chosen in the September 1981 vote, ahead of the Japanese city of Nagoya. After boycotts of the Olympics in 1976, 1980 and 1984, the Seoul Games were again boycotted, led by North Korea and followed by Cuba; the basis of the boycott was South Korea's refusal to co-host the Olympics with North Korea, which rejected all compromise. However it was an early, visible triumph of nordpolitik that no other Communist natio ...

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William Oliver Studeman (born 1940) is a retired admiral of the United States Navy and former deputy director of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency. Between 1988 and 1992 he was director of the NSA; he was the Director of Naval Intelligence, September 1985 - July 1988. On 6 February 2004, Studeman was appointed to the Iraq Intelligence Commission, an independent panel tasked with investigating U.S. intelligence surrounding the United States' 2003 inva ...

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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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The preliminary 2005 Base Realignment and Closure list was released by the United States Department of Defense on May 13, 2005. It is the fifth Base Realignment and Closure ("BRAC") proposal generated since the process was created in 1988. It recommends closing 33 major United States military bases and the "realignment" (either enlarging or shrinking) of 29 others. On September 15, 2005, President George W. Bush approved the BRAC Commission's recommendations, leaving the fate of the bases in question to the United States Congress. Con ...

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William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American comedian, producer, film director, and actor. Bill Murray - Family Life. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Murray is the fifth of nine children in a large, Irish Catholic family. Three of Murray's siblings are also actors: John Murray, Joel Murray, and Brian Doyle-Murray. All four Murray brothers appeared in the 1988 film Scrooged. He was raised in Wilmette, Illinois and graduated from Loyola Academy. He is a partner with his brothers in M ...

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Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 - September 28, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. His cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker from 1938 until his death. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live action television series, two cartoon series, and three motion pictures. It is said that the exterior of the Addams Family Mansion was based on a home in Westfield, New Jersey. A Fine Arts building on the campus of the University o ...

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The Bruges Group is a euro-sceptic think tank associated with the British Conservative Party. It claims to be an all-party group but its Honorary President is the Baroness Thatcher and it has no non-Conservative politicians on its board. Its co-chairs are Brian Hindley and Norman Lamont, and its Director is Robert Oulds. Originally set up by Oxford University student Patrick Robertson following Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech in September 1988, the group quickly became a focus for mounting euro-scepticism (particularly among Conservatives) stoked by the speec ...

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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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Amine Gemayel (Arabic: أمين الجميل) (born 1942) was President of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988. Born in Beirut, Gemayel is the son of Pierre Gemayel, founder of the Kataeb Party. Gemayel was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly on September 21, 1982, to succeed his brother Bachir Gemayel who had been elected the previous month but had been assassinated before taking office. After obtaining a law degree, Amine Gemayel concentrated on building up his family's newspaper business. In a 1969 byelection, he ...

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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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MacArthur Foundation - 2000. Susan E. Alcock K. Christopher Beard Lucy Blake Anne Carson Peter Hayes (Nuclear Activist) David Isay Alfredo Jaar Ben Katchor Hideo Mabuchi Susan Marshall Samuel Mockbee Cecilia Muñoz Margaret Murnane Laura Otis Lucia Perillo Matthew Rabin Carl Safina Daniel Schrag Susan Sygall Gina Turrigiano Gary Urton Patricia J. Williams Deborah Wil ...

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