During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

During the Perestroika era, The Law on the Status of the Estonian Language was adopted in January 1989.

During the summer of 1989, rapid changes known as peaceful revolution or Die Wende took place in East Germany, which quickly led to German reunification.

* During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest, and through the fall of Communism in 1989, protesters often attacked and took down sculptures and images of Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR.

During his career with the NBA ’ s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards.

During his tenure as leader of Afghanistan, the Soviets began their withdrawal, and from 1989 until 1992, his government tried to solve the ongoing civil war without Soviet troops on the ground.

During the summer of 1989, New Order supported Technique by touring with Public Image Ltd, Throwing Muses and The Sugarcubes across the United States and Canada in what was the press dubbed the " Monsters of Alternative Rock " tour.

During this game, CBS would introduce a new theme that would be used the following season for the NFL Today pregame show between 1976 and 1981 in its original form, with a remake for 1982 followed by updates for 1983 and 1989 before its retirement.

During this breakup period, Byrne continued his solo career, releasing Rei Momo in 1989 and The Forest in 1991.

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership ( 1965 – 1989 ), much of the historic part of the city was demolished and replaced with Socialist realist development such as the Centrul Civic ( the Civic Centre ), including the Palace of the Parliament, where an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac constructions.

During the third state reform in 1988 and 1989, under Prime Minister Wilfried Martens, the Brussels-Capital Region was established with its own regional institutions, as well as Dutch and French institutions for community matters.

During the Velvet Revolution of 1989, he supported the Public against Violence ( VPN ) and the Civic Forum.

During the Tiananmen protests of 1989, Li used his authority as Premier to declare martial law, and in cooperation with Deng Xiaoping, who was the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, to order the June 1989 military crackdown against student pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

During the constitutional talks of 1989, the Métis were recognized as one of the three Aboriginal peoples of Canada.

During the 1989 passage Castalia peaked at an apparent magnitude of 12.

During 1989 Steve Jobs said of his new NeXT design, " It will either be the last new hardware platform to succeed, or the first to fail.

New England Captives Carried to Canada: Between 1677 and 1760 During the French and Indian Wars, Heritage Books, 1989 ( reprint 1925 ).

During 1988 and 1989, Davis was fêted for her career achievements, receiving the Kennedy Center Honor, the Legion of Honor from France, the Campione d ' Italia from Italy and the Film Society of Lincoln Center Lifetime Achievement Award.

During this period, the Rangers were owned by Gulf + Western, which was renamed to Paramount Communications in 1989, and sold to Viacom in 1994.

During the 1980s, she appeared in several Australian productions, including Emerald City ( 1988 ), and Bangkok Hilton ( 1989 ), and in 1989, Kidman starred in Dead Calm alongside Sam Neill and Billy Zane.

During the late 1980s and the 1990s, debate between positivists and post-positivists became the dominant debate and has been described as constituting the Third " Great Debate " ( Lapid 1989 ).

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Prost formed a fierce rivalry with mainly Ayrton Senna, but also Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell.

During 2002, Prost spent time with his family and competed in eight bicycle races, finishing third in the Granite – Mont Lozère.

During the 1989 Grand Prix, Senna tried to overtake Prost to keep his Championship hopes alive, only for Prost to shut the door as he had stated before the race, saying he would not be giving up the position simply for McLaren not to be embarrassed by a double retirement.

During the mid-1980s ' Turbo era ' of Formula One where fuel was restricted to either 220 ( 1984-85 ), 195 ( 1986-87 ) or 150 ( 1988 ) litres for races for the turbo powered cars, Hockenheim also saw drivers, including World Champion Alain Prost, at times fail to finish due to simply running out of fuel near the end of the race.

During the morning practice on Saturday, Prost spun backward into a wall and damaged the monocoque and gearbox.

During the second stops, Prost stayed ahead-just by two-tenths while Senna and Schumacher got ahead of Brundle.

During the second stops, Prost stayed ahead – just by two-tenths while Senna and Schumacher got ahead of Brundle.

During the summer, Negroes began quietly patronizing previously segregated restaurants and lunch counters in downtown retail establishments.

During the Triassic Period (), the reptiles began to out-compete the amphibians, leading to a reduction in both the amphibians ' size and their importance in the biosphere.

During the 1960s the use of manual sign language grew greatly, but it was not until the 1980s that AAC began to emerge as an area in its own right.

During the Achaemenid Persian Empire, around 600 BC the Persians first began to use the abacus.

During this time Thomas Aquinas began to study under Albertus.

During that time Alboin turned his attention to Tuscany, but signs of factionalism among his supporters and Alboin's diminishing control over his army increasingly began to manifest themselves.

During his military governorship Johnson, seemingly, began to moderate his view of slavery.

During the first half of the 19th century, some of the songs African-Americans sang also began to appear in use for shipboard tasks, i. e. as shanties.

During the 19th century, the fields of science and art became increasingly intertwined as scientists such as Michael Faraday began to study the damaging effects of the environment to works of art.

During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye, a 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for Museum of Modern Art in 1965.

During this stretch, the Orioles began to phase out their veteran infield by replacing Davey Johnson and Brooks Robinson with younger stars Bobby Grich and Doug DeCinces, respectively.

During the summer of 1959, Pasternak began writing The Blind Beauty, a trilogy of stage plays set before and after Alexander II's abolition of serfdom in Russia.

During the 1950s, however, Graham began distancing himself from the older fundamentalism and, in preparation for his 1957 New York Crusade, he sought broad ecumenical sponsorship.

During the 1960s the political atmosphere began to gradually change, and attention was once again directed to Chaplin's films instead of his political views.

During the second stage, writing began to appear on paper, papyrus, clay, wax, etc.

During the period of industrialization, food began to be mass produced, mass marketed, and standardized.

During the 18th century, jewelers began making pieces with inexpensive glass.

During World War II, because of paper shortages, the size of Sunday strips began to shrink.

During the middle of the 20th century the French reluctantly began to accede to reasonable requests, and in 1946 Comoros had become a separately administered colony from Madagascar.

" During the 1970s, widely different methods began to be seen as part of a new emerging discipline of computational chemistry.

During his reign the Empire conquered Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia and Judaea, and began the conquest of Britain.

During this time period, Marker began to travel around the world as a journalist and photographer, a vocation he would continue the rest of his life.

During this period, Alston began to teach the 10-year old Jacob Lawrence, whom he strongly influenced.

During the late Neolithic henge sites were constructed, single burials began to become more commonplace and by the Bronze Age it is possible that even where chambered cairns were still being built they had become the burial places of prominent individuals rather than of communities as a whole.

During this period Pissarro began to understand and appreciate the importance of expressing on canvas the beauties of nature without adulteration.