During the 1930s and 1940s Joseph Stalin's NKVD carried out numerous assassinations outside of the Soviet Union, such as the killings of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists leader Yevhen Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, Leon Trotsky, and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) leadership in Catalonia.

During his trip in Russia, Chiang met Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders, but quickly came to the conclusion that the Russian model of government was not suitable for China.

During the 1920s and the 1930s, Stalin fought and defeated the political influence of Leon Trotsky and of the Trotskyists in Russia, by means of slander, anti-Semitism, programmed censorship, expulsions, exile ( internal and external ), and imprisonment.

During Lenin's illness, Zinoviev, his close associate Kamenev, and Joseph Stalin formed a ruling ' triumvirate ' ( or ' troika ') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of Leon Trotsky.

During the power struggles which followed Lenin's death in 1924, Molotov remained a loyal supporter of Stalin against his various rivals: first Leon Trotsky, later Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev and finally Nikolai Bukharin.

During the 2009 offseason, the Cavaliers signed wingman Anthony Parker, and forwards Leon Powe and Jamario Moon for the following season.

During the Pleistocene, what would be Leon County emerged and submerged with each glacial and interglacial period.

During the next two years, nearly a thousand wells were drilled in the area, and the population of De Leon rose to an estimate of more than 5, 000 people.

During the early 19th century the pirate Jean Lafitte who ruled Galveston Island established a stronghold at Eagle Point in modern San Leon.

During the Franco period there was an exodus from the rural countryside to the industrial cities, and after, when the arrival of democracy in Spain, finally the province was part of the new autonomous community of Castile and Leon in the early 80.

During the course of the proceedings, the 11th Circuit Court ( United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on appeal from the Northern District of Florida, Leon County ) ordered that the chapter be recognized pending the disposition of the appeal.

During the late 1990s, the " Four Heavenly Kings " ( 四大天王 ), namely Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai dominated music, and coverage in magazines, TV, advertisements and cinema.

* During September 1901, after Leon Czolgosz's shooting, on the 6th, in Buffalo, New York, of President William McKinley, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was summoned to Buffalo, but no action was taken to permit him to discharge McKinley's duties during his final days.

During this time, he wrote a notable booklet on the Moscow Trials and translated Leon Trotsky's The Stalin School of Falsification ( in 1937 ) and his Problems of the Chinese Revolution ( originally published in 1932 ).

During the American Civil War, this area was home to Camp Leon, a Confederate army encampment.

During this time, he met a human by the name of Vesca Howell, who later abandoned his career as a medical doctor to become an FBI agent, his sole intent being arresting D's father, as he, like Leon Orcot with Count D, believed him to be a criminal.

During this time, his work included collaborations with Vladimir Keilis-Borok and Leon Knopoff on computer pattern matching techniques that could be applied to earthquake prediction.

During the duel, Zigfried tricks Leon into activating Golden Castle of Stromberg, releasing a computer virus into Kaiba's system and forcing Leon to attack and thus forcing his hand.

During World War II, Mexico received thousands of refugees from Poland, primarily of Jewish origin, who settled in the states of Chihuahua, and Nuevo Leon.

During Kilgore's fourth appearance at the entrance to the blue tunnel, he threatens his son: if Leon doesn't leave the Earth immediately, the blue tunnel won't appear again for one million years.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s Hornsby worked extensively as a producer and sideman, notably producing a comeback album for Leon Russell, an idol of Hornsby's.

During Warren Manshel ’ s tenure as its publisher, The Public Interest gave voice to leading and emerging intellectuals, including Seymour Martin Lipset, Peter Drucker, Leon Kass, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Frances Fukuyama.

During that year the International League's Atlanta Crackers, whose previous home had been Ponce de Leon Park, played their final season in Atlanta Stadium.

During Baldwin III's reign, the County of Edessa, the first crusader state established during the First Crusade, was conquered by Zengi, the Turkic emir of Aleppo.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

During a trial period the County Council provisions for Gotland has been evolved to provisions for a Regional Council, meaning that it has assumed certain tasks from the County Administrative Board.

During Davis ' youth, his family moved twice: in 1811 to St. Mary Parish, Louisiana and in 1812 to Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

During the Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 206 BC ), the region came under the jurisdiction of Panyu County, Nanhai Prefecture of the province of Guangdong.

During November to March, approximately 400 West Indian manatees ( according to the National Wildlife Refuge ) congregate in the rivers in Citrus County, Florida.

During the attempt, however, the plane crashed into a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek Township, near Shanksville in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about southeast of Pittsburgh and northwest of Washington, D. C. A few witnessed the impact from the ground and news agencies began reporting the event within an hour.

During the repression of the 1907 peasants ' revolt, he was the head of a cavalry unit in Covurlui County.

During the Christmas and Easter seasons, the Lewiston Jaycees have two large lighted displays on the Lewiston Hill ( technically, the Washington side, and specifically, in Whitman County, above Clarkston in Washington state ), visible from nearly everywhere in the valley.

* During the Ming Dynasty of China, a tsunami floods over the seawall in Haiyan County of Zhejiang province, inundating the agricultural crop fields with saltwater and ruining many acres of crops.

During a slew of fires in Southern California in 2007, Pierce College sheltered and fed more than 150 horses under the direction of the L. A. County Volunteer Equine Response team.

During a leave from duty, he walked trough Northern Italy and the County of Tyrol.

During the American Revolutionary War, Westchester County saw more fighting and suffering than any other area in the country.

During the Middle Ages, the Pas-de-Calais department comprised County of Boulogne and the County of Artois, while the Nord department was mostly made up of the southern portions of the County of Flanders and the County of Hainaut.

During World War II, Orange County was the home of a large amount of shipbuilding for the navies the United States and allied countries.

During the American Revolutionary War, citizens of Anne Arundel County supported the Continental Army by providing troops for three regiments.

During and after the Revolution, most of the Loyalists in Tryon County fled to Canada.

During the nineteenth century, Saratoga County was an important industrial center.

During the American Civil War volunteers were recruited from the more affluent families of the County to form the 139th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

During the Desert Shield / Storm conflict, Clay County had more soldiers serving per capita than any other county in the United States.

During the late 1700s, the first European-American settler, John Covington Moore, settled here in what was then part of Macon County.