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 1989 Prost began to contemplate starting his own team, as his relationship with his McLaren teammate, Ayrton Senna, had turned sour.

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 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 discharge the magnetic forces set up by the passage of current cause the edges of the foil to roll inward toward its center line, thus allowing light to pass into the camera.

During this voyage Alarcón proved to his satisfaction that no open-water passage existed between the Gulf of California and the South Sea.

During the gradual process by which Homo erectus made a transition from furry to naked skin, their hair texture putatively changed gradually from Afro-textured hair or ' kinky ' ( i. e. tightly coiled ) to straight hair ( the condition of most mammals, including humanity's closest cousins — chimpanzees ) This argument is based on the principle that curly hair impedes the passage of UV light into the body relative to straight hair ( thus curly or coiled hair would be particularly advantageous for dark-skinned hominids living at the equator ).

During the passage of the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) legislation in 1999, Stott Despoja, along with Andrew Bartlett, split from the party's other senators by opposing the package, which had been negotiated by Lees and prime minister John Howard.

During sunrise and sunset sunlight is attenuated due to Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering from a particularly long passage through Earth's atmosphere, and the Sun is sometimes faint enough to be viewed comfortably with the naked eye or safely with optics ( provided there is no risk of bright sunlight suddenly appearing through a break between clouds ).

During the migration period, the region suffered invasions of many barbarian armies, due to its strategic position as the main passage from the Pannonian plain to the Italian peninsula.

During the struggle between Francis I and Charles V great damage was caused by the passage of the armies invading Provence ; pestilence and famine raged in the city for several years.

During the Revolutionary War period, several notable events occurred in the city, including Patrick Henry's " Give me liberty or give me death " speech in 1775 at St. John's Church, and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson.

During William H. Taft's administration, the federal government moved to strengthen its regulatory control over the railroad industry by the passage of the Mann-Elkins Act.

During a rite of passage, all Mycogenians are completely depilated, so they can tell the difference between themselves and non-Mycogenians.

During the War of the Ring they provided a cover for the Rohirrim army on their passage from behind Amon Dîn to the Pelennor Fields .</ div >

During swallowing, food has the " right of way ", and air passage temporarily stops.

During the American occupation of the Philippines, the colonial government banned the song from being played with the passage of the Flag Law.

During World War II the city was torn apart by heavy bombardments and by the passage of the front over the Gothic Line during the Battle of Rimini and was eventually captured by Greek and Canadian forces.

During his term as Speaker, he announced the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.

During the passage, the ship was attacked by a privateer.

During her passage in the afterlife, Barbara meets her guardian angel Boo-Boo ( Barbara's old nickname ) who is in fact the younger, beautiful and independent young woman she used to be.

During his weeks as senator, Barkley helped pass legislation establishing a memorial for Wellstone and provided a pivotal vote in clearing the final passage of the Homeland Security Act.

During the reign of Henry III ( 1207 – 1272 ), complaints were made that of the two channels below Crowland, the one to Spalding was more favourable to the passage of barges, but the Abbot of Crowland had obstructed and narrowed its course by planting willow trees.

During his time as an MP he wrote and campaigned for the Statute of Monopolies, which substantially restricted the ability of the monarch to grant patents, and authored and was instrumental in the passage of the Petition of Right, a document considered one of the three crucial constitutional documents of England, along with the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689.

During the legal and public campaigns against the writs of assistance and Stamp Act 1765, Bonham's Case was given as a justification for nullifying the legislation, and in the income tax case of 1895, Joseph Hodges Choate used Coke's argument that a tax upon the income of property is a tax on the property itself to have the Supreme Court of the United States declare the Wilson – Gorman Tariff Act unconstitutional, leading to the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.

During his 1992-96 refuge in the UN compound in Kabul, while waiting for the UN to negotiate his safe passage to India, he engaged himself in translating Peter Hopkirk's book The Great Game into his mother tongue Pashto.

During the eight years between initial proposal and final passage, new and existing agencies claimed pieces from the original proposal, leaving the science foundation with limited responsibilities.

During the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996, an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia, registered a maximum wind gust of 408 km / h ( 220 kn ; 253 mph ; 113 m / s ).