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 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 first half of 2008, Armenia's widening current-account trade deficit grew by 66 percent to $ 1. 39 billion USD, with a 40 percent rise in imports.

During the years immediately preceding his death he did not slacken his work, but continued his work of writing, preaching, lecturing, making addresses, coming into contact with men, influencing them, and by doing so widening the influence of Christianity.

During USMP-2, researchers have found that the absence of gravity has the effect of " widening " the critical zone, giving them a much " crisper " picture of the critical point phenomenon and allowing them to take measurements not possible on Earth.

During its first mile, the parkway intersects a street at-grade and connects to Highland Avenue by way of an interchange before widening to four undivided lanes at an interchange with North Division Street.

During the widening works the opportunity was also taken to lower slightly the roadbed at the centre of the bridge and raise the access ramps, reducing the humpbacked nature of the bridge's central section.

During the October 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 7. 1 M < sub > w </ sub >, the double-decked Cypress Street Viaduct on I-880 between I-80 and the 14th Street exit collapsed, crushing cars and killing 42 people.

During the first half of October the Blue Ridge and other parts of the Appalachians provide a spectacle stretching from Maryland and West Virginia to Georgia.

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of material containing chemical herbicides and defoliants mixed with jet fuel in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of Operation Ranch Hand.

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of the aerial defoliation program known as Operation Ranch Hand.

During World War II, large parts of Berlin were destroyed in the 1943 – 45 air raids and during the Battle of Berlin.

During the Civil war, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport.

During the Middle Ages, most of the remainder of Europe was Christianized, with Christians also being a sometimes large religious minority in the Middle East, North Africa, Ethiopia and parts of India.

During Lent, capybara meat is especially popular in parts of South America, especially in Venezuela, as the Catholic Church, in a special dispensation, is claimed to have allowed eating capybara meat when meat consumption was otherwise not allowed.

During the late Middle Ages, Flanders ' trading towns ( notably Ghent, Bruges and Ypres ) made it one of the richest and most urbanized parts of Europe, weaving the wool of neighbouring lands into cloth for both domestic use and export.

During the Cold War, the northern parts of Asia were communist controlled with the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China, while western allies formed pacts such as CENTO and SEATO.

During its lifetime, information may pass through many different information processing systems and through many different parts of information processing systems.

During printing, water adhered to the gum arabic surfaces and avoided the oily parts, while the oily ink used for printing did the opposite.

During the three years a number of battles took place in different parts of Afghanistan.

During this transition period, which gradually eased the performance of more demanding " natural " brass writing, many composers ( notably Wagner and Berlioz ) still notated brass parts for the older " natural " instruments.

During the " pan and scan " process, an editor selects the parts of the original filmed composition that seem to be the focus of the shot and makes sure that these are copied ( i. e. " scanned ").

During his pontificate vigorous measures were taken against the heresies which had broken out in Germany, England, and other parts of Europe ; a sincere effort was also made to cause a reformation in the various monastic orders.

During the years 550 to 330 BC, coinciding with the sovereignty of the first Persian Empire over the Middle East area, especially the whole part of the Persian Gulf and some parts of the Arabian Peninsula, the name of " Pars Sea " is widely found in the compiled written texts.

During this time, substantial glaciers advanced and retreated over much of North America and Europe, parts of South America and Asia, and all of Antarctica.

During his long reign, Ivan the Terrible nearly doubled the already large Russian territory by annexing the three Tatar khanates ( parts of disintegrated Golden Horde ): Kazan and Astrakhan along the Volga River, and Sibirean Khanate in South Western Siberia.

During the earliest parts of psychoanalytic history, analysts granted that homosexuality was non-pathological in certain cases, and the ethical question of whether it ought to be changed was discussed.

During partial eclipses most sunlight is blocked by the Moon passing in front of the Sun, but the uncovered parts of the photosphere have the same surface brightness as during a normal day.

During the same period, the UN International Monitoring Group ( IMG ) published a report claiming that the Somali government's security forces were ineffective and corrupt, and that up to half of the food aid that was destined for the conflict-stricken parts of the country was being misdirected.

During this season, periodic squalls occur and sometimes tropical cyclones bring overcast skies and rains to the southwest, northeast, and eastern parts of the island.

During this time, German cultural and ethnic influence increased as a result of immigration from German-speaking parts of the Holy Roman Empire.

During his brief stay in Nagoya Castle in what is today Saga prefecture, on Kyūshū, Hideyoshi memorized the shite ( lead roles ) parts of ten Noh plays, which he then performed, forcing various daimyō to accompany him onstage as the waki ( secondary, accompanying role ).

During the Livonian War in the 16th century, southern parts of the Livonian Confederation and Tartu fell under rule of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania,