The Janata Dal won elections in 1989, but its government managed to hold on to power for only two years.

In the elections of 1989, the combined might of the VP Singh led Janata Dal and the BJP managed to eat into the Congress's seats.

After the Janata Party's poor showing in the 1980 elections, the former Bharatiya Jana Sangh members left to form the Bharatiya Janata Party, which has been one of the two largest Indian political parties since 1989.

The National Front fought the elections in 1989 after coming to an electoral understanding with Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Left Front that served to unify the anti-Congress vote.

Between 1980 and 1989, the Janata party maintained a small presence in the Indian Parliament under the leadership of socialist politician Chandra Sekhar.

The National Front ( Rashtriya Morcha ) was a coalition of political parties, led by the Janata Dal, which formed India's government between 1989 and 1990 under the leadership of N. T. Rama Rao as President and V. P. Singh as Convener.

He then decided to shift his base to Bihar in 1989, when an anti-Congress wave was sweeping the country in the wake of the Bofors scandal, and won Muzaffarpur in the 1989 and 1991 general elections, He later joined the Janata Dal, a party which was formed from the Janata Party at Bangalore in August 1988.

When the Janata Dal was formed in 1989, he was appointed General Secretary of the party.

He became the president of the Tamil Nadu faction of the Janata Dal in 1989.

However, in 1989 an alliance between the BJP and the Janata Dal won all 25 of the Rajasthan seats in the Lok Sabha and also 140 seats in the Assembly.

In 1989 Riba joined Janata Dal.

IP was founded by Syed Shahabuddin in 1989 as a split from the Janata Party, as a protest against the tie-up between V. P.

In 1989, contesting on the Janata Dal ticket, Nathuram defeated Ram Niwas.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

* 1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.

The tunnel has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1989.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

The process began with the demutualisation of the Abbey National building society in 1989.

But, before the 1989 Abbey National Building Society demutualisation, the Courts found against the two year rule after legal action brought by Abbey National itself in order to circumvent the intent of the legislators.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

Powell served as Reagan's National Security Advisor from 1987 – 1989.

* 1989 – Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

Botha, he held a succession of ministerial posts, including Posts and Telecommunications and Sports and Recreation ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mines, Energy and Environmental Planning ( 1979 – 1980 ), Mineral and Energy Affairs ( 1980 – 1982 ), Internal Affairs ( 1982 – 1985 ), and National Education and Planning ( 1984 – 1989 ).

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

The first democratic elections since 1976 were held in December 1984 and were won by the Grenada National Party under Herbert Blaize who won 14 out of 15 seats in elections and served as Prime Minister until his death in December 1989.

In August 1989, Prime Minister Blaize broke with the GNP to form another new party, The National Party ( TNP ), from the ranks of the NNP.

In Guinea-Bissau in 1989, the ruling African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) under the direction of President João Bernardo " Nino " Vieira began to outline a political liberalization program which the People's National Assembly approved in 1991.

** National Tournament Top 10 finishes: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000

Pei has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

Ion Iliescu, a former Communist Party official marginalized by Ceauşescu, attained national recognition as the leader of an impromptu governing coalition, the National Salvation Front ( FSN ) that proclaimed the restoration of democracy and civil liberties on December 22, 1989.

Before the 1989 revolution, Czechoslovakia was a socialist dictatorship ruled by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, technically together with the coalition of the so called National Front.

On September 18, 1989, while Compaoré was returning from a two-week trip to Asia, Lengani and Zongo were accused of plotting to overthrow the Popular Front.

Despite the emergence of the Popular Front and the Supreme Soviet as a new lawmaking body, since 1989 the different segments of the indigenous Estonian population had been politically mobilized by different and competing actors.

The Front for Victory ( FPV ) and other allies of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner, Argentina's progressive ruling couple, secured 113 of 257 seats in the lower house, losing 24 seats and their previous absolute majority ( the fractious Justicialist Party, to which the FPV formally adheres, continue to enjoy the control of the lower house since 1989 ).

The most active and visible of the opposition political groups in Belarus in the first half of the 1990s was the Belarusian Popular Front ( BPF ), founded in October 1989 with Zyanon Paznyak as chairman.

First came the Battle of Afabet in March 1989, which was a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, with 15, 000 casualties and the loss of a great deal of equipment.

The album was released in June 1989, when the band members graduated from high school, via their own label, Action Front Records.

He returned to Liberia in 1989 as the head of a Libyan-backed resistance group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, to overthrow the Doe regime, initiating the First Liberian Civil War ( 1989-96 ).

Ríos Montt founded the Guatemalan Republican Front ( FRG ) political party in 1989.

Taylor's fighters crossed the border from Côte d ' Ivoire and began operations in Liberia on Christmas Eve, 1989 ; however, an internal power struggle resulted in Johnson breaking off from the Taylor-led NPFL and forming the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( INPFL ).

In February 1989, Abbassi Madani and Ali Belhadj founded the Islamic Salvation Front ( Front Islamique du Salut, FIS ).

Despite this, the arrondissement elected and was represented by the anti-immigration Front National politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, as a municipal councilor from 1983 to 1989.

For several months after the events of December 1989, it was widely argued that Ion Iliescu and the National Salvation Front ( FSN ) had merely taken advantage of the chaos to stage a coup.

During the Romanian Revolution of 1989, power was taken by a group called the National Salvation Front ( FSN ), which gathered dissidents, both from within the Communist Party and non-affiliated.

Its lyrics are made of rapid-fire brief allusions to over a hundred headline events between March 1949 ( Joel was born on May 9 of that year ) and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front.

Its previous incarnation, the National Islamic Front, ruled from 1989 to 1998.

In the 1989 Vauxhall by-election, Harrington stood as the Official National Front candidate against Ted Budden for the Flag NF, both sides cat-calling at one another during the declaration of the result.

An estimate of membership of the National Front in 1989 put adherents of the Flag Group at about 3, 000 and of the ' Political Soldier ' faction at about 600, with a number in between embracing Griffin's Third Position ideas.