On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, also known as Bantustans, were reintegrated and the four existing provinces were divided into nine.

The county was established by the state government in 1861 on the eve of the American Civil War and named after former United States president James K. Polk.

In September 1935, on the eve of Louis ' fight with the former title holder Max Baer, Washington Post sportswriter Shirley Povich expressed American hopes for the white contender ; " They say Baer will surpass himself in the knowledge that he is the lone white hope for the defense of Nordic superiority in the prize ring.

The tiara provided by the last was made from elements of former papal tiaras destroyed after the capture of Rome, and was given to Pius VII as a ' wedding gift ' to mark Napoleon's own marriage to Empress Josephine on the eve of his imperial coronation.

On the eve of the operation, Hyde destroys the plans and recalls his former military glory.

On the eve of the 2006 – 07 season, it was announced that former Norwich City striker Lee Power would be the club's new chairman taking over from Brian Attmore's caretaking reign.

9 May coincides with the eve of the German invasion of The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France and with Victory Day, the end of World War II in the former Soviet Union ( celebrated on 8 May in western Europe ).

Traditionally, the event begins on the eve of Vappu by former and current students putting on their student caps ( graduation cap ).

However, a different story in " The Colter Craven Story " ( season 4 ), we are told that in 1860 Adams and Hawks were partners in a lumber enterprise in Galena, Illinois, and on the eve of the Civil War, Adams headed up the 2nd Illinois Volunteers-although without a bit of military knowledge-and was given guidance by old friend " Sam ", then a resigned former captain and a civilian but subsequently General of the Army U. S. Grant, who-encountering Adams again after the battle of Shiloh-gave him a battlefield promotion from Lieutenant to Major.

However, when it was reported that " the former leader of the Canadian Union of Fascists was running ", the splinter group disassociated itself from Taylor on the eve of the election and he instead ran as a " Natural Order of Social Credit Organization " candidate.

On the eve of the 1990 elections ( which Aristide eventually won ), Izméry accused former President of the United States Jimmy Carter of attempting to ensure the victory of Aristide's rival, Marc Bazin.

On the eve of the Civil War centennial in 1958, the Civil War Round Table of Kansas City was formed with former President Harry S. Truman as a charter member.

On the eve of partition, hectic activities intensified by the Muslim League as well Congress with the former having an edge.

On the eve of partition, hectic activities intensified by the Muslim League as well Congress with the former having an edge.

On the eve of partition, hectic activities intensified by the Muslim League as well Congress with the former having an edge.

The loss of his most aggressive and combat experienced carrier admiral on the eve of a crisis was a severe blow to Nimitz.

Italy around the turn of the millennium, showing the Lombard states in the south on the eve of the arrival of the Normans.

With the economic development and the arrival of the railroad, the population grew steadily, reaching 23, 000 by the eve of World War I.

Tappan returned to Colorado in November 1864 and was laid up at Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory with a broken foot incurred on the eve of his arrival.

In earlier traditions, they must be collected on Kupala night ; later, after the arrival of Christianity, the date is changed to Easter eve.

In Wood Frisian it is saterdei and in Clay Frisian it is sneon, derived from snjoen, a combination of Old Frisian sunne, meaning sun and joen, meaning eve.

On the eve of the struggle with Napoleon, Alexander, conscious of his unpopularity, conceived the idea of making Speransky his scape-goat, and so conciliating that Old Russian sentiment which would be the strongest support of the autocratic tsar against revolutionary France.

In October 2007, Time Magazine published a conversation between McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, on the eve of their adaptation of McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.

On the eve of what was to be the beginning of recruiting for an elite squadron of intergalactic peace keepers called the Blaster Corps, Cyclotron X took control of Earth and its two colonies on Saturn and Pluto.

In this battle the Minbari destroyed almost all human resistance and were on the verge of destroying the Earth itself when they suddenly, and shockingly, surrendered on the eve of victory.

Many units were assigned to the Midnight Fenrir Corps on the eve of the Second Earth Descent Operation.

In 2161, the starship Enterprise and its crew return to Earth on the eve of the signing of the Federation charter.

The Doctor arrives on Earth for his exile, not in the 1970s but in 1997, on the eve of Hong Kong's handover back to the Chinese government.

Brazil had previously hosted WED in 1992, on the eve of the first Earth Summit, when world leaders, government officials and international organizations met to refocus, recalibrate and deliver a route map towards sustainable development.

Presence ( Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, April 2001 ) takes another look at the Beatles's legendary residency at the Star Club in Hamburg on the eve of their success, and Dark Earth ( Traverse, August 2003 ) begins as a broad comedy and turns into a speculation about the meaning of history and the land.

On the eve of testify on behalf of the United States government in U. S. v. Adis Medunjanin, the British government was forced to reveal that he was released from prison in March 2010, and has been provided accommodation and training for his reintegration into society.

He was implicated during the Peloponnesian War in the mutilation of the Herms on the eve of the departure of the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415 BC.

* Andocides, Athenian orator and politician, who has been implicated in the mutilation of the Herms on the eve of the departure of the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415 BC, returns from exile under the general amnesty.

According the tradition, on the eve of the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni, Clovis prayed to God, swearing to be baptised if he emerged victorious on the battlefield.

However, on the eve of the Round 14 clash against West Coast, influential president Jim Stynes announced that he had cancer, this evoked a very emotional response from the footballing public and the club lifted from three embarrassing defeats the weeks before to convincingly beat West Coast in front of a passionate MCG crowd.

On the eve of this new indictment, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand filed a complaint against judge Courroye accusing him of having made a " false " document in July 2000 ( because Courroye had put the date of 3 July for an ordinance drafted on 5 July ) — but this manoeuver did not stop the procedure.

The concept of " states ' rights " was invoked to defend the continuation of slavery in the United States on the eve of the American Civil War, and again to fight against the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

After the dissipation of the first coalition against him by the Treaty of Travendal on 18 August 1700 and the victory at the Battle of Narva on 20 November 1700 the Swedish Chancellor, Bengt Oxenstierna, rightly regarded the universal bidding for the favour of Sweden by France and the maritime powers, then on the eve of the War of the Spanish Succession, as a golden opportunity of " ending this present lean war and making his majesty the arbiter of Europe.

He often referred to the spirit of Engels ' remark that " on the eve of the revolution all the forces of reaction will be against us under the banner of ' pure democracy ".

leader Judi Bari led activists in Northern California and Southern Oregon to renounce tree-spiking as a tactic on the eve of Redwood Summer, a 1990 campaign of nonviolent protests against logging of the redwood forest.

As against which, the sovereignist-friendly media ( notably Le Devoir newspaper ) argued that he had made the decision beforehand, drawing attention to a television interview conducted on the eve of the vote with the Groupe TVA channel in which Parizeau spoke of his intentions to step down in the event of defeat.

This was short-lived, however, as he died on the eve of preparing an expedition against Chlothar in 613, leaving a young son named Sigebert II.

On the eve of the outbreak of the Civil War, he counseled delay in moving militarily against the Northern-held Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens so that the Confederacy could build up its forces and stock resources.

The Gleiwitz incident (; ) was a staged attack by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany ( since 1945: Gliwice, Poland ) on the eve of World War II in Europe.

On the eve of the 1910 Revolution against the long-established Díaz regime, Huerta was involved in the innocuous project of reforming the uniforms of the Federal Army.

On the night of 7 November − the eve of Operation Torch − pro-Allied French General Antoine Béthouart attempted a coup d ' état against the Vichy French command in Morocco, so that he could surrender to the Allies the next day.

In present-day Russia there was a quite terrifying ritual dedicated to Matka Ziemia, and happened on the eve of the 1st World War to preserve their village against a plague of cholera.

In a manoeuvre by the Germans and Italian Fascist regime to gain Bourguiba's alliance, he was received with full honours in Rome, in January 1943, but to no avail ; the Italian Foreign Affairs Ministry tried to obtain a statement in their favour ; on the eve of his return home, he accepted to deliver a message to the Tunisian people by " Radio Bari ", cautioning them against " all the appetites ".

On 20 July, the 2nd Light Horse Brigade with two guns mounted on ped-rails of the Ayrshire Battery demonstrated against Oghratina, capturing several prisoners, and beginning a series of patrols which, together with the 1st Light Horse Brigade, they continued until the eve of battle.

In her second column, " Odds stacked against Indian women ", Zinta analysed the eve teasing phenomenon in India, and criticised those who practice it.

In September 1911 on the eve of the federal election, Black Jack kept the Ingenika open, even though it was against the law to do so, and served free drinks all night long.

In a memorable speech on the eve of the 1957 presidential election where he ran against then President Carlos Garcia, he petitioned all sectors of society, and like Rizal, implored the youth:

On the eve of the assembly of the Oecumenical Council at Rome Menabrea reserved to the Italian government its right in respect of any measures directed against Italian institutions.

The protests began on the eve of July 9, 1999 ( 18th Tir of year 1378 in the Persian calendar ), after a peaceful demonstration by a group of students of Tehran University against the closure of the reformist newspaper, Salam, by the press court.

These compact families ( O Brien of Munster, MacLochlainn of the North, O Connor of Connacht ) intermarried and competed against each other on a national basis so that on the eve of the Anglo-Norman incursion of 1169 the agglomeration / consolidation process was complete and their provincial kingdoms divided, dismembered and transformed into fiefdoms held from ( or in rebellion against ) one of their number acting as king of Ireland.