Bud Selig helped introduce the following changes to Major League Baseball:

Major changes resulted across Europe including, in the UK:

Major political parties, beset by scandal and loss of voter confidence, underwent far-reaching changes.

Following boundary changes, Major became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon in 1983 and retained the seat in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

Major changes during the Oligocene included a global expansion of grasslands, and a regression of tropical broad leaf forests to the equatorial belt.

Major changes in design did not become common until the Age of Enlightenment, when there was rapid progress in design.

Major changes in trust law, combined with modern investment strategies, new tax factors and complex family and financial advisor dynamics, have created demands that traditional trusts and trust companies are not well equipped to handle.

* Major changes in the People's Republic of China.

* Major changes in plant pollen uncovered from lakebed cores in South America.

Major changes occurred during this decade.

* Major release: SAT file changes may be made ; significant functionality changes likely ; may require significant changes to existing applications

Major changes are sometimes induced when the tyrosine kinase enzyme is affected by other factors.

Major changes in the Amungme lifestyle have been brought about by the Grasberg mine, situated in the heart of Amungme territory and owned by Freeport-McMoRan, the region's largest single employer.

Major changes included Danny's trademark school hat to be replaced by a top hat, Fatty to become fit and muscular and Tom-boy Toots to act more feminine.

Major street name changes were made in Słupsk after the Autumn of Nations in 1989.

Others point out that the settlement occurred after two of Westmoreland's former intelligence officers, Major General Joseph McChristian and Colonel Gains Hawkins, testified to the accuracy of the substantive allegations of the broadcast, which were that Westmoreland ordered changes in intelligence reports on Viet Cong troop strengths for political reasons.

Major space weather events can push the disturbed polar ionosphere 10 ° to 30 ° of latitude toward the equator and can cause large ionospheric gradients ( changes in density over distance of 100's of km ) at mid and low latitude.

Major changes came to the region when Interstate 35 was built and Canyon Lake was created.

Major changes since then have been the reorganization of provinces in the northeast after the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the formation of autonomous regions, based on Soviet ethnic policies.

Major shifts in intrinsic and extrinsic properties of organisms, including morphology and behavior in relation to other organisms or shifts in the global environment, can cause secular or long-term cyclic changes in preservation ( megabias ).

Major changes since then include: the founding of Round Square in 1966, an international community of schools sharing Hahn's educational ideals ; the school officially becoming co-educational in 1972 ; and the moving of Aberlour House, Gordonstoun's preparatory school, from Speyside to a purpose built Junior School on campus in 2004.

** Following the season, the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League changes its name to the Major Indoor Lacrosse League ( MILL ).

Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.

In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.

Major increases in imports occurred in manufactured goods, machinery, and transportation equipment, which together accounted for 70 % of total imports.

Major growth occurred under the leadership of Rush Rhees, during his 1900-1935 tenure.

Major outbreaks have also occurred in southern Europe.

The Battle of Galveston occurred on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War when Confederate forces under Major General John B. Magruder attacked and expelled occupying Union troops from the city.

Major growth occurred from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s.

Major floods also occurred in January 2011 and multiple times during 1893.

Major floods occurred in the city during 1865, 1936 and 2006, and 2011.

Major protests occurred in 2011, coincident with protests in many other countries in the Arab world.

Major flooding occurred in the village, with water " eight inches deep and running down Main Street.

Major settlement of the area, mostly escaping slum conditions in the East End of London, occurred during this period when the new motor and chemical industries such as the Ford Motor Company plant at Dagenham were set up.

His first career Major League hit occurred in the bottom of the 11th inning against the Boston Red Sox on October 1, a single to right field off of Steve Crawford.

The 1901 coming-of-age historical fiction novel " The Bears of Blue River " by Indianapolis's Charles Major is set in present-day Shelbyville and according to Major's descriptions in the text occurred near the now-aptly named Bear Chase Golf Club.

Major flooding occurred in North Loup, with water " eight inches deep and running down Main Street.

Major growth occurred in Streetsboro with the opening of the Ohio Turnpike on October 1, 1955, with Exit 13 ( now known as Exit 187 ) initially being the only interchange in Portage County.

Major growth occurred with the arrival of the Austin and Northwestern Railroad in April 1882, when Burnet then became the railhead for the area to the west.

Major construction occurred from the 1880s through 1900.

Major floods occurred in 1969 ( April, 60 buildings damaged ), 1972 ( April and May, 210 buildings damaged ), 1991 ( November, 500 buildings flooded ), 1995 ( March, nearly 1000 buildings submerged and 450 damaged ) and 2006 ( October, 11 people died and 20 injured ).

Major floods occurred in 1969 ( April, 60 buildings damaged ), 1972 ( April and May, 210 buildings damaged ), 1991 ( November, 500 buildings flooded ), 1995 ( March, nearly 1000 buildings submerged and 450 damaged ) and 2006 ( October, 11 people died and 20 injured ).

Major steps in skin transplantation occurred during the First World War, notably in the work of Harold Gillies at Aldershot.

Major bushfires have occurred in March 1894, January 1910, January 1917, March 1939 and February 1949.