Until the Velvet Revolution ( 1989 ) narcotics were only a minor problem in Czech society.

Until the Velvet revolution, Charter 77 had approximately 1, 900 signatories.

Until the French Revolution, this canon was of considerable importance in criminal law, not only ecclesiastical but even civil.

Until the Quiet Revolution of the early 1960s, Tremblay saw Quebec as a poor, working-class province dominated by an English-speaking elite and the Roman Catholic Church.

Until this episode Santa Anna's reputation had been that of a cunning and crafty man, rather than a cruel one ... together with the fall of the Alamo, branded both Santa Anna and the Mexican people with a reputation for cruelty and aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution.

Until at least 1908, the British took the Macdonald line to be the boundary, but in 1911, the Xinhai Revolution resulted in the collapse of central power in China, and by the end of World War I, the British officially used the Johnson Line.

Until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the rails were made of wood, were a few inches wide and were fastened down, end to end, on logs of wood or " sleepers ", placed crosswise at intervals of two or three feet.

Until the American Revolution, Oxford enjoyed prominence as an international shipping center surrounded by wealthy tobacco plantations.

Until the Revolutionary war Cohoes was a small quiet hamlet with isolated farms, after the Revolution things slowly began to pick up and Cohoes was linked to the larger settlements of Lansingburg and Albany.

Until the Iranian Revolution, Mandaeans had mainly been concentrated in the Khuzestan province, where the community used to exist by side with the local Arab population.

Until Mao Zedong's death, Kunming was still generally thought in much of the rest of the country as a remote frontier settlement and so it acted as a place up to then for the government to exile people who had fallen politically out of favor, especially during the Cultural Revolution.

Until the French Revolution, the settlement was often referred to as Port-Neuilly, but at the creation of French communes in 1790 the " Port " was dropped and the newly born commune was named simply Neuilly.

Until a new constitution was adopted, political power resided in the Council of the Revolution, a predominantly military body intended to foster cooperation among various factions in the army and the party.

Until the Russian Revolution, it was the tallest structure in the city, as construction of buildings taller than that was forbidden.

Until its abolition following the Russian Revolution of 1917, just over one thousand awards had been made.

Until the October Revolution of 1917, the town served as the capital of Tobolsk Governorate.

Until the French Revolution the kings of France carried the additional title king of Navarre.

Until the Russian Revolution his father had been the director of a bank.

Until the French Revolution, Riom was the capital of the province of Auvergne, and the seat of the dukes of Auvergne.

Until the 19th century Sherburn was a farming village, but with the Industrial Revolution came the sinking of mines to provide coal to fuel the industries and railways to ensure its distribution.

Until the American Revolution, the Dutch and then the English governed the site.

Until the eve following the uprising Naga City on September 19, 1898 during the Philippine Revolution, the Franciscan considered Milaor as their favorite resting place and abode away from the adjacent rapidly developing settlement that is Naga City today.

Until the Industrial Revolution, Bradford Village was rural with woodland, pastures and streams.

Until the Industrial Revolution, the use of traditional number systems was common among shepherds, especially in the dales of the Lake District.

Until the 1986 People Power Revolution, Virata held this position.

Until 1989, 6, 000 installations existed in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Until the release of official data in 1989, the 1963 edition of the North Korea Central Yearbook was the last official publication to disclose population figures.

Until 1989 water resources were administered regionally or locally.

Until recently, the regions surrounding Bucharest were largely rural, but after 1989, new suburbs started to be built around Bucharest, in the surrounding Ilfov county.

Until 1989, Netherlands Public Broadcasting was the only television network in the Netherlands, with three stations, Nederland 1, Nederland 2 and Nederland 3.

Until 1989 there were six TV channels, all owned by the USSR Gosteleradio.

Until 1989, areas outside of these main cities had access to only a single commercial station, and these rural stations often formed small networks such as Prime Television.

Until 1989 Sremski Karlovci formed one of the urban municipalities of the city of Novi Sad.

Until 1989, Gunderloy collected and, in turn, made available several versions of the Gemstone File.

Until 1989, it included its smaller relative the Ghost Catfish, now known as K. minor.

Until 1989 the official name of the municipality was Tietjerksteradeel (), the Dutch name ; the current official name is West Frisian.

Until 1989 the paper supported the forerunners of the Labor Party.

Until 1989 the graves of five of these men were unmarked.

Until 1989, Cochran served alongside Democrat John C. Stennis, the longest-serving Senator in Mississippi's history.

Until 1993, all these years use the Pistrucci reverse except for 1986 which used a gold version of the circulating Two Pound coin, and 1989 when a completely new design was used to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first issue of the sovereign coin-the obverse shows the Queen seated on the coronation throne holding the orb and sceptre, with the legend, while the reverse shows a crowned shield within a double rose and the legend.

Until 1989, the award was given by Polish science fiction fan associations, voting as units ; since 1990, all fans present at Polcon can vote.

Until the collapse of the East German regime in 1989, Humboldt University remained under tight ideological control of the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands ( Socialist Unity Party of Germany ), or SED, which, by rigorously selecting students according to their conformity to the party line, made sure that no democratic opposition could grow on its university campuses.

* Wait Until Spring, Bandini ( 1989 )

Until 1989, Hass wrote occasionally for low-circulation left-wing magazines, but was not known to the general public.

Until 1989, around 1 / 3 of pupils who took the exam, or 27 % of the age group, were given places in a grammar school.

Until 1989, a cattle farm operated on the island.

Until his departure from Labour in 1989, Anderton had been the most vocal Labour MP in his criticism of his party's new direction.

Until 1989, while Communists held power in the People's Republic of Poland, the Polish – Soviet War was omitted or minimized in Polish and other Soviet bloc countries ' history books, or was presented as a foreign intervention during the Russian Civil War to fit in with Communist ideology.