The target year for completing the European single market was 1992, which was formalized by the Maastricht Treaty signed in that year.

Dan Quayle is an American politician who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993.

Robert Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister and later President of Zimbabwe.

General Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean army general and military dictator who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990.

The Bofors scandal was a major political scandal that occurred between Sweden and India during the 1980s and 1990s.

The book 'With the Quaid-i-Azam during his Last Days' was written by Colonel Ilahi Bakhsh, who was the attending physician of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Great Britain (listed here as England) won the gold medal in men's field hockey at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

The Black Sea connects to the Mediterranean Sea via the Turkish Straits, which consist of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.

Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist for disarmament, peace, and human rights.

The 1988 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces for their efforts in conflict zones.