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1988, June 22
 
Political reform and shift of positions: János Kádár, leader of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party since 1956, was replaced by Karoly Grósz. Nearly a third of the Politburo members were replaced by advocates of reform. The new members included Imre Pozsgay, leader of the Patriotic People's Front, and Reszö Nyers, a main architect of the 1968 economic liberalization who had been ousted from the Politburo in 1975.  1
 
1989, Feb. 11
 
The government approved the formation of independent parties in a multiparty system.  2
 
April 12
 
János Berecz and three other conservative opponents of reform were expelled from the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.  3
 
May
 
Dismantling of the border fences built in the mid-1960s began.  4
 
May 5
 
Jánós Kádár lost his positions as party president of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party and member of the Central Committee after Mária Ormos, a historian, delivered a speech to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences denouncing him as a Soviet puppet.  5
 
June 8
 
Minister of Culture and Education Ferenc Glatz announced that, as of September, Russian language would no longer be required in Hungarian schools and universities.  6
 
1989, June 16
 
The body of former prime minister Imre Nagy was exhumed and reburied with state honors on the thirty-first anniversary of his execution.  7
 
Oct
 
The Hungarian Socialist Workers Party renamed itself the Hungarian Socialist Party and renounced Leninism.  8
 
Nov. 15
 
Hungary applied for full membership in the Council of Europe.  9
 
 
 
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