| Date | Event |
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1989 |
Yasushi Akutagawa Died |
|
1989 |
Ernő Balogh Died |
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1989 |
Conrad Beck Died |
|
1989 |
Gunnar Berg Died |
|
1989 |
Lennox Berkeley Died |
|
1989 |
Irving Berlin Died |
|
1989 |
Nini Bulterijs Died |
|
1989 |
Géza Frid Died |
|
1989 |
Ernesto Halffter Died |
|
1989 |
Henri Sauguet Died |
|
1989 |
Julia Smith Died |
|
1989 |
Otar Taktakishvili Died |
|
1989 |
Virgil Thomson Died |
|
January
01
1989 |
Montreal Protocol Stopping Chemical Ozone Depletion |
|
1989 |
Ruth Shaw Wylie Died |
|
January
04
1989 |
Libyan Jets Shot Down By US |
|
January
07
1989 |
Akihito Becomes Emperor Of Japan After Hirohito |
|
January
08
1989 |
Beginning Of Japanese Heisei Period |
|
January
08
1989 |
British Flight Crashes Into Motorway Kills 47 |
|
January
29
1989 |
Hungary Establishes Diplomacy With South Korea |
|
January
30
1989 |
The American Embassy Is Closed In Kabul |
|
February
01
1989 |
Kalgoorlie-Boulder Is A City In Australia |
|
February
02
1989 |
Last Soviet Armoured Column Leaves Kabul |
|
February
03
1989 |
African President Resigns After A Stroke |
|
February
03
1989 |
Afredo Stroessner, Paraguay Dictator Overthrown In Military Coup |
|
February
06
1989 |
Overthrowing Of European Communism Begins In Poland |
|
February
10
1989 |
Ron Brown Becomes DNC Chair |
|
February
14
1989 |
Union Carbide To Pay Bhopal Damages |
|
February
14
1989 |
Iranian Leader Issues Fatwa |
|
February
15
1989 |
Soviet Union Announces All Troops Leave Afghanistan |
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February
20
1989 |
IRA Bomb Partially Destroys British Barracks |
|
February
24
1989 |
Death Of The Satanic Verses Was Offered US$3million Bountry |
|
February
24
1989 |
United 811 Rips Open Mid-flight, 9 Perish |
|
February
27
1989 |
Caracazo Riots Rock Venezuela |
|
March
01
1989 |
US Joins Berne Convention For Literacy And Art |
|
March
02
1989 |
CFCs Are Banned By The European Community |
|
March
07
1989 |
Satanic Verses Sever Relation Between Iran And England |
|
March
09
1989 |
Eastern Air Lines Files For Bankruptcy |
|
March
16
1989 |
4,400-year-old Mummy Found Near Cheops Pyramid |
|
March
19
1989 |
Eqypt Announces End Of Israeli Occupation |
|
March
21
1989 |
Sports Illustrated Reports Possible Baseball Gambling By Pete Rose |
|
March
22
1989 |
Clint Malarchuk Injured In Buffalo Sabres Game |
|
March
24
1989 |
Exxon Valdez Spill Alaska 240,000 Barrels Oil |
|
April
01
1989 |
Thatcher Introduces Poll Tax In Scotland |
|
April
02
1989 |
Gorbachev Arrives In Cuba To Mend Relations |
|
April
07
1989 |
Komsomolets Sinks In Barents Sea |
|
April
09
1989 |
Soviet Army Kills 20 Protesters In Tbilisi |
|
April
11
1989 |
Hextall Scores First Goal In NHL Playoffs |
|
April
15
1989 |
Human Crush Results In 96 Deaths |
|
April
15
1989 |
Tiananmen Square Protests Begin Upon Hu Yaobang's Death |
|
April
19
1989 |
Gun Explodes On USS Iowa |
|
April
21
1989 |
100,000 Protest In Tiananmen Square |
|
April
26
1989 |
Tornado In Bangladesh Kills 1300 |
|
April
26
1989 |
Editorial Inflames Tiananmen Square Protests |
|
April
27
1989 |
A Student Protested In Tiananmen Square |
|
May
01
1989 |
Disney-MGM Studios Opens At Walt Disney |
|
May
02
1989 |
Hungary Begins Dismantling Austria Border |
|
May
04
1989 |
Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North Convicted |
|
May
06
1989 |
Magnum XL-200 Opened By Cedar Point |
|
May
12
1989 |
Separate San Bernadino Disasters Leave Six Dead |
|
May
13
1989 |
Students On Strike At Tiananmen Square |
|
May
20
1989 |
Martial Law Declared In Tiananmen Square |
|
May
29
1989 |
Egypt Manufactures Parts Of US Jets |
|
May
30
1989 |
Demonstrators Unveil Democracy Statue In Tiananmen Square |
|
May
31
1989 |
Eight Transsexuals Killed By Guerrilla Group |
|
June
03
1989 |
Chinese Troops Descend Upon Tiananmen Square |
|
June
04
1989 |
Iran Elects Khamenei New Supreme Leader |
|
June
04
1989 |
241 Dead At Tiananmen Square |
|
June
04
1989 |
Solidarity's Victory Creates Contract Sejm |
|
June
04
1989 |
Russian Train Disaster Caused By Gas Explosion |
|
June
05
1989 |
Man Halts Tanks In Tiananmen Square |
|
June
16
1989 |
Former Hungarian Prime Minister Reburied In Hungary |
|
June
24
1989 |
Jiang Zemin Becomes Secretary Of Communist Party |
|
June
28
1989 |
Miolosevic Delivers Speech At Historic Battle Site |
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July
05
1989 |
Oliver North Sentenced, Convictions Overturned |
|
July
12
1989 |
Lotte World Opened In Seoul, South Korea |
|
July
17
1989 |
Holy See–Poland Relations Are Restored |
|
July
17
1989 |
First Flight Of B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber |
|
July
19
1989 |
Plane Crash In Sioux City Kills 112 |
|
July
20
1989 |
Burma's Opposition Leader Under House Arrest |
|
July
26
1989 |
Jury Indicts Cornell University Student Morris |
|
August
02
1989 |
Pakistan Re-admitted To Commonwealth Of Nations |
|
August
05
1989 |
National Liberation Front Wins In Nicaragua |
|
August
07
1989 |
15, Including Congressman Die In Ethiopian Crash |
|
August
08
1989 |
Shuttle Columbia Takes Off On Secret Mission |
|
August
16
1989 |
Toronto Stock Market Halted By Solar Flare |
|
August
18
1989 |
Luis Carlos Galan Assassinated Near Bogota, Colombia |
|
August
19
1989 |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki Becomes Prime Minister |
|
August
19
1989 |
Offshore Station Raided By British And Dutch Government |
|
August
19
1989 |
East Germans Cross Between Hungary, And Austria |
|
August
20
1989 |
51 Dead In River Thames Boat Collision |
|
August
20
1989 |
O-Bahn Busway Opens In Adelaide |
|
August
22
1989 |
Ryan Strikes Out Ricky Henderson |
|
August
23
1989 |
Hands Across Estonia, Latvia, And Lithuania |
|
August
23
1989 |
1,645 Australian Pilots Resign Over Airline Dispute |
|
August
24
1989 |
Drug Barons Declare Total War |
|
August
24
1989 |
Rose Banned From Baseball For Gambling |
|
August
24
1989 |
Mazowiecki Chosen As First Non-communist Prime Minister |
|
August
25
1989 |
Voyager 2 Approaches Neptune |
|
August
25
1989 |
Mayumi Moriyama Becomes Japan's First Female Secretary |
|
September
04
1989 |
Leipzig First Of Weekly Demonstration |
|
September
08
1989 |
Flight 394 Drove Into North Sea Killing 55 |
|
September
11
1989 |
Hungary Releases East German Refugees |
|
September
13
1989 |
Desmon Tutu Lead March In South Africa |
|
September
19
1989 |
171 Killed In UTA Flight 772 Explosion In Niger |
|
October
01
1989 |
Denmark Introduces Registered Partnership, Legal Same Sex Union |
|
October
09
1989 |
Soviet News Reports UFO In Voronezh |
|
October
15
1989 |
Wayne Gretzky Is Highest Scorer In NHL |
|
October
17
1989 |
7.1 Quake Rocks San Francisco Bay |
|
October
18
1989 |
Honecker Resigns As East Germany Party Head |
|
October
19
1989 |
Guildford Four Convictions Quashed After 15 Years |
|
October
23
1989 |
Hungarian People's Republic Renamed Hungarian Republic |
|
October
23
1989 |
Wärtsilä Marine Bankruptcy, Biggest |
|
November
07
1989 |
Wilder First African American U.S. Governor |
|
November
07
1989 |
David Dinkins First African-American NYC Mayor |
|
November
07
1989 |
East German Government Resigns |
|
November
09
1989 |
East Germany Allows Travel To West |
|
November
10
1989 |
Miladenov Replaces Longtime Leader Of People's Republic Of Bulgaria |
|
November
10
1989 |
German Citizens Begin Demolishing Berlin Wall |
|
November
13
1989 |
His Studies In Business And Economics |
|
November
16
1989 |
El Salvadoran Army Kills Eight |
|
November
17
1989 |
Prague Student Demonstration Sparks Communist Overthrow |
|
November
20
1989 |
Velvet Revolution Protesters In Prague Reach Half-million |
|
November
22
1989 |
President Moawad Is Killed By A Bomb |
|
November
27
1989 |
Cartel Cops To Colombia Jet Crash |
|
November
28
1989 |
Communist Czechoslovakia Gives Up Political Monopoly |
|
November
30
1989 |
Bank Board Member Killed In Bombing |
|
December
01
1989 |
President Corazon Suppressed A Coup |
|
December
01
1989 |
East Germany Grant Communist Lead |
|
December
03
1989 |
Bush And Gorbachev End Cold War |
|
December
06
1989 |
Lepine Kills 14 At École Polytechnique |
|
December
10
1989 |
The Establishment Of The Mongolian Democratic Union |
|
December
13
1989 |
Attack On British Army Checkpoint Kills Two |
|
December
16
1989 |
Protest In Timisoara Over Tokes Eviction |
|
December
16
1989 |
Judge Robert Smith Vance Is Assasinated |
|
December
17
1989 |
Rioters Attempt To Set Building On Fire |
|
December
17
1989 |
Brazil Elects First President Democratically In 30 Years |
|
December
18
1989 |
Soviet And Europe Sign Trade Agreement |
|
December
20
1989 |
U.S. Invades Panama, Stealth Aircraft Used |
|
December
22
1989 |
Communist President Of Romania Is Overthrown |
|
December
22
1989 |
Brandenburg Gate Reopens Reuniting Germany |
|
December
25
1989 |
The Ceausescus Are Executed In Romania |
|
December
27
1989 |
The Romanian Revolution Ends In Bucharest |
|
December
28
1989 |
5.6 Earthquake Kills 13 In New South Wales, Newcastle |
|
December
29
1989 |
Hong Kong's Vietnamese Repatriation Decision Incites Riots |