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645 relations: Academy Award for Best Picture, Administrative Department of Security, African Americans, African National Congress, Akbar Rafsanjani, Al-Fashir, Alaska, Alexander Dubček, Alfred Herrhausen, Alfredo Cristiani, Alfredo Stroessner, Ali Khamenei, Alice Springs, Analog television, Andrés Rodríguez (politician), Andreas Papandreou, Andrew Peacock, Anfield, Anglican Communion, Angola, Ante Marković, Aouzou Strip, Apartheid, April 9 tragedy, Arab Maghreb Union, Arecibo Observatory, Armed Forces of El Salvador, Arsenal F.C., Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Assault weapon, Association football, Asteroid, Atlanta, Aung San Suu Kyi, Aurora, Auschwitz concentration camp, Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Avianca Flight 203, Ayatollah, École Polytechnique massacre, Île-de-France, Ürümqi, Balcerowicz Plan, Baltic Way, Bangladesh, Bank of Japan, Barbara Harris (bishop), Barcelona, Barents Sea, ... Expand index (595 more) »
Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
See 1989 and Academy Award for Best Picture
Administrative Department of Security
The Administrative Department of Security (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad, DAS) was the security service agency of Colombia, which was also responsible for border and immigration services.
See 1989 and Administrative Department of Security
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
See 1989 and African Americans
African National Congress
The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa.
See 1989 and African National Congress
Akbar Rafsanjani
Ali Akbar Hashimi Bahramani Rafsanjani (25 August 19348 January 2017) was an Iranian politician and writer who served as the fourth president of Iran from 1989 to 1997.
Al-Fashir
Al-Fashir or El Fasher (translit) is the capital city of North Darfur, Sudan.
Alaska
Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.
See 1989 and Alaska
Alexander Dubček
Alexander Dubček (27 November 1921 – 7 November 1992) was a Slovak statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) (de facto leader of Czechoslovakia) from January 1968 to April 1969 and as Chairman of the Federal Assembly from 1989 to 1992 following the Velvet Revolution.
Alfred Herrhausen
Alfred Herrhausen (30 January 1930 – 30 November 1989) was a German banker and the Chairman of Deutsche Bank, who was born in Essen and assassinated in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in 1989.
See 1989 and Alfred Herrhausen
Alfredo Cristiani
Alfredo Félix Cristiani Burkard (born 22 November 1947) is a Salvadoran politician who was President of El Salvador from 1989 to 1994.
See 1989 and Alfredo Cristiani
Alfredo Stroessner
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan army officer, politician and dictator who served as President of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow from power on 3 February 1989.
See 1989 and Alfredo Stroessner
Ali Khamenei
Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei (translit,; born 19 April 1939) is an Iranian Twelver Shia marja' and politician who has served as the second supreme leader of Iran since 1989.
Alice Springs
Alice Springs (Mparntwe) is a town in the Northern Territory, Australia; the third largest settlement after Darwin and Palmerston.
Analog television
Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio.
See 1989 and Analog television
Andrés Rodríguez (politician)
Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti (June 19, 1923 – April 21, 1997) was a military officer and politician, being President of Paraguay from February 3, 1989, to August 15, 1993.
See 1989 and Andrés Rodríguez (politician)
Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou (Ανδρέας ΓεωργίουΠαπανδρέου,; 5 February 1919 – 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist, politician, and a dominant figure in Greek politics, known for founding the political party PASOK, which he led from 1974 to 1996.
See 1989 and Andreas Papandreou
Andrew Peacock
Andrew Sharp Peacock (13 February 193916 April 2021) was an Australian politician and diplomat.
Anfield
Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has a seating capacity of 60,725 making it the fifth largest football stadium in England.
See 1989 and Anfield
Anglican Communion
The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
See 1989 and Anglican Communion
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
See 1989 and Angola
Ante Marković
Ante Marković (25 November 1924 – 28 November 2011) was a Croatian and Yugoslav politician, businessman and engineer.
Aouzou Strip
The Aouzou Strip (Qiṭāʿ Awzū, Bande d'Aozou) is a strip of land in northern Chad that lies along the border with Libya, extending south to a depth of about 100 kilometers into Chad's Borkou, Ennedi Ouest, Ennedi Est, and Tibesti Regions for an area of 114,000 km2.
Apartheid
Apartheid (especially South African English) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s.
April 9 tragedy
The April 9 tragedy (also known as The massacre of Tbilisi or Tbilisi tragedy) refers to the events in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, on April 9, 1989, when an anti-Soviet, pro-independence demonstration was crushed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 21 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Arab Maghreb Union
The Arab Maghreb Union (إتحاد المغرب العربي, Union du Maghreb Arabe, AMU/UMA) is a political union and economic union trade agreement aiming for economic and future political unity among Arab countries that are located primarily in the Maghreb in North Africa.
See 1989 and Arab Maghreb Union
Arecibo Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) and formerly known as the Arecibo Ionosphere Observatory, is an observatory in Barrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico owned by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).
See 1989 and Arecibo Observatory
Armed Forces of El Salvador
The Armed Forces of El Salvador (Fuerza Armada de El Salvador) are the official governmental military forces of El Salvador.
See 1989 and Armed Forces of El Salvador
Arsenal F.C.
The Arsenal Football Club, commonly known as simply Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Holloway, North London, England.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
See 1989 and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Assault weapon
In the United States, assault weapon is a political term applied to different kinds of firearms.
Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
See 1989 and Association football
Asteroid
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.
Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
See 1989 and Atlanta
Aung San Suu Kyi
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (born 19 June 1945), sometimes abbreviated to Suu Kyi, is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar (equivalent to a prime minister) and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021.
Aurora
An aurora (aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).
See 1989 and Aurora
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.
See 1989 and Auschwitz concentration camp
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a federal territory of Australia.
See 1989 and Australian Capital Territory
Avianca Flight 203
Avianca Flight 203 was a Colombian domestic passenger flight from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali, Colombia.
See 1989 and Avianca Flight 203
Ayatollah
Ayatollah (âyatollâh) is an honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran that came into widespread usage in the 20th century.
École Polytechnique massacre
The massacre (French: tuerie de l'École polytechnique), also known as the Montreal massacre, was an antifeminist mass shooting that occurred on December 6, 1989, at the in Montreal, Quebec.
See 1989 and École Polytechnique massacre
Île-de-France
The Île-de-France is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023.
Ürümqi
Ürümqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China.
See 1989 and Ürümqi
Balcerowicz Plan
The Balcerowicz Plan (plan Balcerowicza), also termed "Shock Therapy", was a method for rapidly transitioning from an economy based on state ownership and central planning, to a capitalist market economy.
Baltic Way
The Baltic Way (Baltijos kelias; Baltijas ceļš; Balti kett) or Baltic Chain (also "Chain of Freedom") was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Bank of Japan
The is the central bank of Japan.
Barbara Harris (bishop)
Barbara Clementine Harris (June 12, 1930 – March 13, 2020) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
See 1989 and Barbara Harris (bishop)
Barcelona
Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.
Barents Sea
The Barents Sea (also; Barentshavet,; Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territorial waters.
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
See 1989 and Beirut
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
See 1989 and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany) from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany).
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
See 1989 and Beverly Hills, California
Bhopal disaster
The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
See 1989 and Bihar
Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023.
Bogotá
Bogotá (also), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world.
See 1989 and Bogotá
Bomb
A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.
See 1989 and Bomb
Bond University
Bond University is Australia's first private not-for-profit university and is located in Robina, a suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland.
Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate (Brandenburger Tor) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin.
Branko Mikulić
Branko Mikulić (10 June 1928 – 12 April 1994) was a Yugoslav politician who served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1986 to 1989.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
See 1989 and Brazil
Bréguet 1050 Alizé
The Bréguet Br.1050 Alizé (French: "Tradewind") is a French carrier-based anti-submarine warfare aircraft.
See 1989 and Bréguet 1050 Alizé
Brest, France
Brest is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney (March 20, 1939 – February 29, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
Broadcasting of sports events
The broadcasting of sports events (also known as a sportscast) is the live coverage of sports as a television program, on radio, and other broadcasting media.
See 1989 and Broadcasting of sports events
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
Bucharest
Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.
Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and primate city of Argentina.
Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party (Bulgarian: Българска комунистическа партия (БΚП), Romanised: Bŭlgarska komunisticheska partiya; BKP) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 1989, when the country ceased to be a socialist satellite state of the Soviet Union.
See 1989 and Bulgarian Communist Party
Bulgarian Socialist Party
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (translit, BSP), also known as The Centenarian (translit), is a centre-left, social democratic political party in Bulgaria.
See 1989 and Bulgarian Socialist Party
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.
Cabinet reshuffle
A cabinet reshuffle or shuffle occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in their cabinet, or when the head of state changes the head of government and a number of ministers.
See 1989 and Cabinet reshuffle
Calnev Pipeline
The Calnev Pipeline is a long buried refined oil products pipeline in the United States, owned by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners.
Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002) was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
Caracazo
The Caracazo is the name given to the wave of protests, riots and looting. that started on 27 February 1989 in the Venezuelan city of Guarenas, spreading to Caracas and surrounding towns following austerity measures from President Carlos Andrés Pérez. The weeklong clashes resulted in the deaths of hundreds, thousands by some accounts, mostly at the hands of security forces and the military.Amnesty International, March 1990, Reports of Arbitrary Killings and Torture:, February/March 1989, AI Index: AMR 53/02/90, https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/amr53/002/1991/en/ The riots and the protests began mainly in response to the government's economic reforms and the resulting increase in the price of gasoline and transportation.
Carlos Andrés Pérez
Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (27 October 1922 – 25 December 2010) also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho (due to his Andean origins), was a Venezuelan politician who served as the 47th and 50th president of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993.
See 1989 and Carlos Andrés Pérez
Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem (2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 1989 to 1999.
Carmelites
The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo; abbreviated OCarm), known as the Carmelites or sometimes by synecdoche known simply as Carmel, is a mendicant order in the Roman Catholic Church for both men and women.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
César Gaviria
César Augusto Gaviria Trujillo (born 31 March 1947) is a Colombian economist and politician who served as the President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 to 2004 and National Director of the Colombian Liberal Party from 2005 to 2009.
Central Coast (California)
The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay.
See 1989 and Central Coast (California)
Central Europe
Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.
Central Park
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States.
Central Park jogger case
The Central Park jogger case (sometimes termed the Central Park Five case) was a criminal case concerning the assault and rape of Trisha Meili, a woman in Central Park in Manhattan, New York, on April 19, 1989.
See 1989 and Central Park jogger case
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.
See 1989 and Chad
Chadian–Libyan War
The Chadian–Libyan War was a series of military campaigns in Chad between 1978 and 1987, fought between Libyan and allied Chadian forces against Chadian groups supported by France, with the occasional involvement of other foreign countries and factions.
See 1989 and Chadian–Libyan War
Champs-Élysées
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, long and wide, running between the Place de la Concorde in the east and the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, where the Arc de Triomphe is located.
Chang'an Avenue
1999 National Day parade. Chang'an Avenue, literally "Eternal Peace Street", is a major thoroughfare in Beijing, China.
Charles Haughey
Charles James Haughey (16 September 1925 – 13 June 2006) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who led four governments as Taoiseach: December 1979 to June 1981, March to December 1982, March 1987 to June 1989, and June 1989 to February 1992.
Charles Keating
Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (December 4, 1923 – March 31, 2014) was an American sportsman, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, financier, conservative activist, and convicted felon best known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s.
Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 22nd president of Liberia from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003 as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War and growing international pressure.
See 1989 and Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
See 1989 and Chile
Chin Peng
Chin Peng (21 October 1924 – 16 September 2013), born Ong Boon Hua, was a Malayan communist politician, guerrilla leader, and revolutionary, who was the leader and commander of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA).
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
See 1989 and China
Chlorofluorocarbon
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) are fully or partly halogenated hydrocarbons that contain carbon (C), hydrogen (H), chlorine (Cl), and fluorine (F), produced as volatile derivatives of methane, ethane, and propane.
See 1989 and Chlorofluorocarbon
Christian Democratic Appeal
The Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl,, CDA) is a Christian democratic and socially conservative political party in the Netherlands.
See 1989 and Christian Democratic Appeal
Chumphon province
Chumphon (ชุมพร) is a southern province (changwat) of Thailand on the Gulf of Thailand.
See 1989 and Chumphon province
Ciriaco De Mita
Luigi Ciriaco De Mita (2 February 1928 – 26 May 2022) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Italy from April 1988 to July 1989.
Civil union
A civil union (also known as a civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples.
Clint Malarchuk
Clint Malarchuk (born May 1, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1981 and 1992.
Cold fusion
Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature.
Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Colin Powell
Colin Luther Powell (April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa, KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992.
See 1989 and Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Communist Party of the Netherlands
The Communist Party of the Netherlands (Communistische Partij Nederland,, CPN) was a communist party in the Netherlands.
See 1989 and Communist Party of the Netherlands
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.
See 1989 and Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) is a United States cybersecurity bill that was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to existing computer fraud law, which had been included in the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.
See 1989 and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Conservative Party (Norway)
The Conservative Party or The Right (Høyre, Høgre,, H; Olgešbellodat) is a liberal-conservative political party in Norway.
See 1989 and Conservative Party (Norway)
Constitution of Iran
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran (قانون اساسی جمهوری اسلامی ایران, Qanun-e Asasi-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Iran) is the supreme law of Iran.
See 1989 and Constitution of Iran
Contras
The Contras (from lit) were the various U.S.-backed-and-funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which had come to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution.
See 1989 and Contras
Convair CV-240 family
The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner that Convair manufactured from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3.
See 1989 and Convair CV-240 family
Convent
A convent is a community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters.
See 1989 and Convent
Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.
Corazon Aquino
Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the eleventh President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992.
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
See 1989 and Cornell University
Cosmetics
Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
See 1989 and Cuba
Curfew
A curfew is an order that imposes certain regulations during specified hours.
See 1989 and Curfew
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia (Czech and Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a landlocked state in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary.
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main and largest airport in Hawaii.
See 1989 and Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
Daulatpur–Saturia tornado
The Daulatpur–Saturia tornado occurred in Manikganj District, Bangladesh on 26 April 1989.
See 1989 and Daulatpur–Saturia tornado
David Dinkins
David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 – November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.
David Lange
David Russell Lange (4 August 1942 – 13 August 2005) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989.
Deal barracks bombing
The Deal barracks bombing was an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on the Royal Marine Depot, Deal, England.
See 1989 and Deal barracks bombing
Deal, Kent
Deal is a coastal town in Kent, England, which lies where the North Sea and the English Channel meet, north-east of Dover and south of Ramsgate.
December 31
It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Year’s Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.
Democratic National Committee
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal committee of the United States Democratic Party.
See 1989 and Democratic National Committee
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989.
Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
See 1989 and Denmark
Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
See 1989 and Detroit
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
Dhaka Division
Dhaka Division (ঢাকা বিভাগ, Ḍhaka Bibhag) is an administrative division within Bangladesh.
Dictatorship
A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations.
Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona (30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager.
Douglas Wilder
Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), Dow Jones, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index of 30 prominent companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States.
See 1989 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dredging
Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment.
Dublin City University
Dublin City University (abbreviated as DCU) (Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath) is a university based on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland.
See 1989 and Dublin City University
East Germany
East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
Economic bubble
An economic bubble (also called a speculative bubble or a financial bubble) is a period when current asset prices greatly exceed their intrinsic valuation, being the valuation that the underlying long-term fundamentals justify.
Egon Krenz
Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz (born 19 March 1937) is a German former politician who was the last Communist leader of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) during the Revolutions of 1989.
Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
See 1989 and Egypt
Emperor of Japan
The emperor of Japan is the hereditary monarch and head of state of Japan.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
See 1989 and Encyclopædia Britannica
Energy
Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.
See 1989 and Energy
England and Wales
England and Wales is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
See 1989 and England and Wales
Erich Honecker
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker (25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
See 1989 and Europe
European Champion Clubs' Cup
The European Champion Clubs' Cup, also known as Coupe des Clubs Champions Européens, or simply the European Cup, is a trophy awarded annually by UEFA to the football club that wins the UEFA Champions League.
See 1989 and European Champion Clubs' Cup
European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
See 1989 and European Economic Community
Eurosport
Eurosport is a French group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia.
Evangelical People's Party (Netherlands)
The Evangelical People's Party (Evangelische Volkspartij, EVP) was a minor progressive Protestant political party in the Netherlands.
See 1989 and Evangelical People's Party (Netherlands)
Exxon Valdez
Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound, spilling her cargo of crude oil into the sea.
Exxon Valdez oil spill
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989.
See 1989 and Exxon Valdez oil spill
F. W. de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk (18 March 1936 – 11 November 2021) was a South African politician who served as state president of South Africa from 1989 to 1994 and as deputy president from 1994 to 1996.
Fatwa
A fatwa (translit; label) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih) in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government.
See 1989 and Fatwa
FCSB
Fotbal Club FCSB, formerly named and still sometimes referred to as FC Steaua București, is a Romanian professional football club based in Bucharest.
See 1989 and FCSB
February 14
It is observed in most countries as Valentine's Day.
Fernando Collor de Mello
Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (born 12 August 1949) is a Brazilian politician who served as the 32nd president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992, when he resigned in a failed attempt to stop his impeachment trial by the Brazilian Senate.
See 1989 and Fernando Collor de Mello
Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil (meaning "Soldiers of Destiny" or "Warriors of Fál"), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (Fianna Fáil – An Páirtí Poblachtánach), is a political party in Ireland.
Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989
The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), is a United States federal law enacted in the wake of the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.
See 1989 and Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.
See 1989 and Finland
First Liberian Civil War
The First Liberian Civil War was the first of two civil wars within the West African nation of Liberia which lasted between 1989 and 1997.
See 1989 and First Liberian Civil War
Flag desecration
Flag desecration is the desecration of a flag, violation of flag protocol, or various acts that intentionally destroy, damage, or mutilate a flag in public.
Flag of Estonia
The national flag of Estonia (Eesti lipp) is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black (middle), and white (bottom).
Flag Protection Act
Reacting to protests during the Vietnam War era, the United States 90th Congress enacted Public Law 90-381 (82 Stat. 291), later codified as 18 U.S.C. 700, et.
See 1989 and Flag Protection Act
Foreign exchange market
The foreign exchange market (forex, FX (pronounced "fix"), or currency market) is a global decentralized or over-the-counter (OTC) market for the trading of currencies.
See 1989 and Foreign exchange market
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.
See 1989 and Fox Broadcasting Company
François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France.
See 1989 and François Mitterrand
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
See 1989 and France
Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Franz Joseph II (Franz Josef Maria Alois Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignaz Benediktus Gerhardus Majella; 16 August 1906 – 13 November 1989) was the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein from 25 July 1938 until his death in November 1989.
See 1989 and Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
See 1989 and Freedom of religion
French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
See 1989 and French Revolution
Gaby Kennard
Gaby Kennard (born 1944, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) was the first Australian woman to circumnavigate the globe by airplane.
Game Boy
The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year.
Gangsta rap
Gangsta rap or gangster rap, initially called reality rap, is a subgenre of rap music that conveys the culture and values typical of urban gangs, reality of the world and street hustlers.
Gazprom
PJSC Gazprom (ɡɐsˈprom) is a Russian majority state-owned multinational energy corporation headquartered in the Lakhta Center in Saint Petersburg.
See 1989 and Gazprom
Günter Schabowski
Günter Schabowski (4 January 1929 – 1 November 2015) was an East German politician who served as an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands abbreviated SED), the ruling party during most of the existence of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
See 1989 and Günter Schabowski
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF).
See 1989 and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
The General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
See 1989 and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
See 1989 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology.
See 1989 and Genetic engineering
Geoffrey Palmer (politician)
Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer (born 21 April 1942) is a New Zealand lawyer and former politician who was a member of Parliament from 1979 to 1990.
See 1989 and Geoffrey Palmer (politician)
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker BushAfter the 1990s, he became more commonly known as George H. W. Bush, "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush the Elder" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd U.S. president from 2001 to 2009; previously, he was usually referred to simply as George Bush.
See 1989 and George H. W. Bush
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.
See 1989 and Georgia (country)
German battleship Bismarck
Bismarck was the first of two s built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine.
See 1989 and German battleship Bismarck
Giulio Andreotti
Giulio Andreotti (14 January 1919 – 6 May 2013) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy in seven governments (1972–1973, 1976–1979, and 1989–1992), and was leader of the Christian Democracy party and its right-wing; he was the sixth-longest-serving prime minister since the Italian unification and the second-longest-serving post-war prime minister.
Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.
See 1989 and Global Positioning System
Goddess of Democracy
The Goddess of Democracy, also known as the Goddess of Democracy and Freedom, the Spirit of Democracy, and the Goddess of Liberty (自由女神), was a statue created during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
See 1989 and Goddess of Democracy
Grand jury
A grand jury is a jury—a group of citizens—empowered by law to conduct legal proceedings, investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought.
Grand National Assembly of Turkey
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi), usually referred to simply as the TBMM or Parliament (Meclis or Parlamento), is the unicameral Turkish legislature.
See 1989 and Grand National Assembly of Turkey
Gregor Gysi
Gregor Florian Gysi (born 16 January 1948) is a German attorney, former president of the Party of the European Left and a prominent politician of The Left (Die Linke) political party.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Brundtland (born Gro Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician (Arbeiderpartiet), who served three terms as the 29th prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–1989, and 1990–1996), as the leader of the Labour Party from 1981 to 1992, and as the director-general of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003.
See 1989 and Gro Harlem Brundtland
GroenLinks
GroenLinks is a green political party in the Netherlands.
Grumman F-14 Tomcat
The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft.
See 1989 and Grumman F-14 Tomcat
Guildford Four and Maguire Seven
The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were two groups of people, mostly Irish, who were wrongly convicted in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974, and the Woolwich pub bombing of 7 November 1974.
See 1989 and Guildford Four and Maguire Seven
Guillermo Endara
Guillermo David Endara Galimany (May 12, 1936 – September 28, 2009) was a Panamanian politician who served as the president of Panama from 1989 to 1994.
Gun control
Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians.
Gustáv Husák
Gustáv Husák (10 January 1913 – 18 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak politician who served as the long-time First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 and the President of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989.
Hanoi
Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.
See 1989 and Hanoi
Hans Georg Dehmelt
Hans Georg Dehmelt (9 September 1922 – 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey).
See 1989 and Hans Georg Dehmelt
Hans Modrow
Hans Modrow (27 January 1928 – 10 February 2023) was a German politician best known as the last communist premier of East Germany.
Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Hans-Adam II (Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco d'Aviano Pius; born 14 February 1945) is the Prince of Liechtenstein.
See 1989 and Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Harold E. Varmus
Harold Eliot Varmus (born December 18, 1939) is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
Hate speech
Hate speech is a term with varied meaning and has no single, consistent definition.
Heisei era
The was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Emeritus Akihito from 8 January 1989 until his abdication on 30 April 2019.
Hellenic Parliament
The Parliament of the Hellenes (Voulí ton Ellínon), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (Ellinikó Koinovoúlio), is the unicameral legislature of Greece, located in the Old Royal Palace, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens.
See 1989 and Hellenic Parliament
Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990, Chancellor of Germany from 1990 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998.
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.
Heroes' Square (Budapest)
Hősök tere is one of the major squares in Budapest, Hungary, noted for its iconic Millennium Monument with statues featuring the Seven chieftains of the Magyars and other important Hungarian national leaders, as well as the Memorial Stone of Heroes, often erroneously referred as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
See 1989 and Heroes' Square (Budapest)
Hezbollah
Hezbollah (Ḥizbu 'llāh) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
High-yield debt
In finance, a high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade by credit rating agencies.
Hillsborough disaster
The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989.
See 1989 and Hillsborough disaster
Hirohito
Hirohito (29 April 19017 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989.
Hof, Bavaria
Hof is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech border and the forested Fichtel Mountains and Franconian Forest upland regions.
Holy See
The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
House of Councillors
The is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan.
See 1989 and House of Councillors
Hu Yaobang
Hu Yaobang (20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989) was a Chinese politician who was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China.
Hui people
The Hui people (回族|p.
Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
Hungarian People's Republic
The Hungarian People's Republic (Magyar Népköztársaság) was a one-party socialist state from 20 August 1949 to 23 October 1989.
See 1989 and Hungarian People's Republic
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR).
See 1989 and Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Hungarian Socialist Party
The Hungarian Socialist Party (Magyar Szocialista Párt), commonly known by its acronym MSZP, is a centre-left to left-wing social-democratic and pro-European political party in Hungary.
See 1989 and Hungarian Socialist Party
Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (Magyar Szocialista Munkáspárt, MSZMP) was the ruling Marxist–Leninist party of the Hungarian People's Republic between 1956 and 1989.
See 1989 and Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe.
See 1989 and Hungary
Hurricane Hugo
Hurricane Hugo was a powerful tropical cyclone that inflicted widespread destruction across the northeastern Caribbean and the Southeastern United States in September 1989.
Ibero-America
Ibero-America (Iberoamérica, Ibero-América) or Iberian America is generally considered to be the region in the Americas comprising countries or territories where Spanish or Portuguese are predominant languages (usually former territories of Portugal or Spain).
Iceland
Iceland (Ísland) is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe.
See 1989 and Iceland
Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada Oumee (30 May 192816 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979.
Imre Nagy
Imre Nagy (7 June 1896 – 16 June 1958) was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers (de facto Prime Minister) of the Hungarian People's Republic from 1953 to 1955.
Indian National Congress
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Industrial civilization
Industrial civilization refers to the state of civilization following the Industrial Revolution, characterised by widespread use of powered machines.
See 1989 and Industrial civilization
Infiniti
(stylized as INFINITI) is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automaker Nissan, marketing having begun on November 8, 1989, in North America.
Infiniti Q45
The Infiniti Q45 is a full-size, rear-drive, five-passenger luxury sedan (F-segment in Europe) marketed as the flagship model of Infiniti, Nissan's luxury division — across three generations spanning model years 1989-2006.
Inter-Parliamentary Union
The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU; Union Interparlementaire, UIP) is an international organization of national parliaments. Its primary purpose is to promote democratic governance, accountability, and cooperation among its members; other initiatives include advancing gender parity among legislatures, empowering youth participation in politics, and sustainable development.
See 1989 and Inter-Parliamentary Union
International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice (ICJ; Cour internationale de justice, CIJ), or colloquially the World Court, is the only international court that adjudicates general disputes between nations, and gives advisory opinions on international legal issues.
See 1989 and International Court of Justice
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides myriad services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet.
See 1989 and Internet service provider
Ion Iliescu
Ion Iliescu (born 3 March 1930) is a Romanian politician and engineer who served as President of Romania from 1989 until 1996 and from 2000 until 2004.
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
See 1989 and Iran
Iran–Contra affair
The Iran–Contra affair (ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Caso Irán-Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal and more rarely as the Iran Initiative, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan administration.
See 1989 and Iran–Contra affair
Iskandar of Johor
Sultan Iskandar ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail (Jawi: المتوكل على ﷲ سلطان إسكندر الحاج ابن المرحومسلطان إسماعيل الخالدي; 8 April 1932 – 22 January 2010) was Sultan of Johor, succeeding his father Sultan Ismail upon the latter's death in 1981.
See 1989 and Iskandar of Johor
Islamic Jihad Organization
The Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO; Organisation du Jihad Islamique (OJI); lit) was a Lebanese Shia militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War.
See 1989 and Islamic Jihad Organization
Issy-les-Moulineaux
Issy-les-Moulineaux is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France, lying on the left bank of the river Seine.
See 1989 and Issy-les-Moulineaux
Italian Americans
Italian Americans (italoamericani) are Americans who have full or partial Italian ancestry.
See 1989 and Italian Americans
J. Michael Bishop
John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus.
See 1989 and J. Michael Bishop
Jaime Paz Zamora
Jaime Paz Zamora (born 15 April 1939) is a former Bolivian politician who served as the 60th president of Bolivia from 1989 to 1993.
Jammu Siltavuori
Antti Veikko Ilmari Siltavuori (29 October 1926 – 9 March 2012), better known as Jammu Siltavuori or Jammu-setä ("Uncle Jammu"), was a Finnish murderer and sexual offender.
Jan P. Syse
(25 November 1930 – 17 September 1997) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician from the Conservative Party.
January 1
January 1 is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years).
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
See 1989 and Japan
Jean-Paul Goude
Jean-Paul Goude (born 8 December 1938) is a French graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, advertising film director and event designer.
Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as president of China from 1993 to 2003.
Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
Joan Kirner
Joan Elizabeth Kirner (née Hood; 20 June 1938 – 1 June 2015) was an Australian politician who was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, serving from 1990 to 1992.
John Friedrich (fraudster)
Johann Friedrich Hohenberger OAM (7 September 195027 July 1991), also known as John Friedrich, was executive director of the National Safety Council of Australia (Victorian Division) during the 1980s.
See 1989 and John Friedrich (fraudster)
John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007.
John Tower
John Goodwin Tower (September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was an American politician and military veteran who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1961 to 1985.
Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is the body of the most senior uniformed leaders within the United States Department of Defense, which advises the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, the Homeland Security Council and the National Security Council on military matters.
See 1989 and Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint session of the United States Congress
A joint session of the United States Congress is a gathering of members of the two chambers of the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
See 1989 and Joint session of the United States Congress
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (14 May 1947 – 15 December 1989), also known by the nicknames Don Sombrero (Mister Hat) and El Mexicano (The Mexican), was a Colombian drug lord who was one of the leaders of the Medellín Cartel along with the Ochoa brothers and Pablo Escobar.
See 1989 and José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha
July 2
This date marks the halfway point of the year.
See 1989 and July 2
June 1989 Greek legislative election
Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 18 June 1989.
See 1989 and June 1989 Greek legislative election
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
See 1989 and Jupiter
Kamchatka Oblast
Kamchatka Oblast (Kamchatskaya oblast) was, until being incorporated into Kamchatka Krai on July 1, 2007, a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
Karel Urbánek
Karel Urbánek (born 22 March 1941 in Bojkovice, Moravia) is a retired Czech politician, and the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia.
Kempsey, New South Wales
Kempsey is a town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia and is the council seat for Kempsey Shire.
See 1989 and Kempsey, New South Wales
King of Malaysia
The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, unofficially known as the king of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia.
Kmart
Kmart, formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is a department store chain, and an online retailer in the United States and operates six remaining Kmart big-box department stores — 3 in the US Virgin Islands and one each in Kendale Lakes, Florida (Miami postal address); Bridgehampton, Long Island; and Tamuning, Guam.
See 1989 and Kmart
Kosovo Albanians
The Albanians of Kosovo (Shqiptarët e Kosovës), also commonly called Kosovo Albanians, Kosovan Albanians or Kosovars (Kosovarët), constitute the largest ethnic group in Kosovo.
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.
La Paz
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
See 1989 and La Paz
Labour Party (Netherlands)
The Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid, abbreviated as PvdA or P van de A) is a social democratic political party in the Netherlands.
See 1989 and Labour Party (Netherlands)
Labour Party (Norway)
The Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet; Arbeidarpartiet, A/Ap; Bargiidbellodat), formerly The Norwegian Labour Party (Det norske Arbeiderparti, DNA), is a social democratic political party in Norway.
See 1989 and Labour Party (Norway)
Ladislav Adamec
Ladislav Adamec (10 September 1926 – 14 April 2007) was a Czechoslovak communist politician.
Latvia
Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.
See 1989 and Latvia
League of Communists of Slovenia
The League of Communists of Slovenia (Zveza komunistov Slovenije, ZKS; Savez komunista Slovenije) was the Slovenian branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, the sole legal party of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990.
See 1989 and League of Communists of Slovenia
Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990.
See 1989 and Lebanese Civil War
Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
See 1989 and Lebanon
Leipzig
Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.
See 1989 and Leipzig
Leningrad Oblast
Leningrad Oblast (Leningradskaya oblast’) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
Lexus
is the luxury vehicle division of the Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corporation.
See 1989 and Lexus
Lexus LS
The is a full-size luxury sedan (F-segment in Europe) serving as the flagship model of Lexus, the luxury division of Toyota.
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
The, frequently abbreviated to LDP or, is a major conservativeThe Liberal Democratic Party is widely described as conservative.
See 1989 and Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
See 1989 and Libya
Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east and north and Switzerland in the west and south.
List of Commonwealth heads of government
The Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOG) is the collective name for the government leaders of the nations with membership in the Commonwealth of Nations.
See 1989 and List of Commonwealth heads of government
List of heads of government of Sudan
This article lists the heads of government of Sudan, from the establishment of the office of Chief Minister in 1952 until the present day.
See 1989 and List of heads of government of Sudan
List of heads of state of Panama
This article lists the heads of state of Panama since the short-lived first independence from the Republic of New Granada in 1840 and the final separation from Colombia in 1903.
See 1989 and List of heads of state of Panama
List of presidents of Czechoslovakia
The president of Czechoslovakia (prezident Československa, prezident Česko-Slovenska) was the head of state of Czechoslovakia, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic on 1 January 1993.
See 1989 and List of presidents of Czechoslovakia
List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia
The prime minister of Czechoslovakia (předseda vlády Československa, predseda vlády Česko-Slovenska) was the head of government of Czechoslovakia, from the creation of the First Czechoslovak Republic in 1918 until the dissolution of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic on 1 January 1993.
See 1989 and List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia
Lists of political office-holders in East Germany
These are lists of political office-holders in East Germany.
See 1989 and Lists of political office-holders in East Germany
Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), also known as Soviet Lithuania or simply Lithuania, was de facto one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union between 1940–1941 and 1944–1990.
See 1989 and Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
Liverpool F.C.
Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.
Local government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
See 1989 and London
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
See 1989 and Los Angeles Times
Lotte World
Lotte World or Lotte World Adventure is a major recreation complex in Seoul, South Korea.
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.
See 1989 and Louisville, Kentucky
Luis Alberto Lacalle
not to be cnfused with Luis Herrera Campins Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera, (Lacalle locally or; born 13 July 1941), is a Uruguayan politician and lawyer who served as the 36th president of Uruguay from 1990 to 1995.
See 1989 and Luis Alberto Lacalle
Luis Carlos Galán
Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento (29 September 1943 – 18 August 1989) was a Colombian liberal politician and journalist who ran for the Presidency of Colombia on two occasions, the first time for the political movement New Liberalism that he founded in 1979.
See 1989 and Luis Carlos Galán
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), also known as Lula da Silva or simply Lula, is a Brazilian politician who is the 39th and current president of Brazil since 2023.
See 1989 and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Lyle and Erik Menéndez
Joseph Lyle Menéndez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menéndez (born November 27, 1970) are American brothers who were convicted in 1996 of the murders of their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menéndez.
See 1989 and Lyle and Erik Menéndez
Malayan Communist Party
The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), officially the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), was a Marxist–Leninist and anti-imperialist communist party which was active in British Malaya and later, the modern states of Malaysia and Singapore from 1930 to 1989.
See 1989 and Malayan Communist Party
Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.
See 1989 and Malta
Manfred Gerlach
Manfred Gerlach (8 May 1928 – 17 October 2011) was a German jurist and politician, and the longtime leader of the East German Liberal Democratic Party.
Manuel Noriega
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno (February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) was a Panamanian politician and military officer who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989.
Marc Lépine
Marc Lépine (born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi; October 26, 1964 – December 6, 1989) was a Canadian mass murderer from Montreal, Quebec, who, in 1989, murdered fourteen women, and wounded ten women and four menNote: Many sources state thirteen were wounded, but the Coroner's report and the police officer responsible for the investigation state that 14 were wounded.
Marchioness disaster
The Marchioness disaster was a collision between two vessels on the River Thames in London in the early hours of 20 August 1989, which resulted in the deaths of 51 people.
See 1989 and Marchioness disaster
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.
See 1989 and Margaret Thatcher
Marián Čalfa
Marián Čalfa (born 7 May 1946, in Trebišov) is a Slovak former politician, who served as prime minister of Czechoslovakia during and after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, as well as de facto acting President for 19 days.
Mauritania–Senegal Border War
The Mauritania–Senegal Border War was a conflict fought between the West African countries of Mauritania and Senegal along their shared border from 1989 to 1991.
See 1989 and Mauritania–Senegal Border War
Mátyás Szűrös
Mátyás Szűrös (born 11 September 1933) is a Hungarian politician.
McDonald's
McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.
McDonnell Douglas DC-10
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas.
See 1989 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10
Medellín Cartel
The Medellín Cartel (Cártel de Medellín) was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia, that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar.
Michael Manley
Michael Norman Manley (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992.
Michel Aoun
Michel Naim Aoun (ميشال نعيمعون,; born 30 September 1933) is a Lebanese politician and former military general who served as the President of Lebanon from 31 October 2016 until 30 October 2022.
Mickey Leland
George Thomas "Mickey" Leland III (November 27, 1944 – August 7, 1989) was an American politician and anti-poverty activist.
Midsummer
Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer, taking place on or near the date of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere; the longest day of the year.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
See 1989 and Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a variable-geometry fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union.
See 1989 and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
Military dictatorship in Brazil
The military dictatorship in Brazil (ditadura militar), occasionally referred to as the Fifth Brazilian Republic, was established on 1 April 1964, after a coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United States government, against president João Goulart.
See 1989 and Military dictatorship in Brazil
Miloš Jakeš
Miloš Jakeš (12 August 1922 – 10 July 2020) was a Czech communist politician.
Modified Mercalli intensity scale
The Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MM, MMI, or MCS) measures the effects of an earthquake at a given location.
See 1989 and Modified Mercalli intensity scale
Monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling Canadiens is always used instead of Canadians.
See 1989 and Montreal Canadiens
Mormon missionary
Missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)—widely known as Mormon missionaries—are volunteer representatives of the church who engage variously in proselytizing, church service, humanitarian aid, and community service.
See 1989 and Mormon missionary
Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
See 1989 and Moscow
Motherland Party (Turkey)
The Motherland Party (Anavatan Partisi, abbreviated as ANAP) was a political party in Turkey.
See 1989 and Motherland Party (Turkey)
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Mudar Badran
Mudar Mohammad Ayesh Badran (مضر بدران‎; 18 January 1934 – 22 April 2023) was a Jordanian politician, government minister, and industrialist.
Murder of Yusef Hawkins
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins (also spelled as Yusuf Hawkins, March 19, 1973 – August 23, 1989) was a 16-year-old black teenager from the neighborhood of East New York, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, who was shot to death on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, a predominantly Italian-American working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn.
See 1989 and Murder of Yusef Hawkins
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
See 1989 and Myanmar
N.W.A
N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes, eye dialect for Niggas With Attitudes) was an American hip hop group formed in Compton, California.
See 1989 and N.W.A
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
See 1989 and Namibia
Nanjing
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.
See 1989 and Nanjing
Naprej, zastava slave
"italic" or "italic" (Forward, Flag of Glory) is a former national anthem of Slovenia, used from 1860 to 1989.
See 1989 and Naprej, zastava slave
Nathan's Famous
Nathan's Famous, Inc. is an American company that operates a chain of fast-food restaurants specializing in hot dogs.
National Assembly (Hungary)
The National Assembly (lit) is the parliament of Hungary.
See 1989 and National Assembly (Hungary)
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.
See 1989 and National Hockey League
National Party (South Africa)
The National Party (Nasionale Party, NP), also known as the Nationalist Party, was a political party in South Africa from 1914 to 1997, which was responsible for the implementation of apartheid rule.
See 1989 and National Party (South Africa)
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
See 1989 and NATO
Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
New Statesman
The New Statesman (known from 1931 to 1964 as the New Statesman and Nation) is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London.
New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
Newcastle, New South Wales
Newcastle, also commonly referred to as Greater Newcastle (Mulubinba) is a regional metropolitan area and the second-most-populous district of New South Wales, Australia.
See 1989 and Newcastle, New South Wales
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Nicolae Ceaușescu (– 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who served as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989.
See 1989 and Nicolae Ceaușescu
Niger
Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.
See 1989 and Niger
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers (premier) from 1958 to 1964.
See 1989 and Nikita Khrushchev
Nikkei 225
The Nikkei 225, or, more commonly called the Nikkei or the Nikkei index, is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).
Nintendo
is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto.
Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
See 1989 and Nobel Prize in Physics
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.
See 1989 and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Noboru Takeshita
was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1987 to 1989 during the bubble economy.
Nordland
Nordland (Nordlánnda, Nordlaante, Nordlánda, Northland) is one of the three northernmost counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to the south-east, and the Atlantic Ocean (Norwegian Sea) to the west.
Norman Ramsey Jr.
Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method (see Ramsey interferometry), which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.
See 1989 and Norman Ramsey Jr.
North American International Auto Show
The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), also known as the Detroit Auto Show, is an annual auto show held in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., at Huntington Place (formerly known as Cobo Center).
See 1989 and North American International Auto Show
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.
Northrop B-2 Spirit
The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses.
See 1989 and Northrop B-2 Spirit
Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
See 1989 and Norway
Occupation of the Baltic states
The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania begun by the Soviet Union in 1940, continued for three years by Nazi Germany after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and finally resumed by the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.
See 1989 and Occupation of the Baltic states
Oliver North
Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is an American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.
Omar al-Bashir
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état.
Ottawa
Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.
See 1989 and Ottawa
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
See 1989 and Oxford University Press
P. W. Botha
Pieter Willem Botha, (12 January 1916 – 31 October 2006) was a South African politician.
Pacifist Socialist Party
The Pacifist Socialist Party (Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij, PSP) was a democratic socialist Dutch political party.
See 1989 and Pacifist Socialist Party
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Palestinians
Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City.
See 1989 and Pan Am Flight 103
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.
See 1989 and Panama
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.
Paramaribo
Paramaribo (nicknamed Par'bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District.
Parliament of Poland
The parliament of Poland is the bicameral legislature of Poland.
See 1989 and Parliament of Poland
Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
See 1989 and Parliamentary system
Partnair Flight 394
Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered flight that crashed on 8 September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, north of Hirtshals.
See 1989 and Partnair Flight 394
Pasadena, Texas
Pasadena is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Harris County.
PASOK
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Panellínio Sosialistikó Kínima), known mostly by its acronym PASOK, (ΠΑΣΟΚ) is a social-democratic political party in Greece.
See 1989 and PASOK
Patricio Aylwin
Patricio Aylwin Azócar (26 November 1918 – 19 April 2016) was a Chilean politician from the Christian Democratic Party, lawyer, author, professor and former senator.
Pavia
Pavia (Ticinum; Papia) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, in Northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino near its confluence with the Po.
See 1989 and Pavia
People's National Party
The People's National Party (PNP) is a social-democratic political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by Norman Washington Manley who served as party president until his death in 1969.
See 1989 and People's National Party
Perak
Perak (Perak Malay: Peghok; Jawi) is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula.
See 1989 and Perak
Perestroika
Perestroika (a) was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.
Petar Mladenov
Petar Toshev Mladenov (Петър Тошев Младенов; 22 August 1936 – 31 May 2000) was a Bulgarian communist diplomat and politician.
Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.
Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Pikk Hermann
Pikk Hermann (Estonian; Langer Hermann) is a tower of the Toompea Castle, on Toompea (Domberg) hill in Tallinn (Reval), the capital of Estonia.
Plauen
Plauen (Czech: Plavno) is, with a population of around 65,000, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the largest city in the Saxon Vogtland (German: Sächsisches Vogtland).
See 1989 and Plauen
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
See 1989 and Poland
Polish People's Republic
The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland.
See 1989 and Polish People's Republic
Polish Round Table Agreement
The Polish Round Table Talks took place in Warsaw, Poland from 6 February to 5 April 1989.
See 1989 and Polish Round Table Agreement
Political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.
Political Party of Radicals
The Political Party of Radicals (Politieke Partij Radikalen, PPR) was a Christian-radical and green political party in the Netherlands.
See 1989 and Political Party of Radicals
Politics of Saudi Arabia
The politics of Saudi Arabia takes place in the context of a unitary absolute monarchy, along traditional Islamist lines, where the King is both the head of state and government.
See 1989 and Politics of Saudi Arabia
Poll tax (Great Britain)
The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of local taxation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government whereby each taxpayer was taxed the same fixed sum (a "poll tax" or "head tax"), with the precise amount being set by each local authority.
See 1989 and Poll tax (Great Britain)
Polytechnique Montréal
(previously) is a public research university affiliated with the in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
See 1989 and Polytechnique Montréal
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
See 1989 and Pope John Paul II
Power outage
A power outage (also called a powercut, a power out, a power failure, a power blackout, a power loss, or a blackout) is the loss of the electrical power network supply to an end user.
Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
See 1989 and Prague
Prague Spring
The Prague Spring (Pražské jaro, Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD or PIGD) is the genetic profiling of embryos prior to implantation (as a form of embryo profiling), and sometimes even of oocytes prior to fertilization.
See 1989 and Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
President of Bolivia
The president of Bolivia (Presidente de Bolivia), officially known as the president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is head of state and head of government of Bolivia and the captain general of the Armed Forces of Bolivia.
See 1989 and President of Bolivia
President of El Salvador
The president of El Salvador (presidente de El Salvador), officially titled President of the Republic of El Salvador (Presidente de la República de El Salvador), is the head of state and head of government of El Salvador.
See 1989 and President of El Salvador
President of Haiti
The president of Haiti (Prezidan peyi Ayiti, Président d'Haïti), officially called the president of the Republic of Haiti (Président de la République d'Haïti, Prezidan Repiblik Ayiti), is the head of state of Haiti.
See 1989 and President of Haiti
President of Iran
The president of Iran (Rais Jomhure Irān) is the head of government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second highest-ranking official, after the Supreme Leader.
See 1989 and President of Iran
President of Nicaragua
The president of Nicaragua (presidente de Nicaragua), officially known as the president of the Republic of Nicaragua (Presidente de la República de Nicaragua), is the head of state and head of government of Nicaragua.
See 1989 and President of Nicaragua
President of Paraguay
The president of Paraguay (presidente del Paraguay), officially known as the president of the Republic of Paraguay (presidente de la República del Paraguay), is according to the Constitution of Paraguay the head of the executive branch of the government of Paraguay, both head of state and head of government.
See 1989 and President of Paraguay
President of Poland
The president of Poland (Prezydent RP), officially the president of the Republic of Poland (Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej), is the head of state of the Republic of Poland.
See 1989 and President of Poland
President of Sri Lanka
The president of Sri Lanka (ශ්රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති Śrī Laṃkā Janādhipathi; இலங்கை சனாதிபதி Ilankai janātipati) is the head of state and head of government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
See 1989 and President of Sri Lanka
President of the Philippines
The president of the Philippines (pangulo ng Pilipinas, sometimes referred to as presidente ng Pilipinas) is the head of state, head of government and chief executive of the Philippines.
See 1989 and President of the Philippines
President of Turkey
The president of Turkey, officially the president of the Republic of Türkiye (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı), is the head of state and head of government of Turkey.
See 1989 and President of Turkey
President of Venezuela
The president of Venezuela (Presidente de Venezuela), officially known as the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is the head of state and head of government in Venezuela.
See 1989 and President of Venezuela
Prime minister
A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.
Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of Australia
Prime Minister of Canada
The prime minister of Canada (premier ministre du Canada) is the head of government of Canada.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Greece
The prime minister of the Hellenic Republic (Prothypourgós tis Ellinikís Dimokratías), usually referred to as the prime minister of Greece (label), is the head of government of the Hellenic Republic and the leader of the Greek Cabinet.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of Greece
Prime Minister of India
The prime minister of India (ISO) is the head of government of the Republic of India.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of India
Prime Minister of Italy
The prime minister of Italy, officially the president of the Council of Ministers (Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of Italy
Prime Minister of Japan
The prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: Naikaku Sōri-Daijin) is the head of government and the highest political position of Japan.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of Japan
Prime Minister of Jordan
The prime minister of Jordan is the head of government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of Jordan
Prime Minister of New Zealand
The prime minister of New Zealand (Te pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of New Zealand
Prime Minister of Norway
The prime minister of Norway (statsminister, which directly translates to "minister of state") is the head of government and chief executive of Norway.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of Norway
Prime Minister of the Netherlands
The prime minister of the Netherlands (Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
The prime minister of Yugoslavia (Premijer Jugoslavije) was the head of government of the Yugoslav state, from the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1918 until the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.
See 1989 and Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
Prince William Sound
Prince William Sound (Sugpiaq: Suungaaciq) is a sound off the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska.
See 1989 and Prince William Sound
Progressive Democrats
The Progressive Democrats (An Páirtí Daonlathach, literally "The Democratic Party"), commonly referred to as the PDs, was a conservative liberal political party in Ireland.
See 1989 and Progressive Democrats
Prosper Avril
Matthieu Prosper Avril (born December 12, 1937) is a Haitian political figure who was President of Haiti from 1988 to 1990.
Purley station rail crash
The Purley station rail crash was a train collision that occurred just to the north of Purley railway station in the London Borough of Croydon on Saturday 4 March 1989, leaving five dead and 88 injured.
See 1989 and Purley station rail crash
Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance (ranging), direction (azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site.
See 1989 and Radar
Rain Man
Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.
Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) was an Indian politician who served as the Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989.
Ranasinghe Premadasa
Sri Lankabhimanya Ranasinghe Premadasa (රණසිංහ ප්රේමදාස Raṇasiṃha Premadāsa; ரணசிங்க பிரேமதாசா Raṇaciṅka Pirēmatācā; 23 June 1924 – 1 May 1993) was the third President of Sri Lanka from 2 January 1989 until his assassination in 1993.
See 1989 and Ranasinghe Premadasa
RCTI
RCTI (abbreviated from Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia) is a West Jakarta-based Indonesian free-to-air television broadcaster.
See 1989 and RCTI
Rebecca Schaeffer
Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer (November 6, 1967 – July 18, 1989) was an American actress and model.
See 1989 and Rebecca Schaeffer
Red Army Faction
The Red Army Faction (RAF),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang, was a West German far-left militant group founded in 1970 and active until 1998.
René Moawad
René Moawad (رينيه معوض; 17 April 1925 – 22 November 1989) was a Lebanese politician who served as the 9th president of Lebanon.
Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.
See 1989 and Republic of Ireland
Republics of the Soviet Union
The Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Union Republics (r) were national-based administrative units of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
See 1989 and Republics of the Soviet Union
Revolutions of 1989
The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world.
See 1989 and Revolutions of 1989
River Thames
The River Thames, known alternatively in parts as the River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London.
Robert Tappan Morris
Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur.
See 1989 and Robert Tappan Morris
Roh Tae-woo
Roh Tae-woo (4 December 1932 – 26 October 2021) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the 6th (13th election) president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993.
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
See 1989 and Romania
Romanian revolution
The Romanian revolution (Revoluția română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily within the Eastern Bloc.
See 1989 and Romanian revolution
Ron Brown
Ronald Harmon Brown (August 1, 1941 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician.
Royal Marines
The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini (17 May 1900 or 24 September 19023 June 1989) was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician, and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989.
See 1989 and Ruhollah Khomeini
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
See 1989 and Russia
Ruud Lubbers
Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers (7 May 1939 – 14 February 2018) was a Dutch politician, diplomat and businessman who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005.
Sadiq al-Mahdi
Sadiq al-Mahdi (aṣ-Ṣādiq al-Mahdī; 25 December 193526 November 2020), also known as Sadiq as-Siddiq, was a Sudanese political and religious figure who was Prime Minister of Sudan from 1966 to 1967 and again from 1986 to 1989.
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist.
Same-sex marriage in Denmark
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Denmark since 15 June 2012.
See 1989 and Same-sex marriage in Denmark
San Bernardino train disaster
The San Bernardino train disaster (sometimes known as the Duffy Street incident), was a combination of two separate but related incidents that occurred in San Bernardino, California, United States: a runaway train derailment on May 12, 1989; and the subsequent failure on May 25, 1989, of the Calnev Pipeline, a petroleum pipeline adjacent to the tracks which was damaged by earth-moving equipment during the crash cleanup.
See 1989 and San Bernardino train disaster
San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino is a city in and the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States.
See 1989 and San Bernardino, California
Satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object, typically a spacecraft, placed into orbit around a celestial body.
Savings and loan association
A savings and loan association (S&L), or thrift institution, is a financial institution that specializes in accepting savings deposits and making mortgage and other loans.
See 1989 and Savings and loan association
Savings and loan crisis
The savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed the S&L crisis) was the failure of 32% (1,043 of the 3,234) of savings and loan associations (S&Ls) in the United States from 1986 to 1995.
See 1989 and Savings and loan crisis
Sōsuke Uno
was a Japanese politician who was briefly Prime Minister of Japan in 1989, the first Prime Minister who came from Shiga Prefecture.
Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago.
See 1989 and Sears
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, with a total of nine seasons consisting of 180 episodes.
Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
See 1989 and Senegal
Senegambia Confederation
Senegambia, officially the Senegambia Confederation or Confederation of Senegambia, was a loose confederation in the late 20th century between the West African countries of Senegal and its neighbour The Gambia, which is almost completely surrounded by Senegal.
See 1989 and Senegambia Confederation
Separatism
Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group.
Serbs
The Serbs (Srbi) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history, and language.
See 1989 and Serbs
Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
Shōwa era
The was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (commonly known in English as Emperor Hirohito) from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989.
Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall
The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California.
See 1989 and Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall
Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
See 1989 and Siberia
Sidney Altman
Sidney Altman (May 7, 1939 – April 5, 2022) was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University.
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (titled onscreen as "The Simpsons Christmas Special") (originally produced as the eighth episode) is the series premiere of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
See 1989 and Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
Singing Revolution
The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War.
See 1989 and Singing Revolution
Sino-Soviet split
The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War.
See 1989 and Sino-Soviet split
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City is a city in Woodbury and Plymouth counties in the U.S. state of Iowa.
Socialism
Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.
Socialist Republic of Serbia
The Socialist Republic of Serbia (Socijalistička Republika Srbija), previously known as the People's Republic of Serbia (National Republic of Serbia), commonly abbreviated as Republic of Serbia or simply Serbia, was one of the six constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in what is now the modern day states of Serbia and the disputed territory of Kosovo.
See 1989 and Socialist Republic of Serbia
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands,; SED) was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from the country's foundation in 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989.
See 1989 and Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Solar Maximum Mission
The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate Solar phenomena, particularly solar flares.
See 1989 and Solar Maximum Mission
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
Solidarity („Solidarność”), full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity" (Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy „Solidarność”, abbreviated NSZZ „Solidarność”), is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland.
See 1989 and Solidarity (Polish trade union)
South Africa and weapons of mass destruction
From the 1960s to the 1990s, South Africa pursued research into weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons under the apartheid government.
See 1989 and South Africa and weapons of mass destruction
South African Border War
The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely asymmetric conflict that occurred in Namibia (then South West Africa), Zambia, and Angola from 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990.
See 1989 and South African Border War
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
South West Africa
South West Africa, renamed to Namibia from 12 June 1968, was a South African Province under South African administration from 1915 to 1990, after which it became modern-day Namibia.
See 1989 and South West Africa
South West African Police
The South West African Police (SWAPOL) was the national police force of South West Africa (now Namibia), responsible for law enforcement and public safety in South West Africa when the territory was administered by South Africa.
See 1989 and South West African Police
Southeastern United States
The Southeastern United States, also referred to as the American Southeast, the Southeast, or the South, is a geographical region of the United States located in the eastern portion of the Southern United States and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.
See 1989 and Southeastern United States
Southwark Bridge
Southwark Bridge is an arch bridge in London, for traffic linking the district of Southwark and the City across the River Thames.
Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets
The K-278 Komsomolets was the Project-685 Plavnik (Russian: проект-685 плавник, meaning "fin", also known by her NATO reporting name of "Mike"-class), nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Soviet Navy; the only submarine of her design class.
See 1989 and Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
See 1989 and Soviet–Afghan War
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.
See 1989 and Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA.
See 1989 and Space Shuttle Columbia
SSC Napoli
Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli is an Italian professional football club based in the city of Naples that plays in Serie A, the top flight of Italian football.
Standard Gravure shooting
The Standard Gravure shooting occurred on September 14, 1989, in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, when Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year-old pressman, killed eight people and injured twelve at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.
See 1989 and Standard Gravure shooting
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup (La Coupe Stanley) is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff champion.
Stanley Pons
Bobby Stanley Pons (born August 23, 1943) is an American electrochemist known for his work with Martin Fleischmann on cold fusion in the 1980s and 1990s.
State President of South Africa
The State President of the Republic of South Africa (Staatspresident van Republiek van Suid-Afrika) was the head of state of South Africa from 1961 to 1994.
See 1989 and State President of South Africa
State-owned enterprise
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business entity which is established and/or owned by a national or state/provincial government, by an executive order or an act of legislation, in order to earn profit for the government, control monopoly of the private sector over means of production, provide commodities to citizens at a lower price, implement government policies, and/or to deliver products and services to remote locations that otherwise have trouble attracting private vendors.
See 1989 and State-owned enterprise
Stealth aircraft
Stealth aircraft are designed to avoid detection using a variety of technologies that reduce reflection/emission of radar, infrared, visible light, radio frequency (RF) spectrum, and audio, all collectively known as stealth technology.
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, west of Amesbury.
Straight Outta Compton
Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American gangsta rap group N.W.A, which, led by Eazy-E, formed in Los Angeles County's City of Compton in early 1987.
See 1989 and Straight Outta Compton
Stroke
Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.
See 1989 and Stroke
STS-28
STS-28 was the 30th NASA Space Shuttle mission, the fourth shuttle mission dedicated to United States Department of Defense (DoD) purposes, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle ''Columbia''.
See 1989 and STS-28
STS-34
STS-34 was a NASA Space Shuttle mission using ''Atlantis''.
See 1989 and STS-34
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
See 1989 and Sudan
Sultan
Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.
See 1989 and Sultan
Surinam Airways Flight 764
Surinam Airways Flight 764 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname on a Surinam Airways DC-8-62.
See 1989 and Surinam Airways Flight 764
Suriname
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.
SWAPO
The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO; Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia (formerly South West Africa).
See 1989 and SWAPO
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
See 1989 and Sweden
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
See 1989 and Syria
Taba, Egypt
Taba (طَابَا) is an Egyptian town near the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki (18 April 1927 – 28 October 2013) was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the post from 1989 to 1991.
See 1989 and Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia.
See 1989 and Tallinn
Tank Man
The Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989.
Taoiseach
The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland.
Tarapoto
Tarapoto is a commercial hub town in the San Martín Province of the Department of San Martín of northern Peru.
Târgoviște
Târgoviște (alternatively spelled Tîrgoviște) is a city and county seat in Dâmbovița County, Romania.
Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
The Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru, abbreviated MRTA) was a Peruvian Marxist-Leninist guerrilla army which started in the early 1980s.
See 1989 and Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Tbilisi
Tbilisi (თბილისი), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis, (tr) is the capital and largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of around 1.2 million people.
See 1989 and Tbilisi
Tehran
Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.
See 1989 and Tehran
Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack
The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 attack was a suicide attack which occurred on 6 July 1989, during the First Intifada, and was carried out by Abd al-Hadi Ghanim of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
See 1989 and Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack
Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
See 1989 and Texas
Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
See 1989 and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Estée Lauder Companies
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (stylized as ESTĒE LAUDER) is an American multinational cosmetics company, a manufacturer and marketer of makeup, skincare, perfume, and hair care products, based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
See 1989 and The Estée Lauder Companies
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
See 1989 and The New York Times
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie.
See 1989 and The Satanic Verses
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
Thomas Cech
Thomas Robert Cech (born December 8, 1947) is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA.
TILLING (molecular biology)
TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) is a method in molecular biology that allows directed identification of mutations in a specific gene.
See 1989 and TILLING (molecular biology)
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922, by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.
Timișoara
Timișoara (Temeswar, also Temeschwar or Temeschburg; Temesvár; Temišvar; see other names) is the capital city of Timiș County, Banat, and the main economic, social and cultural centre in Western Romania.
Todor Zhivkov
Todor Hristov Zhivkov (Тодор Христов Живков; 7 September 1911 – 5 August 1998) was a Bulgarian communist statesman who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1954 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the second longest-serving leader in the Eastern Bloc, the longest-serving leader within the Warsaw Pact and the longest-serving non-royal ruler in Bulgarian history.
Tokyo Stock Exchange
The, abbreviated as Tosho (東証) or TSE/TYO, is a stock exchange located in Tokyo, Japan.
See 1989 and Tokyo Stock Exchange
Toshiki Kaifu
was a Japanese politician who served as the 77th prime minister of Japan from 1989 to 1991.
Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
Transhumanism
Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies that can greatly enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being.
Treaty
A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement concluded by sovereign states in international law.
See 1989 and Treaty
Triton (moon)
Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune.
Trygve Haavelmo
Trygve Magnus Haavelmo (13 December 1911 – 28 July 1999), born in Skedsmo, Norway, was an economist whose research interests centered on econometrics.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Elbegdorj Tsakhia (Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж; born 30 March 1963) is a Mongolian politician and journalist who served as President of Mongolia from 2009 to 2017.
See 1989 and Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Turgut Özal
Halil Turgut Özal (13 October 192717 April 1993) was a prominent Turkish politician, bureaucrat, engineer and statesman who served as the 8th President of Turkey from 1989 to 1993.
Typhoon Gay
Typhoon Gay, also known as the Kavali Cyclone of 1989, was a small but powerful tropical cyclone which caused more than 800 fatalities in and around the Gulf of Thailand in November 1989.
Tzannis Tzannetakis
Tzannis Tzannetakis (Τζαννής Τζαννετάκης; 13 September 1927 – 1 April 2010) was a Greek politician who was briefly Prime Minister of Greece during the political crisis of 1989.
See 1989 and Tzannis Tzannetakis
Ufa
Ufa (p; Öfö) is the largest city in and the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia.
See 1989 and Ufa
Ufa train disaster
The Ufa train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on 4 June 1989, in Iglinsky District, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, when an explosion killed 575 people and injured 800 more.
See 1989 and Ufa train disaster
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
See 1989 and Uganda
Uncontrolled decompression
An uncontrolled decompression is an undesired drop in the pressure of a sealed system, such as a pressurised aircraft cabin or hyperbaric chamber, that typically results from human error, structural failure, or impact, causing the pressurised vessel to vent into its surroundings or fail to pressurize at all.
See 1989 and Uncontrolled decompression
Union Carbide
Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) is an American chemical company.
United Airlines Flight 232
United Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia International Airport.
See 1989 and United Airlines Flight 232
United Airlines Flight 811
United Airlines Flight 811 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, with intermediate stops at Honolulu and Auckland.
See 1989 and United Airlines Flight 811
United National Party
The United National Party (UNP; translit, translit) is a centre-right political party in Sri Lanka.
See 1989 and United National Party
United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.
See 1989 and United Nations Security Council
United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
See 1989 and United Press International
United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government.
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United States invasion of Panama
The United States invaded Panama in mid-December 1989 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
See 1989 and United States invasion of Panama
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
The Committee on Armed Services, sometimes abbreviated SASC for Senate Armed Services Committee, is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation's military, including the Department of Defense, military research and development, nuclear energy (as pertaining to national security), benefits for members of the military, the Selective Service System and other matters related to defense policy.
See 1989 and United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
United States v. Eichman
United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 310 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court case that by a 5–4 decision invalidated a federal law against flag desecration as a violation of free speech under the First Amendment.
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University of Limerick
University of Limerick (UL) (Ollscoil Luimnigh) is a public research university institution in Limerick, Ireland.
See 1989 and University of Limerick
University of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah.
See 1989 and University of Utah
USS Iowa (BB-61)
USS Iowa (BB-61) is a retired battleship, the lead ship of her class, and the fourth in the United States Navy to be named after the state of Iowa.
UTA Flight 772
UTA Flight 772 was a scheduled international passenger flight of the French airline Union de Transports Aériens (UTA) operating from Brazzaville in the People's Republic of the Congo, via N'Djamena in Chad, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, which crashed into the Ténéré desert near Bilma, Niger, on 19 September 1989 with the loss of all 170 people on board, after an in-flight explosion caused by a suitcase bomb.
Uyghurs
The Uyghurs, alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia.
See 1989 and Uyghurs
V. P. Singh
Vishwanath Pratap Singh (25 June 1931 – 27 November 2008), shortened to V. P. Singh, was an Indian politician who was the Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.
Vacated judgment
A vacated judgment (also known as vacatur relief) legally voids a previous legal judgment.
Václav Havel
Václav Havel (5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident.
Velvet Revolution
The Velvet Revolution (Sametová revoluce) or Gentle Revolution (Nežná revolúcia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 28 November 1989.
See 1989 and Velvet Revolution
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
See 1989 and Vietnam
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Visa Inc.
Visa Inc. is an American multinational payment card services corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Voronezh
Voronezh (Воро́неж) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River.
Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program.
Walmart
Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.
See 1989 and Walmart
Walter Sisulu
Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (18 May 1912 – 5 May 2003) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC).
WarnerMedia
Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the School of the Americas, is a United States Department of Defense school located at Fort Moore in Columbus, Georgia, renamed in the 2001 National Defense Authorization Act.
See 1989 and Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
William R. Higgins
William Richard Higgins (January 15, 1945 – died July 31, 1989; declared dead July 6, 1990) was a United States Marine Corps colonel who was captured in Lebanon in 1988 while serving on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela; 26 September 1936 – 2 April 2018), also known as Winnie Mandela, was a South African anti-apartheid activist, convicted kidnapper, politician, and the second wife of Nelson Mandela.
See 1989 and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (6 July 1923 – 25 May 2014) was a Polish military general, politician and de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989.
See 1989 and Wojciech Jaruzelski
Wolfgang Paul
Wolfgang Paul (10 August 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what is now called an ion trap.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
Xi'an
Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province.
See 1989 and Xi'an
Yıldırım Akbulut
Yıldırım Akbulut (2 September 1935 – 14 April 2021) was a Turkish politician, who was a leader of the Motherland Party (ANAP), the Prime Minister of Turkey, and twice the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Yukon
Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.
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Yukon Legislative Assembly
The Yukon Legislative Assembly (Assemblée législative du Yukon) is the legislative assembly for Yukon, Canada.
See 1989 and Yukon Legislative Assembly
Yukon New Democratic Party
The Yukon New Democratic Party (NDP; Nouveau Parti démocratique du Yukon) is a social democratic political party in the Yukon territory of Canada.
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Zaid Rifai
Zaid al-Rifai (زيد الرفاعي; born 27 November 1936) is a Jordanian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Jordan from May 1973 to July 1976, and again from April 1984 to April 1989.
Zaire
Zaire, officially the Republic of Zaire, was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 1997.
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Zdravljica
"Zdravljica" is a carmen figuratum poem by the 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet France Prešeren, inspired by the ideals of Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Zhao Ziyang
Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳; pronounced, 17 October 1919 – 17 January 2005) was a Chinese politician.
15th G7 summit
The 15th G7 Summit was held in the business district of La Défense to the west of Paris, France between 14 and 16 July 1989.
1941
The Correlates of War project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 3.49 million.
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1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
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1960s
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969.
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1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.
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1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
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1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
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1988
1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm.
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1989 air battle near Tobruk
On 4 January 1989, two Grumman F-14 Tomcats of the United States Navy shot down two Libyan-operated Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Floggers which the American aircrews believed were attempting to engage and attack them, as had happened eight years prior during the 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident.
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1989 attack on La Tablada barracks
The Battle of La Tablada or the Attack on La Tablada barracks occurred In 1989 when 40 members of Movimiento Todos por la Patria (MTP) attacked the military barracks in La Tablada, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
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1989 Australian pilots' dispute
The 1989 Australian pilots' dispute was one of the most expensive and dramatic industrial disputes in Australia's history.
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1989 Chilean general election
General elections were held in Chile on 14 December 1989,Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p262 bringing an end to the military regime that had been in place since 1973.
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1989 Dutch general election
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 6 September 1989.
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1989 Iranian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 28 July 1989, after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the selection of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the previous President of Iran, as the new Supreme Leader of Iran.
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1989 Irish general election
The 1989 Irish general election to the 26th Dáil was held on Thursday, 15 June, three weeks after the dissolution of the 25th Dáil on 25 May by President Patrick Hillery, on the request of Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
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1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at local time.
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1989 Polish parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Poland on 4 June 1989 to elect members of the Sejm and the recreated Senate, with a second round on 18 June.
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1989 riots in Argentina
The 1989 riots were a series of riots and related episodes of looting in stores and supermarkets in Argentina, during the last part of the presidency of Raúl Alfonsin, between May and June 1989.
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1989 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa on 6 September 1989, the last under apartheid.
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1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977.
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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
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1989 World Series
The 1989 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1989 season.
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1994 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994.
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2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake.
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2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four different digits (a span of 26 years).
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24th Canadian Ministry
The Twenty-Fourth Canadian Ministry was the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
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4581 Asclepius
4581 Asclepius, provisional designation, is a sub-kilometer-sized asteroid, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group that makes close orbital passes with Earth.
4769 Castalia
4769 Castalia (prov. designation) is a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, approximately in diameter and was the first asteroid to be modeled by radar imaging.
61st Academy Awards
The 61st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1988 and took place on Wednesday, March 29, 1989, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.
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