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MCMLXXXIX ''') was a
Common Year Starting On Sunday of the
Gregorian Calendar . The
World Population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. It is has been called the "Year of Miracles", due to the fact that it was during this time the dissolution of the
Soviet Union began.
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- March 1 - The Berne Convention is ratified and enters into force with regard to the United States
- March 1 - A Curfew is imposed in Kosovo where protests continue at the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority
- March 1 - Louis Wade Sullivan starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary Of Commerce , serving under President George H. W. Bush
- March 1 - James D. Watkins starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary Of Energy , serving under President George H. W. Bush
- March 1 - The Politieke Partij Radicalen , Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij , Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelische Volks Partij amalgamate to form Netherlands political party the GroenLinks (GL, GreenLeft)
- March 2 - 12 European Community nations agree to ban the production of all Chlorofluorocarbon s (CFCs) by the end century
- March 4 - Time, Inc . and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner
- March 4 - The Purley Station Rail Crash - 5 dead, 94 injured
- March 4 - First ACT ( Australian Capital Territory ) elections held
- March 7 - Iran breaks off Diplomatic Relations with United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie 's '' The Satanic Verses ''
- March 9 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Airlines into Bankruptcy
- George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed Assault Weapons into the United States
- March 14 - Christian General Michel Aoun declares a 'War of Liberation' to rid Lebanon of Syrian forces and their allies.
- March 15 - Surgeon Bimal Ghosh removes a huge Gallbladder weighing 10.4 kg (23 lb) at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland , USA
- March 18 - In Egypt , a 4,400-year-old Mummy is found in the Great Pyramid Of Giza
- March 20 - Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke weeps on national television as he admits marital infidelity.
- March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce Cold Fusion at the University Of Utah
- March 23 - A 300 m (1,000 ft) diameter Near-Earth Asteroid misses the Earth by 500,000 km (400,000 miles)
- 's Prince William Sound the '' Exxon Valdez '' spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of Oil after running aground
- March 27 - The first free elections for the Soviet parliament go against the Communist Party .
- April 4 - Richard M. Daley elected mayor of Chicago, Illinois
- April 6 - National Safety Council Of Australia chief executive John Friedrich is arrested after defrauding investors to the tune of $235 million
- April 7 - Soviet Submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea - 41 dead
- April 9 - Massacre of Georgian demonstrators by Red Army soldiers in Tbilisi's central square during a peaceful rally; 20 citizens are killed (most of them young women), many injured. The use of toxic gas by the Soviets was alleged. {Link without Title}
- April 15 - Hillsborough Disaster , one of the biggest tragedies in European Football , takes place
- April 16 - The Dilbert comic strip is syndicated for the first time.
- April 19 - Gun turret explodes on the US battleship ''Iowa'' - 47 dead
- April 20 - NATO debates modernising short range missiles; although the U.S. and UK are in favour, West German chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession defering a decision.
- , Shanghai , Xian , Nanjing started to strike.
- April 21 - Nintendo begins selling the Game Boy in Japan
- April 25 - End of term for Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj Ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail as the 8th Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
- April 26 - Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu , Sultan of Perak , becomes the 9th Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
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- August 6 - The Comic Strip Bloom County ends.
- August 7 - US Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX), and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia .
- takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
- August 9 The Asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly imaged, by Radar from Arecibo .
- August 13 - 13 people die in Hot Air Balloon accident near Alice Springs NT.
- August 18 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia .
- August 19 - Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister , thus becoming the first non-communist in power in 42 years.
- August 20 - In Beverly Hills, California , Lyle And Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in their family's den.
- August 20 - 51 people die when the Marchioness Pleasure Boat collides with a Barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge .
- August 23 - Baltic Way, uninterrupted 600 kilometre human chain, in which two million indigenous people of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , then still occupied by the Soviet Union , joined hands to demand freedom and independence.
- August 23 - Hungary removes border restrictions with Austria .
- August 23 - All of Australia 's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute.
- August 24 - Indonesia's first privately-owned television station, Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia , ( RCTI ) begins broadcasting.
- August 25 - Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton .
- August 29 - Yusef Hawkins shot in Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn , New York , sparking racial tensions between African American s and Italian American s.
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- November 4 - Typhoon Gay devastates the Thai province of Chumphon .
- November 7 - Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia and becomes the first elected African American governor in the United States .
- government of East Germany resigns, although SED leader Egon Krenz remains head of state.
- November 7 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City .
- November 7 - In California , convicted murderer Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.
- , allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down).
- November 10 - After 45 Years of Communist rule in Bulgaria , Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov , who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party .
- November 10 - Gaby Kennard becomes the first Australian woman to fly non-stop around the world.
- November 12 - Brazil holds its first free presidential election since 1960
- November 16 - Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter are shot in San Salvador , El Salvador
- November 16 - South Africa n President FW De Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
- begins - In Czechoslovakia a peaceful student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeded on December 29 )
- , Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
- November 21 - North Carolina celebrates its Bicentennial statehood.
- November 22 - In west Beirut , a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him.
- November 26 - 27 night - Group of Bob Denard 's Mercenaries ousts Ahmed Abdullah Abderemane in the Comoros . Said Mohamed Djohar becomes interim president
- - With other Communist regimes falling all around it and with growing street protests, the Communist Party Of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their Monopoly on political power (elections held in December brought the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than 40 years)
- November 30 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a terrorist's bomb (the Red Army Faction claimed responsibility of the murder)
- November 30 - A storeowner in Palm Harbor, Florida named Richard Mallory takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos and is seen for the last time. Mallory became the first of seven people killed by the female Serial Killer over the next year.
- 's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist-dominated SED its monopoly on power. Egon Krenz , the Politburo and the Central Committee resign two days later.
- , US President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.
- , an anti-feminist gunman, murders fourteen young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal .
- December 10 - Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj announced the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that peacefully changed the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.
- December 14 - Chile holds its first free election in 16 years.
- December 15 - Drug baron Jose Gonzalo Rodriquez Gacha is killed by Colombia n police
- regime in Romania .
- December 17 - Brazil holds its first free election in 29 years. Fernando Collor De Mello wins the election.
- December 17 - '' The Simpsons '' premieres.
- December 20 - United States invades Panama ( Operation Just Cause ) to overthrow Manuel Noriega - he takes refuge in the Vatican mission until January 3 1990 .
- December 22 - After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania , ending Nicolae Ceauşescu 's Communist Dictatorship .
- December 22 - Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific highway north of Kempsey , Australia, 35 killed and 39 injured.
- December 25 - Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena are executed.
- December 25 - Bank Of Japan governors announce a major interest rate hike, eventually leading to the peak and fall of the '' Bubble Economy ''.
- December 28 - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales , Australia , killing 13 people.
- December 29 - Václav Havel elected the president of Czechoslovakia - a big victory of the Velvet Revolution .
- December 29 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnam ese refugees.
- Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership with the largest debt in Australian history
- Homosexual Acts between consenting adults decriminalized in Western Australia
- Rice University celebrates the Demisesquicentennial anniversary of its founding
- Kamchatka opened to Russian civilian visitors
- Retirement of the Alize propeller-driven anti-submarine planes from carrier service in the French Navy
- The first national park, in Schiermonnikoog, is established in The Netherlands
- Soviet Submarine K-173 , ''Chelyabinsk'', commissioned
- The wreck of the Lady Elgin discovered off Highland Park , Illinois by Harry Zych
- Margaret Rey establishes the Curious George Foundation to help creative children and prevent cruelty to animals
- Veikko "Jammu" Siltavuori abducts and murders two 8 year old girls in Myllypuro suburb in Helsinki , Finland
- Richard C. Duncan introduces the Olduvai Theory , about the collapse of the Industrial Civilization
- The Museum Of Jurassic Technology , is founded in Culver City, California by David and Diana Wilson
- The unknown Swede Marcus Schenkenberg is discovered by a photographer when rollerskating on Venice Beach, California
- 1,000,000th Ford Taurus sold
- The last Golden Toad is seen.
- February 1 - Elaine De Kooning , American artist (b. 1919 )
- February 3 - John Cassavetes , American actor and author (b. 1929 )
- February 6 - Roy Eldridge , American musician (b. 1911 )
- February 6 - Barbara W. Tuchman , American historian (b. 1912 )
- February 9 - Osamu Tezuka , Japanese Manga artist, e.g. Astroboy (b. 1928 )
- February 11 - George O'Hanlon , American actor and director (b. 1912 )
- February 24 - Sparky Adams , American baseball player (b. 1894 )
- February 27 - Paul Oswald Ahnert , German astronomer (b. 1897 )
- February 27 - Konrad Lorenz , Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1903 )
