
1989
- Last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan
- Japan becomes world's top lender
- Berlin Wall torn down
- Tiananmem Square protest in China, thousands killed
- Solidarity candidates gain victory in 1st post-war free elections in Poland
- Emperor Hirohito of Japan dies
- Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President
- W. Botha resigns as South Africa's President
- Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership
- Czech Parliament ends Communists' dominant role
- Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government; President Ceausescu and
wife executed
- Wreck of Nazi battleship Bismark discovered
- Salman Rushdie sentenced to death by the Ayatolla Khomeini for his book
The Satanic Verses
- Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize
- US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean
- Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into
Alaska's Prince William Sound
- Army Gen. Colin R. Powell is first black Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Voyager 2 spacecraft explores Neptune and its moons
- Nadia Comaneci defects to US
- Troops invade Panama
- US bans the import of assault weapons
- James Michener's Caribbean
- Global positioning by satellite
- High-definition television
- Song - ""Look Away"
- Films - "Sex, Lies, and Videotape", "Rainman", "Field of Dreams", "Indiana
Jones and the Last Crusade", "Batman"
- Salvador Dali, Lucille Ball, Abbie Hoffman, Daphne duMaurier, Gilda Radner,
Fran Allison, Laurence Olivier, Mel Blanc, Huey Newton, Amanda Blake, Ferdinand
Marcos, Irving Berlin, Bette Davis, and Alvin Ailey die
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