1989 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1989?
- February 2, 1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
- February 6, 1989 – The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
- February 24, 1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
- March 1, 1989 – The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
- April 7, 1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
- June 4, 1989 – Ali Khamenei is elected the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
- July 6, 1989 – The Israeli 405 Bus slaughter in which 14 bus passengers are killed when an Arab assaulted the bus driver as the bus is driving by the edge of a cliff.
- July 20, 1989 – Burma’s ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
- August 16, 1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto’s stock market.
- August 25, 1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
- September 11, 1989 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps, were free to leave for West Germany.
- October 17, 1989 – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
- October 23, 1989 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People’s Republic.
- November 7, 1989 – East German Prime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
- December 10, 1989 – Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
- December 16, 1989 – Protests break out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
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