1989 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1989?
- January 30, 1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
- February 6, 1989 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
- March 7, 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
- March 18, 1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
- March 19, 1989 – The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
- April 15, 1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang’s death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People’s Republic of China.
- April 26, 1989 – People’s Daily publishes the People’s Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
- June 7, 1989 – Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname due to pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
- 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 19, 1989 – United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
- August 18, 1989 – Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
- August 20, 1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed.
- August 25, 1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.
- September 19, 1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
- November 9, 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany.
- November 22, 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
- December 17, 1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”, airs in the United States.
- December 18, 1989 – The European Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
- December 22, 1989 – After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Communist authoritarian regime.
- December 25, 1989 – Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist President of Romania and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena are condemned to death and executed after a flawed and summary trial.
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