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Events of 1989
January
- March 1 - The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States.
- March 1 - A curfew is imposed in Kosovo, where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority.
- March 1 - Louis Wade Sullivan starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
- March 1 - James D. Watkins starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Energy.
- 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 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
- March 3 - Jammu Siltavuori abducts and murders two 8 year old girls in Myllypuro suburb in Helsinki, Finland
- March 3 - Portugal wins the FIFA U-20 World Cup defeating Nigeria on the final by 2–0 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- March 4 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner.
- March 4 - The Purley Station rail crash in London leaves 5 dead and 94 injured.
- March 4 - The first ACT (Australian Capital Territory) elections are held.
- March 7 - Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses .
- March 9 - A strike forces financially troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.
- March 13 - A geomagnetic storm caused the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. Six million people were left without power for nine hours. Some areas in the northeastern U.S. and in Sweden also lost power, and auroras seen as far as Texas.
- March 14 - Gun control: U.S. President 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 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 22 - Clint Malarchuk of the NHL Buffalo Sabres suffers an almost fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
- March 22 - Asteroid 4581 Asclepius approaches the Earth at a distance of 700,000 kilometers.
- March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce that they have achieved 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).
- March 24 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground.
- March 29 - The 61st Academy Awards are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California with Rain Man winning Best Picture.
April
- June 1 - The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) is opened in Toronto.
- June 3 - The Ayatollah Khomeini dies.
- June 4 - The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing on the army's approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television.
- June 4 - Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 645 as 2 trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
- June 4 - Solidarity's victory in Polish elections is the first of many anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989.
- June 7 - 176 are killed in Surinam's worst air disaster.
- June 8 - Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.
- June 12 - Corcoran Gallery of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition.
- June 13 - The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck , which was sunk in 1941, is located 600 miles west of Brest, France.
- June 16 - A crowd of 250,000 gathers at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister who had been executed in 1958.
- June 21 - British police arrest 250 people for celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge.
- June 22 - Ireland's first universities established since independence in 1922, Dublin City University and the University of Limerick, open.
July
- September 5 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park in his first televised speech to the nation.
- September 6 - The South African general election (the last under apartheid) returns the National Party with a much-reduced majority.
- September 6 - England holds Sweden to a 0–0 draw in Sweden, qualifying for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The game became famous after Terry Butcher sustained a deep cut to his forehead early in the game. He received stitches but played on the entire game. By the end of the game, the front of Butcher's white shirt and shorts where almost entirely covered in blood.
- September 10 - The Hungarian government opens the country's western borders to refugees from the German Democratic Republic.
- September 14 - Agreement of cooperation between Leningrad oblast (Russia) and NordlandCounty (Norway) is signed in Leningrad, by the chairmen Lev Kojkolainen and Sigbjørn Eriksen
- September 20 - F. W. de Klerk was sworn in as State President of South Africa.
- September 21 - Hurricane Hugo makes landfall in South Carolina, causing $7 billion in damage.
- September 22 - Deal barracks bombing: An IRA bomb explodes at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, United Kingdom, leaving 11 dead and 22 injured.
October
- December 1 - Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist-dominated SED its monopoly on power. Egon Krenz, the Politburo and the Central Committee resign 2 days later.
- December 3 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.
- December 6 - The École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
- December 10 - Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement, that peacefully changes the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.
- December 14 - Chile holds its first free election in 16 years.
- December 15 - Drug baron José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha is killed by Colombian police.
- December 17 - In Timişoara, Romania, an uprising begins against the communist regime, sparking the Romanian Revolution.
- December 17 - Brazil holds its first free election in 29 years; Fernando Collor de Mello wins the election.
- December 17 - The first full length episode of The Simpsons , "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", premieres on FOX.
- December 20 - Operation Just Cause is launched in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.
- December 22 - After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's communist dictatorship, who flees his palace in a helicopter to escape inevitable execution.
- December 22 - Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific highway north of Kempsey, Australia, killing 35.
- December 25 - Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena are executed after their unsuccessful escape attempt.
- 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.
- December 29 - Václav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia.
- December 29 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
Undated
- Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership with the largest debt in Australian history.
- Homosexual Acts between consenting adults decriminalized in Western Australia.
- 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.
- Richard C. Duncan introduces the Olduvai theory, about the collapse of the Industrial Civilization.
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