WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1989
Find out what all happened February to October 1989

Radio Caroline, the offshore pirate station in the North Sea, is raided by British and Dutch governments. (19. August 1989)

Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party. (10. February 1989)

Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat. (22. March 1989)

Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972. (2. August 1989)

Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti. (24. August 1989)

The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army. (4. June 1989)

General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority. (5. August 1989)

Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. (15. October 1989)

Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany. (11. September 1989)

Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the nordic countries until then. (23. October 1989)

People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests (26. April 1989)

Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission. (8. August 1989)

The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries. (9. April 1989)

First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. (17. July 1989)

Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots. (27. February 1989)

The San Bernardino train disaster kills 4 people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing 2 more people. (12. May 1989)

Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah. (23. March 1989)

Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. (14. February 1989)

Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions were later overturned. (5. July 1989)

Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. (4. June 1989)