WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1989
Find out what all happened June to September 1989

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

Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary. (16. June 1989)

Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations. (4. June 1989)

1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute. (23. August 1989)

The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. (5. June 1989)

Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government. (24. August 1989)

Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe. (25. August 1989)

On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle. (28. June 1989)

Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline. (4. June 1989)

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

Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia. (18. August 1989)

Singing Revolution: two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius-Tallinn road, holding hands (Baltic Way). (23. August 1989)

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

In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place. (4. September 1989)

The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. 51 people are killed. (20. August 1989)

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

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

Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary. (25. August 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. (16. August 1989)

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