WHAT HAPPENED IN 1989.
Look what happened the 1989.

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

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

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

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

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time. (25. August 1989)

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

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

Partnair Flight 394 drove into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade. (8. September 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)

Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu. (13. September 1989)

A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171. (19. September 1989)

Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership". (1. October 1989)

An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. (9. October 1989)

Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL. (15. October 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). (17. October 1989)

The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison. (19. October 1989)

The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic. (23. October 1989)

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

Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States. (7. November 1989)

David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected mayor of New York City. (7. November 1989)