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1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship ...
The impact of these events were felt in many third world socialist states throughout the world. Concurrently with events in Poland, protests in Tiananmen Square (April–June 1989) failed to stimulate major political changes in Mainland China, but influential images of resistance during that protest helped to precipitate events in other parts ...
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire is a 2012 non-fiction book by written by historian Victor Sebestyen. The full text is divided into three parts with 48 chapters in total. The author recounts the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resulting consequences on its various satellite states.
By RYAN GORMAN A massive earthquake that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 forever changed the region, and potentially altered the course of baseball history. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta ...
The events on and around the central Beijing square on June 4, 1989, when Chinese troops opened fire to end the student-led pro-democracy demonstrations, are a taboo topic in China and the ...
November 7 — Andrey Borovykh, World War II flying ace and twice Hero of the Soviet Union (b. 1921) November 14 — Samand Siabandov, writer, soldier and politician (b. 1909) November 22 — Shamil Serikov, wrestler and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1956) November 28 — Georgy Ilivitsky, chess master (b. 1921)
1989 – President Bush declares a "War on Drugs." 1989 – The animated television sitcom The Simpsons debuts on Fox. 1989 – President Bush and Soviet Premier Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end. Symbolic elsewhere around the world was the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany.
1989: Quantum Computer Services is renamed America Online. Voice actor Elwood Edwards is hired to record its now-iconic greeting "You've Got Mail" on a cassette tape in his living room, which is ...