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Violence in black townships worsen with over 2,500 killed
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Jan 2 75th Rose Bowl: #11 Michigan beats #5 Southern California, 22-14
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Jan 2 55th Orange Bowl: #2 Miami (FL) beats #6 Nebraska, 23-3
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Jun 2 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
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Jan 4 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
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Jun 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000.
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PLO and Israel begin preliminary talks
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Jan 1 NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
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May 29 to June 3 – 28th European Amateur Boxing Championships held in Athens, Greece
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February 11 – In Grenoble, France, Rene Jacquot won a 12 round decision over Donald Curry to win the World Welterweight Championship
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200,000 protesters in Prague, Czechoslovakia call for the resignation of the country's communist government in the "Velvet Revolution".
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The Montreal Protocol to end ozone depletion enters into force
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Hurricane Hugo ( Category 5 ) strikes Puerto Rico, St. Croix, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, South Carolina and North Carolina, the hurricane claimed over 80 lives and in 1989 was the costliest hurricane in financial terms up the that date.
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Tokyo Stock Market Crash ends Japans long period of high Economic Growth
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New Prime Minister in South Africa F.W. de Klerk starts to dismantle apartheid
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a ( FATWA ) death sentence on British writer Salman Rushdie for the Satanic Verses
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Hillsborough disaster occurred on April 15th , 1989, at Hillsborough, a football stadium in Sheffield, England, resulting in the loss of 96 lives.
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Apr 21 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
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Grey Cup – Saskatchewan Roughriders won 43–40 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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May 13 Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
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12 European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end century
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The Detroit Pistons win 4 games to 0 over the Los Angeles Lakers to win the franchise’s first championship.
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The Savings and Loan Crisis leads to nearly 1/4 of all savings and loan associations requiring bailout dur to poor real estate lending practices and an easing of regulatory oversight .
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Jun 4 Eastern Europe's 1st partial free elections in 40 years held in Poland, Solidarity Party comes to power
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Jun 4 Eastern Europe's 1st partial free elections in 40 years held in Poland, Solidarity Party comes to power
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Jun 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre: Chinese troops clear the square of student protesters, unofficial figures place death toll near 1,000.
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The United States Supreme Court ruled on June 21st that flag burning as a form of political protest is an act of protected speech under the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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The Savings and Loan Crisis leads to nearly 1/4 of all savings and loan associations requiring bailout dur to poor real estate lending practices and an easing of regulatory oversight .
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Leona Helmsley the billionaire hotel operator is convicted on Tax Fraud Charges
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Yugo Cars go bankrupt
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Thousands of Students occupy Tiananmen Square in Beijing China protesting for democracy , Chinese Government Declares martial law and Hundreds of Demonstrators are killed
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Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair
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Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge and 51 die.
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The US Government provides a $150 billion bail out for hundreds of saving and loan associations
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Nov 10 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall
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Civil War in Lebanon increases between Christian and Islamic Fundamentalists
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Dec 3 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
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Hillsborough disaster occurred on at Hillsborough, a football stadium in Sheffield, England, resulting in the loss of 96 lives.
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Dec 22 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu
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Massive protests and either side of the Berlin Wall bring about the collapse of the East German Government and the Berlin Wall is breached and eventually dismantled and The Brandenburg Gate opened