government seizes the Irvine, California, Lincoln Savings and Loan Association; Charles Keating (for whom the Keating Five are named) eventually goes to jail, as part of the massive 1980s savings and loan crisis which costs U.S.
It is crushed by United States intervention ending by December 9. December 2 * The Solar Maximum Mission scientific research satellite, launched in 1980, crashes back to earth. * V.
While revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, 1989 also saw the suppression of protests in communist China, most famously the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first Brazilian presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F.
These are collectively known as the Revolutions of 1989.
While revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, 1989 also saw the suppression of protests in communist China, most famously the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first Brazilian presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F.
(Now WarnerMedia) * The Purley station rail crash in London leaves five people dead and 94 injured. * The first Australian Capital Territory elections are held. March 7 – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. March 9 – Revolutions of 1989: The Soviet Union submits to the jurisdiction of the World Court. March 13 * A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid.
taxpayers nearly $200,000,000 in bailouts, and many people their life savings. April 15 * The death of Hu Yaobang in China sparks the beginning of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. * The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football, claims the life of 96 Liverpool F.C.
Soon afterwards he determines to suspend the South African nuclear weapons program. September 22 * 1989 Deal barracks bombing: An IRA bomb explodes at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent, United Kingdom, leaving 11 people dead and 22 injured. * Doe v.
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (2010) excerpt ==External links== After the fall – Europe after 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev on 1989 – 2009 interview by The Nation Freedom Without Walls: German Missions in the United States Looking Back at the Fall of the Berlin Wall – official homepage in English
It will open on January 31, 1990. May 4 – Oliver North is convicted in the United States on charges related to the Iran–Contra affair.
The military is called in but fails fully to control the situation. * Brazil holds the second round of its first free election in 29 years; Fernando Collor de Mello is elected to serve as president from 1990. * The Simpsons aired its first episode on the FOX network. December 19 * Romanian Revolution: Workers in the cities go on strike in protest against the Communist regime.
1989 was a turning point in political history because a wave of revolutions swept the Eastern Bloc in Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power sharing, coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, embracing the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December, and ending in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
His conviction is thrown out on appeal in 1991 because of his immunised testimony. May 9 – Andrew Peacock deposes John Howard as Federal Opposition Leader of Australia. May 10 – The government of President of Panama Manuel Noriega declares void the result of the May 7 presidential election, which Noriega had lost to Guillermo Endara. May 11 * President Bush orders 1,900 U.S.
de Klerk was elected as State President of South Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled the apartheid system over the next five years, culminating with the 1994 election that brought jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela to power. The first commercial Internet service providers surfaced in this year, as well as the first written proposal for the World Wide Web and New Zealand, Japan and Australia's first Internet connections.
supporters. April 17 – Poland, Solidarity is once again legalised and allowed to participate in semi-free elections on June 4. April 19 * Central Park jogger case: Trisha Meili is seriously assaulted and raped whilst jogging in New York City's Central Park; the convictions of five teenagers for the crime are vacated in 2002 (the jogger's identity remains secret for years, hence she is referred to as the "Central Park Jogger"). * The USS Iowa turret explodes on the U.S.
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (2010) excerpt ==External links== After the fall – Europe after 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev on 1989 – 2009 interview by The Nation Freedom Without Walls: German Missions in the United States Looking Back at the Fall of the Berlin Wall – official homepage in English
The Malayan Communist Party disbands and Chin Peng remains in exile in Thailand until his death in 2013. December 3 * The entire leadership of the ruling Socialist Unity Party in East Germany, including Egon Krenz, resigns.
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