Events in History in 1989 (Part 3)

Events 401 - 450 of 450

Election of Interest

Nov 26 India's Congress Party led by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi loses the general election to an opposition front led by V. P. Singh

Nov 26 Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay
Nov 26 Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
Nov 27 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
Nov 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Nov 27 Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay
Nov 27 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
Nov 29 Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after losing national elections
Nov 30 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb
Dec 1 "Day Without Art" - Artists demonstrate against AIDS
Dec 1 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
Dec 1 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract

Dec 1 USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican

Dec 3 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over

Dec 5 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
Dec 6 Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52
Dec 6 Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at U Montreal
Dec 8 Great Britain performs nuclear test
Dec 10 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
Dec 13 The last issue of Gnistan (The Spark), the organ of the Solidaritetspartiet, is published in Sweden
Dec 16 Geoff Marsh completes 355* for WA against South Australia
Dec 16 Protest breaks out in Timişoara in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor, László Tőkés.
Dec 17 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello as president
Dec 18 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
Dec 18 Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa" premieres in NYC
Dec 19 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
Dec 20 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor

Dec 20 US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him

Dec 21 New Zealand is the first country to set a formal inflation target (0-2%) for how much prices should rise each year. Similar targets are subsequently adopted by most developed countries.
Dec 21 VP Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon

Dec 22 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu

Dec 22 Cold wave: -6°F in Tulsa, Oklahoma; -12°F in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; -18°F in Denver, Colorado; -23°F in Kansas City, Missouri; -42°F in Scottsbluff, Nebraska; -47°F in Hardin, Montana; and -60°F in Black Hills, South Dakota
Dec 22 Republic of Chad (Africa) adopts its Constitution

Dec 24 Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe

Dec 24 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega, seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
Dec 25 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8°C, coldest temperature ever recorded
Dec 25 Trial of Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena on charges of genocide and personal enrichment; the couple are found guilty and executed by firing squad the same day.