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1989
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POLITICS and HISTORY
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The Berlin Wall crumbles and East and West Germany are re-united
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Thousands of pro-democracy students occupy Tiananmen Square, Peking. The government imposes martial law and uses tanks to disperse the students. Thousands are believed to be killed.
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Hungary becomes a democratic country
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Romanian Communist Government is overthrown by the people
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Solidarity is victorious in the Polish Parliamentary elections
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F W DeKlerk becomes President of South Africa, promising reforms to the apartheid policy
MUSIC
- My Perogative by Bobby Brown
- Straight Up by Paula Abdul
- Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Middler
- Girl You Know It's True by Milli Vanilli
- The Look by Roxette
- Two Hearts by Phil Collins
- Wild Thing by Tone Loc
- Love Shack by the B52s
TV and at the MOVIES
- Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell took a Quantum Leap onto our screens
- Robin Williams made Shakespeare fun in Dead Poets Society
- Morgan Freeman was Driving Miss Daisy
- The awesome Bridges became the Fabulous Baker Boys
- We all cried in Steel Magnolias
- Faking it became dinnertime entertainment When Harry Met Sally
- Kirstie Alley and John Travolta had to 'Look Who's Talking'
People who died in 1989
- Bette Davis (b.1908) American film actress
- Lucille Ball (b.1911) American actress
- Salvidor Dali (b.1904) Spanish surrealist artist
- Laurence Olivier (b.1907) English film and stage actor
- Mel Blanc (b.1908) American cartoon voice (Bugs Bunny)
- Emperor Hirohito (b.1901) Japanese leader
- Irving Berlin (b.1888) American composer
- Samual Beckett (b.1906) Irish Nobel Playwright
- Ferdinand Marcos (b.1917) former Philippines leader
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