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November 3 – The Senate convicts Judge Walter Nixon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and removes him from office. November 7 Douglas Wilder wins the Virginia governor's race, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
Historical events from year 1989. Learn about 768 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1989 or search by date or keyword.
Events. January 1 – The New York Times discloses involvement of West German company Imhausen and Salzgitter AG in building a chemical weapon plant in Rabta, Libya. [4][5] January 2 – Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa takes office as the third President of Sri Lanka.
1989. The final year of the 1980s saw the Berlin Wall toppled, heralding the Cold War’s imminent demise, while in Czechoslovakia, the Velvet Revolution brought a nonviolent end to Communist rule....
7 Οκτ 2019 · A low-flying Afghan helicopter gunship sweeps past a convoy along the Salang highway providing air cover for the Soviet convoy sending food and fuel to the capitol on January 30, 1989, outside...
George Herbert Walker Bush inaugurated as 41st US President (Jan. 20). Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound (March 24). US jury convicts Oliver North in Iran-Contra affair (May 4).
It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.
