Explore 5093 historical events from 1980–1989.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufacture…
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy the Venus-bound Magellan space probe
The San Bernardino train disaster was a combination of two separate but related incidents that occurred in San Bernardino, California, United States: a runaway train derailment on …
The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people, only to be followed a week later by an underground gasoline pipelin
Protests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsu…
Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike
Democracy is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected thro…
The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiana
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit…
Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States that allows for the manufacture of F-16 Falcon parts in Egyp
Marie-Michèle Gagnon is a Canadian former alpine ski racer.
Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Canadian skier
Michael van Gerwen is a Dutch professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where he is ranked world number four; he was ranked world numbe…
Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player
Melvin Ingram III is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the South Carolina G…
Melvin Ingram, American football player
Kang Dae-sung, better known mononymously as Daesung and his Japanese stage name D-Lite, is a South Korean singer who made his musical debut in 2006 as a member of the South Korean …
Kang Daesung, South Korean singer
Protests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsu…
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by st
Tiananmen Square or Tian'anmen Square is a city square in the city centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen located to its north, which separates it from the Forbidden C…
The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation
Protests led by students and workers, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsu…
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,00
Solidarity, full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity", is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it …
Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish Unite
The Ufa train disaster was a railway accident that occurred in the Iglinsky District of the Bashkir ASSR, Soviet Union on 4 June 1989, killing 575 people and injuring 800 more. It …
Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks ne
Lars Bender is a German professional football coach and former player who played as a right-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the manager of Regionalliga Bayern club Wa…
Lars Bender, German footballer
Sven Bender is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the manager of Regionalliga club SpVgg Unterhaching. He …
Sven Bender, German footballer
Karl Emil Salomonsson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
Emil Salomonsson, Swedish footballer
Kim Sung-kyu, referred to as Sunggyu or Sungkyu, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He is the leader and main vocalist of South Korean boy band Infinite.
Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer
Candace Amber Owens Farmer is an American political commentator, author, and conspiracy theorist. Her political positions have mostly been described as conservative or far-right. S…
Candace Owens, American political commentator and activist
Tank Man is an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks on Chang'an Avenue near Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5,…
The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests
Surinam Airways Flight 764 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Surina…
Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot
The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a wave of liberal democratic movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the …
Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of C
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The U
Jiang Zemin was a Chinese politician who served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as the chairman of the Central Military Commission …
Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party after the 1989 Tiananmen