60 events found for 1989
Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot
Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of C
Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Berlin Schönefeld Airport, killing 21 people
Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party after the 1989 Tiananmen
On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the h
A coup d'état in Sudan deposes the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahme
Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended…
The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian…
United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 111.
Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus…
While attempting to land at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, Korean Air Flight 803 crashes just short of the…
Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
The National Cold Fusion Institute opened in Salt Lake City.
Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
China Eastern Airlines Flight 5510 crashes after takeoff from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, killing 34 of…
A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading.