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1982_9	Section: October (2): October 1 Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence. Sony launches the first consumer compact disc (CD) player (model CDP-101). October 8 Poland bans the Solidarity trade union after having suspended it on December 13, 1981. After six...
1982_10	Section: November (2): November 3 A gasoline (petrol) tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 176 people. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years. November 6 – Cameroon president Ahmadou Ahidjo resig...
1982_11	Section: December (2): December 1 – Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico. December 2 – At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he lives for 112 days with the device). December 4 – The People's Republic of Ch...
1983_0	1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade.
1983_0	Section: January (2): January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. January 25 – IRAS i...
1983_1	Section: February (2): February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden r...
1983_2	Section: March (2): March 1 – The Balearic Islands and Madrid become Autonomous communities of Spain. March 5 – Australian federal election: The Labor Party led by Bob Hawke defeats the Liberal/National Coalition government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Hawke is to be sworn in on March 11. As soon as the result...
1983_3	Section: April (2): April 4 – The Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on its maiden voyage: STS-6. April 11 – Spain's Seve Ballesteros won the 47th PGA Masters Tournament April 18 The 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people. The Disney Channel launches in the United States. April 22 – A reactor sh...
1983_4	Section: May (2): May 6 – Stern magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries). May 11 – Aberdeen F.C. beat Real Madrid 2–1 (after extra time) to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 and become only the third Scottish side to win a European trophy. May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the...
1983_5	Section: June (2): June 5 – The Second Sudanese Civil War begins in Sudan. June 9 – Britain's Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected by a landslide majority. June 9–25 – The 1983 Cricket World Cup is held in England with India defeating West Indies in the final. June 13 Pioneer 10 passes the o...
1983_6	Section: July (2): July 1 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains of Guinea, killing all 23 people on board. A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany. July 7 – Ten-year-old American g...
1983_7	Section: August (2): August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President of Upper Volta. August 18 Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US $3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage. Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock in the ...
1983_8	Section: September (2): September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald. September 6 – The...
1983_9	Section: October (2): October 2 – Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party. October 4 – British entrepreneur Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. October 9 – The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Ministe...
1983_10	Section: November (2): November 2 – South Africa approves a new constitution granting limited political rights to Coloureds and Asians as part of a series of reforms to apartheid. November 3 – Commencement of the battle of Tripoli between Arafat loyalists and PLO dissidents. November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell ...
1983_11	Section: December (2): December 4 General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action, wins a majority in both chambers of the Venezuelan Congress and the presidency for the 1984–1989 period under Jaime Lusinchi. Voter turnout is 87.3% and Lusinchi obtains 58.4% of the votes. ...
1984_0	1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1984th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 984th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1980s decade.
1984_0	Section: January (2): January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). January 9 – Van Halen releases their sixth studio album 1984...
1984_1	Section: February (2): February 3 John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II a...
1984_2	Section: March (2): March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30. March 12 – The National Union of Mineworkers strikes as tens of thousands of miners in the United Kingdom stop working in protest over colliery closures, starting the United Kingdom miners' stri...
1984_3	Section: April (2): April 2 – Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11. April 12 – Palestinian gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed). April 13 – India launches Operation Meghdoo...
1984_4	Section: May (2): May 2 – South Africa, Mozambique and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the Cahora Bassa dam. May 5 The Herreys' song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden in Luxembourg. It subsequently becomes a top-ten hit in five European countries. The Itaipu Dam, on...
1984_5	Section: June (2): June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar. June 8 – A F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage. June 16 – The Canadian entertainmen...
1984_6	Section: July (2): July 1 Liechtenstein becomes the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote. Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold by FC Barcelona (Spain) to S.S.C. Napoli (Italy) for a world record fee at this date of $10.48M (£6.9M). July 14 – New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon calls a sna...
1984_7	Section: August (2): August 1 – Australian banks are deregulated. August 4 The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso. Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets reaches a record submergence depth of 1,020 meters. August 11 – Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd and Mary Decker of the U.S. collide in ...
1984_8	Section: September (2): September 2 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia. September 4 – The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of C...
1984_9	Section: October (2): October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest. October 5 – STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. October 9 – Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends by Britt Allcroft broadcast...
1984_10	Section: November (2): November 1–4 – Anti-Sikh mass murder takes place in Delhi and various parts of India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. November 4 – The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections. November 6 – 1984 United States presidential election: Republican President Ro...
1984_11	Section: December (2): December 1 A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries begin to improve. The Light Rail Transit in Manila begins service with ...
1985_0	1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1985th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 985th year of the 2nd millennium, the 85th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1980s decade.
1985_0	Section: January (2): January 1 The Internet's Domain Name System is created. Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space prob...
1985_1	Section: February (2): February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969. February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests. February 9 – U.S. drug agent Kiki Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico by drug traffickers;...
1985_2	Section: March (2): March – The GNU Manifesto, written by Richard Stallman, is first published. March 1 – After a 12-year-long dictatorship, Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Uruguay. March 3 – The 8.0 Mw Algarrobo earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leavin...
1985_3	Section: April (2): Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union begins to transfer the burden of fighting the mujahideen to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, a cause of the Revolutions of 1989. April 1 – Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are pri...
1985_4	Section: May (2): May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden and is won by the Bobbysocks! song La det swinge for Norway. May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, which includ...
1985_5	Section: June (2): June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil. June 14 TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is h...
1985_6	Section: July (2): July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force. July 10 The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents. Aeroflot Flight 5143 crashes near Uchquduq, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union, killing all 200 people on board. July 13 – L...
1985_7	Section: August (2): August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, United States, killing 137 people. August 12 – Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people, including Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto; it is the worst single-aircraft disaster in aviation history. August 14 – The Acc...
1985_8	Section: September (2): September 1 – The wreck of the RMS Titanic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (IFREMER) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr. September 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff fr...
1985_9	Section: October (2): October 1 – Operation Wooden Leg: The Israeli air force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters near Tunis. October 3 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. October 7 – The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by four heavily armed Palestinian ...
1985_10	Section: November (2): November 6 Palace of Justice siege: Members of the 19th of April Movement (M-19) Marxist guerrilla group take over the Palace of Justice of Colombia in Bogotá and hold the Supreme Court hostage. Hours later, after a military raid, the incident leaves almost half of the 25 Supreme Court Justices d...
1985_11	Section: December (2): December 1 The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (Spanish: Organización e Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura; OEI) is created. The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public in the US. December 8 – The So...
1986_0	1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade.
1986_0	Section: January (2): January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed...
1986_1	Section: February (2): February 3 – Pixar is founded by John Lasseter along with Steve Jobs. February 7 President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule. The snap presidential election in the Philippines earlier announced by President Ferdinand Marcos is held amidst controversy, t...
1986_2	Section: March (2): March 1 – Olof Palme's deputy Ingvar Carlsson becomes acting Prime Minister of Sweden. He is elected Prime Minister by the Swedish Riksdag on March 15. March 3 – The first paper is published describing the atomic force microscope invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christophe...
1986_3	Section: April (2): April – The government of Ivory Coast requests international diplomatic use of the French form of its name, Côte d'Ivoire. April 1 – Sector Kanda: Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion. April 2 – A bomb explode...
1986_4	Section: May (2): May 2 – Expo 86, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World's fair, opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. May 8 – Óscar Arias is inaugurated into his first term as President of Costa Rica. May 12 – NBC unveils its current peacock logo at the finale of its 60th anniv...
1986_5	Section: June (2): June – Construction of the Oosterscheldekering, the world's largest openable storm surge flood barrier, is completed in the Netherlands. June 4 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel. June 8 – Former United Nations Secretary-...
1986_6	Section: July (2): July 2 – Walt Disney Pictures releases the company's 26th animated film, The Great Mouse Detective. July 4 – The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after celebrating its centennial and an extensive refurbishment. July 7 – Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers are executed...
1986_7	Section: August (2): August 6 A low-pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres (12.9 in) of rain in a day on Sydney. Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to ...
1986_8	Section: September (2): September 1 – Jordan University of Science and Technology is established in Jordan. September 4 – Eusko Alkartasuna, the Basque Social Democratic Party, is created in Vitoria-Gasteiz. September 5 – Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by four A...
1986_9	Section: October (2): October 1 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater–Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947. October 3 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron, officially opens...
1986_10	Section: November (2): November 1 Queensland, Australia: Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as Premier of Queensland with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on December 1, 1987, following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the Fitzgerald Inquiry. Sandoz chemical spill: A major environmental ...
1986_11	Section: December (2): December 4 – The MV Amazon Venture oil tanker begins leaking oil while at the port of Savannah in the United States, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L). December 6 – Johnny Hallyday released his 35th album Gang. December 7 – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake dest...
1987_0	1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1987th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 987th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1980s decade.
1987_0	Section: January (2): January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. January 4 – 1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. January...
1987_1	Section: February (2): February 6 – The Soviet oil tanker Antonio Gramsci suffers a minor shipwreck in Finnish waters en route to the Neste oil refinery in Porvoo, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 570–650 tons. February 11 British Airways is privatised and listed on the London Stock Exchange. The new Constitu...
1987_2	Section: March (2): March 1 – The first Starbucks outside of the US is opened in Vancouver, Canada. March 4 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses the American people on the Iran–Contra affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal. March 6 – Zeebrugge disaster: R...
1987_3	Section: April (2): April 13 – The governments of the Portuguese Republic and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau will be returned to China in 1999. April 19 – The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. April 21 – In Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Central Bu...
1987_4	Section: May (2): May 8 – Loughgall ambush: A 24-man unit of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) ambushed eight members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) as they mounted an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks. All IRA members were killed as well as one civilian. May 9 – A Soviet-mad...
1987_5	Section: June (2): June 3 – The Vanuatu Labour Party is founded. June 8 – The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act is passed, the first of its kind in the world. June 11 – The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected for a third term at the 1987 gener...
1987_6	Section: July (2): July 1 – The Single European Act is passed by the European Community. July 3 – Greater Manchester Police in England recover the body of 16-year-old Pauline Reade from Saddleworth Moor, after her killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley help them in their search, almost exactly 24 years since Pauline was la...
1987_7	Section: August (2): August 4 The World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Commission, publishes its report, Our Common Future. The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present alternative views on cont...
1987_8	Section: September (2): September 2 – In Moscow, USSR, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. September 3 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya. September 7–21 – The world's first conference on a...
1987_9	Section: October (2): October 3 – The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement is reached but still requires ratification. This agreement would be a precursor to NAFTA. October 6 – Fiji becomes a republic. October 7 – Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India. October 8–November 8 – The 1987 C...
1987_10	Section: November (2): November 1 – The InterCity 125 breaks the world speed record for a diesel-powered train, reaching 238 km/h (147.88 mph). November 7 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali assumes the Presidency of Tunisia. The Soviet Union celebrates the 70th Anniversary of The October Revolution with a Parade on Moscow's Red S...
1987_11	Section: December (2): December 1 NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell. December 7 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Ro...
1988_0	1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1988th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 988th year of the 2nd millennium, the 88th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1980s decade.
1988_0	Section: January (2): January – The cargo ship Khian Sea deposits 4,000 tons of toxic waste in Haiti after wandering around the Atlantic for sixteen months. January 1 – The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev h...
1988_1	Section: February (2): February 12 – The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy intentionally rams USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters while Yorktown claims innocent passage. The accompanying US destroyer USS Caron escapes damage. February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary,...
1988_2	Section: March (2): March 6 – Operation Flavius: A Special Air Service team of the British Army shoots dead 3 unarmed members of a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) Active service unit in Gibraltar. March 16 The Halabja chemical attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces. Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colo...
1988_3	Section: April (2): April 5 – Kuwait Airways Flight 422 is hijacked while en route from Bangkok, Thailand, to Kuwait. The hijackers demand the release of 17 Shiite Muslim prisoners held by Kuwait. Kuwait refuses to release the prisoners, leading to a 16-day siege across 3 continents. Two passengers are killed before th...
1988_4	Section: May (2): May 8 – François Mitterrand is re-elected as President of France for 7 years. May 15 – Soviet–Afghan War: After more than 8 years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. May 16–18 – 1988 Gilgit massacre: A revolt by the Shias of Gilgit (in northern Pakistan) is ruthlessly ...
1988_5	Section: June (2): June 10–14 – Spontaneous 100,000 strong mass night-singing demonstrations in Estonian SSR eventually give name to the Singing Revolution. June 10–25 – West Germany hosts the UEFA Euro 1988 football tournament, which is won by the Netherlands. June 21 – The Poole explosion of 1988 caused 3,500 people ...
1988_6	Section: July (2): July 1 – The Soviet Union votes to end the CPSU's monopoly on economic and other non-political power and to further economic changes towards a less rigidly Marxist-Leninist economy. July 3 The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, providing the second connection between the co...
1988_7	Section: August (2): August 5 – The 1988 Malaysian constitutional crisis culminates in the ousting of the Lord President of Malaysia, Salleh Abas. August 8 – 8888 Uprising: Thousands of protesters in Burma, now known as Myanmar, are killed during anti-government demonstrations. August 11 – A meeting of Islamic Jihadi l...
1988_8	Section: September (2): September 11 – Singing Revolution: In the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, 300,000 people gather to express their support for independence. September 12 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage....
1988_9	Section: October (2): October 5 Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government; by October 10 the army has tortured and killed about 500 people in crushing the riots. Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet loses a national plebiscite on his rule; he relinquishes power in 1990. Promulgati...
1988_10	Section: November (2): November – TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone cable to use optical fibers, is completed. This led to more robust connections between the American and European Internet. November 2 – The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet, written by Robert Tappan Morris, is la...
1988_11	Section: December (2): December 1 Carlos Salinas de Gortari takes office as President of Mexico. The first World AIDS Day is held. December 2 Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state. A cyclone in Bangladesh leaves 5 million ho...
1989_0	1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1989th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 989th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade.
1989_0	Section: January (2): 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. January 2 – Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa takes office as the third President of Sri Lanka. January 4 – Gulf of Sidra incident (1989): T...
1989_1	Section: February (2): February 1 – In Australia, Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC (Victorian Economic Development Co-operation) Crisis. February 2 Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet Union armoured column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of...
1989_2	Section: March (2): March – Poland begins to liberalise its currency exchange in a move towards capitalism. March 1 The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States. A curfew is imposed in Kosovo, where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority. Th...
1989_3	Section: April (2): April 1 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax (the poll tax) is introduced in Scotland. It will be introduced in England and Wales the following year. April 2 – In South-West Africa, fighting erupts between SWAPO insurgents and the South West African Police on the day that a ceasefire was s...
1989_4	Section: May (2): May Transhumanism: Genetic modification of adult human beings is tried for the first time, a gene tagging trial. The Soviet Union issues its first Visa card in a step to digitalise its banking system. May 1 – Andrés Rodríguez, who seized power and declared himself President of Paraguay during a milita...
1989_5	Section: June (2): June 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden. June 2 – Sōsuke Uno succeeds Noboru Takeshita as Prime Minister of Japan. June 3 – The world's first high-definition television (test) broadcasts commence in Japan, in analogue. June 4 1989 Tiananmen Square protests an...
1989_6	Section: July (2): July 2 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece, resigns; a new government is formed under Tzannis Tzannetakis. July 5 State President of South Africa P. W. Botha meets the imprisoned 70-year-old Nelson Mandela face-to-face for the first time. The television sitcom Seinfeld premieres in the Uni...
1990_0	1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1990th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 990th year of the 2nd millennium, the 90th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1990s decade.
1990_0	Section: January (2): January 1 Poland becomes the first country in Eastern Europe to begin abolishing its state socialist colonies. Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture. The first Internet companies catering to commercial users, PSINet and EUnet begin selling Internet access to commercial customers i...
1990_1	Section: February (2): February/March – 100,000 Kashmiri Pandits leave their homeland in Jammu and Kashmir's Valley after being targeted by Islamist extremists. February – Smoking is banned on all cross-country flights in the United States. February 2 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African N...
1990_2	Section: March (2): March 1 A fire at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, Egypt, kills 16 people. Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Royal New Zealand Navy discontinues its daily rum ration. Luis Alberto Lacalle, a grandson of the ...
1990_3	Section: April (2): April 1 The Community Charge (poll tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests Strangeways Prison riot: The longest prison riot in Britain's history begins at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, and continues for 3 weeks and 3 days, until April 25. The 1990 United States census beg...
1990_4	Section: May (2): May 1 – The former Episcopal Church in the Philippines (supervised by the Episcopal Church) is granted full autonomy and raised to the state of an Autocephalous Anglican province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines. May 2 – In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer ...
1990_5	Section: June (2): June 1 Cold War: U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks. Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army shoot and kill Major Michael Dillon-Lee and Private William Robert Da...
1990_6	Section: July (2): July 1 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany merge their economies, the West German Deutsche Mark becoming the official currency of the East also. The Inner German border (constructed 1945) also ceases to function. July 2 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy: A stampede in a pedestrian tunnel le...
1991_0	1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1991st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 991st year of the 2nd millennium, the 91st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1990s decade.
1991_0	Section: January (2): January 1 – Czechoslovakia becomes the second Eastern European country to abandon its command economy. January 5 – Georgian troops attack Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, starting the 1991–92 South Ossetia War. January 7 – 1991 Haitian coup d'état: An attempted coup by the Tonton Macoute,...
1991_1	Section: February (2): February 1 USAir Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34 people. A 6.4 mb Hindu Kush earthquake causes severe damage in northeast Afghanistan, leaving 848 dead and 200 injured. February 7 1991 Haitian coup d'état: Haiti's ...

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