1989 - January. January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola January 10 - Assistant Australian Federal Police commissioner Colin Winchester is shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home January 17 - A gunman kills 5 children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California ...

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1989 - January. January 7 - Last day of the Showa period due to the death of Emperor Hirohito(aka Emperor Showa after his death) in Japan. Akihito became Emperor of Japan, and the Heisei period had begun from the following day. January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola January 10 - Assista ...

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1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The world population growth in absolute numbers is believed to have been the highest ever around this time. [1] 1989 - Events. January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead January 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola January 10 - Assistant Austra ...

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1989 in aviation - January. January 4 - US Navy F-14 Tomcats shoot down two Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23s January 8 - a British Midland Boeing 737-400 crashes on the M1 motorway near Kegworth, killing 32 people. 1989 in aviation - February. February 8 - a misunderstanding between the crew of a Boeing 707 and Air traffic control leads to a crash on Pico Alto mountain on the Azores February 24 - a piece of fuselage detaches from a United Airlines Boeing 747 over Hawaii. Eleve ...

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1989 in rail transport - March events. March 1 - The Abbeville-Grimes Railway (a predecessor of the Bay Line Railroad) begins operations between its namesake cities in Alabama. 1989 in rail transport - September events. September 17 - The Grand Canyon Railway officially reopens and carries passengers to the Grand Canyon National Park for the first time since 1968. 1989 in rail transport - October events. October 29 - The Lexington Avenue, Roosevelt Island and 21st Street stations on the New York ...

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1989 in South Africa - January. A Eskom sub-station in Glenwood, Durban is damaged by explosion, later police defuse a second bomb found nearby Explosion at a Eskom sub-station in Sandhurst, Johannesburg A limpit mine explodes at home of the chair of the Ministers Council in the House of Delegates in Benoni An explosion at aircraft factory in Ciskei Two municipal police are killed in grenade attack on Katlehong's Municipal Police Station 8 January - The African N ...

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See also: 1988 in literature, other events of 1989, 1990 in literature, list of years in literature. 1989 in literature - Events. February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. 1989 in literature - New books. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy C ...

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With the fall of Communism in Poland, Jewish cultural, social, and religious life has been undergoing a revival. Many historical issues, especially related to World War II and the 1944-1989 period, suppressed by Communist censorship has been reevaluated and publicly discussed (see for example the Massacre in Jedwabne, the Koniuchy Massacre, the Auschwitz cross, and Polish-Jewish wartime relations in general). Jewish religious life has been revived with the help of the Ronald Lauder Foundation, the Polish Jewish community employs two r ...

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See also: 1988 in film, other events of 1989, 1990 in film, list of 'years in film'. 1989 in film - Events. Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia for $20 million. (Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the movie Boxing Helena.) Mik ...

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See also: 1988 in music, other events of 1989, 1990 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1989 in music - Events. January 7 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House party in London January 14 - Paul McCartney releases Back in the U.S.S.R. exclusively in Russia. Bootleg copies sell for as much as $1,000 in the United States January 14 - Genesis '88 and Sunrise/Back to the Future stage large-scale illegal Acid House pa ...

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The "Velvet Revolution" (Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 – December 29, 1989) refers to a bloodless revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the communist government there. On November 17, 1989, a peaceful student demonstration in Prague was severely beaten back by the riot police. That event sparked a set of popular demonstrations from November 19 to late December. By November 20 the number of peaceful protestors assembled in Prague had swelled from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. A general two-hour strike, involving ...

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See also: 1989 in literature, other events of 1990, 1991 in literature, list of years in literature. 1990 in literature - Events. J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London. She says "I was staring out the window, and the idea for Harry just came. He appeared in my mind's eye, very fully formed. The basic idea was for a boy who didn't know what he was." It would be seven more years before the world was introduced to Harry. ...

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See also: 1987 in film, other events of 1988, 1989 in film, list of 'years in film'. 1988 in film - Events. Michael Jackson's first film was Moonwalker 1988 in film - Top grossing films. Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise Who Framed Roger Rabbit Coming to America Big, starring Tom Hanks Crocodile Dundee II Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis ...

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See also: 1987 in television, other events of 1988, 1989 in television and the list of 'years in television'. For the United States network television schedule, please see 1988-89 United States network television schedule. 1988 in television - Events. February 26 - Tom Hardy marries Simone Ravelle on General Hospital. It is a milestone for the genre as it is the first interracial wedding between two characters on American daytime television. April 28 - ITV in the UK broad ...

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146 Lucina is a main belt asteroid. It is large, dark and has a carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on June 8, 1875 and named after Lucina, the Roman goddess of childbirth. Two stellar occultations by Lucina have been observed so far, in 1982 and 1989. During the first event, a possible small satellite (6 km in diameter) was detected. Further evidence for a satellite emerged in 2003, this time based on astrometric measurements [1]. … | Previous minor planet | 146 Lucina | Next ...

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23 is a 1998 German movie about a young hacker Karl Koch, who supposedly committed suicide on May 23, 1989. It was directed by Hans-Christian Schmid, who also participated in screenwriting. The film's accuracy has been disputed by some witnesses to the real-life events it was based on. 23 film - Plot. In Germany in the 1980s - at the height of the Cold War - the 19-year-old Karl Koch (August Diehl) finds the world around him threatening and chaotic. Inspired by the fictious character Hagbard ...

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Richard Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer. He has authored numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970), Illusions (1977), One (1989), and Out of My Mind (1999). Most of his books have been semi-autobiographical, using actual or fictionalized events from his life to illustrate his philosophy. Bach was born in Oak Park, Illinois ...

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Amira Hass (born 1956) is an Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha'aretz. She is especially famous for living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and reporting on events from the Palestinian perspective of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors, Hass was born in Jerusalem. She began her journalistic career in 1989 as a staff editor for Ha'aretz and started to report from the Palestinian Territories in 1991. As of 2003, she is the only full-time Jewish Israeli journalist who lives among the Palestini ...

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1989 in television - 1940s. Meet the Press (1947-present). Candid Camera (1948-present). Bozo the Clown (1949-present). Come Dancing (UK) (1949-1995). 1989 in television - 1950s. Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951-present). Guiding Light (1952-present). The Today Show (1952-present). Panorama (UK) (1953-present). Face the Nation (1954-present ...

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