1989
March 7, 2006
NEWS
US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean (Jan. 4).
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death (Feb. 14).
Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in rally for democracy (April 19 et seq.). More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across nation (mid-May et seq.). Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators (June 4 et seq.).
Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President (May 25).
P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's President (Aug. 14).
Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership (Nov. 9).
After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West (Nov. 11).
Czech Parliament ends Communists' dominant role (Nov. 30).
Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government (Dec. 15 et seq.); President Ceausescu and wife executed (Dec. 25).
US troops invade Panama, seeking capture of General Manuel Noriega (Dec. 20).
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).
Army Gen. Colin R. Powell is first black Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (Aug. 9).
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 16–18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami
January 24 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair
February 2 - Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation
February 14 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a three-million-US dollar bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie
March 4 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner
March 7 - Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses"
March 14 - Gun control: President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed assault weapons into the United States
March 24 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil after running aground
April 21 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Students in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Nanjing started to strike.
April 21 - Nintendo begin selling the Game boy in Japan
May 19 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Zhao Ziyang met the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
May 20 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declared martial law in Beijing.
May 30 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10 m (33 ft) high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators
June 3 - The Ayatollah Khomeini dies
June 4 - The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing and is covered live on television
June 4 - Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland, this event was first of anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989
July 5 - The television show Seinfeld premiers.
August 20 - In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in their family's den.
September 5 - President George Bush holds up a bag of cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park in his first televised speech to the nation.
October 17 - The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the richter scale, strikes the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose and Monterey Bay, Santa Cruz areas in the American state of California, killing 63.
November 7 - David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.
November 7 - In California, convicted murderer Richard Ramirez (the "Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.
November 9 - Cold War: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down).
December 17 - The Simpsons premieres.
December 25 - Bank of Japan governors announce a major interest rate hike, eventually leading to the peak and fall of the "bubble economy".
MOVIES
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Do the Right Thing
DRIVING MISS DAISY
My Left Foot
Mystery Train
Uncle Buck
MUSIC
Paul's Boutique Beastie Boys
Just Like Heaven Dinosaur jr
3 Feet High and Rising De La Soul
13 Songs Fugazi
Altars Of Madness Morbid Angel
Dr. Feelgood Motley Crue
Straight Outta Compton NWA
Fuck tha police comin' straight from the underground
a young nigga's got it bad 'cause I'm brown
and not the other color so police think
they have the authority to kill a minority
Bleach Nirvania (the last great band)
Fear of a Black Planet Public Enemy
Sports
Detroit Pistons win 4 games to 0 over the Los Angeles Lakers to win the franchise's first championship.
World Series: Oakland Athletics won 4 games to 0 over the San Francisco Giants. The Series MVP was Dave Stewart, Oakland.
Tour de France - Greg LeMond of the United States
Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers won 20-16 over the Cincinnati Bengals
1989 Stussy World Tour Tee
2006 "the remix".
Group 1 drops this weekend, many more groups of artists all year.....
STAY TUNED
March 7, 2006 , 12:26 PM
