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POLITICS and HISTORY

• The Berlin Wall crumbles and East and West Germany are re-united
• Thousands of pro-democracy students occupy Tiananmen Square, Peking. The government imposes martial law and uses tanks to disperse the students. Thousands are believed to be killed.
• Hungary becomes a democratic country
• Romanian Communist Government is overthrown by the people Solidarity is victorious in the Polish Parliamentary elections
• F W DeKlerk becomes President of South Africa, promising reforms to the apartheid policy

MUSIC

• My Perogative by Bobby Brown
• Straight Up by Paula Abdul
• Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Middler
• Girl You Know It's True by Milli Vanilli
• The Look by Roxette
• Two Hearts by Phil Collins
• Wild Thing by Tone Loc
• Love Shack by the B52s

TV and at the MOVIES

• Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell took a Quantum Leap onto our screens
• Robin Williams made Shakespeare fun in Dead Poets Society
• Morgan Freeman was Driving Miss Daisy
• The awesome Bridges became the Fabulous Baker Boys
• We all cried in Steel Magnolias
• Faking it became dinnertime entertainment When Harry Met Sally
• Kirstie Alley and John Travolta had to 'Look Who's Talking'

People that Died in 1989

• Bette Davis (b.1908) American film actress
• Lucille Ball (b.1911) American actress
• Salvidor Dali (b.1904) Spanish surrealist artist
• Laurence Olivier (b.1907) English film and stage actor
• Mel Blanc (b.1908) American cartoon voice (Bugs Bunny)
• Emperor Hirohito (b.1901) Japanese leader
• Irving Berlin (b.1888) American composer
• Samual Beckett (b.1906) Irish Nobel Playwright
• Ferdinand Marcos (b.1917) former Philippines leader