What is 1989?
{{Year nav|1989}} {{Year in various calendars|1989}} '''1989''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMLXXXIX]]) was a [[common year]] [[Common year starting on Sunday|starting on Sunday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], {{Year article header/year number|1989}} A wave of counter revolutions ended the [[Eastern Bloc]] and the [[Cold War]] during the year. == Events == [[File:OilCleanupAfterValdezSpill.jpg|thumb|Clean up after [[Exxon Valdez oil spill|''Exxon Valdez'' oil spill]]]] * [[January 7]] – [[Akihito of Japan|Akihito]] becomes [[Emperor of Japan]] following the death of [[Hirohito]]. The [[Heisei]] period begins. * [[January 8]] – the Kegworth Air Disaster – A [[Bmi (airline)|British Midland]] [[Boeing 737]] crashes on approach to [[East Midlands Airport]] – 44 dead * [[January 10]] – [[Cuba]]n 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]]. * [[January 20]] – [[George H. W. Bush|George Herbert Walker Bush]] succeeds [[Ronald Reagan|Ronald Wilson Reagan]] as [[President of the United States of America]] * [[January 24]] – Serial killer [[Ted Bundy]] is executed in [[Florida]]'s [[electric chair]] * [[January 30]] – American [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medalist [[Bruce Kimball]] is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident. * [[February 3]] – [[Paraguay]]an leader [[Alfredo Stroessner]] is removed from office. * [[February 14]] – [[Iran]] issues a fatwa (death warrant) against the writer [[Salman Rushdie]] for his novel, [[The Satanic Verses]]. * [[March 24]] – The [[Exxon Valdez oil spill]] occurs at Prince William Sound in southern [[Alaska]]. Until [[2010]] it is the worst oil spill in [[United States]] history. * May - [[May 1989 tornado outbreak|Tornadoes]] hit Georgia, [[North Carolina]], [[South Carolina]] and [[Virginia]]. * [[June 4]] –