* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* Nuclides and Isotopes – 14th Edition, GE Nuclear Energy, 1989.

* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Dominic Roco, Filipino actor

* 1989 – Felix Roco, Filipino actor

* 1989 – Jang Wooyoung, South Korean singer ( 2PM )

* 1989 – Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater and actress

* 1989 – Romain Amalfitano, French footballer

* 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Meredith Deane, American actress

* 1989 – Jason Heyward, American baseball player

* 1989 – Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer

Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

* 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

* 1961 – Pete de Freitas, Spanish drummer ( Echo & the Bunnymen ) ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Vanes-Mari Du Toit, South African netball player

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and pressure from the East German population, the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and was subsequently mostly demolished, with little of its physical structure remaining today ; the East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain near the Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree preserves a portion of the Wall.

In 1989, when the Cold War was coming to its end, the army numbered at least 152, 000 regular troops.

Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989 – 2001.

The Cold War ( 1945 – 1989 ) provided a global network of material and ideological support that perpetuated civil wars, which were mainly fought in weak ex-colonial states, rather than the relatively strong states that were aligned with the Warsaw Pact and North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Conversely, the end of the Cold War marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 resulted in a reduction in the duration of Cold War civil wars of 92 % or, phrased another way, a roughly ten-fold increase in the rate of resolution of Cold War civil wars.

* 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between Nato and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.

* 1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.

He is the author or editor of several books including Global Effects of Environmental Pollution ( 1970 ), The Ocean in Human Affairs ( 1989 ), Global Climate Change ( 1989 ), The Greenhouse Debate Continued ( 1992 ), and Hot Talk, Cold Science ( 1997 ).

The US military de-emphasized hand-to-hand combat training during the Cold War period, but revived it with the introduction of LINE in 1989.

* 1989 Cold Fusion Announced.

* 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall.

* 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.

The album eventually became multi-platinum in the spring and summer of 1989, and it spawned five American Top Three singles, four of them # 1s ( three in 1989 and one in 1990 ): " Straight Up ", " Forever Your Girl ", " Cold Hearted ", and " Opposites Attract ".

Perestroika is often argued to be the cause of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, and the end of the Cold War.

At the end of the Cold War in 1989, there were over 400 nuclear-powered submarines operational or being built.

Beginning at the Cold War ’ s conclusion, in late 1989, popular civil and political public discontent forced the Communist governments of the Warsaw Treaty countries from power – independent national politics made feasible with the perestroika-and glasnost-induced institutional collapse of Communist government in the USSR.

Collectively known as the Revolutions of 1989, they heralded the dissolution of the Soviet Union two years later and the beginning of the post – Cold War period which is characterized by the dominance of the United States in world affairs.

Following the definite end of the Cold War, Honecker refused all but cosmetic changes and was ousted by the party in late 1989 and removed from power.

* Cold Cash Warrior ( 1989 ) with Bill Fawcett

After World War II, the city became divided into East Berlin — the capital of East Germany — and West Berlin, a West German exclave surrounded by the Berlin Wall ( 1961 – 1989 ).

From the end of World War II until the widespread change of regime in Eastern Europe in November 1989, the Bulgarian Communist Party ( BCP ) exerted complete economic, social and political control in Bulgaria.

* Civil War battles in Cornwall, 1642 to 1646 by Richard Holmes, ( Mercia, 1989 ) ISBN 0-948087-32-3

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

( 1989 ) The Second World War.

Examples include Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), Kind Hearts and Coronets ( 1949 ), The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ), The Loved One ( 1965 ), MASH ( 1970 ), Monty Python's The Meaning of Life ( 1983 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), The War of the Roses ( 1989 ), Heathers ( 1989 ), Your Friends & Neighbors ( 1998 ), Keeping Mum ( 2005 ), and Burn After Reading ( 2008 ).

Since World War II, the Red Sox have had 18 batting champions ( through 1989 )... Five to 7 points are a lot, given that there may be only a 15-or 20-point spread between a good hitting team and a poor hitting team.

The Tories had slipped behind Labour in the opinion polls during 1989 and the gap widened during 1990, but within two months of Major taking over as prime minister the Tories had returned to the top of the opinion polls, briefly enjoying a comfortable lead after the Gulf War.

* John Woodvine in the 1989 British television production Countdown to War

Between 1985 and 1989, heavy fighting took place in the " War of the Camps ".

In February 1989, General Aoun launched the " War of liberation ", a war against the Syrian Armed Forces in Lebanon.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

The Communist Party ( PCL ), which received 10 %- 18 % of the vote in national elections from World War II to the 1960s, won only two seats in the 1984 elections, one in 1989, and none in 1994.