* 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

* 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

In the late 1989, the Fall of Communism began in countries allied with USSR: Poland, Hungary and Romania.

Since the constitutional amendment of 23 October 1989, Hungary is a parliamentary republic.

With the stabilization of the new market economy, Hungary has experienced growth in foreign investment with a " cumulative foreign direct investment totaling more than $ 60 billion since 1989.

With about $ 18 billion in foreign direct investment ( FDI ) since 1989, Hungary has attracted over one-third of all FDI in central and eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union.

Hungary was a signatory to the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, has signed all of the CSCE / OSCE follow-on documents since 1989, and served as the OSCE's Chairman-in-Office in 1997.

In 1989, American President George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara met with the Polgárs during their visit to Hungary.

* 1989 – Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.

* 1989 – Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.

The government of Hungary had opened its border with Austria in August 1989, dismantling the Iron Curtain on its border.

In 1989 – 90, the communist regimes of Soviet satellite states collapsed in rapid succession in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, and Mongolia.

Starting in the summer of 1989, thousands of East Germans loaded their Trabants with as much as they could carry and drove to either Hungary or Czechoslovakia en route to West Germany — the so-called " Trabi Trail.

With about $ 18 billion in foreign direct investment ( FDI ) since 1989, Hungary has attracted over one-third of all FDI in central and eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union.

In the event the populaces of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Albania, East Germany, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria deposed their Communist governments in the period from 1989 – 91.

However, trouble appeared on the horizon in August 1989, when Hungary dismantled its section of the Iron Curtain, and opened its border with Austria.

These obstacles may have left Russia on a far worse footing than other former Communist-led states to Russia's west that were also going through dual economic and political transitions, such as Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, which have fared better since the collapse of the Eastern bloc between 1989 and 1991.

In May 1989, Hungary removed their border fence and thousands of East Germans escaped to the West.

Switzerland has represented Israel's interests in numerous countries ( Hungary ( 1967 – 1989 ), Guinea ( 1967 – 1973 ), Ceylon / Sri Lanka ( 1970 – 1976 ), Madagascar ( 1973 – 1994 ), Liberia ( 1973 – 1983 ) and Ghana ( 1973 – 2002 )).

* Eger, Hungary, since 1989

On August 19, 1989, it was the site of the Pan-European Picnic, a protest on the border between Austria and Hungary, which was used by over 600 citizens of East Germany to escape from the GDR to the West.

* Nyíregyháza, Hungary since 1989

Under the new ownership, the group focused on security, and in 1989, an international expansion was initiated, with acquisitions in Norway, Denmark and Portugal, and establishment in Hungary.

With the collapse of Communism in Hungary in 1989.

At the 40th anniversary celebration of East Germany in East Berlin in October 1989, guest of honor Mikhail Gorbachev gave a speech indicating that he would not support hard-line positions by the East German regime, millions of whose citizens were trying to flee to West Germany across the weakening Iron Curtain in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.