With the Rover Group only a few months away, the limited edition ( 500 + 5 press cars ) MG Maestro Turbo ( launched in early 1989 ) was the final car from ARG.

Formerly abundant, it was last seen in 1989.

From 1975 to 1989, Angola was aligned with the Eastern bloc, in particular the Soviet Union, Libya, and Cuba.

Economic requirements triumphed over environmental considerations when the Soviet-era Nairit plant was reopened in January 1992 after being closed in 1989 because of the massive air pollution it caused.

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.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

BZNS was made into a Communist puppet group until 1989, when it reorganized as a genuine party.

The film, which also starred cabaret singer Astrid Hadad and model / actress Claudia Ramírez — with whom Cuarón was linked between 1989 and 1993 — was a big hit in Mexico.

In 1989 the first part of his On Aristotle Metaphysics was published as part of the Ancient commentators project.

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

A significant re-design was released in 1989 as AppleTalk Phase II.

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

Although Gauntlett was contractually to stay as chairman for two years, his racing interests took Aston back into sports car racing in 1989 with limited European success.

For example, the Barony of Grey of Codnor was in abeyance for over 490 years between 1496 and 1989, and the Barony of Hastings was similarly in abeyance for over 299 years from 1542 to 1841.

The Atari Lynx is a 16-bit handheld game console that was released by Atari Corporation in 1989.

The Lynx was released in 1989, the same year as Nintendo's best-selling, monochromatic Game Boy.

Atari Corp. then showed the Lynx to the press at the Summer 1989 CES as the " Portable Color Entertainment System ", which was changed to Lynx when actual consoles were distributed to resellers.

However, Nintendo's new Game Boy was also introduced at the 1989 CES.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989 ) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

In March 1989, Sakharov was elected to the new parliament, the All-Union Congress of People's Deputies and co-led the democratic opposition, the Inter-Regional Deputies Group.

Soon after 21: 00 on December 14, 1989, Sakharov went to his study to take a nap before preparing an important speech he was to deliver the next day in the Congress.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

In 1989, KSOR, the National Public Radio member station based at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, near Medford, rebranded itself as Jefferson Public Radio.

* Hollywood: The Continental Hyatt Hotel ( now Andaz West Hollywood ) was in the movie Almost Famous starring Kate Hudson ( 2000 ), and its pool has featured in several films including This is Spinal Tap ( 1984 ), and the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City ( now rebranded as InterContinental Hotel ) was the scene of the " 6th floor into swimming pool " scene in the 1989 movie Lethal Weapon 2 starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.

1989 had seen the NCCL rebranded, changing its name to " Liberty ".

The station ( and entire network ) were rebranded as 10 TV Australia in 1989, however this did little to help Ten's fortunes with the network soon going into receivership.

With the launch of the Geo brand in 1989, the Spectrum was rebranded as a Geo.

In 1986, frozen food supermarket chain, Bejam, purchased the business from Tesco, and rebranded it as Bejam, before the latter was taken over by rival Iceland in 1989.

Originally launched in September 1989, it was rebranded on 23 March 2009 by Global Radio in line with its rebranding of most of the One Network, to which the station was formerly part of.

In 1989, after Hunter and Berdon left to pursue other projects, the band was rebranded with the addition of Judd Austin and Trey Sabatelli as " The Gone Jackals ", releasing their first album Out and About with the Gone Jackals in 1990.

* 1989: original Magnum, later rebranded " Magnum Classic "

Sapporo Breweries launched the doomed Sapporo Dry in February 1988, and in May 1989 rebranded their flagship product Sapporo Black Label as Sapporo Draft to an unfavourable reception.

The centre was expanded and rebranded as Canberra Centre and was opened officially by Rosemary Follet on 2 November 1989.

High performance Rover Metro, 200 and 400 GTi models had gone on sale in late 1989 and throughout 1990 as the MG version of the Metro was discontinued in 1990 and the versions of the Maestro and Montego were axed in 1991.

By 1989 Vauxhall was on roughly equal terms with the Rover Group as Britain's second most popular car brand ( after Ford ).

The Group changed its name again in 1989 to Rover Group Holdings Limited.

* 1989: The new Rover 200 goes on sale, abandoning the four-door saloon bodystyle in favour of a three-and five-door hatchback.

Rover 200 ( 1989 – 1994 )

The Rover Group's first significant new car launch was the Rover 200, which was introduced in October 1989.

The 1989 Rover 200 was a strong seller throughout its life and its successor continued this trend, though its final year of production ( 1999 ) saw a significant dip in sales.

Rover 400 ( 1989 – 1994 )

From 1985 to 1989, Austin Rover made upmarket Vanden Plas models within its Metro, Maestro, Montego and Rover SD1 ranges.

Other bright spots in this period included reaching the final of the Freight Rover Trophy at Wembley in 1985, where the team lost to Wigan, and a run to the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1989 which included wins over three higher-division sides and was only ended by the reigning league champions Liverpool.

Following the launch of the new Rover 200 in October 1989, production of the Maestro was pruned back to mostly the entry-level models ( with the MG variants being axed during 1991 ).

Production of the Maestro, which was already suffering from a decline in sales, was pruned back by autumn 1989 on the launch of the second generation Rover 200, which was aimed at the higher end of the small family car market, with the Maestro being kept on sale as a cheaper alternative with more basic versions available.

By 1988, it was merely the 14th best selling car in Britain, dipping further to 19th place in 1989, the year that the second generation Rover 200 was launched.

Simpson joined The Rover Group from its subsidiary Leyland-DAF in 1988 and took over as managing director in January 1989.

Unusual UK Rover 800 Sterling, c. 1989 / 90, with first-generation " sharp " body panels but later-style Rover " family " grille, applied as an after-market item by the owner

* 1989: Austin Rover Group is re-branded Rover Group.

From about 1989 onwards, a wider range of models were imported by a new company, Rover New Zealand ; this included sedan versions for the first time.

The third rally, held in April 2001, featured 106 cars, including Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and Chris Pontius, the hosts of Jackass, driving a 1989 Jaguar XJ6 ; F1 World champion Damon Hill driving a Lamborghini ; comedian Vic Reeves in a Mercedes-AMG ; Lord Montagu of Beaulieu in a Blower Bentley, entrepreneurs Justin Etzin and Lord Edward Spencer Churchill in a Police Range Rover and Maximillion Cooper in an original Shelby Cobra.

The original 1989 Discovery's looks had been determined by limited funds and the consequent use of first-generation Range Rover components.