It has been celebrated as The Emperor's Birthday from 1927 to 1988, then renamed as Greenery Day after Hirohito's death in 1989.

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.

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

The Communists dissolved the party in 1947, but it reformed in 1989 after Communism collapsed.

* 1989 – 1, 645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.

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.

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.

She once had a neighbour's donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its " sexual harassment " of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey's owner in 1989.

After his lowest point output since his rookie season, Federko decided to retire after the 1989 – 90 season, having played exactly 1, 000 NHL games.

A first US IPO followed in 1989 after Ben Rosen joined the Borland board with Goldman Sachs as the lead banker and a second offering in 1991 with Lazard as the lead banker.

But, before the 1989 Abbey National Building Society demutualisation, the Courts found against the two year rule after legal action brought by Abbey National itself in order to circumvent the intent of the legislators.

Other gender-free dance groups started up in the area after that, and in 1989, at the gender-free dance group in Jamaica Plain, MA, a group of dancers led by Janet Dillon protested the use of these terms, and the armband system was devised: the traditionally male-role dancers would wear armbands and be called " armbands " or just " bands ," and the traditionally female-role dancers would be called " bare arms " or just " bares.

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

Hole played their first show in November 1989 at Raji's after three months of rehearsal, and began making singles on the Long Beach, California, independent label Sympathy for the Record Industry.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

The first post-Soviet Ukrainian Census was carried out by State Statistics Committee of Ukraine in 2001, 12 years after the last All-Union census in 1989.

In the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, residents of San Francisco's Marina District help run lengths of fire hose from a fireboat to firefighters ashore after the hydrant system failed.

There has been a gradual relaxation of Marxist interpretation after the death of Mao in 1976, which was accelerated after the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 and Revolutions of 1989, which have damaged Marxism's ideological legitimacy in the eyes of Chinese people.

* 1989 – Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada ; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.

* 1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

* 1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.

Restoration of the Old Town began after 1989.

Carte Blanche was launched in 1989 and broadcasts during prime time viewing on Sunday evenings.

The series was cancelled in 1989 even though the 1988 series had the highest viewing figures in the series ' history.

The ride vehicles were reprogrammed in 1989 to alter their viewing direction.

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.

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

* In the 1989 film Major League it was announced of fictional New York Yankees pitcher Duke Simpson: " The Duke led the American League this year in saves, ERA, and hit batsmen.

Lancaster's last film was Field of Dreams ( 1989 ).

* Balance ( film ), a 1989 Academy Award – winning short animated film

Examples of this style of film include It's a Wonderful World ( 1939 ), The Shop Around the Corner ( 1940 ), Sabrina ( 1954 ), Annie Hall ( 1977 ), When Harry Met Sally ... ( 1989 ), Pretty Woman ( 1990 ), and Four Weddings and a Funeral ( 1994 ).

One of the major developments of the 1990s was the re-emergence of the romantic comedy film, encouraged by the success of When Harry Met Sally ... in 1989.

** Communion ( 1989 film ), a film based on the book

Cleveland's struggles over the 30-year span were highlighted in the 1989 film Major League, which comically depicted a hapless Cleveland ball club going from worst to first by the end of the film.

This specific scene is influenced by John Woo's The Killer ( 1989 film ) | The Killer.

Do the Right Thing ( 1989 ), Spike Lee's debut film, and The Color Purple ( 1985 ) were full character studies of African American culture and history.

* 1938 – Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director ( d. 1989 )

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

In 1989, Jackie Chan adapted the story yet again for the Hong Kong action film Miracles, adding several of his trademark stunt sequences.

In 1989 Coppola teamed up with fellow Oscar-winning directors Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen for an anthology film called New York Stories.

In 1989, the ban was repealed after the overthrow of the Communist government in Poland, and the film was shown in theaters for the first time later that year.

* The 1989 film Glory featured Frederick Douglass as a friend of Francis George Shaw.

The most notable examples in cinema are Laurence Olivier's 1944 version and Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film, both of which draw additional material from the Henry IV plays.

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

is a 1989 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho.

* Field of Dreams, a 1989 film in which heaven is symbolized by a baseball field.

* Łódź Ghetto ( film ) ( voice of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, 1989 )