* 1989 – Alexa Demara, American actress, model, writer and martial artist

* 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

In 1989, taekwondo was the world's most popular martial art in terms of number of practitioners.

* May 20 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declares martial law in Beijing.

Phillip Noyce also attempted to capitalize, with far less success, on Hauer's spiritual qualities in the martial arts action adventure Blind Fury ( 1989 ).

During the Tiananmen protests of 1989, Li used his authority as Premier to declare martial law, and in cooperation with Deng Xiaoping, who was the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, to order the June 1989 military crackdown against student pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

After winning the support of most of his colleagues, including Deng Xiaoping, Li officially declared martial law in Beijing on 20 May 1989, initiating the " Tiananmen Square Massacre ".

In 1989, then Premier Li Peng, in cooperation with the then Chairman of the Central Military Commission Deng Xiaoping, was able to use the office of the Premier to declare martial law in Beijing and order the military crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Films featuring cycle rickshaws and their drivers include Kickboxer and Sammo Hung's 1989 martial arts film Pedicab Driver, which dealt with a group of pedicab drivers and their problems with romance and organized crime.

In May 1989 Yang appeared on Chinese television with Li, where he denounced the student demonstrations as " anarchy " and defended the imposition of martial law on several areas of Beijing affected by the protests.

LINE is a close quarters combat system, derived from various martial arts, used by the United States Marine Corps between 1989 and 1998, and then from 1998 through to 2007 for the US Army Special Forces.

On 21 May 1989, as concerns in Hong Kong about the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests were reaching fever pitch, the paper took a principled position opposing the enforcement of martial law by the PLA amid pro-democracy protests by students and political activists.

* Eduardo Dantas ( born 1989 ), Brazilian bantamweight mixed martial arts fighter

Several days later, on November 3, 1989, several Aum Shinrikyo members, including Hideo Murai, chief scientist, Satoro Hashimoto, a martial arts master, and Tomomasa Nakagawa, drove to Yokohama, where Sakamoto lived.

Best of the Best is a 1989 martial arts film.

After martial law ended in 1989, Ge Shan Tang formed and started exchange with the outside world.

After the fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, members of a parliamentary commission determined that martial law had been imposed in clear violation of the country's constitution which had authorized the executive to declare martial law only between parliamentary sessions ( at other times the decision was to be taken by the Sejm ).

karate, is an eclectic martial arts system developed by Robert Trias ( 1923 – 1989 ), the first person to teach karate in the mainland United States, who opened the first dojo in 1946 in Phoenix, Arizona.

* Michael Kuiper ( born 1989 ), Dutch martial artist

The Karate Kid, Part III is a 1989 martial arts film, and the second sequel to the hit motion picture The Karate Kid ( 1984 ).

The Loi Doubin Law of 1989 was the first European franchise disclosure law.

The courts upheld fingerprinting, but the law was changed so that fingerprinting was done once rather than with each renewal of the registration, which until a law reform in 1989 was usually required every six months for anybody from the age of 16.

* 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.

A Supply of Beer law, passed in 1989, was aimed at getting tied houses to offer at least one alternative beer, known as a guest beer, from another brewery.

This relatively conservative legislature passed an early declaration of sovereignty ( November 16, 1988 ); a law on economic independence ( May 1989 ) confirmed by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union that November ; a language law making Estonian the official language ( January 1989 ); and local and republic election laws stipulating residency requirements for voting and candidacy ( August, November 1989 ).

The outstanding success of the animated film, Happy Feet, has further reinforced the popular appeal National Tap Dance Day in the United States, now celebrated May 25, was signed into law by President George Bush on November 7, 1989.

Local newspaper articles about the Neopagan church quickly aroused the attention of local law enforcement officials, and in April 1989, the Tracys ' house was searched and the couple arrested on charges of pimping, pandering and prostitution.

Beginning with Denmark in 1989, civil unions under one name or another have been established by law in several, mostly developed, countries in order to provide same-sex couples rights, benefits, and responsibilities similar ( in some countries, identical ) to those of different-sex civil marriages.

After Irving denied the Holocaust in two 1989 speeches given in Austria, the Austrian government issued an arrest warrant against him and barred him from entering the country .< ref > In early 1992 a German court found him guilty of Holocaust denial under the Auschwitzlüge section of the law against Volksverhetzung ( a failed appeal by Irving would see the fine rise from 10, 000 DM to 30, 000 DM ), and he was subsequently barred from entering Germany.

One of the best and least controversial examples of " neoliberal " reform is Russia, whose reforms in 1989 were justified under neoliberal economic policy but which lacked any of the basic features of a neoliberal state ( e. g. the rule of law, free press ) which could have justified the reforms.

The Marshals Service has been responsible for law enforcement among U. S. personnel in Antarctica since 1989.

In December 1989 the Commissioners Court of Fort Bend County, in accordance with Texas Local Government code § 323. 021 ( a ), ordered the construction of a law library.

The pre-Valigura law 1989 Patton Village budget had a projection of $ 297, 700 in total revenues, with 79 %, $ 236, 000, to originate from the municipal court issuing citations.

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 ).