1989

1989 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1989; MCMLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2742
Armenian calendar	1438; ԹՎ ՌՆԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	6739
Bahá'í calendar	145–146
Balinese saka calendar	1910–1911
Bengali calendar	1396
Berber calendar	2939
British Regnal year	37 Eliz. 2 – 38 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2533
Burmese calendar	1351
Byzantine calendar	7497–7498
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon); 4685 or 4625; — to —; 己巳年 (Earth Snake); 4686 or 4626
Coptic calendar	1705–1706
Discordian calendar	3155
Ethiopian calendar	1981–1982
Hebrew calendar	5749–5750
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2045–2046
- Shaka Samvat	1910–1911
- Kali Yuga	5089–5090
Holocene calendar	11989
Igbo calendar	989–990
Iranian calendar	1367–1368
Islamic calendar	1409–1410
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 64 / Heisei 1; (平成元年)
Javanese calendar	1921–1922
Juche calendar	78
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4322
Minguo calendar	ROC 78; 民國78年
Nanakshahi calendar	521
Thai solar calendar	2532
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年; (male Earth-Dragon); 2115 or 1734 or 962; — to —; 阴土蛇年; (female Earth-Snake); 2116 or 1735 or 963
Unix time	599616000 – 631151999

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s – 1980s – 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1986 1987 1988 – 1989 – 1990 1991 1992

1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar, the 989th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade A wave of counter revolutions ended the Eastern Bloc and the Cold War during the year.

Events

January 7 – Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins.
January 8 – the Kegworth Air Disaster – A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport – 44 dead
January 10 – Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola
January 10 – Assistant Australian Federal Police commissioner Colin Winchester is shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home.
January 17 – A gunman kills 5 children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California.
January 20 – George Herbert Walker Bush succeeds Ronald Wilson Reagan as President of the United States of America
January 24 – Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair
January 30 – American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
February 3 – Paraguayan leader Alfredo Stroessner is removed from office.
February 14 – Iran issues a fatwa (death warrant) against the writer Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses.
March 24 – The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurs at Prince William Sound in southern Alaska. Until 2010 it is the worst oil spill in United States history.
May - Tornadoes hit Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
June 4 – Protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, are brutally crushed. An image of a lone protestor defying a tank is shown worldwide.
August – First sighting of the Aurora, a supposed hypersonic aircraft
September - Hurricane Hugo strikes the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, South Carolina and North Carolina. The hurricane causes $8 billion in damage in the United States, about $10 billion in total. Many people die from this hurricane.
October 17 – A major earthquake strikes San Francisco, California.
October 18 – East Germany's leader Erich Honecker resigns.
November 2 – Bad Religion releases No Control, which is considered one of the band's best known works in the history of punk music, along with its predecessor Suffer, which came out in the previous year.
November 17 – The Berlin Wall in Germany starts to come down.
December 17 – The television series The Simpsons premieres on FOX as a full animated series with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
December 22 – The main crossing from East into West Berlin is officially reopened.
December 22 – In Romania, Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is removed from office.
December 25 – Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are executed by a firing squad.