1989

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Events edit

January 17 - Cleveland Elementary School Shooting
February 3 - Alfredo Stroessner is overthrown as President of Paraguay during a coup d'etat and exiled to Brazil.
February 14 - Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa calling for the death of British novelist Salman Rushdie, due to fury over Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses.
February 15 - End of the Soviet-Afghan War.
February 16 - The Orange Cross Social Club shooting: three Irish People's Liberation Organization (IPLO) volunteers walk into the Orange Cross social club in Belfast and open fire, killing one and injuring five.
April 8 - Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo is arrested near Guadalajara, Jalisco.
June 1 - John List is apprehended in Virginia after spending 18 years as a fugitive.
June 4 - Ali Khamenei becomes the new Supreme Leader of Iran.
June 4 - Democratic elections are restored in Poland. The Solidarność party wins the majority in both houses of the Polish Parliament, ending four decades of Communist rule in Poland.
June 5 - The Tiananmen Square Massacre occurs in Beijing, China in response to student-lead protests to the rule of the Communist Party of China.
June 30 - Omar al-Bashir first comes to power in Sudan following a successful coup d'etat.
July 8 - Carlos Menem is elected President of Argentina.
July 21 - End of the Isaaq Genocide.
July 29 - Wojciech Jaruzelski resigns as First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party.
September 26 - End of the Cambodian-Vietnamese War.
October 22 - Danny Heinrich kidnaps, sexually assaults and murders 11-year old Jacob Wetterling.
November 9 - Deng Xiaoping resigns as Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. Jiang Zemin emerges as his successor.
November 9 - Kenan Evren steps down as President of Turkey.
December 2 - The Communist Party of Malaya is dissolved.
December 6 - École Polytechnique massacre
December 10 - Gustáv Husák resigns as President of Czechoslovakia.
December 16 - The Socialist Unity Party of Germany is dissolved.
December 18 - Juan Manuel Cardenas Jr. murders his classmate and love interest, Jacalyn Rene Calabrese.
December 20 - The United States invades Panama and removes its de facto dictator Manuel Noriega from power.
December 22 - Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown as dictator of Romania during the Romanian Revolution, ending the Communist Party of Romania's four decades of rule. Ion Iliescu is appointed acting president.
December 24 - Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia begins an uprising that leads to the First Liberian Civil War.
Unknown - The New Black Panther Party is founded.
Unknown - The Sinaloa Cartel is founded.
Unknown - The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, an extremist breakway sect of the Catholic Church, is founded by Credonia Mwerinde and Joseph Kibweteere in southwestern Uganda.

Births edit

Villain births edit

January 8 - Martin Sellner
February 1 – Travis Reinking
March 9 - Coty Scott Taylor
March 10 - Kevin Loibl
April 9 - Christopher Pittman
May 5 - Chris Brown
May 15 - Kylie Rae Harris
May 29 - Sahel Kazemi
June 4 - Pekka-Eric Auvinen
June 8 - John Zawahri
June 30 - Brendt Christensen
July 26 - Christopher Harper-Mercer
August 3 - Trey Sesler
November 6 - Aaron Hernandez
December 1 - Alexandre Bissonnette
Unknown - Hamza bin Laden
Unknown - Patrick Casey

Victim births edit

February 11 - Elisa Izquierdo
March 1 - Ashley Pond
March 2 - Amina Said
March 11 - Matthew R.Alexander
July 4 - Laree Slack
May 3 - Kelsey Smith
May 24 - Tara McMullen
July 29 - Joseph Wallace
August 21 - Rob Knox
October 20 - Sherrice Iverson
October 31 - Emily Salvani
November 19 - Candace Newmaker
December 19 - Daniel Morcombe
December 21 - Cassie Jo Stoddart

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January 7 - Emperor Hirohito
January 17 - Patrick Purdy
January 24 - Ted Bundy
June 3 - Ruhollah Khomeini
June 8 - Albert Spaggiari
June 23 - Sean Patrick Flanagan
July 6 - János Kádár
July 20 - Bruce Greatbatch
May 6 - Adolfo Constanzo
September 2 - Brian Robinson
September 8 - Bronius Urbanavicius
September 28 - Ferdinand Marcos
November 26 - Ahmed Abdallah
December 6 - Marc Lepine
December 25 - Nicolae & Elena Ceaușescu
Unknown - Norma Bell

Victim deaths edit

January 4 - Junko Furuta
January 17 - Sokhim An, Ram Chun, Oeun Lim, Rathanar Or and Teresa Tran
March 14 - Mark Kilroy
July 18 - Rebecca Schaeffer
August 19 - Monika Beerle, Mark MacPhail
September 2 - Paddy McKenna
October 22 - Jacob Wetterling
December 18 - Jacalyn Rene Calabrese