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| 1989 |
| | | Elections in Poland bring Solidarnośc nation-wide success, and the party is soon at the head of a coalition government | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The English National Ballet evolves from London's Festival Ballet | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Before the coming election the military junta in Burma places democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest | |
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| 1989 |
| | | James Ivory directs the film The Remains of the Day, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Frederik Willem de Klerk, promising reform, wins a whites-only South African presidential election | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The US unmanned spacecraft Galileo is launched from a space shuttle on a six-year voyage to Jupiter | |
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| 1989 |
| | | At CERN, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build ENQUIRE, a first step towards the future World Wide Web | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany since 1971, is forced to resign after massive popular demonstrations | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Citizens of East Berlin demolish the Berlin Wall, in what proves a symbolic end to the Cold War | |
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| 1989 |
| | | British prime minister Margaret Thatcher introduces an extremely unpopluar poll tax, last used in the Middle Ages | |
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