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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 |
| | | 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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| 1989 |
| | | French ballerina Sylvie Guillem moves from Paris to join the Royal Ballet in London | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The Communist party relinquishes power without bloodshed in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution | |
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| 1989 |
| | | With the fall of Pinochet, Chile returns eagerly to democracy - electing a Christian Democrat, Patricio Aylwin, as president | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Kenneth MacMillan gives 20-year-old Darcy Bussell the leading role in his new full-length ballet, The Prince of the Pagodas | |
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| 1989 |
| | | President Bush sends 24,000 US troops to occupy Panama City and seize Manuel Noriega | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife are captured and executed in a Romanian uprising | |
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| 1989 |
| | | Alexander Dubcek is Speaker of Parliament and Václav Havel is President in the new democratic government of Czechoslovakia | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Panama's dictator, Manuel Noriega, is captured by US troops and taken to Miami on drug trafficking charges | |
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| 1990 |
| | | South African president F.W. de Klerk announces his radical intention to end apartheid | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Sandinistas lose the Nicaraguan presidential election, with Daniel Ortega beaten into second place by Violeta Chamorro | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Nelson Mandela is given an ecstatic reception on his release after twenty-six years in prison on Robben Island, near Cape Town | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Racing Demon launches a trilogy on the British establishment by English playwright David Hare | |
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| 1990 |
| | | British primatologist Jane Goodall publishes Through a Window, exposing violence and brutality in chimpanzees | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from a space shuttle and goes into orbit 370 miles (600 km) above the earth | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Danish choreographer Peter Martins becomes director of the New York City Ballet | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The aged president, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, wins the Ivory Coast's first democratic elections | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi's party wins an overwhelming victory in Burma's general election but the military refuse to hand over power | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Aung San Ssu Kyi remains under house arrest, and is not released till 1995 | |
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| 1990 |
| | | A Catholic priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is elected president of Haiti and begins a programme of reform | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Namibia becomes independent with Sam Nujoma as president | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Conservative government's poll tax is greeted with violent riots in London and a campaign of non-payment | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Alberto Fujimori and his newly formed Cambio 90 party win a surprise election victory in Peru | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Gérard Depardieu plays the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, based on the play by Edmond Rostand | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris establish the White Oak Dance Project as a touring company | |
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| c. 1990 |
| | | Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi transforms Inkatha into a political party, the Inkatha Freedom Party | |
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| 1990 |
| | | Three tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras) sing at a concert in Rome to celebrate the World Cup | |
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