1989

year on the Gregorian calendar

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.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 19th century20th century21st century
Decades: 1950s  1960s  1970s  – 1980s –  1990s  2000s  2010s
Years: 1986 1987 198819891990 1991 1992
1989 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1989
MCMLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita2742
Armenian calendar1438
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԸ
Assyrian calendar6739
Bahá'í calendar145–146
Balinese saka calendar1910–1911
Bengali calendar1396
Berber calendar2939
British Regnal year37 Eliz. 2 – 38 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2533
Burmese calendar1351
Byzantine calendar7497–7498
Chinese calendar戊辰(Earth Dragon)
4685 or 4625
    — to —
己巳年 (Earth Snake)
4686 or 4626
Coptic calendar1705–1706
Discordian calendar3155
Ethiopian calendar1981–1982
Hebrew calendar5749–5750
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2045–2046
 - Shaka Samvat1910–1911
 - Kali Yuga5089–5090
Holocene calendar11989
Igbo calendar989–990
Iranian calendar1367–1368
Islamic calendar1409–1410
Japanese calendarShōwa 64 / Heisei 1
(平成元年)
Javanese calendar1921–1922
Juche calendar78
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4322
Minguo calendarROC 78
民國78年
Nanakshahi calendar521
Thai solar calendar2532
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 time599616000 – 631151999

Events

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Clean up after Exxon Valdez oil spill

Births

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Jason Derulo
 
Taylor Swift


Deaths

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January

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Hirohito
 
Salvador Dali
 
Ted Bundy

February

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Konrad Lorenz
 
Emilio G. Segre
 
Lucille Ball
 
Sergio Leone
 
Ayatollah Khomeini
 
Andrei Gromyko
 
Laurence Olivier
 
Herbert von Karajan

August

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William Shockley

September

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Georges Simenon
 
Irving Berlin
 
Ferdinand Marcos

October

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Bette Davis

November

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Ahmadou Ahidjo

December

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Andrei Sakharov
 
Samuel Beckett
 
Nicolae Ceausescu
 
Elena Ceaușescu

Nobel Prizes

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Movies released

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Hit songs

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Duran Duran in 2012
 
Garth Brooks in 2009

New Books

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Gilda Radner with husband Gene Wilder in 1986
 
Mary Higgins Clark in 2012

References

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Other websites

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  •   Media related to 1989 at Wikimedia Commons