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November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) ... 1989 – Marc Albrighton, English footballer [66] 1989 – Lu Jiajing, Chinese tennis player [67]
October 17: Loma Prieta earthquake October 18: Galileo and its Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster being deployed by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission. October 4 – More than 55,000 Boeing machinists go on strike. They return to work on November 22 after winning higher pay.
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship ...
On 17 November 1989 (International Students' Day), riot police suppressed a student demonstration in Prague. [4] The event marked the 50th anniversary of a violently suppressed demonstration against the Nazi storming of Prague University in 1939 where 1,200 students were arrested and 9 killed (see Origin of International Students' Day ).
Pages in category "November 1989" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
9 November 1989 – The fall of the Berlin Wall, enabling East Germans to travel freely to the west. [3] 1 December 1989 – The Volkskammer removes section of the East German Constitution granting the SED a monopoly of power, thus ending Communist rule in East Germany. 3 December 1989 – The Socialist Unity Party's stepping down. [8]
By RYAN GORMAN A massive earthquake that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 forever changed the region, and potentially altered the course of baseball history. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta ...
On 21 November 1989, Crosby, Stills & Nash performed the song "Chippin' Away" from Graham Nash's 1986 solo album Innocent Eyes in front of the Brandenburg Gate. [ 53 ] On 25 December 1989, Leonard Bernstein gave a concert in Berlin celebrating the end of the Wall, including Beethoven's 9th symphony ( Ode to Joy ) with the word "Joy" ( Freude ...