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1989
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POLITICS
and HISTORY
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The
Berlin Wall crumbles
and East and West Germany are re-united
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Thousands
of pro-democracy students occupy Tiananmen
Square, Peking. The government imposes martial
law and uses tanks to disperse the students. Thousands are believed to
be killed.
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Hungary
becomes a democratic country
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Romanian
Communist Government is overthrown by the
people
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Solidarity
is victorious in the Polish Parliamentary elections
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F
W DeKlerk becomes President of South Africa,
promising reforms to the apartheid policy
MUSIC
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My
Perogative by Bobby Brown
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Straight
Up by Paula Abdul
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Wind
Beneath My Wings by Bette Middler
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Girl
You Know It's True by Milli Vanilli
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The
Look by Roxette
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Two
Hearts by Phil Collins
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Wild
Thing by Tone Loc
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Love
Shack by the B52s
TV
and at the MOVIES
- Scott
Bakula and Dean Stockwell took a Quantum Leap
onto our screens
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Robin
Williams made Shakespeare fun in Dead Poets
Society
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Morgan
Freeman was Driving Miss Daisy
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The
awesome Bridges became the Fabulous Baker
Boys
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We
all cried in Steel Magnolias
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Faking
it became dinnertime entertainment When Harry
Met Sally
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Kirstie
Alley and John Travolta had to 'Look Who's
Talking'
People
who died in 1989
- Bette
Davis (b.1908) American film actress
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Lucille
Ball (b.1911) American actress
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Salvidor
Dali (b.1904) Spanish surrealist artist
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Laurence
Olivier (b.1907) English film and stage actor
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Mel
Blanc (b.1908) American cartoon voice (Bugs
Bunny)
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Emperor
Hirohito (b.1901) Japanese leader
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Irving
Berlin (b.1888) American composer
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Samual
Beckett (b.1906) Irish Nobel Playwright
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Ferdinand
Marcos (b.1917) former Philippines leader
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