1989

year on the Gregorian calendar

1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1989th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, 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

Events change

 
Clean up after Exxon Valdez oil spill

Births change

 
Jason Derulo
 
Taylor Swift


Deaths change

January change

 
Hirohito
 
Salvador Dali
 
Ted Bundy

February change

 
Konrad Lorenz

March change

April change

 
Emilio G. Segre
 
Lucille Ball
 
Sergio Leone

May change

June change

 
Ayatollah Khomeini

July change

 
Andrei Gromyko
 
Laurence Olivier
 
Herbert von Karajan

August change

 
William Shockley

September change

 
Georges Simenon
 
Irving Berlin
 
Ferdinand Marcos

October change

 
Bette Davis

November change

 
Ahmadou Ahidjo

December change

 
Andrei Sakharov
 
Samuel Beckett
 
Nicolae Ceausescu
 
Elena Ceaușescu

Nobel Prizes change

Movies released change

Hit songs change

 
Duran Duran in 2012
 
Garth Brooks in 2009

New Books change

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

References change

Other websites change

  •   Media related to 1989 at Wikimedia Commons