Jun 18, 2009 · The Year That Changed The World. If you think you're sometimes spoiled for choice, consider the lot of a news editor on the first weekend of June 1989. On the afternoon of Saturday, June 3, the condition of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, began to rapidly deteriorate. Just before midnight, Khomeini, 86, died, his death ...

The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident [1] [2] ( Chinese: 六四事件; pinyin: liùsì shìjiàn ), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth Clearing ( Chinese: 六四清场; pinyin ...

Sep 22, 2022 · In 1989 the world was a very different place with many significant changes having taken place in the previous decade or so. Social Politics. Wars and natural disasters claimed hundreds of millions of lives, and the world economy fell apart. However, there were some really good things that happened in 1989 as well.

Oct 21, 2014 · And Lily Collins, too! 3. Because cell phones were hilarious in 1989. (And sorry, no texting.) 4. And because the Cold War finally ended with the smashing of the Berlin Wall. DEMOCRACY! 5. Disney ...

Jun 06, 2019 · Thirty years ago, Beijing's Tiananmen Square became the focus for large-scale protests, which were crushed by China's Communist rulers.The events produced on...

Dec 18, 2009 · Dec 18, 2009. On October 17, 1989, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 67 people and causing more than $5 billion in damages. Despite the fact that the disaster was ...

1 day ago · A former leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests said the ongoing demonstrations in China, and a "violent" response from Beijing, could lead to the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party ...

24 September - At least 70 people injured in a train crash in Claremorris. 19 October – three of the Guildford Four were released in London. Paul Hill was immediately re-arrested. 26 November – the first edition of The Sunday Business Post newspaper was published in Dublin.

2 days ago · China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre after activists filled the streets to openly call for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Hundreds of students at Tsinghua University in Beijing joined waves of demonstrations as unrest grows over the ruthless ...

8 September – The IRA admits responsibility for the murder of Heidi Hazell. The act is condemned as "evil and cowardly" by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and as "the work of a psychopath" by Opposition Leader Neil Kinnock. 12 September – 19,000 ambulance crew members across Britain go on strike.