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1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter A), 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. It was a historical turning point for the wave of revolutions that swept the Eastern Bloc, starting in Poland that summer with the beginning of a move towards private enterprise,[1] coming to a head with opening of the Berlin Wall in November, and ending in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Collectively known as the Revolutions of 1989, they heralded the beginning of the post–Cold War period. It was the year of the first Brazilian presidential elections in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 which commanded the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected in South Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled the apartheid system over the next five years.
The early Internet, by then 20 years old, was rapidly evolving in 1989. The first commercial Internet service providers surfaced in this year.[2][3] The World Wide Web was first conceived of in Switzerland by Tim Berners-Lee and was opened to the public for free use in 1993 after several years of development at CERN.[4] The first unofficial text message was also sent in 1989.[5]
1989 marked the beginning of the current Heisei period in Japan.
Eastern Bloc, Soviet Union, Vietnam War, Berlin Wall, United States
Cold War, Germany, Berlin Wall, Communism, East Berlin
2005, 2009, 2007, 2008, 2010
World War II, Russia, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian language, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
S.M. Entertainment, BoA, Super Junior, SM Town, YouTube
Cold War, Soviet Union, East Germany, 1908, Nelson Mandela
Scouting, 1997, 2007, 2004, 1981
1983, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1990, 1976, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1984, 1996, 1980, 1979, Nobel Prize in Literature