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1989
 
    
More than 2000 peaceful demonstrators die after troops open fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square       
1989
 
    
US sculptor Richard Serra's Tilted Arc is removed from Federal Plaza, New York, after legal action by local protesters       
1989
 
   
Slobodan Milosevic is elected president of Serbia      
1989
 
   
Elections in Poland bring Solidarnośc nation-wide success, and the party is soon at the head of a coalition government      
1989
 
   
The English National Ballet evolves from London's Festival Ballet      
1989
 
   
Before the coming election the military junta in Burma places democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest      
1989
 
 
James Ivory directs the film The Remains of the Day, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro    
1989
 
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Frederik Willem de Klerk, promising reform, wins a whites-only South African presidential election      
1989
 
   
The US unmanned spacecraft Galileo is launched from a space shuttle on a six-year voyage to Jupiter      
1989
 
     
At CERN, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build ENQUIRE, a first step towards the future World Wide Web