✦ History

Explore December 16, 1989 – December 27, 1989

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
First Intifada 1987-12-09 - 1993-09-13
First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1988-02-20 - 1994-05-12
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
Romanian Revolution 1989-12-16 - 1989-12-27
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31

People

Christos Sartzetakis age 60
President - Greece
Elias Hrawi age 63
President - Lebanon
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 57
Emir - Qatar
Amata Kabua age 61
President - Marshall Islands
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 48
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 53
President - Central African Republic
Mátyás Szűrös age 56
President - Hungary
Jaime Paz Zamora age 50
President - Bolivia
Rodrigo Borja Cevallos age 54
President - Ecuador
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 51
King - Lesotho
Ċensu Tabone age 76
President - Malta
Ranasinghe Premadasa age 65
President - Sri Lanka
Alfredo Cristiani age 42
President - El Salvador
Ali Saibou age 49
President - Niger
Andrés Rodríguez age 66
President - Paraguay
Joseph Saidu Momoh age 52
President - Sierra Leone
Guillermo Endara age 53
President - Panama
Desmond Hoyte age 60
President - Guyana
Said Mohamed Djohar age 71
President - Comoros
José Azcona del Hoyo age 62
President - Honduras
John Haglelgam age 40
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Bernard Dowiyogo age 43
President - Nauru
Ramsewak Shankar age 52
President - Suriname
Penaia Ganilau age 71
President - Fiji
Phoumi Vongvichit age 80
President - Laos
Ieremia Tabai age 40
President - Kiribati
Ngiratkel Etpison age 64
President - Palau
Noor Hassanali age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Prosper Avril age 52
President - Haiti
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 53
President - Switzerland
Sebastiano Baggio age 76
President - Vatican City
Janez Stanovnik age 67
President - Slovenia
Gloriana Ranocchini age 32
Captain Regent - San Marino
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 68
King - Saudi Arabia
Mahathir Mohamad age 64
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Benazir Bhutto age 36
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Lee Kuan Yew age 66
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hassanal Bolkiah age 43
Prime Minister - Brunei
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 50
Prime Minister - Portugal
Hun Sen age 37
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Felipe González age 47
Prime Minister - Spain
Brian Mulroney age 50
Prime Minister - Canada
Bob Hawke age 60
Prime Minister - Australia
Ruud Lubbers age 50
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Ingvar Carlsson age 55
Prime Minister - Sweden
Jacques Santer age 52
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 54
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Anerood Jugnauth age 59
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Franz Vranitzky age 52
Chancellor - Austria
Wilfried Martens age 53
Prime Minister - Belgium
Eddie Fenech Adami age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Harri Holkeri age 52
Prime Minister - Finland
Poul Schlüter age 60
Prime Minister - Denmark
Eugenia Charles age 70
Prime Minister - Dominica
Jan P. Syse age 59
Prime Minister - Norway
Petre Roman age 43
Prime Minister - Romania
George Cadle Price age 70
Prime Minister - Belize
Miklós Németh age 41
Prime Minister - Hungary
Yıldırım Akbulut age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Steingrímur Hermannsson age 61
Prime Minister - Iceland
Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 59
Prime Minister - Kuwait
A. N. R. Robinson age 63
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Kamisese Mara age 69
Prime Minister - Fiji
Xenophon Zolotas age 85
Prime Minister - Greece
Constantin Dăscălescu age 66
Prime Minister - Romania
Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum age 77
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Salim al-Huss age 60
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Chatchai Chunhawan age 69
Prime Minister - Thailand
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 73
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Lynden Pindling age 59
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
John Compton age 64
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Adil Çarçani age 67
Prime Minister - Albania
Barkat Gourad Hamadou age 59
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Saw Maung age 61
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Vere Bird age 79
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Azzeddine Laraki age 60
Prime Minister - Morocco
Walter Lini age 47
Prime Minister - Vanuatu
Mudar Badran age 55
Prime Minister - Jordan
Mário da Graça Machungo age 49
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Geoffrey Palmer age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Hamed Karoui age 62
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Lloyd Erskine Sandiford age 52
Prime Minister - Barbados
Josep Pintat-Solans age 64
Prime Minister - Andorra
Léon Mébiame age 55
Prime Minister - Gabon
James Fitz-Allen Mitchell age 58
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Mulud Hamroush age 46
Prime Minister - Algeria
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 49
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Kennedy Simmonds age 53
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Bikenibeu Paeniu age 33
Prime Minister - Tuvalu
Herbert Blaize age 71
Prime Minister - Grenada
Dumaagiin Sodnom age 56
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Solomon Mamaloni age 46
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Muhammad Ali Samatar age 58
Prime Minister - Somalia
Obed Dlamini age 52
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty age 48
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Milan Čič age 57
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Tu'i Pelehake age 67
Prime Minister - Tonga
Ben Jones age 65
Prime Minister - Grenada
Tofilau Eti Alesana age 65
Prime Minister - Samoa
Joseph Sinde Warioba age 49
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Radoje Kontić age 52
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Malimba Masheke age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Mamane Oumarou age 44
Prime Minister - Niger
Adrien Sibomana age 36
Prime Minister - Burundi
Guillermo Larco Cox age 57
Prime Minister - Peru
Kazi Zafar Ahmed age 50
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Hailu Yimenu age 54
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Bill Hayden age 56
Governor-General - Australia
Elmira Minita Gordon age 59
Governor-General - Belize
Tupua Leupena age 67
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 80
Governor-General - Jamaica
Ignatius Kilage age 48
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Barack Obama age 28
Donald Trump age 43
Michael Jackson age 31
Vladimir Putin age 37
Ronald Reagan age 78
Nelson Mandela age 71
George W. Bush age 43
Bill Gates age 34
Pope Francis age 53
Steve Jobs age 34
Angela Merkel age 35
Neil Armstrong age 59
François Hollande age 35
Volodymyr Zelenskyy age 11
Gabriel García Márquez age 62
Elon Musk age 18
Stephen Hawking age 47
Jimmy Carter age 65
Emmanuel Macron age 11
Benedict XVI age 62
Mother Teresa age 79
Hillary Clinton age 42
Kamala Harris age 25
Nicolas Sarkozy age 34
Richard Nixon age 76
Xi Jinping age 36
Naruhito age 29
Hugo Chávez age 35
Muammar Gaddafi age 47
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 35
Muhammad Ali age 47
Kofi Annan age 51
Charles III age 41
Osama bin Laden age 32
Lech Wałęsa age 46
Gerald Ford age 76
Leo XIV age 34
Diego Maradona age 29
Narendra Modi age 39
Rafael Correa age 26
Aung San Suu Kyi age 44
Benjamin Netanyahu age 40
Dmitry Medvedev age 24
14th Dalai Lama age 54
Mark Zuckerberg age 5
Silvio Berlusconi age 53
Shinzo Abe age 35
Tim Berners-Lee age 34
Boris Yeltsin age 58
Jacques Chirac age 57
Guillermo Lasso age 34
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 71
Alexander Lukashenko age 35
Yasser Arafat age 60
David Cameron age 23
Linus Torvalds age 19
Ban Ki-moon age 45
Boris Johnson age 25
Diana, Princess of Wales age 28
Bashar al-Assad age 24
Jair Bolsonaro age 34
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 44
Theresa May age 33
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 33
Henry Kissinger age 66
Václav Havel age 53
Rishi Sunak age 9
Justin Trudeau age 17
Nicolás Maduro age 27
Dilma Rousseff age 42
Milton Friedman age 77
Valentina Tereshkova age 52
Pol Pot age 64
Ilham Aliyev age 27
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 51
António Guterres age 40
Rosa Parks age 76
Shimon Peres age 66
Giorgia Meloni age 12
Olaf Scholz age 31
Keir Starmer age 27
Willy Brandt age 76
Gerhard Schröder age 45
Hassan Rouhani age 41
Hu Jintao age 47
Evo Morales age 30
Joko Widodo age 28
Petro Poroshenko age 24