✦ History

Explore November 17, 1989 – December 29, 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
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Invention of the World Wide Web 1989-03-12 - 1991-08-06
Velvet Revolution 1989-11-17 - 1989-12-29
United States invasion of Panama 1989-12-20 - 1990-01-31

People

Elizabeth II age 63
Queen - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 63
President - Cuba
Mikhail Gorbachev age 58
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
George H. W. Bush age 65
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 52
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 50
Supreme Leader - Iran
Hosni Mubarak age 61
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 73
President - France
Akihito age 55
Emperor - Japan
Jiang Zemin age 63
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Hafez al-Assad age 59
President - Syria
Richard von Weizsäcker age 69
President - Germany
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 55
President - Iran
Baudouin of Belgium age 59
King - Belgium
Lee Teng-hui age 66
President - Republic of China
Egon Krenz age 52
General Secretary - East Germany
José Sarney age 59
President - Brazil
Yang Shangkun age 82
President - People's Republic of China
Vo Chi Cong age 77
President - Vietnam
Vinicio Cerezo age 46
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 77
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Carlos Salinas de Gortari age 41
President - Mexico
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 69
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Helmut Kohl age 59
Chancellor - Germany
Rajiv Gandhi age 45
Prime Minister - India
Giulio Andreotti age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
Isaac Shamir age 74
Prime Minister - Israel
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 69
President - International Olympic Committee
Jacques Delors age 64
President - European Commission
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 62
Prime Minister - Poland
Li Peng age 61
Premier - People's Republic of China
V. P. Singh age 58
Prime Minister - India
Toshiki Kaifu age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Rocard age 59
Prime Minister - France
Nikolai Ryzhkov age 60
Chairman - Soviet Union
Ante Marković age 65
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Kaysone Phomvihane age 68
Prime Minister - Laos
Manfred Wörner age 55
Secretary General - NATO
Charles Haughey age 64
Taoiseach - Ireland
Do Muoi age 72
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Atef Sedki age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hiroshi Nakajima age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yon Hyong-muk age 58
Premier - North Korea
Lee Huan age 72
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmoud Zuabi age 54
Prime Minister - Syria
Barber Conable age 67
President - World Bank
William Rehnquist age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Dan Quayle age 42
Vice President - United States
Wang Zhen (general) age 81
Vice President - People's Republic of China
Colin Powell age 52
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Dick Cheney age 48
Secretary Of Defense - United States
John Major age 46
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Baker age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 59
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Dick Thornburgh age 57
Attorney General - United States
David Waddington age 60
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Carl E. Vuono age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
William S. Sessions age 59
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Antonin Scalia age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 81
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 53
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 69
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 83
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 72
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 59
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Neil Kinnock age 47
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 72
President - African National Congress
Gerry Adams age 41
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 56
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 51
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 47
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 41
Senate - United States
John Kerry age 45
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 65
Senate - United States
John Lewis age 49
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 43
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 61
King - Thailand
Robert Mugabe age 65
President - Zimbabwe
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 51
King - Spain
Augusto Pinochet age 74
President - Chile
Suharto age 68
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 71
President - Romania
Margrethe II of Denmark age 49
Queen - Denmark
Corazon Aquino age 56
President - Philippines
Slobodan Milošević age 48
President - Serbia
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 43
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 51
Queen - Netherlands
Daniel Ortega age 44
President - Nicaragua
Omar al-Bashir age 45
President - Sudan
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 49
Sultan - Oman
F. W. de Klerk age 53
State President - South Africa
Kurt Waldheim age 70
President - Austria
Mobutu Sese Seko age 59
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yoweri Museveni age 45
President - Uganda
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 66
President - Poland
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 53
President - Tunisia
Francesco Cossiga age 61
President - Italy
José Eduardo dos Santos age 47
President - Angola
Turgut Özal age 62
President - Turkey
Mswati III age 21
King - Eswatini
Paul Biya age 56
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 54
King - Jordan
Teodoro Obiang age 47
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 99
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 59
President - Iceland
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 48
President - Costa Rica
Hassan II age 60
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 65
President - Zambia
Alan García age 40
President - Peru
Carlos Menem age 59
President - Argentina
Michel Aoun age 56
President - Lebanon
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 52
President - Ethiopia
Ion Iliescu age 59
President - Romania
Olav V of Norway age 86
King - Norway
Mauno Koivisto age 66
President - Finland
Blaise Compaoré age 38
President - Burkina Faso
Mohammad Najibullah age 42
President - Afghanistan
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 84
President - Ivory Coast
Daniel arap Moi age 65
President - Kenya
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 66
Prince - Monaco
Mário Soares age 64
President - Portugal
Mathieu Kérékou age 56
President - Benin
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
R. Venkataraman age 79
President - India
Siad Barre age 70
President - Somalia
Joaquim Chissano age 50
President - Mozambique
Juvénal Habyarimana age 52
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 71
President - United Arab Emirates
Jerry Rawlings age 42
President - Ghana
João Bernardo Vieira age 50
President - Guinea-Bissau
Chaim Herzog age 71
President - Israel
Roh Tae-woo age 56
President - South Korea
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom age 51
President - Maldives
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 53
President - Togo
Lansana Conté age 55
President - Guinea
Abdou Diouf age 54
President - Senegal
Hissène Habré age 47
President - Chad
Samuel Doe age 38
President - Liberia
Quett Masire age 64
President - Botswana
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 68
Grand Duke - Luxembourg
Ghulam Ishaq Khan age 74
President - Pakistan
Hassan Gouled Aptidon age 73
President - Djibouti
Chadli Bendjedid age 60
President - Algeria
Aristides Pereira age 66
President - Cape Verde
Moussa Traoré age 53
President - Mali
Ibrahim Babangida age 48
President - Nigeria
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 65
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 67
President - Venezuela
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 63
Emir - Kuwait
Ali Hassan Mwinyi age 64
President - Tanzania
Ryszard Kaczorowski age 70
President - Poland
Souphanouvong age 80
President - Laos
Julio María Sanguinetti age 53
President - Uruguay
Didier Ratsiraka age 53
President - Madagascar
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 71
King - Tonga
Joaquín Balaguer age 83
President - Dominican Republic
France-Albert René age 54
President - Seychelles
Manuel Pinto da Costa age 52
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
Hussain Muhammad Ershad age 59
President - Bangladesh
Pierre Buyoya age 40
President - Burundi
Patrick Hillery age 66
President - Ireland
Isa II of Bahrain age 56
Emir - Bahrain
Giorgos Vasiliou age 58
President - Cyprus
Wee Kim Wee age 74
President - Singapore
Virgilio Barco Vargas age 68
President - Colombia
Christos Sartzetakis age 60
President - Greece
Elias Hrawi age 63
President - Lebanon
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 57
Emir - Qatar
Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya age 48
President - Mauritania
André Kolingba age 53
President - Central African Republic
Ahmed Abdallah age 70
President - Comoros
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
René Moawad age 64
President - Lebanon
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 39
President - Kiribati
Ngiratkel Etpison age 64
President - Palau
Noor Hassanali age 71
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Prosper Avril age 51
President - Haiti
Jean-Pascal Delamuraz age 53
President - Switzerland
Sebastiano Baggio age 76
President - Vatican City
Kenos Aroi age 47
President - Nauru