1. San Francisco
earthquake
2. Salmonella, Listeria and Botulism scares
3. President Bush inaugurated
4. Ivory trading made illegal
5. Student protests in China
6. Hillsborough , soccer stadium disaster
7. Russian troops leave Afghanistan
8. Robert Swan walks to North and South Poles
9. Australia’s first fatal earthquake
10. Marchioness disaster
11. Fall of communist regimes
12. Oil pollution from Exxon Valdiz
13. Belfast bound plane crashes
14. Concern over the ‘greenhouse effect’
15. Satanic Verses, death threats on Salmon Rushdie, publishers
and booksellers
16. Voyager rocket launched in 79 reaches Neptune
17. Opening of the Berlin Wall
18. Launch of Sky TV
19. Unleaded petrol now available in many garages
20. Events of 1989
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