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the
Northeastern United States
was struck by a major
tornado outbreak
on
July 10
,
1989
?
the
1989
Glasnost Bowl
was an attempt to schedule an
American
college football
game in the
Soviet Union
?
the
Angolan War of Independence
lasted from
1961
until
1989
, even though
Portugal
left
Angola
in
1975
?
the
Buckingham Branch Railroad
in Central
Virginia
was formed in
1989
and has expanded from a 16-mile railroad to operate over 200 miles of track?
the
Stoneman
serial murders
of thirteen homeless people in the summer of
1989
in
Kolkata
remain unsolved?
the
Romanian riots
of
1989
led to the only bloody overthrow of a
Communist
regime in
Europe
?
over 58,000
Paleo-Indian
artifacts were unearthed at
Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge
in
North Dakota
when lake waters were lowered on the lake in
1989
to reconstruct a
dam
?
despite not being the most favored version of the three
Mazda AZ-550
concept cars
unveiled at the
1989
Tokyo Motor Show
, the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
Garry Parker
ran the full length of the pitch at
Wembley Stadium
to score a goal for
Nottingham Forest
in the final of the
Simod Cup
against
Everton
in
1989
, which Forest won 4-3?
American
feminist
magazine
Ms.
has not carried
advertisements
since
1989
?
Irish pirate radio
is a general consequence of the lack of commercial radio until
1989
?
Taiwan professional baseball
was started in
1989
, and the two leagues merged in
2003
?
a group of rock stars formed a
supergroup
in
1989
called
Rock Aid Armenia
and re-recorded
Deep Purple
's hit song
Smoke on the Water
to benefit the victims of the
1988
Leninakan Earthquake
?
Rose
is the first new episode of
Doctor Who
to be shown since
1989
?
47 people were killed in
a gun turret explosion
(pictured)
onboard
USS
Iowa
on
April 19
,
1989
?
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Bill Ranford
, who won the
1990
Conn Smythe Trophy
as
NHL
playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie
Miracle
, as Team USA
goaltender
Jim Craig
?
Pat "Gravy" Patterson
, the head coach of the
Louisiana Tech University
from
1968
to
1990
, was the winningest baseball coach in the state's
history
?
Sano Fusako
was
kidnapped
in
Niigata
,
Japan
in
1990
at age 10 and was not freed until nine years and two months later?
in
1990
Cecil Fielder
became the first
Detroit Tiger
since
Hank Greenberg
(in
1938
) to slug over 50
home runs
in a season?
in
1990
,
Czech
and
Slovak
politicians "fought" the
Hyphen War
, a political battle over whether "
Czechoslovakia
" should be spelled with a
hyphen
?
the
Florida Lottery's
Lotto game was the first single-state
lottery
in the
United States
to have a
jackpot
over
US$
100 million, on the
September 14
,
1990
drawing?
1991
"
Too Hot
",
Alanis Morissette
's breakthrough single in
Canada
in
1991
, was a
dance pop
song?
Klarälven
,
Sweden
's longest river, was the last Swedish river where
log driving
was practiced, ending in
1991
?
Marlin Gray
was
executed
on
October 26
for his part in pushing two women off the
Chain of Rocks Bridge
over the
Mississippi River
in
Saint Louis, Missouri
in
1991
?
Victor Chang
AC
was a famous
Australian
heart
surgeon
and was
murdered
on
4 July
1991
, following an
extortion
attempt on his family?
Zentropa
is the name of both
Lars von Trier's
production company and his third theatrical feature
film
, released in
1991
?
despite its federal mandate to provide only
intercity rail
service,
Amtrak
operated the
Calumet
commuter train
between
Chicago, Illinois
and the
Indiana
suburb of
Valparaiso
from
1979
to
1991
?
the
1991
Spanish
film
Amantes
shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
the
National Art Museum of Ukraine
'
s
(pictured)
collections were first exhibited outside the country after it reached
independence
in
1991
?
when the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
issued the decree to construct the
Donetsk Metro
in
1991
, the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
1987
Mountain Lake
, one of only two natural
lakes
in
Virginia
, was the filming location for the fictional Kellerman's Resort in
New York's
Catskill Mountains
for the
1987
feature film
Dirty Dancing
?
after the
Mendiola massacre
on
January 22
,
1987
, the
Filipino Government
banned all
public demonstrations
on
Mendiola Street
in
Manila
?
on
January 27
,
1987
83 workers of a
shrimp farm
in Kokkadichcholai,
Sri Lanka
were shot
, allegedly by
Special Task Force
officers?
the
Motown
recording "
Do You Love Me
" by
The Contours
became a
Billboard Hot 100
Top 20 hit twice; once in
1962
and again in
1987
?
the
Simpsons short
Good Night
aired
April 19
,
1987
on
The Tracey Ullman Show
and was the first ever appearance of the
Simpson family
on television?
the first
gang injunction
to make headlines was obtained by
Los Angeles City Attorney
James Hahn
against the
West Los Angeles
-based
street gang
the Playboy Gangster
Crips
in
1987
?
the so-called
Loughall Martyrs
were a group of eight men from the
Provisional IRA
's East
Tyrone
Brigade who were ambushed and killed on
May 8
,
1987
by the British special forces, the
SAS
?
1986
Chetan Sharma
, a former
Indian
cricketer
, was the first Indian ever to get a ten
wicket
haul overseas, taking 10/188 against
England
in a
Test Series
in
1986
?
David Penhaligon
(
1944
–
1986
) was a promising
Liberal
Member of Parliament
in the
United Kingdom
but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42?
the
Isles of Scilly
and the
Netherlands
fought the
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War
from
1651
to
1986
, and that not a single shot was fired during this war?
1988
1988
's
Hurricane Gilbert
was the first to make
landfall
on
Jamaica
since
1955
?
Indian
-born
English
cricketer
Hugh Bartlett
died whilst watching a cricket match at
Hove
in
1988
?
Barbarossa
is an award-winning
German-style board game
by
Klaus Teuber
from
1988
in which the
players
have to
sculpt
plasticine
to earn
points
?
Estela Ruiz
claims to have seen and spoken with the
Blessed Virgin Mary
in South
Phoenix, Arizona
continually from
1988
to
1998
?
Sofia Petrovna
, a book by
Russian
writer
Lydia Chukovskaya
written in
1939
-
1940
, and published in the West in
1960s
, was published in the
Soviet Union
only in
1988
?
a group of rock stars formed a
supergroup
in
1989
called
Rock Aid Armenia
and re-recorded
Deep Purple
's hit song
Smoke on the Water
to benefit the victims of the
1988
Leninakan Earthquake
?
in
1988
the Greek passenger ferry,
City of Poros
, was the victim of a
terrorist
attack by members of the
Abu Nidal Organisation
which left nine tourists dead and 98 injured?
in
1988
,
North Carolina
politician
Wendell H. Murphy
was awarded the
Order of the Long Leaf Pine
?
the
2004
Dean v. Utica
U.S. federal
case expanded the
First Amendment
rights of
high school
journalists
, which had been limited by the
Supreme Court
's
1988
Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
ruling?
the
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments
have been standard regulation for medical
laboratories
in the
United States
since
1988
?
1992
the Thunderbirds
, the
U.S. Air Force
's Demonstration Squadron, selected
Brigadier General
Ricardo Aponte
(pictured)
as their
Spanish language
narrator
for the
Latin America
Tour of
1992
?
Vic Reeves
and
Bob Mortimer
made their
sitcom
debut with their
1992
Channel 4
pilot
The Weekenders
?
Alberta Vaughn
was an
American
film actress who starred in 112 motion pictures before her death in
1992
?
Chicago Freight Subway
was abandoned in
1959
and the tunnels flooded catastrophically in
1992
?
City Academy High School
in
Saint Paul, Minnesota
, became the first
charter school
in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on
September 7
,
1992
?
F.I.B.S
is the earliest
backgammon
server
on the
internet
and has been actively operating since
July 19
,
1992
?
Les Horribles Cernettes
, a humorous
rock band
based in the
CERN
, supplied the
first image on the web
, posted in
1992
by Silvano de Gennaro and
Tim Berners-Lee
?
a lost
Roman villa
was discovered in
1992
when a
bulldozer
remodeled the sand on a beach at the
Rio Alto
tourist area (
pictured
) in
Portugal
?
the
race car
driver
Kurt Mollekens
won three
Formula Ford
titles in
1992
?
the
Battle of Shusha
in
May
1992
was the first significant
Armenian
military victory during the
Nagorno-Karabakh War
, and marked a turning point during the conflict?
1997
Foreigner
vocalist
Lou Gramm
survived a
brain tumor
in
1997
and completed a tour with his new band in
2004
?
Doc Cheatham
(
1905
–
1997
) has been described as the only
jazz
musician to create his best work after the age of 70?
Leonid Kadeniuk
, the first
astronaut
of the independent
Ukraine
, made his first space flight on
NASA's
space shuttle
Columbia
in
1997
, and had been training for such a mission since
1976
?
Melissa McIntyre
, best known for her role in
Degrassi: The Next Generation
made her television debut in the
1997
series,
Timesweep
, in which she played an
extraterrestial being
?
PSUC viu
was formed by a group of hardline communists in
Catalonia
,
Spain
in
1997
, as the historical
Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia
(PSUC) became dormant?
Protmušis
is a
quizbowl
competition that has been taking place in
Vilnius
,
Lithuania
since
1997
?
the
popular music
artist
Maarja-Liis Ilus
has entered the
Estonian
Eurovision Song Contest
pre-selection event
Eurolaul
a record three times, in
1996
,
1997
and
2004
?
the
exhumation of Yagan's head
in
1997
first required a sophisticated
geophysical
survey of the gravesite to ensure that the remains of 22
stillborn
babies would not be disturbed?
1967
conductor and
Beethoven
scholar
Elliot Forbes
led the
Harvard Glee Club
and
Radcliffe Choral Society
on a tour around the world in
1967
?
on
Dagen H
, or
H Day
, (Sunday
September 3
,
1967
) at 5:00 am,
Swedes
switched from
driving
on the left to the right?
the
University Students' African Revolutionary Front
was a political student group formed in
1967
at the
University of Dar es Salaam
in
Tanzania
?
the song "
Nights in White Satin
," largely ignored on its first release in
1967
, reached #2 on the
Billboard Hot 100
when it was re-released in
1972
?
1960
Sofia Petrovna
, a book by
Russian
writer
Lydia Chukovskaya
written in
1939
-
1940
, and published in the West in
1960s
, was published in the
Soviet Union
only in
1988
?
David Gross and
Alan Kotok
built
Expensive Tape Recorder
, a
digital audio
program that ran on
MIT
's
TX-0
computer
circa
1960
?
the
1960
–
1961
NBC
Western
series
Klondike
featured
James Coburn
as con man Jeff Durain in the
Alaskan
gold rush
town of
Skagway
?
the dispute regarding the distribution of the
Zira
and
Firozpur
administrative districts
to
India
was settled as part of an agreement between the governments of India and
Pakistan
in
1960
, thirteen years after
partition
?
1977
Swiss
artist
Harald Naegeli
spent several months in
jail
in
1984
for the
graffiti
he had painted in
Zürich
from
1977
to
1979
?
Wayne Townsend
cast the tie-breaking vote in
1977
in the
Indiana State Senate
for ratification of the
Equal Rights Amendment
making Indiana the last state to approve the failed measure?
in
1977
,
K. Leroy Irvis
of
Pennsylvania
became the first
Black American
to serve as a
speaker of the house
in any
state legislature
in the
United States
?
in
1977
, the
U.S.
Federal Highway Administration
banned the use of
electroslag welding
for joining certain
bridge
structural members due to quality concerns?
the
People's Republic of China
attempted to promulgate a
second round of orthographical reform
in
1977
, only to retract it 9 years later amidst mounting opposition and confusion?
1989 in film
two teenage brothers from Poland
escaped in 1985 to
Sweden
under a truck, and this event was presented in a
1989
film
300 Miles to Heaven
?
the
1989
Spanish film
If They Tell You I Fell
was nominated for seven
Goya Awards
?
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