1989: Day by Day (History)
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1st December 1989
Tue, Dec 1
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican.
30th November 1989
Mon, Nov 30
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Record libel damages are awarded to the Conservative peer Lord Aldington.
29th November 1989
Sun, Nov 29
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Margaret Thatcher and Anthony Meyer submit their nominations for the Tory leadership.
28th November 1989
Sat, Nov 28
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Czech PM Ladislav Adamec formally announces the end of the communists' monopoly on power.
26th November 1989
Thu, Nov 26
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Czechoslovakia's prime minister has his first meeting with leading dissident Vaclav Havel.
25th November 1989
Wed, Nov 25
In Czechoslovakia, demonstrators keep up the pressure for free elections.
2nd December 1989
today
Bush and Gorbachev begin their summit in Malta as a poll shows that Margaret Thatcher is losing favour with the public ahead of a leadership challenge from Sir Anthony Meyer.
3rd December 1989
tomorrow
George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev declare that the Cold War is over, as hundreds of thousands of people form a human chain to demand reforms in East Germany.
4th December 1989
Fri, Dec 4
For the first time, the Soviet government joins other Warsaw Pact countries in condemning its own invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
5th December 1989
Sat, Dec 5
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge.
6th December 1989
Sun, Dec 6
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. East Germany's leader Egon Krenz resigns.
7th December 1989
Mon, Dec 7
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. The Czech prime minister Ladislav Adamec resigns.
8th December 1989
Tue, Dec 8
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. East Germany elects a new leader amid fears that the country is descending into lawlessness.
9th December 1989
Wed, Dec 9
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the Communist Party faces the threat of extinction.
10th December 1989
Thu, Dec 10
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. The president of Czechoslovakia swears in the country's first non-communist majority government in 41 years.
11th December 1989
Fri, Dec 11
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. The forced repatriation of the Vietnamese Boat People begins, despite protests and pleas from around the world.
12th December 1989
Sat, Dec 12
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. US secretary of state James Baker meets East Germany's de facto leader Hans Modrow.
13th December 1989
Sun, Dec 13
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago. President FW de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela.
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