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Events on Saturday 2 December 1989 1
1989Malta SummitBush and Gorbachev declare the Cold War overUS President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met aboard ships off Malta for their first summit. Afterward both leaders signaled that the decades-long Cold War confrontation was ending. It was the first superpower summit not focused on arms control alone.