Timeline June 1989

Events in June 1989 14

• 1902 – 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989) Died 3 June 1989, aged 86 Ruhollah Khomeini led the 1979 Iranian Revolution that overthrew the Shah and founded the Islamic Republic of Iran. He served as the country's Supreme Leader until his death. His decade in power reshaped Iranian society and regional politics.
• 1980 – 1989 Solidarity Movement Solidarność The first independent trade union in a Warsaw Pact country, which led to the fall of the Iron Curtain.
• 1989 French Open 1989 Men: Michael Chang · Women: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Michael Chang, 17 years old, became the youngest French Open men's champion ever, defeating Lendl with a famous underarm serve.
• 1989 Prince releases the Batman soundtrack Batdance A number one album and single.
• 1989 Public Enemy release Fight the Power Do the Right Thing The theme of Spike Lee's film.
• 1989 Pugachev's Cobra Paris Air Show Viktor Pugachev pulls an Su-27 up beyond the vertical and back in a single sweep, a manoeuvre that makes the fighter an air-show star in the West.
• 1989 Van Morrison releases Avalon Sunset Have I Told You Lately With Have I Told You Lately, later a hit for Rod Stewart.
• 1989 Solidarity wins Polish elections First partly free elections in the Eastern Bloc Poland held semi-free parliamentary elections in which the Solidarity trade union movement won nearly every contested seat. The result led to the formation of the first non-Communist-led government in the Eastern Bloc later that year. The vote took place on the same day as the Tiananmen Square crackdown in China.
• 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre 4 June 1989 — pro-democracy protesters crushed by the military Following weeks of pro-democracy protests centred on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government declared martial law and sent in the army on the night of 3–4 June 1989. Tanks and soldiers killed an estimated hundreds to thousands of protesters. The iconic image of a lone man blocking a column of tanks became one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century. The crackdown ended China's brief period of political liberalisation.
• 1989 Stevie Ray Vaughan releases In Step Grammy winner His first sober album wins a Grammy.
• 1989 Licence to Kill — Timothy Dalton Dalton's second and final Bond film — the darkest entry in the franchise to that point. Bond goes rogue to avenge his CIA friend Felix Leiter, whose wife is murdered by drug lord Franz Sanchez. The film is genuinely menacing and tightly plotted. It is the first Bond film not to use a title from any Ian Fleming work. Budget: $32 million. Box office: $156.2 million.
• 1989 Nirvana release Bleach Debut album Recorded for about 600 dollars.
• 1989 Lauren Bennett born in Meopham, Kent Lauren Diane Bennett is born on 24 June 1989 in Meopham, a village in the borough of Gravesham, Kent, England. She grows up in the county and from an early age shows a strong aptitude for performance -- singing, dancing and entering local talent competitions. Kent is where she will also die, in May 2026, thirty-six years after her birth.
• 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire released Dennis Quaid With Dennis Quaid as Lewis.