What happened onFebruary 23, 1989Thursday Week 8

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February 23 is a Thursday again in 1995.

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The World in 1989 the year the wall came down

On one evening in August about 2 million people joined hands across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The line of hands ran more than 400 miles, all the way from Tallinn to Vilnius.

Life back then

Batman was the obsession of the summer, and the bat logo turned up on shirts, mugs and school bags. Game tips spread by word of mouth in the schoolyard, because there was nowhere online to look them up. In East Germany, families pointed their aerials west so they could watch news the state television would not show. In December a cartoon family from a variety show got a series of its own, and The Simpsons was on every playground list of favorite shows.

The year in 8 events

• 🕯️Jan 7 Emperor Hirohito dies in Tokyo after 62 years on the throne. His son Akihito takes over and Japan starts a new era.
• 🛢️Mar 24 The tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska and spills millions of gallons of oil.
• 🕯️Jun 4 Chinese troops clear protesters from Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Many people are killed.
• 🪐Aug 25 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune, the last planet on its tour, and sends home photos of blue clouds.
• 🚗Sep 11 Hungary lets East Germans cross into Austria. Thousands drive west in small Trabant cars.
• 🧱Nov 9 East Germany opens the Berlin Wall. Crowds climb on top and start chipping pieces off.
• 📺Dec 17 The Simpsons begins as a weekly series on US television with a Christmas episode.
• ✊Dec 25 Romania's leader Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown and shot after a week of protest and street fighting.

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