Dec 21 US invades Panama and ousts General Noriega

Dec 31 The last part of the railway on Prince Edward Island, operated by CN Rail, is abandoned.

Dec 03 George Bush &: Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta

Dec 01 USSR President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican

Dec 19 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route

Dec 15 Panama declares war on the United States

Dec 24 Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican embassy

Dec 21 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)

Dec 29 Canada is the first country in the world to ban smoking on domestic airlines.

Dec 29 Vaclav Havel becomes the first non-communist elected as president of Czechoslovakia in 40 years.

Dec 06 Worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at University of Montreal

Dec 14 Movie actor Jock Mahoney (Dallas, Tarzan) dies at age 70.

Aug 02 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24

Aug 20 In Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake killed 2, injured 2 and damage and rockslides caused in the Galafi-Yoboki area

Aug 21 Soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack

Aug 26 Trumbull Conn, is first US team since 1983 to win Little League WS

Aug 30 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner

Aug 21 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune

Aug 01 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24

Aug 19 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected first non-communmist president of Poland

Aug 11 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune

Aug 06 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern Airlines picket lines

Aug 25 Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT)

Aug 24 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune

Aug 22 The first complete ring around Neptune discovered

Aug 13 US space shuttle STS-28 lands

Aug 06 Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8

Aug 11 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers

Aug 29 Off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico a 6.7 quake was felt along the coast of Jalisco. Also felt at Guadalajara and in the southern part of the Mexico City area

Aug 24 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling

Aug 21 Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness.

Aug 27 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings

Aug 03 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river

Aug 24 Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

Aug 11 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5 The Dream Child" premiers

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