1989
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The year 1989 is notable for the wave of revolutions that swept the Eastern Bloc, starting in Poland. Collectively known as the Revolutions of 1989, they were the death knell for the Soviet Union and for Stalinistic Marxism-Leninism as a basis for government in most of the world, and ushered in a new era of neoliberal globalization, free trade, and United States dominance that lasts to this day.
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Art and culture
- February 6 – King Tubby shot
- February 14 – radio Tehran broadcast fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini on Salma Rushdie
- June 5 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: "Tank Man" single-handedly halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour.
- November 9 – Fall of the Berlin Wall
- December 17 – The Simpsons premieres
- Axiom founded
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Visual art
- Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? by the Guerrilla Girls
- The Situationist International 1956-1972 retrospective
Candy Cigarette (1989) by Sally Mann
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Film
- Marquis by Henri Xhonneux
- Wallace and Gromit - A Grand Day Out by Nick Park
- Monsieur Hire by Patrice Leconte
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover by Peter Greenaway
- sex, lies, and videotape by Steven Soderbergh
- Crimes and Misdemeanors by Woody Allen
- Parents by Bob Balaban
- Santa Sangre by Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Dead Calm by Phillip Noyce
- Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant
- Communion by Philippe Mora
- Life and Nothing But by Bertrand Tavernier
- Time of the Gypsies by Emir Kusturica
- Slaves of New York by James Ivory
- Parenthood by Ron Howard
- Dead Poets Society by Peter Weir
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills by Paul Bartel
- Darkness/Light/Darkness by Jan Švankmajer
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man by Shinya Tsukamoto
- Vampire's Kiss by Robert Bierman
- Begotten by E. Elias Merhige
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Television
- Inside Story: The Road to Terror by Adam Curtis
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Literature
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Fiction
- My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man by Georges Bataille
- The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
- London Fields by Martin Amis
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Non-fiction
- Lipstick Traces, a Secret History of 20th Century by Greil Marcus
- No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture by Andrew Ross
- Hard Core: Power, Pleasure by Linda Williams
- Rants and Incendiary Tracts by Bob Black and Adam Parfrey
- Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
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Music
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Albums
- I by A. R. Kane
- 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
- From The Mind Of Lil Louis by Lil Louis
- Textures by Brian Eno
- Sex by The Necks
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Singles
- French Kiss by Lil' Louis
- I'll House You by Jungle Brothers
- Work That Mutherfucker by Steve Poindexter
- Sueño Latino by Sueño Latino
- Pacific State by 808 State
- Fight the Power by Public Enemy
- Funky Cold Medina by Tone Lōc
- Wicked Game by Chris Isaak
- Falling by Julee Cruise
- Rhyme Fighter by Mellow Man Ace
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Guilty pleasures
- Me So Horny by 2 Live Crew
- Pump Up the Jam by Technotronic
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Births
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Deaths
- Georges Simenon (1903 – 1989)
- Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989)
- Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989)
- Jack Smith (1932 - 1989)
- Sergio Leone (1929 – 1989)
- Thomas Bernhard (1931 - 1989)
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