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Recent Posts Tagged With '1989'

• 1989 April Fools Joke

  Posted on Friday March 7th, 2008 at 05:54 in 1989, april fools joke

  April Fool Hoaxes 9 of 19Richard Branson the owner of Virgin lands a hot-air balloon that had been specially built to look like a UFO lands in a field on the outskirts of London where local resident...

• Purley Train Crash

  Posted on Monday February 25th, 2008 at 08:54 in 1989

  A train travelling from Horsham to London was hit from behind by another train going from Littlehampton to London at Purley in Surrey with six people dead and 80 injured. 1989...

• Rangoon Changed Its Name To Yangon

  Posted on Monday February 18th, 2008 at 05:02 in 1989, countries and cities

  Rangoon, Burma Changed Its Name To Yangon Burma ( now called Union of Myanmar ) in 1989...

• Time Inc. and Warner Merge

  Posted on Tuesday February 12th, 2008 at 08:47 in 1989

  Time Inc. and Warner Communications Inc. announce plans to merge into the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate 1989...

• UK Poll Tax Demonstrations

  Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 04:42 in 1989, 1990, 1994

  The worst violence seen so far in the series of Anti Poll Tax demonstrations erupted in London during the largest rally when nearly 100,000 people take to the streets in protest at the new government ...

• Exxon Valdez

  Posted on Friday January 25th, 2008 at 10:24 in 1989

  The Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot oil tanker, ran aground on a reef and ripped holes in its hull, spilling crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. The Tanker spilled over 200,000 Barrels of Oil or mo...