Sunday, June 4, 1989

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The Headlines

New Tack Proposed on Auto Insurance

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Wind Beneath My Wings

Bette Midler

#1 at the box office

$21,230,164

The must-have

Game Boy

On This Day

• The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).

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• Solidarity's victory in the 1989 Polish legislative election occurs, the first election since the Communist Polish United Workers' Party abandoned its monopoly of power. It sparks off the Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe.

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• Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.

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• In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Angelina Jolie (1975)
• Alexei Navalny (1976)
• George III (1738)
• Lukas Podolski (1985)
• Bronisław Komorowski (1952)

Slang

Tech Check

World Wide Web (Proposal), Game Boy & GPS (Civilian).

Cost of Living (1985)