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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

You dont look a day over the Iron Age.

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

According to this, the Bronze Age ended when I was born.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

You dont look a day over the Iron Age.

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ORIGINAL: MissAsylum

In 1989, the top selling movie was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The academy award for the best movie went to Driving Miss Daisy.
The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Cinema Paradiso.
The top actor was Daniel Day-Lewis for his role as Christy Brown in My Left Foot.
The top actress was Jessica Tandy for her role as Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy.
The best director? Oliver Stone for Born on the Fourth of July.

In the year 1989, the number one US bestseller of the time was Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy.

In 1989... George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.
Satellite television service Sky Television plc is launched in Europe.
Nintendo releases the Game Boy portable video game system in North America.
A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
Barbara Clementine Harris is consecrated as the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $3-million bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States.
Portugal wins the FIFA U-20 World Cup, defeating Nigeria on the final by 2-0 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square.

The television show Seinfeld premieres.

Indonesia's first privately owned television station, Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia, RCTI, begins broadcasting.
Hungary removes border restrictions with Austria.
Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton.
The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems.
A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The video game of the day was Prince of Persia.

The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Camilo José Cela. The Nobel Peace prize went to 14th Dalai Lama. The Nobel prize for physics went to Norman Foster Ramsey from the United States for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks.

The Soviet-Afghan war goes on.
Eastern Europe sees the collapse of communism.
Policies like Perestroika and Glasnost in the Soviet Union lead to a wave of reforms.
Protests are crushed down on Tiananmen Square in China.
Ethiopa witnesses widespread famine.
Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown.
The AIDS pandemic begins.
The role of women in the workplace increased greatly.
MTV is launched in the US.
There is opposition against Apartheid in South Africa as well as worldwide.
Heavy Metal and Hard Rock bands are extremely popular.
The rise of Techno music begins. Originally primarily played on campus radio stations, College Rock enters the scene with bands like the Pixies, REM and Sonic Youth.
The Hip Hop scene continues to evolve.
Teletext is introduced.
Gay rights become more widely accepted in the world.
Opposition to nuclear power plants grows.
The A-Team and Seinfeld are popular on TV.
US basketball player Michael Jordan bursts on the scene.
Super Mario Bros, Zelda's Link, and Pac-Man gain fame in video games.
People wear leggings, shoulder pads and Ray-Ban sunglasses.


In 1989, the song Two Hearts by Phil Collins topped the US charts.

It's 1989. The show playing on TV is Roseanne. The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's Doogie Howser, M.D. on now.

In 1989, the inventions: Blue Laser. Digital Waveguide Synthesis. Viagra.

The song 1989 by Titiyo.

In 1989, a new character entered the world of comic books: Silver Fox.
In the real world, in 1989, Sergey Fesikov was born. And Corbin Bleu. Zhong An Qi, too.