Thirty years ago 1989 was on the cusp of a new decade. There was lots of 80s influence still happening but you could see the movement ahead into the 90s. Break out the crimper for a look back at 30 things that happened in 1989. How old were you in 1989? What do you remember most about that year if you were around?
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Will Smith wins the first ever Grammy for Best Rap Performance with his song Parents Just Don't Understand
Berlin Wall comes down
Seinfeld starts
Exxon Valdez tanker runs aground spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons)
On December 3 President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that the Cold War was over
Taylor Swift is born on December 13
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
First liver transplant is performed
A 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Great Pyramid of Giza
Disney opens Hollywood Studios park at Disney World
Field of Dreams
In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez runs aground and spills 11 million gallons of oil
Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair
The Simpsons premiered on Fox
Nintendo releases the Game Boy in Japan in April and in North America in July
Sir Tim Berners-Lee develops the World Wide Web
U.S. Senate voted “to ban smoking on all domestic airline flights
Lucille Ball passes away on April 26
After decades of no princess movies Disney releases The Little Mermaid
Microsoft Office is first released
American Gladiators enters our lives
Pro-democracy rallies are held in Tiananmen Square. Martial law is declared and hundreds are killed
The term "freshman 15" entered our vocabulary thanks the teen magazine Seventeen
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
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