Born in April 1989 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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April 1989 Tropical Ephemeris

What happened in April 1989

• April 1, 1989: Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax (the poll tax) introduced in Scotland; to be introduced in England and Wales the following year.
• April 2, 1989: Fighting erupts between SWAPO insurgents and South West African Police in South-West Africa on day ceasefire was supposed to end South African Border War; nearly 300 people killed by April 6.
• April 4, 1989: Failed coup attempt against Prosper Avril, President of Haiti, leads to standoff between mutinous troops and government; government regains control of country by April 10.
• April 5, 1989: Polish Government and Solidarity trade union sign agreement restoring Solidarity to legal status, agreeing to hold democratic elections on June 4 (Polish Round Table Agreement), initiating 1989 revolution and overthrow of communism in Central Europe.
• April 6, 1989: National Safety Council of Australia chief executive John Friedrich arrested after defrauding investors of $235,000,000.
• April 7, 1989: Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets sinks in Barents Sea, killing 41.
• April 9, 1989: Tbilisi massacre: Georgian demonstrators massacred by Soviet Army soldiers in Tbilisi's central square during peaceful rally; 20 citizens killed, many injured, causing further protests.
• April 14, 1989: U.S. government seizes Irvine, California, Lincoln Savings and Loan Association; Charles Keating (Keating Five namesake) eventually goes to jail; part of massive 1980s savings and loan crisis costing U.S. taxpayers nearly $200,000,000 in bailouts, many losing life savings.
• April 15, 1989: Hillsborough disaster, one of biggest tragedies in European football, claims lives of 94 Liverpool F.C. supporters in Sheffield, England, with three more dying later.
• April 17, 1989: Solidarity (Polish trade union) once again legalized and allowed to participate in semi-free elections on June 4.
• April 19, 1989: Trisha Meili seriously assaulted and raped whilst jogging in New York City's Central Park; convictions of five teenagers vacated in 2002 (jogger's identity remains secret, referred to as "Central Park Jogger").
• April 20, 1989: NATO debates modernizing short range missiles; West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains concession deferring decision, despite U.S. and U.K. support.
• April 21, 1989: Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
• April 23, 1989: Zaid al-Rifai resigns as Prime Minister of Jordan in wake of riots over government-imposed price hikes that began on April 18.
• April 25, 1989: Noboru Takeshita resigns as Prime Minister of Japan in wake of stock-trading scandal.
• April 26, 1989: Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak, becomes 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, succeeding Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail.
• April 27, 1989: Major demonstration occurs in Beijing as part of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.