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What happened in November 1989

• November 1, 1989: President of Nicaragua ends ceasefire with U.S.-backed contras
• November 3, 1989: East German refugees arrive in West German town of Hof after being allowed through Czechoslovakia.
• November 4, 1989: Half a million people protest against communist rule in East Germany at Alexanderplatz demonstration in East Berlin.
• November 6, 1989: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is established.
• November 7, 1989: Communist government of East Germany resigns, SED leader Egon Krenz remains as head of state.
• November 9, 1989: Günter Schabowski accidentally states in a live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect immediately. Late this evening, East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades. In the first week, travel visas will be issued to around 25% of the East German population.
• November 10, 1989: After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
• November 12, 1989: Brazil holds its first free presidential election since 1960.
• November 13, 1989: Hans-Adam II becomes Prince of Liechtenstein on the death of his father, Prince Franz Joseph II.
• November 14, 1989: Elections are held in Namibia, leading to a victory for the South West Africa People's Organisation.
• November 15, 1989: Lech Wałęsa, leader of Poland's Solidarity movement, addresses a Joint session of the United States Congress.
• November 16, 1989: Six Jesuit priests are murdered by U.S. trained Salvadoran soldiers.
• November 17, 1989: A peaceful student demonstration in Prague, Czechoslovakia, is severely beaten back by riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
• November 20, 1989: The number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
• November 21, 1989: The Members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia begin to draft the Constitution of Namibia, which will be the constitution of the newly independent Namibia.
• November 22, 1989: In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
• November 24, 1989: Following a week of demonstrations demanding free elections and other reforms, General Secretary Miloš Jakeš and other leaders of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia resign. Jakeš is replaced by Karel Urbánek.
• November 26, 1989: Luis Alberto Lacalle is elected President of Uruguay.
• November 27, 1989: Colombian domestic passenger flight Avianca Flight 203 is bombed by the Medellín drug cartel in an (unsuccessful) attempt to kill presidential candidate for the 1990 elections César Gaviria Trujillo.
• November 28, 1989: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in December bring the first non-Communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than forty years).
• November 29, 1989: Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after his party, the Indian National Congress, loses about half of its seats at the 1989 Indian general election.
• November 30, 1989: Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a bomb in Bad Homburg (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder).