June 4, 1989 Historical Events

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June 4, 1989 Historical Events

 

• 1989 –

Ali Khamenei is elected the new Supreme Leader of Islamic republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

• 1989 –

Solidarity’s victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.

• 1989 –

The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army.

• 1989 –

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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