Editing 1989 (section)

=== January ===
* [[January 1]] – ''[[The New York Times]]'' discloses involvement of [[West Germany|West German]] company Imhausen and [[Salzgitter AG]] in building a [[chemical weapon]] plant in Rabta, [[Libya]].<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Gordon|first1=Stephen Engelberg With Michael R.|last2=Times|first2=Special To the New York|date=1 January 1989|title=Germans Accused of Helping Libya Build Nerve Gas Plant|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/01/world/germans-accused-of-helping-libya-build-nerve-gas-plant.html|access-date=2020-09-16|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=May 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530094206/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/01/world/germans-accused-of-helping-libya-build-nerve-gas-plant.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-25-mn-1028-story.html|title=German Firm Reportedly Knew Libya Toxic Gas Plan|work=Los Angeles Times|author=William Tuohy|date=25 January 1989|access-date=19 January 2023|archive-date=January 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118230257/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-25-mn-1028-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[January 2]] – [[Prime Minister of Sri Lanka|Prime Minister]] [[Ranasinghe Premadasa]] takes office as the third [[President of Sri Lanka]].
* [[January 4]] – [[Gulf of Sidra incident (1989)]]: Two [[Libya]]n [[Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23|MiG-23 "Floggers"]] are engaged and shot down by two US Navy [[F-14 Tomcat]]s.
* [[January 7]] – [[Hirohito|Emperor Hirohito]] [[Death and state funeral of Hirohito|dies]]; his son [[Akihito]] ascends as the 125th [[Emperor of Japan]], followed by the change in the era name from [[Shōwa era|Shōwa]] to [[Heisei era|Heisei]] on the following day.
* [[January 10]] – In accordance with [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 626]] and the [[Tripartite Accord (Angola)|New York Accords]], [[Cuba]]n troops begin withdrawing from [[Angola]].
* [[January 11]] – The [[Lexus]] and [[Infiniti]] luxury car brands are launched at the [[North American International Auto Show]] in [[Detroit]] with the unveiling of the 1990 [[Lexus LS]] and [[Infiniti Q45]] sedans.
* [[January 13]] – Former [[Uganda|Ugandan]] dictator [[Idi Amin]] is expelled to [[Senegal]] from [[Zaire]] after using a fake Zairean passport in an attempt to return to Uganda. Amin is eventually expelled from Senegal and subsequently returns to Zaire after the [[Government of Saudi Arabia|Saudi government]] refuses to allow him in Saudi Arabia.<ref>{{Cite web|date=1989-01-14|title=Amin Forced Back to Zaire After Saudis Block His Return|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-14-mn-158-story.html|access-date=2023-08-26|website=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=August 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826194522/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-14-mn-158-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Battiata|first=Mary|date=1989-01-15|title=African Nations Cold-Shoulder Exiled Idi Amin|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/01/15/african-nations-cold-shoulder-exiled-idi-amin/132bdbee-7e3a-4313-b1a3-2fdc30ccd500/|access-date=2023-12-23|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – Thirty-five European nations, meeting in [[Vienna]], agree to strengthen [[human rights]] and improve East–West trade.
* [[January 18]] – [[Ante Marković]] succeeds [[Branko Mikulić]] as [[Prime Minister of Yugoslavia]].
* [[January 23]]–[[January 24|24]] – Armed civilian leftists briefly [[1989 attack on La Tablada Regiment|attack and occupy]] an [[Argentina|Argentinian]] army base near [[Buenos Aires]].
* [[January 29]] – The two longest-imprisoned German WWII war criminals in Western Europe, [[Ferdinand aus der Fünten]] and [[Franz Fischer (SS)|Franz Fischer]] (collectively known as [[The Breda Two]]), were released from Dutch prison.<ref name="DI">{{Cite web|url=https://duitslandinstituut.nl/artikel/22030/duitse-steun-aan-drie-van-breda-schrikbarend-groot|title= 'Duitse steun aan Drie van Breda schrikbarend groot'|access-date=6 May 2025|first=Marja|last=Verburg|language=nl|work=Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam|date=11 July 2017}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] 
** [[Prime Minister of Canada]] [[Brian Mulroney]] [[Cabinet reshuffle|shuffles]] [[24th Canadian Ministry|his cabinet]], appointing six new ministers and reassigning the responsibilities of nineteen others.
** The [[Embassy of the United States, Kabul]], Afghanistan, is closed; it does not reopen until late 2001.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bergen|first=Peter|title=The longest war: the enduring conflict between America and Al-Qaeda|publisher=Free Press|location=Place of publication not identified|year=2014|isbn=9780857208835|page=317}}</ref>