Editing 1989 (section)

=== March ===
[[File:Nemzeti Ünnep - Szabadság tér 1989.03.15 (4).jpg|thumb|Mass demonstration at the Hungarian state television headquarters]]
[[File:Exval.jpeg|thumb|200px|The ''[[Exxon Valdez]]'']]

* March – [[Poland]] begins to liberalise its [[Foreign exchange market|currency exchange]] in a move towards [[capitalism]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wilkens|first1=Herbert|last2=Maennig|first2=Wolfgang|title=Transition in Eastern Europe: Current Issues and Perspectives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=anSgCEBAJK0C&pg=PA71|year=1997|publisher=Duncker & Humblot|isbn=978-3-428-49107-0|page=71|access-date=October 7, 2016|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207100819/https://books.google.com/books?id=anSgCEBAJK0C&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 1]]
** The [[Berne Convention]], an international [[treaty]] on [[copyright]]s, is ratified by the United States.
** A [[curfew]] is imposed in [[Kosovo]], where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the [[Serb]] minority.
** The [[Political Party of Radicals]], [[Pacifist Socialist Party]], [[Communist Party of the Netherlands]] and the [[Evangelical People's Party (Netherlands)|Evangelical People's Party]] amalgamate to form the Dutch political party [[GroenLinks]] (GL, GreenLeft).
** After 74 years, [[Iceland]] ends its [[Prohibition in Iceland|prohibition on beer]]; celebrated since as ''bjórdagur'' or [[Beer Day (Iceland)|beer day]].
* [[March 2]] – Twelve [[European Community]] nations agree to ban the production of all [[chlorofluorocarbon]]s (CFCs) by the end of the century.
* [[March 3]] – [[Jammu Siltavuori]] abducts and murders two eight-year-old girls in the Myllypuro suburb of [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]].
* [[March 4]]
** [[Time Inc.]] and [[Warner Communications]] announce plans for a merger, forming [[Time Warner]]. (Now [[Warner Bros. Discovery]])
** The [[Purley station rail crash]] in [[London]] leaves five people dead and 94 injured.
** The first [[Australian Capital Territory]] elections are held.
* [[March 7]] – [[Iran]] breaks off [[diplomatic relations]] with the United Kingdom over [[Salman Rushdie]]'s ''[[The Satanic Verses]]''.
* [[March 9]] – [[Revolutions of 1989]]: The [[Soviet Union]] submits to the jurisdiction of the [[World Court]].
* [[March 12]] – [[Tim Berners-Lee]] produces the proposal document that will become the blueprint for the [[World Wide Web]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timeline.web.cern.ch/timelines/The-birth-of-the-World-Wide-Web|title=The birth of the World Wide Web &#124; CERN timelines|publisher=Timeline.web.cern.ch|access-date=2014-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203033658/http://timeline.web.cern.ch/timelines/The-birth-of-the-World-Wide-Web|archive-date=December 3, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] – A [[March 1989 geomagnetic storm|geomagnetic storm]] causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. 6,000,000 people are [[power outage|left without power]] for nine hours. Some areas in the northeastern U.S. and in Sweden also lose power, and [[aurora]]e are seen as far as [[Texas]].
* [[March 14]]
** [[Gun control]]: U.S. President [[George H. W. Bush]] bans the importation of certain guns deemed "[[assault weapon]]s" into the United States.
** General [[Michel Aoun]] declares a "War of Liberation" to rid [[Lebanon]] of [[Syria]]n forces and their allies.
* [[March 15]] 
** [[Israel]] hands over [[Taba, Egypt|Taba]] to [[Egypt]], ending a seven-year territorial dispute.
** Mass demonstrations in [[Hungarian People's Republic|Hungary]], demanding democracy.
* [[March 16]] – The [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] approves agricultural reforms allowing farmers the right to lease state-owned farms for life.
* [[March 17]]
** The [[Civic Tower (Pavia)|Civic Tower]] of [[Pavia]], built in the eleventh century, collapses.
** [[Alfredo Cristiani]] is elected as [[President of El Salvador]].
* [[March 20]] – [[Australian Prime Minister]] [[Bob Hawke]] weeps on national television as he admits marital infidelity.
* [[March 22]]
** [[Clint Malarchuk]] of the [[National Hockey League|NHL]] [[Buffalo Sabres]] suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
** Asteroid [[4581 Asclepius]] approaches the Earth at a distance of {{convert|700000|km|mi}}.
* [[March 23]] – [[Stanley Pons]] and [[Martin Fleischmann]] announce that they have achieved [[cold fusion]] at the [[University of Utah]].
* [[March 23]]–[[March 28|28]] – The [[Socialist Republic of Serbia]] passes constitutional changes revoking the autonomy of the [[Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo]], triggering six days of rioting by the [[Albanians in Kosovo|Albanian majority]], during which at least 29 people are killed.
* [[March 24]] – [[Exxon Valdez oil spill]]: In [[Alaska]]'s [[Prince William Sound]], the ''[[Exxon Valdez]]'' spills {{convert|240000|oilbbl|m3}} of [[Petroleum|oil]] after running aground.
* [[March 26]] – [[1989 Soviet Union legislative election]]: The first (and last) contested elections for the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] parliament, [[Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union|Congress of People's Deputies]], result in losses for the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]]; the first session of the new Congress opens in late May.
* [[March 29]] – The [[61st Academy Awards]] are held at the [[Shrine Auditorium]] in [[Los Angeles]], with ''[[Rain Man]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], and [[Jodie Foster]] wins her first award for [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]].