Editing 1989 (section)

=== May ===
* May
** [[Transhumanism]]: [[Genetic modification]] of adult human beings is tried for the first time, a [[gene tagging]] trial.<ref>{{cite report|url=http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1991101800|title=Gene Therapy|access-date=April 8, 2017|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020114505/https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1991101800|url-status=live}}</ref>
** The Soviet Union issues its first [[Visa card]] in a step to digitalise its banking system.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uVNTAAAAIBAJ&pg=3298,4683588&dq=teller+machine+soviet+union&hl=en|title=Top USSR bank moves ruble into electronic age...|newspaper=The Deseret News|via=Google News Archive Search|access-date=November 7, 2020|archive-date=May 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530094206/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uVNTAAAAIBAJ&pg=3298,4683588&dq=teller+machine+soviet+union&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 1]] – [[Andrés Rodríguez (President)|Andrés Rodríguez]], who seized power and declared himself [[President of Paraguay]] during a military coup in February, wins a landslide victory at a [[1989 Paraguayan general election|general election]] marked by charges of fraud.
* [[May 2]]
** The first crack in the [[Iron Curtain]]: Hungary dismantles {{convert|240|km|mi}} of barbed wire fencing along the border with [[Austria]].
** The coalition government of [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] [[Ruud Lubbers]] collapses in a dispute about a pollution cleanup plan.
* [[May 3]] – [[Cold War]]: [[Perestroika]] – The first [[McDonald's]] restaurant in the USSR begins construction in [[Moscow]]. It will open on January 31, 1990.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bleskon.com/2010/03/first-mcdonalds-in-moscow-russia.html|title=First McDonald's in Moscow, Russia ~|publisher=Bleskon.com|access-date=2013-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809072036/http://www.bleskon.com/2010/03/first-mcdonalds-in-moscow-russia.html|archive-date=2013-08-09|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[May 4]] – [[Oliver North]] is convicted in the United States on charges related to the [[Iran–Contra affair]]. His conviction is vacated on appeal in 1991.
* [[May 9]] – [[Andrew Peacock]] deposes [[John Howard]] as Federal Opposition Leader of Australia.
* [[May 10]] – The government of [[President of Panama]] [[Manuel Noriega]] declares void the result of the May 7 presidential election, which Noriega had lost to [[Guillermo Endara]].
* [[May 11]]
** President Bush orders 1,900 U.S. troops to [[Panama]] to protect Americans there.
** The ACT ([[Australian Capital Territory]]) Legislative Assembly meets for the first time.
* [[May 12]]–[[May 25|25]] – [[San Bernardino train disaster]]: Southern Pacific freight locomotive SP 7551 East derails in a residential area of [[San Bernardino, California]], killing four and destroying seven houses. On May 25, as a direct result of the derailment, the [[Calnev Pipeline]] explodes, killing an additional two people and destroying eleven more houses and 21 cars.
* [[May 14]]
** [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] visits [[China]], the first Soviet leader to do so since [[Nikita Khrushchev]] in the [[1960s]], ending the [[Sino-Soviet split]].
** [[Carlos Menem]] wins the [[1989 Argentine general election|Argentine presidential election]].
* [[May 15]]
** Australia's first private tertiary institution, [[Bond University]], opens on the Gold Coast.
** The last [[golden toad]] is seen in [[Costa Rica]]; the species is subsequently classified as extinct.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rainforesttrust.org/thirty-years-after-the-last-golden-toad-sighting-what-have-we-learned/|title=Thirty Years After the Last Golden Toad Sighting, What Have We Learned?|date=May 15, 2019|publisher=Rainforest Trust|access-date=October 29, 2021|archive-date=October 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029180901/https://www.rainforesttrust.org/thirty-years-after-the-last-golden-toad-sighting-what-have-we-learned/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 17]]
**[[1989 Tiananmen Square protests]]: More than 1,000,000 Chinese protesters march through [[Beijing]] demanding greater democracy, leading to a crackdown.
**In Stuttgart [[S.S.C. Napoli|Napoli]] of [[Diego Maradona]] wins the Uefa Cup.
* [[May 19]]
** [[1989 Ürümqi unrest]]: [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] and [[Hui people|Hui]] Muslim protesters riot in front of the government building in [[Ürümqi]], China.
** [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests]]: [[Zhao Ziyang]] meets the demonstrators in [[Tiananmen Square]].
** [[Ciriaco De Mita]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of Italy]].
* [[May 20]] – [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests]]: The Chinese government declares martial law in Beijing.
* [[May 21]]: Bombing near Keserwan by Kataeb Regulatory Forces, 9 Syrians soldiers killed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pdf-archive.rf.gd/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/BOMBING-ALERT.pdf|title=The bombing near Keserwan|access-date=May 26, 2023|archive-date=May 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526165203/http://pdf-archive.rf.gd/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/BOMBING-ALERT.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 24]] 
**[[A.C. Milan|Milan]] of Italy wins the [[European Champion Clubs' Cup|European Cup]] beating [[FC Steaua București|Steaua București]] of Romania 4–0 in [[Barcelona]].
**[[Assassinations of Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson]]: A terrorist organization, [[Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation]], kills two American [[Missionary (LDS Church)|missionaries]] of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] as they return to their apartment, in [[La Paz, Bolivia]].
* [[May 25]] – The [[Calgary Flames]] defeat the [[Montreal Canadiens]] four games to two to win the franchise's first [[Stanley Cup]] in ice hockey.
* [[May 26]] – [[Arsenal F.C.]] defeat [[Liverpool F.C.]] by 2 goals to nil at [[Anfield]], in the final game of the season, to win the [[Football League First Division]]. 
* [[May 29]]
** Amid [[1989 riots in Argentina|food riots and looting]] set off by inflation, the Government of Argentina declares a nationwide state of siege.
** [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests]]: The {{convert|10|m|ft}} high ''[[Goddess of Democracy]]'' statue is unveiled in [[Tiananmen Square]] by student demonstrators.
** NATO agrees to talks with the Soviet Union on reducing the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe.
** An attempted assassination of Miguel Maza Marquez, director of the [[Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad]] (DAS) in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]] is committed by members of the [[Medellín Cartel]], who kill four and injure 37.
* [[May 31]] – [[Tarapoto massacre]]: Six members of the guerrilla group [[Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru|Revolutionary Movement Tupac Amaru]] (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight gay and transgender people in the city of [[Tarapoto]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.globalgayz.com/south-america/peru/gay-peru-news-and-reports-2011/#article2|title=Gay Peru News & Reports 2011|publisher=Archive.globalgayz.com|access-date=2013-08-08|archive-date=September 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921121153/https://archive.globalgayz.com/south-america/peru/gay-peru-news-and-reports-2011/#article2|url-status=live}}</ref>