Editing 1989 (section)

=== June ===
{{Main|June 1989}}

* [[June 1]]–[[June 10|10]] – Pope [[John Paul II]] visits [[Norway]], [[Iceland]], [[Finland]], [[Denmark]] and [[Sweden]].
* [[June 2]] – [[Sōsuke Uno]] succeeds [[Noboru Takeshita]] as [[Prime Minister of Japan]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Uno-Sosuke|author=((The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica))|title=Uno Sōsuke <nowiki>|</nowiki> prime minister of Japan|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|access-date=5 November 2021|archive-date=November 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105095928/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Uno-Sosuke|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 3]] – The world's first [[high-definition television]] (test) broadcasts commence in Japan, in [[analog television|analogue]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.birds-eye.net/definition/acronym/?id=1157827001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714112540/http://www.birds-eye.net/definition/acronym/?id=1157827001|archive-date=14 July 2014|last1=Bahlmann|first1=Bruce|last2=Ramkumar|first2=Preethi|title=HDTV – High Definition Television|publisher=Birds-Eye.Net|access-date=5 November 2021}}</ref>
* [[June 4]]
** [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre]]: A violent military crackdown takes place on pro-democracy protesters in [[Tiananmen Square]], [[Beijing]].<ref name="Nevett">{{cite news|date=5 June 2019|last=Nevett|first=Joshua|title=How the Ufa train disaster was overshadowed by Tiananmen Square|department=Europe|publisher=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48510979|access-date=5 November 2021|archive-date=July 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718170945/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48510979|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[1989 Polish legislative election]]: [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity]]'s victory in the first round<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prezydent.pl/kancelaria/archiwa-przelomu/zasob-archiwum-prezydenta-rp/kancelaria-rady-panstwa-krp/panstwowa-komisja-wyborcza-pkw----wybory-do-sejmu-prl-i-senatu-prl-z-8-i-19-czerwca/obwieszczenie-pkw-o-wynikach-glosowania-i-wynikach-wyborow-do-sejmu-prl-przeprowadzonych-dnia-4-czerwca-1989-103330-t1/|title=Obwieszczenie Państwowej Komisji Wyborczej o wynikach głosowania i wynikach wyborów do Sejmu PRL przeprowadzonych dnia 4 czerwca 1989 r. – 1033/30 t.1 k. 1, 3-169|trans-title=Announcement of the National Electoral Commission on the results of voting and the results of the elections to the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland held on June 4, 1989 – 1033/30 t.1 k. 1, 3-169|website=prezydent.pl|language=pl|access-date=5 November 2021|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107140224/https://www.prezydent.pl/kancelaria/archiwa-przelomu/zasob-archiwum-prezydenta-rp/kancelaria-rady-panstwa-krp/panstwowa-komisja-wyborcza-pkw----wybory-do-sejmu-prl-i-senatu-prl-z-8-i-19-czerwca/obwieszczenie-pkw-o-wynikach-glosowania-i-wynikach-wyborow-do-sejmu-prl-przeprowadzonych-dnia-4-czerwca-1989-103330-t1/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2255_89.htm|title=POLAND: parliamentary elections Sejm, 1989|publisher=[[Inter-Parliamentary Union]]|year=1989|access-date=7 November 2021|archive-date=January 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121184406/http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2255_89.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> is the first of many anti-[[Communism|communist]] [[revolutions of 1989]] in [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]].
** [[1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election]]: [[Ali Khamenei]] is elected [[Supreme Leader of Iran]] after announcing the death of [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] the day before.<ref name="Amir Arjomand">{{cite book|last1=Amir Arjomand|first1=Saïd|title=After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors|year=2009|url=https://archive.org/details/afterkhomeiniira00arjo|url-access=limited|publisher=Oxford University Press|publication-date=2009|page=[https://archive.org/details/afterkhomeiniira00arjo/page/n48 36]|isbn=9780199745760}}</ref>
** [[Ufa train disaster]]: A [[natural gas]] explosion near [[Ufa]], Russia kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.<ref name="Nevett"/>
* [[June 5]] 
** [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests]]: An unknown Chinese protester, "[[Tank Man]]", stands in front of a column of military tanks on [[Chang'an Avenue]] in Beijing, temporarily halting them, an incident which achieves iconic status internationally through images taken by Western photographers.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-tiananmen-square-tank-man-20140603-story.html|last=Makinen|first=Julie|title=Tiananmen Square mystery: Who was 'Tank Man'?|journal=Los Angeles Times|department=World & Nation|date=4 June 2014|access-date=5 November 2021|archive-date=November 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117223619/https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-tiananmen-square-tank-man-20140603-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** [[Death and state funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini|State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini]]: Eight people are killed and hundreds injured in a [[human crush]] during the viewing of the body of Iranian leader [[Ayatollah Khomeini]] at the [[Musalla]] in Tehran, two days after his death at the age of 89 in [[Tehran]].<ref name=newstatesman>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2009/03/khomeini-funeral-body-crowd|title=Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral: The funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini, writes James Buchan, was not a tragedy but a gruesome farce:id|magazine=[[New Statesman]]|first=James|last=Buchan|author-link=James Buchan|date=12 March 2009|access-date=5 November 2021|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423180240/https://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2009/03/khomeini-funeral-body-crowd|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] – State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini: The Ayatollah Khomeini's first funeral in [[Tehran]] is aborted by officials after a large crowd storms the funeral procession, nearly destroying Khomeini's wooden casket in order to get a last glimpse of his body. At one point, his body almost falls to the ground, as the crowd attempt to grab pieces of the death shroud. The Ayatollah's body has to be returned for the burial preparations to be repeated, before being brought back to the cemetery a few hours later.<ref name=newstatesman/><ref name="Tribune">{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-06-07-8902070407-story.html|title=Mourners Rip Shroud, Khomeini's Body Falls|first1=Ray|last1=Moseley|first2=Joseph A.|last2=Reaves|journal=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=7 June 1989|access-date=5 November 2021|archive-date=February 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215050318/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1989-06-07-8902070407-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] – [[Surinam Airways Flight 764]] crashes in [[Paramaribo]], [[Suriname]], killing 176.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/oct/12/the-forgotten-story-of-the-colourful-xi-tragedy|last=Miller|first=Nick|title=The forgotten story of... the Colourful XI tragedy|date=12 October 2017|journal=The Guardian|department=The forgotten story of...|access-date=5 November 2021|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614204155/https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/oct/12/the-forgotten-story-of-the-colourful-xi-tragedy|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 8]] – The wreck of [[German battleship Bismarck|German battleship ''Bismarck'']], which was sunk in [[1941]], is located about {{convert|600|mi|km}} west of [[Brest, France]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/14/world/nazi-ship-bismarck-is-found-in-good-shape.html|title=Nazi Ship Bismarck Is Found in 'Good Shape'|journal=The New York Times|agency=Reuters|date=14 June 1989|page=A5|access-date=6 November 2021|archive-date=November 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106063245/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/14/world/nazi-ship-bismarck-is-found-in-good-shape.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/06/23/The-Bismarck-It-belongs-to-Germany/6812614577600/|last=Mackay|first=Robert|title=The Bismarck: 'It belongs to Germany'|date=23 June 1989|publisher=[[United Press International, Inc.]]|access-date=6 November 2021|archive-date=March 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327033425/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1989/06/23/The-Bismarck-It-belongs-to-Germany/6812614577600/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] – At the [[1989 Irish general election]], [[Fianna Fáil]], led by [[Taoiseach]] [[Charles Haughey]], fails to win a majority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2153_89.htm|title=IRELAND: parliamentary elections Dáil Éireann, 1989|publisher=Inter-Parliamentary Union|year=1989|access-date=7 November 2021|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107101114/http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2153_89.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 16]] – A crowd of 250,000 gathers at [[Heroes' Square (Budapest)|Heroes Square]] in [[Budapest]] for the historic reburial of [[Imre Nagy]], the former Hungarian Prime Minister who had been executed in [[1958]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/17/world/hungarian-who-led-56-revolt-is-buried-as-a-hero.html|last=Kamm|first=Henry|author-link=Henry Kamm|title=Hungarian Who Led '56 Revolt Is Buried as a Hero|journal=The New York Times|date=17 June 1989|page=1|access-date=6 November 2021|archive-date=November 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105190903/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/17/world/hungarian-who-led-56-revolt-is-buried-as-a-hero.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 18]] – In the [[June 1989 Greek legislative election|first Greek legislative election of the year]], the [[Panhellenic Socialist Movement]], led by [[Prime Minister of Greece]] [[Andreas Papandreou]], loses control of the [[Hellenic Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2125b_89.htm|title=GREECE: parliamentary elections Vouli Ton Ellinon, 1989|publisher=Inter-Parliamentary Union|year=1989|access-date=7 November 2021|archive-date=November 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107101517/http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2125b_89.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 22]]
** British police arrest 260 people celebrating the [[Midsummer|summer solstice]] at [[Stonehenge]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27405147|last=Hallett|first=Emma|title=Summer solstice: How the Stonehenge battles faded|publisher=BBC News|department=England|date=20 June 2014|access-date=7 November 2021|archive-date=July 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721151620/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27405147|url-status=live}}</ref>
** The [[University of Limerick]] and [[Dublin City University]] are raised to the status of universities, the first established in Ireland since independence in [[1922]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2021}}
* [[June 24]] – [[Jiang Zemin]] becomes [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/06/25/new-chinese-party-chief-rose-by-following-prevailing-political-winds/b8118752-2001-41ca-8263-56615d6545e6/|last=Weisskopf|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Weisskopf|title=New Chinese Party Chief Rose by Following Prevailing Political Winds|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=25 June 1989|access-date=7 November 2021|archive-date=November 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221128122609/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/06/25/new-chinese-party-chief-rose-by-following-prevailing-political-winds/b8118752-2001-41ca-8263-56615d6545e6/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100020661|title=Jiang Zemin|website=[[Oxford Reference]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|access-date=7 November 2021|archive-date=May 30, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220530031212/https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100020661|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 30]] – [[1989 Sudanese coup d'état]]: A military coup led by [[Omar al-Bashir]] ousts the civilian government of [[Prime Minister of Sudan]] [[Sadiq al-Mahdi]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cowell|first=Alan|author-link=Alan Cowell|date=1 July 1989|title=Military Coup in Sudan Ousts Civilian Regime|page=1|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/01/world/military-coup-in-sudan-ousts-civilian-regime.html|access-date=7 November 2021|archive-date=October 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030164833/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/01/world/military-coup-in-sudan-ousts-civilian-regime.html|url-status=live}}</ref>