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  1. 3rd January 1990

    In Panama, General Noriega gives himself up to US forces.

  2. 2nd January 1990

    Reorganisation begins in Romania as fledgling political parties take shape.

  3. 1st January 1990

    Gorbachev and Bush welcome a new decade.

  4. 31st December 1989

    A new Europe sees in a new year.

  5. 30th December 1989

    The lavish home of Romanian dictator Ceausescu is revealed to the world.

  6. 29th December 1989

    Playwright Vaclav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia.

  7. 28th December 1989

    Jimi Hendrix is deployed against General Noriega.

  8. 27th December 1989

    The world comes to Romania's aid.

  9. 26th December 1989

    Romania buries its dead.

  10. 25th December 1989

    Ceausescu and his wife are executed in Romania.

  11. 24th December 1989

    General Noriega is surrounded as he seeks refuge in Panama.

  12. 23rd December 1989

    Intense fighting continues in Romania.

  13. 22nd December 1989

    Romanian President Ceausescu is caught as he tries to escape.

  14. 21st December 1989

    Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu is booed in public.

  15. 20th December 1989

    US forces looking for General Noriega invade Panama.

  16. 19th December 1989

    Serious unrest is reported in Romania, with hundreds massacred.

  17. 18th December 1989

    Troops have fired on protestors in Romania.

  18. 17th December 1989

    Labour select Peter Mandelson to stand as an MP.

  19. 16th December 1989

    East Germany discusses what do to after dismantling the Stasi.

  20. 15th December 1989

    Soviet human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov dies.

  21. 14th December 1989

    Chile elects a civilian president to replace Augusto Pinochet.

  22. 13th December 1989

    President FW de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela.

  23. 12th December 1989

    US secretary of state James Baker meets East Germany's de facto leader Hans Modrow.

  24. 11th December 1989

    The forced repatriation of the Vietnamese Boat People begins.

  25. 10th December 1989

    Czechoslovakia's first non-communist majority government in 41 years is sworn in.

  26. 9th December 1989

    Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the Communist Party faces the threat of extinction.

  27. 8th December 1989

    East Germany elects a new leader amid fears the country is sliding into lawlessness.

  28. 7th December 1989

    The Czech prime minister Ladislav Adamec resigns.

  29. 6th December 1989

    East Germany's leader Egon Krenz resigns.

  30. 5th December 1989

    Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge.

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