Twenty Years of DHC

The Year: 1989

• George H.W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as U.S. President
• the Soviet war in Afghanistan
• the Los Angeles city council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons
• fatwa on Salman Rushdie for “The Satanic Verses”
• Time, Inc. and Warner Communications merge to form Time Warner
• Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil
• Rain Man wins Best Picture
• Charles Keating goes to jail
• Tiananmen Square
• Seinfeld premieres
• France celebrates 200th anniversary of the French Revolution
• UA flight 282 crashes in Sioux City, IA
• Nintendo’s GameBoy and Sega’s Genesis are released
• Lyle and Erik Menendez kill their rich parents
• Pete Rose is banned from baseball
• Voyager II passes Neptune and Triton
• Hurricane Hugo causes $7 billion in damage in South Carolina
• the World Series is delayed by 10 days following the Loma Prieta earthquake (a 7.1)
• Douglas Wilder wins the Virginia governor’s race and becomes the first elected African American governor in the United States
• David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City
• the Berlin Wall begins to be dismantled
• the Cold War ends
• The Simpsons premieres

The Dance Hall Crashers form in Berkeley, California.

Who’s got some great DHC memories? 1989, or otherwise?

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