September 1989

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Friday the 1st er September 1989

  • West Germany: the Irish Republican Army (WILL GO) makes an attack against an American military base with Münster, making 2 dead.
  • Spain: The Rooms of the Parliament are dissolved.
  • Latvia: Re-establishment of teaching in the minority languages (Polish, Hebrew, Lithuanian, Estonian, Armenian…), removed by Soviet in 1940.
  • Chad - Libya: Following the master agreement for Pacific regulation of the territorial dispute on the Band of Aouzou, signed the day before with Algiers, the Foreign Minister, Roland Dumas, a lightening of the French military device announces.

Saturday September 2nd 1989

Sunday September 3rd 1989

  • France: The fires of South-west destroyed 56.000 hectares of forest and caused the death of twelve people.

Monday September 4th 1989

  • Azerbaïdjan (Soviet ex-Union): A general strike is launched to claim the maintenance in the republic of the Armenian enclave of the Haut-Karabakh.
  • France:
    • the scenario writer Claude Autant-Lara, accused for its declarations anti-semites with monthly magazine “Earth”, resigns of the the European Parliament.
    • Concerning the statute of the Post office, the Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, in an interview with the newspaper Le Monde, answers the detractors of the Prévot report/ratio: “ It does not have there a worse threat that the status quo destructor (...). If one does nothing for the Post office, in ten years, it will be the iron and steel industry. ”
  • Poland: The president of Solidarnosc, Lech Walesa, critical the agreement passed through the new Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki with POUP.
  • Swiss: Death of the novelist Georges Simenon (86 years), father of the Police chief Maigret.
  • Yugoslavia: With Belgrade, opening of the 9th top of non-aligned, gathering 102 countries, until September 7th.

Tuesday September 5th 1989

  • the United States: The president George H.W. Bush lance a call to the general mobilization against drug.
  • France:
    • Beginning of an important strike movement in the Peugeot group, with the factory of Sausheim then the 14 with the factory of Sochaux.
    • Change of presidency in the group world Bouygues, n°1 of BTP: Francis Bouygues lance its station with his/her son Martin Bouygues.

Wednesday September 6th 1989

  • South Africa: Election of the new Parliament, made up of three Rooms (a room for the white, a room for the mongrels and a room for the Indians). 5,6 million voters of which 3 million white voters went to the ballot boxes. The Blacks are not authorized yet to take part in the general elections, only with the municipal elections. The national Left, at the capacity, preserves the absolute majority with 93 seats out of 166, but loses 29 seats. Its president, Frederik De Klerk proposed a reform and action plan for five years. He considers that “ the three quarters of the electorate decided for the reforms ”. He is in favor of the unit of the country, of the suppression of the Bantoustan S, opening of negotiations with ANC and of the introduction of the system “One man, one vote” (a man, a voice), with as objective promoting a multiracial government with black majority “before he is too late. ”
  • France: Beautiful Gilberte, Harlem Desire, Marcel Rigout, Roger Leray and Yves Jouffa is named like novel members of the Economic and Social Council.
  • Lebanon: The the United States announces the evacuation of their embassy with Beirut.
  • Netherlands: Victoire with the legislative elections of the Christian-Democrats carried out by Ruud Lubbers.

Thursday September 7th 1989

  • Colombia: The treasurer of the Trust of Medellin, Eduardo Martinez, is extradited towards the the United States and is imprisoned in the prison of Atlanta.
  • France: In answer to the “faintness of the gendarmerie”, the Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, announce a plan of revalorization of the condition of the executives of the Army and Gendarmerie.
  • Poland: In the new government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Solidarnosc obtains twelve ministries whose Foreign affairs, POUP (communist) obtains four ministries (Interior, Défense, Transports and Foreign trade), the country Parti obtains also four ministries of which that of Justice and the Democratic party obtains two from them.

Friday September 8th 1989

Saturday September 9th 1989

  • France: The socialist minister for the Interior, Pierre Joxe, announces a fight increased against the drug traffickings and considers that this fight “is the most significant part perhaps, of (its) function of Minister of Interior Department. ”
  • the United States: Boris Ieltsine is in visit deprived until September 23rd.

Sunday September 10th 1989

  • West Germany: At the time of the Congress of the CDU, with Bremen, Helmut Kohl is re-elected with the presidency of the party.
  • Hungary: The government makes the historic decision to freely open from now on its borders with the Austria. Immediately several thousands of Easts Germany benefit from it to flee towards the West Germany. The governments East-German and Russian express their disapproval of this decision, in violation of the agreement of 1969 between Hungary and the German Democratic republic. The Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth declares in an interview with the daily newspaper “Bild amndt Sonntag”: “ If we want to build the European common house about which Mikhaïl Gorbatchev speaks, we cannot isolate the parts by means of barbed wires from it. ”

Monday September 11th 1989

  • German Democratic republic: Following the opening of the border, thousands of Easts Germany cross the border between the Hungary and the Austria. In the week, more than fifteen taken refuge miles choose freedom towards the West Germany. The international Croix-Rouge is present on the ground by providing hot meals and by affrêtant buses of transport. Tens of thousands of other Easts Germany prepare to follow them.
  • France: In spite of its death of Jean Leguay, the last July 2nd, the examining magistrate retains against him the “participation in crimes against humanity”, whereas the lawyers Klarsfeld and Libman carry felt sorry for against Rene Bousquet (80 years), the former secretary of the Police force of Vichy, for “crimes against humanity”.

Tuesday September 12th 1989

  • France: The report of Michel Prada on the future of the Corsica is submitted to the Prime Minister. He recommends a development centered on tourism and advises to avoid any recourse to “exceptional measures”.
  • Poland: Tadeusz Mazowiecki (55 years) is the noncommunist first Polish Prime Minister since the war.

Wednesday September 13rd 1989

Thursday September 14th 1989

Friday September 15th 1989

  • France: Eve Ruggieri is named director of the television channel Antenne 2 and Jean-Marie Cavada is named director of the television channel France 3.
  • Hungary: The secretary of foreign affairs, László Kovács, made state of “basic differences” in the economic domain and social between its country and the other countries of Eastern Europe.

Saturday September 16th 1989

  • China: After three months of absence of the political scene, Deng Xiaoping carries out a return.
  • France: A group, related to the organization of the Wire of the Jewish memory, attacks and wounds seriously with the face the university historian Robert Faurisson by reproaching him its writings revisionists.

Sunday September 17th 1989

  • Guadeloupe: The cyclone “Hugo” touches the island by causing many damage, 5 died and leaving close to 20  000 people without shelter.
  • Ukraine (Soviet ex-Union): More than one hundred thousand Ukrainians attend two celebrated masses with Lvov and claim the legalization of the Catholic church uniate, prohibited since 1946.

Monday September 18th 1989

  • Burkina Faso : Two historical leaders of the revolution, the commanders Jean-Baptiste Boukary Lingani and Henri Zongo, shown to plot against the mode of the president Blaise Compaoré, are shot and buried in clandestinity at the same time as the commander Koundamba Sabyamba and the Gningnin adjudant.
  • Soviet Union: During the meeting of the central committee of the PCUS organized on the problem of nationalities, the president Mikhail Gorbatchev succeeds in putting at the variation the “conservatives” carried out by Viktor Tchebrikov and Vladimir Chtcherbitski.

Tuesday September 19th 1989

  • Niger: A cd. 10 of the French airline company ATU explodes in full vol. It acts of an attack which causes the death of 171 people, of which a Chadian minister.
  • Poland: The cardinal Johannes Willebrands, president of the Commission of the relationships to the Judaism, recommends the transfer of the Carmelite nuns apart from the Camp of Auschwitz.

Wednesday September 20th 1989

  • Soviet Union: The president Mikhaïl Gorbatchev alters the direction of the PCUS to the profit of the reformers.

Thursday September 21st 1989

  • Latvia: Manifestation of the League of the women of Latvia against the brimades sometimes mortals whom the young Latvian soldiers undergo.

Friday September 22nd 1989

  • Great Britain: An attack of the WILL GO, against a barracks of the Royal Navy in the Kent, causes the death of 10 people.
  • Lebanon: The general Michel Aoun accepts the peace plan proposed by the Saudi Arabia, the Algérie and the Morocco with a cease-fire immediately proclaimed for the following day September 23rd. This new plan in seven points is in radical contradiction with the made proposals on July 31st, 1989. It has as an ambition to regulate the embargo on the weapons and the truce, it envisages a political “standardization” and a constitutional reform based on “the national agreement”.

Saturday September 23rd 1989

  • Soviet Union: Margaret Thatcher, British the Prime Minister, in official visit with Moscow, qualifies the Perestroïka implemented, of “daring idea, courageous and visionary. ”

Sunday September 24th 1989

  • France: At the time of the senatorial elections, carrying the renewal of a third of the Senate, the RPR is reinforced with the detriment of the centrists, whereas the socialist party remains stable.
  • Niger: Adoption of the new constitution.

Monday September 25th 1989

  • German Democratic republic: With Leipzig, more than eight thousand demonstrators reforms claim, whereas the president Erich Honecker reappears publicly after six weeks of absence.
  • Quebec: At the time of the provincial elections, the Liberal party of Quebec (PLQ) of the Prime Minister Robert Bourassa gains the elections with 51% of the voices, whereas the Parti Québécois independence obtains 40% of the votes.
  • Spain: Official visit of the king of the Morocco, Hassan II, first visit since 28 years.
  • France: Charles Million is elected president of the UDF group to the National Assembly against François Léotard.
  • Lebanon: The mediator of the Arab League, Algerian Ahmed-Taleb Ibrahimi, invites the deputies Lebanese to meet in Djeddah in Saudi Arabia to develop at it a “document of national agreement. ”

Tuesday September 26th 1989

  • Kampuchea: End of the evacuation of the Kampuchean territory by the troops Vietnameses.
  • France: Alain Poher, although disputed in its political family, is candidate for the eighth time at the presidency of the Senate.
  • Hungary: The new law on the emigration makes possible the return of some two hundred and thousand Hungarian having fled the country since the events of 1956. It also envisages, the complete opening of the borders of the country to all the Hungarian citizens as from on January 1st, 1990.
  • Lebanon: The pope Jean-Paul II request with all the Lebanese one “to work out a main road life plan together”. It wishes to be able to go soon to Beirut.

Wednesday September 27th 1989

  • Kampuchea: Withdrawal of the troops Vietnameses.
  • France: The newspaper the Duck connected publishes the tax declaration of the chairman of Peugeot, Jacques Calvet what in France is an offense. The Prime Minister Michel Rocard invites the newspaper to respect the social laws. This publication which reveals the amount of its monthly incomes (171 000 FRF) and especially its progression in one year (+ 42%), will start the anger of hundreds of paid and will give to the social crisis started at Peugeot since September 5th in the workshops of Mulhouse a national character.
  • Tunisia: New Prime Minister, Hamed Karoui, to replace Hédi Baccouche.

Thursday September 28th 1989

  • Filipino: Died of the former president, Ferdinand Marcos with the the United States at the 72 years age. Tenth president, it directed as a dictator the country from December 30th, 1965 to February 25th, 1986.

Friday September 29th 1989

Saturday September 30th 1989

  • German Democratic republic: The government accepts that the East-German refugees piled up in the embassies of the FR of Germany of Prague and Warsaw, can leave towards Western Europe.
  • West Germany: The federal minister for the Foreign affairs, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, since the balcony of the diplomatic mission from the Federal republic in Prague, announces to the refugees that they all are authorized by GDR to emigrate freely in FRG, whereas its East-German counterpart, regarding them as the asocial ones, declared: “These men would not have found of place in the normal social process of GDR”.
  • England: Horace Alexander, Quaker British, professor and writer, pacifist and ornithologist (born in 1889).
  • China: Official celebration of the fortieth birthday of the Chinese Revolution. The ambassadors of the Western countries do not take part in the ceremonies.

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