November 1989

Monday 06:

Kitty Dukakis, wife of presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis, is hospitalised for drinking rubbing alcohol.

Tuesday 07:

In California, convicted murder Richard Ramirez (aka "The Night Stalker") is sentenced to death.

Thursday 09:

Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany.

Friday 10:

After 35 years of communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by former Prime Minister Petre Mladenov who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Wednesday 15:

Sachin Tendulkar makes his Test cricket debut playing for India against Pakistan.

Thursday 16:

A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops, most of them trained by the School of the Americas, kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

Monday 20:

Velvet Revolution: The number of peaceful protestors assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

Wednesday 22:

In west Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.

Tuesday 28:

In the face of protests the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power.

Thursday 30:

Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida, takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos before becoming the female serial killer's first victim.