The fall of the Berlin Wall, the protests and massacre in Tiananmen Square, Nelson Mandela's release from prison, the toppling of Ceausescu in Romania, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, and democratic revolutions in Nepal and Czechoslovakia all happened in 1989.



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