Hungarian border opens
1989 · Event
Hungary opens its border with Austria to East Germans — tens of thousands flood west.
On these timelines: Master, Cold War, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Fall of the Soviet Union
Around 1989
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)