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1989
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1
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1
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NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
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1989
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1
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1
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Year of the Young Reader begins
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1989
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1
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2
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Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
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1989
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1
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2
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UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
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1989
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1
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3
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Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
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1989
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1
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3
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Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
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1989
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1
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4
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Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
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1989
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1
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4
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US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
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1989
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1
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4
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VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president
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1989
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1
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5
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2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
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1989
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1
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5
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"Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990"
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0
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1989
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1
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7
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Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
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1989
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1
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7
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International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
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1989
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1
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7
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NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
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1989
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1
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7
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Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
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1989
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1
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8
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"42nd Street closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs"
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0
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1989
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1
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8
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Starlight Express closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs
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0
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1989
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1
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8
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"Boeing 737-400 crashes at Kegworth, England, 46 die"
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1989
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1
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8
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Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
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0
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1989
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1
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8
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Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
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