1989: Day by Day
Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago
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1989: Day by Day
Czechoslovakia's first non-communist majority government in 41 years is sworn in.
1989: Day by Day
Hundreds of thousands of East Germans arrive in West Berlin amid scenes of shock and joy.
1989: Day by Day
In East Germany, the police violence that people had feared had not occurred.
1989: Day by Day
The forced repatriation of the Vietnamese Boat People begins.
1989: Day by Day
Bulldozers tear down sections of the Berlin Wall to make more crossing points.
1989: Day by Day
Jive Bunny gets on the Juke Box Jury's nerves.
1989: Day by Day
US secretary of state James Baker meets East Germany's de facto leader Hans Modrow.
1989: Day by Day
The mayors of East and West Berlin shake hands at a new border crossing at Potsdamerplatz.
1989: Day by Day
Nigel Lawson speaks at the Tory Party conference to defend the 15 per cent interest rate.
1989: Day by Day
President FW de Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela.
1989: Day by Day
The East German Politburo elects Hans Modrow as prime minister.
1989: Day by Day
Douglas Hurd declares war on the 'scourge of acid house parties'.
1989: Day by Day
Chile elects a civilian president to replace Augusto Pinochet.
1989: Day by Day
Czechoslovakia eases restrictions on foreign travel.
1989: Day by Day
Poland faces 1,000 per cent inflation.
1989: Day by Day
Soviet human rights campaigner Andrei Sakharov dies.
1989: Day by Day
John Major gives his first Autumn Statement - City analysts predict gloom for the 90s.
1989: Day by Day
ANC leader Walter Sisulu is released from prison, sparking nationwide celebrations.
1989: Day by Day
East Germany discusses what do to after dismantling the Stasi.
1989: Day by Day
South Africa's president announces that its beaches are to be opened to all races.
1989: Day by Day
120,000 East Germans gather in Leipzig for an anti-government demonstration.
1989: Day by Day
Labour select Peter Mandelson to stand as an MP.
1989: Day by Day
In Prague the police beat protesters as they call for the ousting of the Czech leadership.
1989: Day by Day
The Guildford Four have their sentence overturned after 14 years in prison.
1989: Day by Day
Troops have fired on protestors in Romania.
1989: Day by Day
In Prague, rumours spread that the police have killed a Czech student.
1989: Day by Day
Erich Honecker, East German leader and the architect of the Berlin Wall, resigns.
1989: Day by Day
Serious unrest is reported in Romania, with hundreds massacred.
1989: Day by Day
London ambulance workers continue their strike; New Kids on the Block reach number one.
1989: Day by Day
The Guildford four are released.
1989: Day by Day
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the Vatican.
1989: Day by Day
Gorbachev and Bush welcome a new decade.
1989: Day by Day
President Bush agrees to meet Chairman Gorbachev on his boat in the Mediterranean.
1989: Day by Day
US forces looking for General Noriega invade Panama.
1989: Day by Day
In Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu receives 67 standing ovations during a six-hour speech.
1989: Day by Day
Actors pay a final tribute to Sir Laurence Olivier at Westminster Abbey.
1989: Day by Day
Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu is booed in public.
1989: Day by Day
MPs relish their day in the limelight as TV cameras are permitted in the House of Commons.
1989: Day by Day
Thousands of protestors march through East Germany.
1989: Day by Day
Romanian President Ceausescu is caught as he tries to escape.
1989: Day by Day
In Prague, tens of thousands continue their protest for the sixth day in Wenceslas Square.
1989: Day by Day
Margaret Thatcher causes consternation at the Commonwealth.
1989: Day by Day
Intense fighting continues in Romania.
1989: Day by Day
The Conservative Party is facing a leadership challenge.
1989: Day by Day
250,000 East Germans march in Leipzig in the country's biggest ever demonstration.
1989: Day by Day
General Noriega is surrounded as he seeks refuge in Panama.
1989: Day by Day
The Czech leadership are forced to resign.
1989: Day by Day
Egon Krenz is officially installed as East Germany's new leader but protests continue.
1989: Day by Day
Ceausescu and his wife are executed in Romania.
1989: Day by Day
In Czechoslovakia, demonstrators keep up the pressure for free elections.
1989: Day by Day
The BBC's Panorama programme asks whether Britain is about to face a crack epidemic.
1989: Day by Day
Romania buries its dead.
1989: Day by Day
Czechoslovakia's prime minister has his first meeting with leading dissident Vaclav Havel.
1989: Day by Day
Nigel Lawson resigns after six years as Chancellor, prompting a further drop in the pound.
1989: Day by Day
The world comes to Romania's aid.
1989: Day by Day
Margaret Thatcher defends her record on the BBC's Panorama.
1989: Day by Day
Margaret Thatcher's leadership style comes under fire after a quick Cabinet reshuffle.
1989: Day by Day
Jimi Hendrix is deployed against General Noriega.
1989: Day by Day
Czech PM Ladislav Adamec formally announces the end of the communists' monopoly on power.
1989: Day by Day
A pro-democracy rally in Prague turns violent after police move in.
1989: Day by Day
Playwright Vaclav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia.
1989: Day by Day
Margaret Thatcher and Anthony Meyer submit their nominations for the Tory leadership.
1989: Day by Day
Walter Sisulu addresses 70,000 people at the biggest ever ANC rally.
1989: Day by Day
Bush and Gorbachev begin their summit in Malta.
1989: Day by Day
Reorganisation begins in Romania as fledgling political parties take shape.
1989: Day by Day
In an unprecedented move, KGB officers take questions from the public on live TV.
1989: Day by Day
The lavish home of Romanian dictator Ceausescu is revealed to the world.
1989: Day by Day
Record libel damages are awarded to the Conservative peer Lord Aldington.
1989: Day by Day
Riots in Moscow follow a demonstration outside the KGB headquarters.
1989: Day by Day
A new Europe sees in a new year.
1989: Day by Day
Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson tells the House of Commons why he resigned.
1989: Day by Day
George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev declare that the Cold War is over.
1989: Day by Day
In Panama, General Noriega gives himself up to US forces.
1989: Day by Day
Protests in East Germany force the resignation of the Mayor of Leipzig.
1989: Day by Day
The Soviet government joins in condemnation of its own invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
1989: Day by Day
Margaret Thatcher is judged the least popular prime minister since polling began.
1989: Day by Day
Mrs Thatcher faces her first leadership challenge.
1989: Day by Day
Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson makes things even more difficult for Margaret Thatcher.
1989: Day by Day
A chilling warning is delivered to East Germany's opposition groups: 'remember Tiananmen'.
1989: Day by Day
East Germany's leader Egon Krenz resigns.
1989: Day by Day
A backlash against East German refugees begins in West Germany.
1989: Day by Day
Gorbachev begins a visit to East Germany to help celebrate the GDR's 40th anniversary.
1989: Day by Day
The Czech prime minister Ladislav Adamec resigns.
1989: Day by Day
The authorities in the GDR are buckling under the pounding they are taking in the streets.
1989: Day by Day
Protestors marching through East Berlin to the Church of the Gethsemane clash with police.
1989: Day by Day
East Germany elects a new leader amid fears the country is sliding into lawlessness.
1989: Day by Day
The Politburo resigns in East Germany - could the Berlin Wall fall next?
1989: Day by Day
Eyewitnesses in East Berlin describe a police crackdown on protestors.
1989: Day by Day
Mikhail Gorbachev warns that the Communist Party faces the threat of extinction.
1989: Day by Day
East Berlin's party chief declares that all citizens can leave immediately.
1989: Day by Day
Protests approach a historical and perhaps dangerous moment.