Year in a Minute: 1989

SBS celebrating 50 Years. This is a Year in a Minute 1989.

A man stands alone in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. . (AP Photo/Jeff Widener, File) Credit: Jeff Widener/AP

The Chinese army attacks demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, the dead estimated in the thousands.

13 die in the Newcastle earthquake.

Communist states crumble.

Solidarity wins elections in Poland.

Thousands of East Berliners escape through Hungary.

The Berlin Wall falls.

We love Daryl Somers,

And Geek-chic Game Boys.

Cher has a hit with 'If I could turn back time.'

Denmark the first country to legalise same-sex relationships.

Bob Hawke weeps on TV admitting his marriage infidelity.