Ceausescu executed
December 25, 1989
After a week of revolution in Romania, dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were tried in an army barracks and shot by firing squad on Christmas Day. Television viewers around the world saw the bullet-riddled bodies. The last violent act of the East European revolutions of 1989 had taken place, and the year's work was done.
In context
Also in 1989 (8 other events on record)
- Berners-Lee proposes the Web · Europe · Technology
- Berlin Wall falls · Europe · Politics
- Tiananmen Square massacre · East Asia · Politics
- Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan · Central Asia · War
- Beginning of Tiananmen protests · East Asia · Politics
- Velvet Revolution begins in Prague · Europe · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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