Unix Timestamp: 607910400
Friday, April 7. 1989, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Georgian demonstrators are massacred by Red Army soldiers in Tbilisi's central square during a peaceful rally 20 citizens are killed, many injured.

The Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea, killing 41.

A dispute over grazing rights leads to the beginning of the Mauritania–Senegal Border War.