Unix Timestamp: 609033600
Thursday, April 20. 1989, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Noboru Takeshita resigns as Prime Minister of Japan in the wake of a stock-trading scandal.

NATO debates modernising short range missiles although the U.S. and U.K. are in favour, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision.

Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak, becomes the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

Zaid al-Rifai resigns as Prime Minister of Jordan in the wake of riots over government imposed price hikes that began on April 18.

The term of Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail as the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.

Motorola introduces the Motorola MicroTAC Personal Cellular Telephone, then the world's smallest mobile phone.

Zaid ibn Shaker succeeds Zaid al-Rifai as Prime Minister of Jordan.

Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square.