Unix Timestamp: 623721600
Saturday, October 7. 1989, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Friday the 13th mini-crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to close at 2,569.26, most likely after the junk bond market collapses.

An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.

In Leipzig, East Germany, protesters demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms.

The communistHungarian Socialist Workers\' Party votes to reorganize itself as a socialist party, to be named the Hungarian Socialist Party.

Gro Harlem Brundtland, leader of the Labour Party, resigns as Prime Minister of Norway. She is succeeded by Jan P. Syse, leader of the Conservative Party on October 16.