Unix Timestamp: 609724800
Friday, April 28. 1989, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Pope John Paul II begins a nine-day trip to Madagascar, Zambia, Malawi, and Réunion.

The coalition government of Prime Minister of the NetherlandsRuud Lubbers collapses in a dispute about a pollution cleanup plan.

Disney-MGM Studios at Walt Disney World opens to the public for the first time.

Andrés Rodríguez, who had seized power and declared himself President of Paraguay during a military coup in February, wins a landslide election in a general election marked by charges of fraud.

Yugoslavia wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Lausanne with the song "Rock me" performed by Riva.

The first crack in the Iron Curtain: Hungary dismantles of barbed wire fencing along the border with Austria.

Magnum XL-200 opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster.