Unix Timestamp: 626313600
Monday, November 6. 1989, 12:00:00 AM UTC

CKO (a Canadian national all-news radio network) suddenly terminates all broadcasting during the newscast at noon (Eastern time), due to financial losses (the station began broadcasting on July 1, 1977).

Yıldırım Akbulut, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (47th government).

Douglas Wilder wins the Virginia governor's race, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.

Cold War: Günter Schabowski accidentally states in live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect immediately. East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades (November 17 celebrates Germans began tearing the wall down).

After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.

Cold War: The Communist government of East Germany resigns, although SED leader Egon Krenz remains head of state.

David Dinkins becomes the first African American mayor of New York City.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) founded.

Gaby Kennard becomes the first Australian woman to fly non-stop around the world.