Statistics for 1989 happenings

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This infamous wall is knocked down	Berlin Wall	96%
This man becomes president of the USA	George H. W. Bush	92%
China cracks down on protests in this city square	Tiananmen Square	52%
This American animated TV series begins broadcast	The Simpsons	50%
Disney releases this film based on a Hans Christian-Anderson story	The Little Mermaid	48%
This British sci-fi TV series comes to an end	Doctor Who	42%
This ship causes a huge oil spill in Alaskan waters	Exxon Valdez	38%
This revolution took place in Czechoslovakia	Velvet Revolution	35%
Margaret Thatcher introduces this new tax	Poll Tax	27%
The USA invades this country	Panama	21%
This claymation duo was first broadcast in the UK	Wallace & Gromit	21%
This leader's body is pulled from his coffin during the hysteria at his funeral	Ayatollah Khomeini	19%
This religious figure is awarded the Nobel Peace Prise	Dalai Lama	17%
On Christmas day, these two communist dictators are executed	Nicolae & Elena Ceaușescu	17%
These two US states celebrate their 100th birthdays	North & South Dakota	15%
This country dismantles its nuclear weapons	South Africa	13%
This games console is released	Gameboy	6%
Denmark becomes the first country to legalise this	Civil Union	4%
This 'human crush' tragedy strikes a Sheffield football stadium	Hilsborough Disaster	4%
This country wins the Eurovision Song Contest	Yugoslavia	4%