This week in History in 1989 (20 years ago)

12.23.09 | Perdogg

[Perdogg]

Romanian revolution and the execution of President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena on Christmas day.

Operation Just cause in Panama

Former Yankees Manager Billy Martin dies after his car hits an ice patch

[IYAS9YAS]

Now, they’re both worm food themselves. I find that both amusing and highly satisfying.

Who was it who joked that we needed more statesmen, after it was mentioned that a statesman was a dead politician?

[The Comedian]

Alphabetically, "Ceausescu" comes just after "Barack".

Coincidence?

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[BenLurkin]

I was well past my 20s in 1989!

[RegulatorCountry]

A Ceaucescmas Eve vote, on the 20th anniversary, in fact.

[KingLudd]

I watched a video of their execution a few weeks ago. I found it somewhere on my internet machine. She was mouthing off vigorously until she was shot numerous times.

[BenLurkin]

An excellent suggestion.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Am I really that old, and who is that grey-haired fat guy staring at me in the mirror every morning?

Hey, you still got hair! :)

[library user]

I gained almost 10 pounds drinking half-gallons of eggnog in just the past week or so.

They were on sale for 99 cents at Kroger (manager’s special).

I bought eight of them.

My personal trainer asked WHY EIGHT?! and I said “based on the expiration date (they all had the same expiration date) I figured I could drink one a day for the next eight days, finishing the last one on the date they expired.”

So it was a question of timing. Still, dumb, dumb move...

[massgopguy]

I was off to Sint Maarten for three weeks to visit my sister. I was gone so long I went on job interviews. I was so dark people spoke Spanish to me. I looked like Tony Orlando.

[HungarianGypsy]

Back in the 80s I used to wonder why these people from the 60s kept talking about such a long ago time all the time. Twenty years later, I now realize, the 60s was like yesterday to them then, the way 1989 seems like yesterday to me now.

[IYAS9YAS]

Hey, you still got hair! :)

True, but now it grows in new and unimagined places. And at an unfortunate rate.

[Perdogg]

LOL!!!! ding ding you win!

[Perdogg]

ping

[IYAS9YAS]

Back in the 80s I used to wonder why these people from the 60s kept talking about such a long ago time all the time.

Holy majoly, the first Rush album is 35 years old!

[RegulatorCountry]

Regardless of how richly they deserved the firing squad, that was absolutely the most chilling thing I'd ever seen on television up to that point, the two of them lying there dead, cold blue eyes staring lifelessly at the camera, with blood streaking down their faces. And on Christmas Day, no less. I'll never forget it. Sic Semper Tyrannis, I guess.

I got the sense at that moment, that the world was changing and not for the better. That vague, sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, the cold chills and the hair standing up on the back of my neck. Felt it again and again, since then. Seems to have become almost a part of daily life.

[Tijeras_Slim]

True, but now it grows in new and unimagined places.

I hear ya'... my eyebrows in the last few years look like mutant tumbleweeds.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

80s ping...

[Flavious_Maximus]

Don’t think our milatary won’t do the same thing to the demcRATS in office today. I can easily see it happening and would approve whole heartedly.

[sodpoodle]

Ronald Reagan - still in our lives in January ‘89 and in our hearts forever;)

[OldMissileer]

I had finally left Missile Combat Crew and had become a Missile Maintenance Officer still stationed in North Dakota.

The winters up there were brutal, and I was born and raised in Michigan.

After spending my entire adult life fighting the Cold War and the Soviets, watching the disintegration of the USSR and all the satellite countries gave me an uneasy feeling. I was proud I had helped win the Cold War but I was uneasy about the future.