What Was Going On When This Vehicle Was New?
The following events happened in the period when this vehicle was registered.
Charlotte Hughes of Marske-by-the-Sea in Cleveland, believed to be the oldest living person in England, celebrates her 112th birthday
Tuesday the 1st of August, 1989
Introduction of electronic tagging to monitor and supervise crime suspects
Thursday the 17th of August, 1989
Manchester United chairman Martin Edwards agrees to sell the club to Michael Knighton for £10million
Friday the 18th of August, 1989
Marchioness disaster: A pleasure cruiser collides with a barge in the River Thames killing 51 people
Sunday the 20th of August, 1989
Buckingham Palace confirms that The Princess Royal and Capt Mark Phillips are separating after 16 years of marriage
Thursday the 31st of August, 1989
Deal barracks bombing: The IRA bomb the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent killing 11 soldiers
Friday the 22nd of September, 1989
The Social and Liberal Democrats, formed last year from the merger of the Social Democratic Party and Liberal Party, are renamed the Liberal Democrats
Monday the 16th of October, 1989
Ford Motor Company takes over Jaguar in a £1.6billion deal
Thursday the 2nd of November, 1989
General Assembly of the Church of England votes to allow ordination of women
Tuesday the 7th of November, 1989
The House of Commons is televised live for the first time
Tuesday the 21st of November, 1989
Margaret Thatcher, along with American president George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, declare the end of the Cold War after 40 years
Sunday the 3rd of December, 1989
Doctor Who is discontinued by the BBC after 26 years
Wednesday the 6th of December, 1989
ITV attracts a new record audience of nearly 27,000,000 for the episode of Coronation Street in which Alan Bradley (Mark Eden) is fatally run over by a Blackpool tram
Friday the 8th of December, 1989
Band Aid II gain the Christmas Number One with their charity record
Saturday the 23rd of December, 1989
Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture, the first designated in the British Isles
Monday the 1st of January, 1990
Television debut of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean in a Thames Television special
Monday the 1st of January, 1990
Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran renews his fatwa on British author Salman Rushdie, which he imposed last year following controversy over the author's book: The Satanic Verses
Friday the 9th of February, 1990
The UK and Argentina restore diplomatic relations after eight years. Diplomatic ties were broken off in response to Argentina's invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982
Thursday the 15th of February, 1990
200,000 protesters in Poll Tax Riots in London in the week preceding official introduction of the Community Charge
Saturday the 31st of March, 1990
Dr Raymond Crockett is struck off the medical register for using kidneys from Turkish immigrants who had been paid to donate them
Wednesday the 4th of April, 1990
Customs and Excise officers seize parts of an Iraqi supergun in Middlesbrough
Wednesday the 11th of April, 1990
Stephen Hendry, 21, becomes the youngest ever world snooker champion
Sunday the 29th of April, 1990
British agriculture Minister John Gummer feeds a hamburger to his 5-year-old daughter to counter rumours about the spread of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its transmission to humans
Saturday the 19th of May, 1990
France bans British beef and live cattle imports as a precaution against fears of BSE being spread
Wednesday the 30th of May, 1990
Girobank Plc privatised by sale to the Alliance & Leicester Group
Monday the 2nd of July, 1990
Nigel Mansell, Britain's most successful racing driver of the last 10 years, announces that he is to retire from Grand Prix races at the end of the 1990 season
Monday the 16th of July, 1990
German food superstore chain Aldi opens its first British store in Birmingham and plans to have up to 200 stores across the country by 1993
Tuesday the 17th of July, 1990
An IRA bomb explodes at Stock Exchange Tower, the base of the London Stock Exchange
Friday the 20th of July, 1990