UK, 
US, 
Australia, 
India & 
IrelandWhat Was 1989 Like in the US?
If you were born in 1989, you were born in the year the Cold War ended—not with the bang that everyone had been dreading, but with young people with sledgehammers chipping away at the Berlin Wall while crowds cheered on both sides.
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President
George H. W. Bush
Gas (per gallon)
$1.00
Loaf of Bread
$0.73
Average House
$107,600
Weekly Wage
$390
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