a b "The savage satire of '1984' still speaks to us today". The Independent. 7 June 1999. Archived from the original on 7 January 2023 . Retrieved 7 January 2023. Mar 1989 US Supreme Court upholds one person one vote rule of New York City, New York Board of Estimate. Publication of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2023 . Retrieved 29 December 2022. Feb 1989 The Los Angeles, California, City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons. Go No More a-Rushing (Riddle Song)". Sniff.numachi.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2021 . Retrieved 2 January 2012.

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was the hunting accident. Then, in 1988, he'd crashed in one of the Classics, gouging his chin and damaging his tendon. Every time he tried to ride again, it would seize up and he wouldn't even be able to pedal. Every day for a week he tried, until he couldn't even walk any more. We should have probably got a surgeon to do it right away, but it took until July for him to be operated on. So the beginning of 1989 felt like he was almost starting over. a b Aaronovitch, David (8 February 2013). "1984: George Orwell's road to dystopia". BBC News. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018 . Retrieved 8 February 2013. References to the themes, concepts and plot of Nineteen Eighty-Four have appeared frequently in other works, especially in popular music and video entertainment. An example is the worldwide hit reality television show Big Brother, in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Nov 1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.

The book is narrated by Freddie Montgomery, a 38-year-old scientist, who murders a servant girl during an attempt to steal a painting from a neighbour. Freddie is an aimless drifter, and though he is a perceptive observer of himself and his surroundings, he is largely amoral. Apr 1989 NATO debates modernising short range missiles although the U.S. and U.K. are in favour, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision. Jun 1989 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, is adopted.Wilmut, Roger; Grafton, Jimmy (1976). The Goon Show Companion: A History and Goonography. Robson Books. p.56. By 1989, Nineteen Eighty-Four had been translated into 65 languages, more than any other novel in English at that time. [114] Cultural impact [ edit ] "Happy 1984" (in Spanish or Portuguese) stencil graffito, denoting mind control via a PlayStation controller, on a standing piece of the Berlin Wall, 2005