the junk bond market collapses. Gro Harlem Brundtland, leader of the Labour Party, resigns as Prime Minister of Norway. She is succeeded by Jan P. Syse, Leader of the Conservative Party, on October 16. October 15 – Walter Sisulu is released from prison in South Africa. October 17 – The 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people are killed and the 1989 World Series in baseball is postponed for ten days as a result of the earthquake. October 18 The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems, and is succeeded by Egon Krenz. The National Assembly of Hungary votes to restore multi-party democracy. NASA launches the unmanned Galileo orbiter on a mission to study the planet Jupiter, via Atlantis mission STS-34. October 19 – The Guildford Four are freed after fourteen years' imprisonment in Britain. October 21 – The Commonwealth Heads of Government issue the Langkawi Declaration on the Environment, making environmental sustainability one of the Commonwealth of Nations's main priorities. October 23 The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by President Mátyás Szűrös (replacing the Hungarian People's Republic), exactly 33 years after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The Phillips disaster, a chemical plant explosion, in Pasadena, Texas, kills 23 and injures 314 others. October 24 – The 1989 Bhagalpur violence, a major incident of religious violence, breaks out in Bhagalpur, Bihar, India; it will kill nearly 1,000 people. October 28 – The United States Flag Protection Act takes effect. There are mass protests in Seattle and New York City. October 30 – Shawn Eichman, Dave Blalock, Dread Scott and Joey Johnson burn American flags on the steps of U.S. Capitol Building to protest against the Flag Protection Act. October 31 The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Prime Minister Turgut Özal as the eighth President of Turkey. Half a million people demonstrate in the East German city of Leipzig. November November – The first commercial dial-up Internet connection in North America is made, by The World STD. November 1 The President of Nicaragua ends a ceasefire with U.S.-backed contras that has been in effect since April 1988. The border between East Germany and Czechoslovakia is reopened. November 3 – East German refugees arrive at the West German