respectively. Television debut of Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean in a Thames Television special on ITV in United Kingdom. January 3 – United States invasion of Panama: General Manuel Noriega is deposed as leader of Panama and surrenders to the American forces. January 11 – Singing Revolution: In the Lithuania SSR, 300,000 demonstrate for independence. January 12–19 – Most of the remaining 50,000 Armenians are driven out of Baku in the Azerbaijan SSR during the Baku pogrom. January 13 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia. January 15 The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party. Thousands storm the Stasi headquarters in East Berlin in an attempt to view their government records. Martin Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug. January 20 Cold War: Black January – Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, under the state of emergency decree issued by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, and kill over 130 protesters who were demonstrating for independence. The Nakhichevan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic declares its independence from the USSR. Clashes break out between Indian troops and Muslim separatists in Kashmir. The government of Haiti declares a state of emergency, under which it suspends civil liberties, imposes censorship, and arrests political opponents. The state of siege is lifted on January 29. January 22 – Robert Tappan Morris is convicted of releasing the Morris worm. January 25 Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, New York after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board. Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto gives birth to a girl, becoming the first modern head of government to bear a child while in office. Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Chad. January 25–26 – The Burns' Day storm kills 97 in northwestern Europe. January 27 – The city of Tiraspol in the Moldavian SSR briefly declares independence. January 28 – Four months after their exit from power, the Polish United Workers' Party votes to dissolve and reorganize as the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland. January 29 The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former