– Ante Marković succeeds Branko Mikulić as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia. January 20 – George H. W. Bush is sworn in as the 41st President of the United States. January 23–24 – Armed civilian leftists briefly attack and occupy an Argentinian army base near Buenos Aires. January 30 Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney shuffles his cabinet, appointing six new ministers and reassigning the responsibilities of nineteen others. The Embassy of the United States, Kabul, Afghanistan, is closed; it does not reopen until late 2001. February February 1 – In Australia, Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC (Victorian Economic Development Co-operation) Crisis. February 2 Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet Union armoured column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military occupation since 1979. Carlos Andrés Pérez takes office as President of Venezuela. February 3 1989 Paraguayan coup d'état ("La Noche de la Candelaria"): A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954. After a stroke, State President of South Africa P. W. Botha resigns as Leader of the National Party. February 5 – Eurosport, a multiple-language sports broadcasting station in Europe, begins broadcasting, from Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, France. February 6 – The Government of the People's Republic of Poland holds formal talks with representatives of Solidarity movement for the first time since 1981. February 7 – The People's National Party, led by Michael Manley, wins the 1989 Jamaican general election. February 10 Ron Brown is elected as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party. U.S. President Bush meets Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Ottawa, laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of 1991. February 11 – Barbara Harris is the first woman consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (and also the first woman to become a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion). February 14 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470,000,000 to the Indian government for damages in the 1984 Bhopal disaster, a gas leak that killed 3.7 thousand. The Satanic Verses controversy: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (d. June 3), issues a fatwa calling for the death of Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for issuing the novel The Satanic Verses (1988). The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into