1989: The Year of Tendulkar in Pictures
by Devanshu Mehta
Some facts, to help you gain an appreciation for just how long Tendulkar has been at this (see also: India Since Tendulkar):
Fall of the Berlin Wall, years before Dravid's debut
Ayatollah Khomeini dies in Iran
Rain Man wins Best Picture at the Oscars
The Tiananmen Square Massacre (that "did not happen")
Rajiv Gandhi loses re-election to VP Singh in India
The first full-length episodes of The Simpsons
The original Nintendo GameBoy is released
Seinfeld Premieres
Nicholae Ceausescu and wife are executed
Maine Pyar Kiya, Ram Lakhan and Tridev took the Bollywood box office by storm
Milli-Vanilli let us down, but Sachin didn't.
The first Batman movie is the highest grossing movie in the USA
Fatwa issued for Salman Rushdie
Time, Warner merge to become Time-Warner
Russian army pulls all troops out of Afghanistan
Jaspal Bhatti's Flop Show on Doordarshan
Daniel Radcliffe, future Harry Potter, is born
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar makes his debut against Pakistan
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- The Sachin Tendulkar Era (deepbackwardpoint.com)
Deep Backward Point 
Unbelievably, this was also a year in which you could not play cricket in a certain African nation if the colour of your skin was a wrong shade.