[Stateside Twins' Eyeshot]See Through The Morning Fog

1989 - The Ayatollah Khomeini dies in Iran, while Bush is inaugurated as the 41st US president, and Quayle becomes vice-president. Libyan leader Muammar al Qaddafi signs a peace treaty with Chad. Soviet forces complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan while the civil war continues, and US forces invade Panama.

Here is an article from The Washington Post, June 6th, 1989:
IT HAS been only 10 years since most Americans heard of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who led Iran's revolution against the shah and its war against Iraq and who created an Islamic republic defying the values of Western liberalism. Not long into that decade, the ayatollah, who died last weekend at age 89, not only had become a household name in this country, he had also embarked on the deeds that made him in his taunting way America's public enemy No. 1.