The Bigger Events of 1989
JANUARY 4
U.S. planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean.
JANUARY 7
Emperor Hirohito of Japan dead at 87.
JANUARY 20
George Herbert Walker Bush inaugurated as 41st U.S. President.
FEBRUARY 14
Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman
Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses."
MARCH 24
Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's
Prince William Sound.
APRIL 19
Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in
rally for democracy.
MAY 4
U.S. jury convicts Oliver North in Iran-Contra affair.
MAY
More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across
nation.
MAY 25
Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet president.
JUNE 4
Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward
demonstrators.
AUGUST 9
Army Gen. Colin R. Powell is first black chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.
AUGUST 14
P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's president
AUGUST 29
Voyager 2 spacecraft speeds by Neptune after making startling discoveries about
the planet and its moons.
NOVEMBER 9
Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership.
NOVEMBER 11
After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West.
NOVEMBER 30
Czech Parliament ends Communists' dominant role.
DECEMBER 15
Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government.
DECEMBER 25
President Ceausescu and wife executed.
DECEMBER 24
U.S. troops invade Panama, seeking capture of Gen. Manuel Noriega ... resistance
to U.S. collapses.
Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize.
DAY BY DAY HAPPENINGS
In January 1989 ...
1989 (01 jan) New York City NY transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
1989 (01 jan) Year of the Young Reader begins
1989 (02 jan) Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
1989 (02 jan) UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
1989 (03 jan) Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
1989 (03 jan) Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
1989 (04 jan) Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
1989 (04 jan) Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare
himself President
1989 (04 jan) US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1989 (05 jan) 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on
3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
1989 (05 jan) Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
1989 (07 jan) British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway
1989 (07 jan) International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens
in Paris
1989 (07 jan) NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11); Cavaliers block
21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
1989 (07 jan) Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
1989 (07 jan) Cleveland Cavaliers block 21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation
game record
1989 (08 jan) Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
1989 (08 jan) "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York
City NY after 3,486 performances
1989 (08 jan) "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater New York
City NY after 761 performances
1989 (08 jan) Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
1989 (09 jan) "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
1989 (09 jan) Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of
Fame
1989 (11 jan) 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
1989 (11 jan) Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
1989 (11 jan) Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game
against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
1989 (12 jan) 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
1989 (12 jan) Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
1989 (13 jan) "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers
in Britain
1989 (13 jan) Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a
teammate
1989 (13 jan) Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
1989 (13 jan) Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½
year run
1989 (13 jan) Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
1989 (13 jan) Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
1989 (14 jan) 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
1989 (14 jan) "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New
York City NY after 297 performances
1989 (14 jan) 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford
England
1989 (14 jan) Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
1989 (15 jan) "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New
York City NY after 176 performances
1989 (15 jan) 10th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 35 awards
1989 (15 jan) Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
1989 (15 jan) Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
1989 (15 jan) Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
1989 (16 jan) USSR announces plan for 2-year manned mission to Mars
1989 (16 jan) Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1989 (17 jan) Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
1989 (17 jan) Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain,
30 wounded
1989 (17 jan) Victoria Murden & Shirley Metz are 1st women to reach South
Pole overland (on skis)
1989 (17 jan) Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in
Miami
1989 (18 jan) Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 (18 jan) Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
1989 (18 jan) IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
1989 (18 jan) Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1989 (18 jan) West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1989 (19 jan) President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds
for Nixon
1989 (20 jan) Bush inaugurated as 41st President & Quayle becomes 44th Vice
President
1989 (20 jan) Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year,
since 1840, to leave office alive
1989 (20 jan) Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
1989 (21 jan) A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football
player
1989 (21 jan) Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time
scorer
1989 (22 jan) Super Bowl XXIII San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals,
20-16 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Jerry Rice, San Francisco, Wide Receiver
1989 (22 jan) USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk
USSR
1989 (23 jan) Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme
Court
1989 (23 jan) NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
1989 (24 jan) 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
1989 (25 jan) Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1989 (25 jan) Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
1989 (25 jan) Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma
Transmission
1989 (26 jan) AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
1989 (26 jan) Madison Square Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
1989 (26 jan) US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
1989 (26 jan) "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater New York
City NY for 829 performances
1989 (26 jan) Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
1989 (26 jan) Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia vs West Indies, Sydney
1989 (27 jan) Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 (27 jan) Oklahoma's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Oklahoma
grad student
1989 (27 jan) German war criminals Fischer & Austrian der Fünten freed
1989 (28 jan) 46th Golden Globes Rain Man, Working Girl
1989 (28 jan) 63rd Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova
(64 64)
1989 (28 jan) Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 vs West Indies at SCG
1989 (29 jan) Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989 (29 jan) Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-point loss since October 1987; index
at 2,256.43
1989 (29 jan) Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1989 (29 jan) L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
1989 (29 jan) USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1989 (29 jan) 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir
(62 62 62)
1989 (29 jan) Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1989 (29 jan) Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of
use New York Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
1989 (29 jan) NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 34-3
1989 (29 jan) Orlando Arena opens
1989 (30 jan) Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
1989 (30 jan) Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for
killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
1989 (30 jan) 16th American Music Award Randy Travis & George Michael win
1989 (30 jan) 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1989 (30 jan) Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
In February 1989 ...
1989 (01 feb) Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989 (01 feb) Princess Diana of England visits New York NY
1989 (02 feb) 0ºF (-18ºC) or below in 15 US states
1989 (02 feb) F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's
Nationalist Party leader
1989 (02 feb) NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president
1989 (03 feb) Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
1989 (03 feb) Start 1st Test Cricket, New Zealand vs Pakistan, washed out
1989 (04 feb) Dean Jones scores 216 vs West Indies at the Adelaide Oval
1989 (05 feb) Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
1989 (06 feb) Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government
1989 (07 feb) Tennis superstar Björn Börg, apparently attempts suicide
in Milan
1989 (07 feb) 40th NHL All-Star Game Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton
1989 (08 feb) 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
1989 (08 feb) Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 (08 feb) US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
1989 (09 feb) Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 (09 feb) Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1989 (10 feb) Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1989 (10 feb) Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St
Louis MO
1989 (10 feb) To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition
& not a sport, in a New Jersey court
1989 (10 feb) Celtic Kansas City Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected
to NBA Hall of Fame
1989 (10 feb) Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
1989 (10 feb) Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pakistan vs New Zealand age
16 years 189 days
1989 (10 feb) Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
1989 (10 feb) US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 (11 feb) Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
1989 (11 feb) US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1989 (12 feb) 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses"
novel
1989 (12 feb) Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal
season
1989 (12 feb) Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco,
80 days 20 hours
1989 (12 feb) 39th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 143-134 at Houston
1989 (12 feb) 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Larry Mowry
1989 (12 feb) US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
1989 (13 feb) Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling
cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
1989 (13 feb) Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
1989 (13 feb) Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
1989 (14 feb) Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican
Republic
1989 (14 feb) Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster
1989 (14 feb) African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 (14 feb) Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million
bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
1989 (14 feb) World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
1989 (15 feb) Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
1989 (15 feb) Soviet military occupation of Afghánistán ends
1989 (16 feb) Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
1989 (16 feb) Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
1989 (16 feb) Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs record $7.5M-3 year contract
1989 (16 feb) Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 (16 feb) William Hayden becomes governor-General of Australia
1989 (17 feb) 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
1989 (17 feb) Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
1989 (17 feb) Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common
market
1989 (17 feb) Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 (17 feb) Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
1989 (17 feb) USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1989 (18 feb) Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at the same time being
accused of fathering children by 2 other women
1989 (18 feb) Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
1989 (19 feb) Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3 million) "Legs Diamond"
closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
1989 (19 feb) Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
1989 (20 feb) Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion
because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1989 (20 feb) Total eclipse of the Moon
1989 (21 feb) US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1
billion street value)
1989 (21 feb) Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
1989 (22 feb) 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1989 (22 feb) UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate
fraud"
1989 (22 feb) US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman
Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1989 (22 feb) 31st Grammy Awards Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
1989 (22 feb) Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart
stress
1989 (22 feb) New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
1989 (24 feb) Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his
wife
1989 (24 feb) 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1989 (24 feb) Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
1989 (24 feb) US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
1989 (24 feb) US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 (25 feb) 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
1989 (25 feb) Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1989 (25 feb) Javed Miandad scores 271 vs New Zealand at Eden Park
1989 (25 feb) Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
1989 (25 feb) Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1989 (26 feb) New York Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
1989 (26 feb) "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater
NYC for 634 performances
1989 (26 feb) Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
1989 (26 feb) California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million
breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
1989 (26 feb) Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
1989 (27 feb) German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in
Holland
1989 (28 feb) Memo by Bryant Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes
public
1989 (28 feb) Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
1989 (28 feb) Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame
In March 1989 ...
1989 (01 mar) Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in
1981
1989 (01 mar) Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989 (01 mar) Julianne Phillips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
1989 (02 mar) 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production
by 2000
1989 (02 mar) Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of
oil
1989 (02 mar) Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi
commercial
1989 (02 mar) NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers win 22nd straight home game
1989 (02 mar) New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
1989 (03 mar) Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
1989 (03 mar) Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra
1989 (04 mar) Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
1989 (04 mar) Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 (04 mar) Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43 meter)
1989 (05 mar) 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
1989 (05 mar) Blaine McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
1989 (05 mar) Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 meter indoor (8 :3.82)
1989 (06 mar) Yankees beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
1989 (07 mar) Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's
book "The Satanic Verses"
1989 (07 mar) Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
1989 (08 mar) "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for
621 performances
1989 (08 mar) Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60 meter hurdles (7.37
seconds)
1989 (09 mar) Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
1989 (09 mar) Roger Kingdom runs world record 60 meter hurdles indoor (7.36
seconds)
1989 (09 mar) Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 (09 mar) Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 (09 mar) US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 (12 mar) 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 (12 mar) 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 (12 mar) Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1989 (13 mar) 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 (13 mar) FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 (13 mar) US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1989 (15 mar) "Les Miserables" opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 (15 mar) Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet
position
1989 (15 mar) New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1989 (17 mar) "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1989 (17 mar) Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1989 (18 mar) 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth
1989 (18 mar) California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
1989 (18 mar) Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 points in
a game
1989 (19 mar) Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
1989 (19 mar) Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
1989 (19 mar) World Ice Dance Championship in Paris France won by M Klimova
& S Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 (19 mar) World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won
by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 (19 mar) World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by
Midori Ito (Japan)
1989 (19 mar) World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by
Kurt Browning (Canada)
1989 (20 mar) Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
1989 (20 mar) Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA
1989 (21 mar) 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
1989 (22 mar) NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner
after 29 years
1989 (22 mar) US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board
of Estimate
1989 (23 mar) 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1989 (23 mar) Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter
1989 (24 mar) Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", 1st time seen on TV since
1973
1989 (24 mar) Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons
off Alaska
1989 (25 mar) "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1989 (26 mar) 1st free elections in USSR: 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 (26 mar) Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1989 (27 mar) 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations" premieres on
NBC-TV
1989 (27 mar) Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji
Trophy
1989 (28 mar) New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a
New York court
1989 (29 mar) 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
1989 (29 mar) 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight
(New Mexico)
1989 (29 mar) 61st Academy Awards: "Rainman", Dustin Hoffman &
Jodie Foster win
1989 (29 mar) 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins
1989 (29 mar) I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris France
1989 (29 mar) Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering
1989 (31 mar) Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
In April 1989 ...
1989 (01 apr) 1st NY Met-NY Yankee game in NYC since 1983, Yanks win 4-3
1989 (01 apr) A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of
baseball
1989 (02 apr) Wrestlemania V-Hulk Hogan beats Randy "Macho Man" Savage
1989 (02 apr) Yanks beat Mets 4-0, sweeping 1989 mayor's trophy series in 2
games
1989 (03 apr) "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for
the Bronx
1989 (03 apr) Michigan beats Seaton Hall for NCAA basketball title
1989 (04 apr) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
1989 (04 apr) NY Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th
win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
1989 (05 apr) David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
1989 (05 apr) Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning
streak
1989 (05 apr) Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
1989 (07 apr) NY Supreme Court takes America's Cup away from SD Yacht Club for
1989 (07 apr) Soviet sub sinks in Norweign Sea, with about a dozen deaths
using a catamaran against NZ. Appeals court eventually overrules
1989 (08 apr) Entertainment Tonights Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman
1989 (09 apr) Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his
car
1989 (09 apr) Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt & loses Masters golf tournament
1989 (10 apr) Intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip
1989 (11 apr) 1st playoff goal scored by a goalee, Ron Hextall of the Phila
Flyers, scores short-handed into an empty net beating Caps 8-5
1989 (12 apr) Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through
1989 (15 apr) 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
1989 (15 apr) South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
1989 (15 apr) Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois
1989 (16 apr) Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 (17 apr) Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week
1989 (17 apr) Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros
1989 (18 apr) Zimbabwe gains independence
1989 (19 apr) Kevin Elster (NY Mets), sets errorless shortstop mark at 73
1989 (19 apr) Republic Day in Sierra Leone
1989 (22 apr) Nolan Ryan strikesout his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
1989 (23 apr) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker
1989 (23 apr) Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
1989 (24 apr) 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
1989 (24 apr) Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1989 (25 apr) Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
1989 (25 apr) Penguin Mario Lemuix ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st
period
1989 (26 apr) AT&T announces NJ's 201 area code will split into 908 &
201
1989 (26 apr) Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
1989 (27 apr) Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
1989 (27 apr) Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
1989 (30 apr) Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
1989 (30 apr) US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
In May 1989 ...
1989 (01 may) 135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to the public
1989 (01 may) Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
1989 (01 may) US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non-discriminatory
reasons for not hiring or promoting
1989 (04 may) Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit homerun on 1st at
bat
1989 (04 may) US launches Magellan to Venus
1989 (04 may) US space shuttle STS-30 launched
1989 (05 may) Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany
NY
1989 (06 may) 115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in
2:05
1989 (07 may) Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
1989 (07 may) Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030
feet
1989 (07 may) Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
1989 (08 may) Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & "Ferry
Cross the Mersey"
1989 (08 may) US space shuttle STS-30 lands
1989 (09 may) "Sarafina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
1989 (09 may) Journalists petition Chinese Government for freedom of press
1989 (09 may) New York Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at
shortstop
1989 (09 may) New York Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as
catcher
1989 (09 may) Vice President Dan Quayle says in United Negro College Fund speech:
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is
terrible thing to waste"
1989 (10 may) FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II
1989 (10 may) General Manuel Noriega's Government nullifies country's elections,
which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin
1989 (11 may) 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
1989 (11 may) France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 (11 may) Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant
herds
1989 (11 may) President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama
1989 (12 may) "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
1989 (12 may) Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
1989 (12 may) Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
1989 (13 may) Approximately 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen
Square, China
1989 (13 may) Minnesota Twin Kirby Puckett becomes the 35th to hit 4 doubles
in a game
1989 (13 may) Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world
soccer cup
1989 (14 may) "Moonlighting", TV Crime Drama, last airs on ABC
1989 (14 may) 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby
Puckett)
1989 (14 may) 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1989 (14 may) Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1989 (14 may) Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
1989 (14 may) Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
1989 (15 may) "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances
1989 (15 may) Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito
Gaston
1989 (15 may) Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie
despite threat of boycott by right to lifers
1989 (15 may) Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit
in 30 years
1989 (15 may) US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
1989 (16 may) Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng
Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
1989 (17 may) Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
1989 (17 may) Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
1989 (17 may) Nelson Mandela receives a BA degree from University of South Africa
1989 (17 may) Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned
for $825 million
1989 (18 may) Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
1989 (19 may) Dow Jones average passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
1989 (19 may) Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
1989 (20 may) 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in
1:53.8
1989 (20 may) China declares martial law in Beijing
1989 (20 may) Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live
1989 (20 may) Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest
top
1989 (21 may) 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez (her 3rd LPGA
championship)
1989 (23 may) 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
1989 (23 may) Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
1989 (23 may) Cleveland loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub
.500 team is in 1st place (American League East)
1989 (23 may) Lincoln Square in the Bronx is named
1989 (24 may) "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres
1989 (24 may) AC Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona
1989 (24 may) French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 (24 may) New York Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3
innings before giving up his 1st run of the season
1989 (24 may) NHL's New York Rangers fire general manager & coach Phil Esposito
1989 (24 may) Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack
1989 (25 may) Eastern Airlines graduates its 1st class of non-union pilots
1989 (25 may) Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montréal for Randy Johnson
1989 (25 may) Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
1989 (25 may) Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montréal Canadiens, 4
games to 2
1989 (25 may) Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy"
1989 (26 may) At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 second silence, honoring radio
1989 (26 may) Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1989 (26 may) US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 (28 may) Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1989 (28 may) Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
1989 (28 may) Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Indianapolis 500 with an average speed
of 167.581 mph
1989 (29 may) Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires
1989 (29 may) Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica
of the Statue of Liberty
1989 (30 may) Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's
house
1989 (31 may) "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM
(NYC)
1989 (31 may) 1st International Rock Awards
1989 (31 may) Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigns
In June 1989 ...
1989 (02 jun) 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling
Bee
1989 (02 jun) Cincinatti Red Eric Davis hits for the cycle
1989 (02 jun) Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting
students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1989 (03 jun) Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
1989 (03 jun) Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone
1989 (03 jun) Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
1989 (03 jun) Troops in China shoot & kill 100s of students demonstrating
for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1989 (04 jun) Beijing cop shoots & wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
1989 (04 jun) Eastern Europe's 1st somewhat free election in 40 years held in
Poland
1989 (04 jun) Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
1989 (04 jun) Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue
Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway
1989 (05 jun) Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires
1989 (05 jun) Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt"
1989 (05 jun) Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Mil Brewers win 5-3
1989 (06 jun) Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
1989 (07 jun) 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires
1989 (07 jun) Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons
1989 (07 jun) Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years
1st Baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors, as Toronto Blue
Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2
1989 (09 jun) "Star Trek V" premiers
1989 (09 jun) Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football
1989 (09 jun) Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to
finals
1989 (09 jun) Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
1989 (10 jun) Major French Open upset, as Spain's Arantxa Sanchez, 17 beats
heavily
favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title
1989 (11 jun) Youngest male French Open champ & 1st US champ since 1955,
Michael
Chang, 17, beats Stefan Edberg of Sweden
1989 (12 jun) Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
1989 (13 jun) Detroit sweeps Los Angeles, for the NBA championship
1989 (14 jun) Ground breaking begins in Minn on the world's largest mall
1989 (14 jun) Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 (14 jun) Pistons sweep LA for NBA title, Kareem Abdul Jabber's final NBA
game
1989 (14 jun) Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 (15 jun) Balt Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs Yankees)
1989 (15 jun) Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth
1989 (16 jun) "Ghostbusters II" premiers
1989 (16 jun) 4 golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open
are made all on the 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)
Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since the US open began, today 4 more
1989 (17 jun) US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 (18 jun) Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
1989 (18 jun) Curtis Strange wins his 2nd US golf open
1989 (21 jun) Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
1989 (21 jun) Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson remarry
1989 (21 jun) Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
1989 (23 jun) The movie "Batman" premiers
1989 (25 jun) 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall,
NYC)
1989 (26 jun) Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time
1989 (29 jun) Susan Lucci loses the daytime emmy for 10th straight year
1989 (30 jun) Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to
the UK
1989 (30 jun) Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old
girl
1989 (30 jun) NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
1989 (30 jun) NY State Legislature passes Staten Island seccession bill
In July 1989 ...
1989 (01 jul) Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1989 (01 jul) NFL owners vote unanimously to form the WLAF
1989 (01 jul) Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after
the
game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a doubleplay
1989 (03 jul) Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm
1989 (03 jul) Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
1989 (03 jul) The movie "Batman," set record of quickest $100 million
(10 days)
1989 (05 jul) Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408
1989 (05 jul) Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (to Kiner)
1989 (05 jul) Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself
out
1989 (05 jul) Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win
the AL East
1989 (06 jul) After 9 years, WHOT (Bkln pirate radio station) is busted by the
FCC
1989 (06 jul) US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
1989 (09 jul) 1st time Wimbeldon has both men & women's final on same day,
Boris
Becker beats Stefan Edberg & Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratilova
1989 (11 jul) AL beats NL 5-3, (3rd of last 4 All Star Games) in California
1989 (11 jul) President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All Star Game
1989 (12 jul) NY Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29
ERA)
1989 (14 jul) The 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premiers
1989 (17 jul) Paul McCartney releases "This One"
1989 (19 jul) United flight 232 crashes in Iowa
1989 (20 jul) 93ø F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix Arizona
1989 (21 jul) Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
1989 (21 jul) Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time
1989 (21 jul) Mike Tyson TKOs Carl "the Truth" Williams in 1:33 of
1st round
1989 (23 jul) FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
1989 (23 jul) Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
1989 (27 jul) Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
1989 (28 jul) Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to
hit
2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature
superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
1989 (29 jul) Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in
San Juan
1989 (29 jul) Phillies retire Steve Carltons # 32
1989 (29 jul) Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
In August 1989 ...
1989 (02 aug) NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune
designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
1989 (03 aug) 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
1989 (03 aug) Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
1989 (03 aug) Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
1989 (03 aug) Cincinnati Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits
in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in the 1st inning
1989 (04 aug) Blue Jays Dave Steib's perfect game broken up in 9th with 2 outs
by NY Yankee Roberto Kelly
1989 (06 aug) Boston Red Sox retire Carl Yastrezemski's #8
1989 (06 aug) Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
1989 (08 aug) US space shuttle STS-28 launched
1989 (11 aug) "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers
1989 (11 aug) Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
1989 (13 aug) US space shuttle STS-28 lands
1989 (16 aug) Roger Kingdom of USA sets the 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
1989 (18 aug) Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets the 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
1989 (19 aug) Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communmist president of Poland
1989 (21 aug) Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune
1989 (22 aug) 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1989 (22 aug) Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter
1989 (23 aug) LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings
1989 (24 aug) Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989 (24 aug) Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1989 (25 aug) Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT)
1989 (26 aug) Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League
WS
1989 (27 aug) 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
1989 (30 aug) Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
In September 1989 ...
1989 (01 sep) Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their seperation
1989 (02 sep) Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
1989 (05 sep) Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1989 (06 sep) Amateur Atheletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
1989 (09 sep) Steffi Graf beats Martina Navratalova for the US Open championship
1989 (10 sep) Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship
1989 (10 sep) East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary &
Czech)
1989 (11 sep) Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1989 (11 sep) KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
1989 (13 sep) Fay Vincent named baseball commissioner
1989 (14 sep) Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
1989 (16 sep) Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
1989 (17 sep) Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
1989 (17 sep) NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns
America's Cup back to the US (from New Zealand)
1989 (18 sep) Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
1989 (19 sep) Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
1989 (19 sep) Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court
gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
1989 (21 sep) Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
1989 (27 sep) Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
1989 (30 sep) NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
1989 (30 sep) Nolan Ryan's perfect game is broken with 1 out in the 8th, but
he strikes-out his 300th of the year
In October 1989 ...
1989 (01 oct) Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th
NFL tackle
1989 (01 oct) Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1989 (01 oct) US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
1989 (03 oct) Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1989 (07 oct) Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1989 (07 oct) Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1989 (09 oct) Penthouse Magazine's hebrew edition hits the newstands
1989 (09 oct) 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders
beat NY Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
1989 (12 oct) Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
1989 (13 oct) Dow Jones down 190.58 points
1989 (14 oct) Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085
yards
1989 (15 oct) Billy Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd
1989 (15 oct) S Afr pres FW de Klerk frees Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners
1989 (15 oct) Wayne Gretsky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer
1989 (17 oct) Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of 86th World Series -
kills 67
1989 (18 oct) US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into
orbit
1989 (20 oct) US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1989 (21 oct) Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
1989 (21 oct) Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a
game
1989 (21 oct) 1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major
sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
1989 (22 oct) Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald
Open
1989 (23 oct) George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89"
album
1989 (23 oct) US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from
space
1989 (24 oct) After a week's delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is
played (World Series #86)
1989 (24 oct) Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
1989 (28 oct) Oakland A's sweep SF Giants in earthquake/BART series
1989 (29 oct) NYC MTA opens the 63rd street extension to the subway
In November 1989 ...
1989 (01 nov) Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
1989 (03 nov) Minnesota Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, lose to Seattle, 106-94
1989 (04 nov) Orlando Magic's 1st NBA game, loses to Nets, 111-106
1989 (05 nov) 20th NYC Marathon (J Kanganaa 2h08m01s & Ingrid Kristiansen
2h25m28s)
1989 (05 nov) US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 (06 nov) US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
1989 (07 nov) Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (D-Va)
1989 (07 nov) NYC elects its 1st black mayor (Dinkins) & female comp (Holtzman)
1989 (09 nov) East Berlin opens its borders
1989 (10 nov) Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador
1989 (10 nov) Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
1989 (10 nov) Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
1989 (12 nov) Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1989 (13 nov) Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & Ou Est Le
Soleil"
1989 (15 nov) "Batman" is released on video tape
1989 (15 nov) Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1989 (16 nov) 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
1989 (17 nov) Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royal
contract
1989 (19 nov) US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifying for the 1990 world soccer cup
finals. It was US' 1st qualification since 1950
1989 (22 nov) Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the
Moon
1989 (22 nov) Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins
contract
1989 (22 nov) US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into
orbit
1989 (22 nov) Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike,
but most are not rehired
1989 (23 nov) Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1989 (24 nov) Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989 (27 nov) Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
1989 (27 nov) George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" & "Poor
Little Girl"
1989 (27 nov) US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from
space
1989 (28 nov) Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract
In December 1989 ...
1989 (01 dec) "Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
1989 (01 dec) East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution
1989 (01 dec) Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year California Angels
contract
1989 (01 dec) USSR President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at
the Vatican
1989 (02 dec) KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
1989 (02 dec) 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
1989 (02 dec) Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as President of India
1989 (03 dec) George Bush & Mikhail Gorbachev end summit in Malta
1989 (03 dec) Pat Bradley/Bill Glasson win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1989 (05 dec) France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
1989 (06 dec) Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogotá, kills
52
1989 (06 dec) Worst Canadian mass murder: Marc Lepine kills 14 women at University
of Montréal
1989 (07 dec) C Coleman & D Zippel's musical "City of Angels"
premieres in New York NY
1989 (08 dec) Great Britain performs nuclear test
1989 (09 dec) "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
Australia
1989 (10 dec) President Gustav Husák of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1989 (11 dec) Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year Kansas City Royals
contract
1989 (11 dec) "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878
performances
1989 (13 dec) Forced repatriation of Vietnamese in Hong Kong
1989 (13 dec) Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1989 (16 dec) Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart
(v SL)
1989 (16 dec) Geoff Marsh completes 355 for Western Australia against South
Australia
1989 (17 dec) 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
1989 (17 dec) Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president
1989 (17 dec) Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 South
Africa vs Western Australia)
1989 (17 dec) Patti Rizzo/Mike Hill win LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
1989 (18 dec) "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time
in over 30 years
1989 (18 dec) Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa" premieres in
New York NY
1989 (19 dec) American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
1989 (19 dec) Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
1989 (20 dec) US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch
him
1989 (20 dec) Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
1989 (21 dec) Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (he is executed
12/25)
1989 (21 dec) US invades Panama and ousts General Noriega
1989 (21 dec) Vice-President Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon
spelled beakon
1989 (22 dec) After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 (22 dec) Cold wave: -4ºF in Oklahoma City OK, -6ºF in Tulsa OK,
-12ºF in Pittsburgh PA, -18ºF in Denver CO, -23ºF in Kansas City
MO, -42ºF in Scottsbluff NE, -47ºF in Hardin MT & -60ºF in
Black Hills SD
1989 (22 dec) Chad adopts its Constitution
1989 (24 dec) Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at the Vatican
embassy
1989 (24 dec) Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
1989 (25 dec) Japanese scientist achieves -271.8ºC, coldest temp ever recorded
1989 (26 dec) ODI debut for Mark Taylor & Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG
1989 (27 dec) Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
1989 (28 dec) Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia
1989 (28 dec) Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
1989 (29 dec) Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
1989 (29 dec) Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova are named athletes of
the decade by the Associated Press
1989 (29 dec) Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
1989 (30 dec) 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
1989 (30 dec) Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50 meter freestyle (27.15 seconds)
1989 (31 dec) "Me & My Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after
1420 performances
1989 (31 dec) "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
after 65 performances
1989 (31 dec) Actress Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) weds Joe Petruzzi
1989 (31 dec) Fog Bowl: Heavy fog rolls in on Bears 20-12 victory over Eagles
1989 (31 dec) Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year