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1989




Events

   * January 7 - Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan
   * January 9 - The Sega Genesis is released in New York, New York and Los
     Angeles, California
   * January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola
   * January 24 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric
     chair.
   * January 30 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed and
     evacuated.
   * February 2 - Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union
     armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation.
   * February 3 - After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and
     the presidency of South Africa.
   * February 10 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National
     Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American
     political party.
   * February 11 - Barbara Clementine Harris is consecrated 1st female
     bishop in the Episcopalian Church.
   * February 14 - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470,000,000 to the Indian
     government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Tragedy.
   * February 14 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to
     kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
   * February 14 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning
     System is placed into orbit.
   * February 15 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: The Soviet Union
     officially announces that all of its troops had left Afghanistan.
   * February 16 - Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause
     of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.
   * February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a three-million-US
     dollar bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman
     Rushdie.
   * February 24 - A United Airlines Boeing 747 bound to New Zealand from
     Honolulu, Hawaii rips open during flight, sucking 9 passenger and crew
     out of the first class section. Luckily most passengers and crew were
     still belted to their seats at the time.
   * March 1 - The Berne Convention is ratified and enters into force with
     regard to the United States.
   * March 2 - 12 European Community nations agree to ban the production of
     all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end century.
   * March 4 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a
     merger forming Time-Warner.
   * March 9 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Airlines into
     bankruptcy.
   * March 14 - Gun control: President George H. W. Bush bans the
     importation of assault rifles into the United States.
   * March 18 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of
     Cheops.
   * March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce cold fusion at
     the University of Utah.
   * March 23 - A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth
     by 400,000 miles.
   * March 24 - The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska
   * April 7 - Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea
   * April 15 - Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies of
     European football, takes place
   * May 30 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess
     of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student
     demonstrators.
   * June 1 - The SkyDome stadium is opened in Toronto
   * June 4 - Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing and is
     covered live on television.
   * June 4 - Solidarity wins first free Polish election since WWII,
     inspiring a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in
     Eastern Europe.
   * July 19 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying United Airlines flight 232 crashes
     in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the
     pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive.
   * July 26 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student
     Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus becoming the
     first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse
     Act.
   * August - the asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid directly
     imaged, by radar from Arecibo
   * August 7 - US Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX), and 15 others die in a
     plane crash in Ethiopia.
   * August 8 - STS-28: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret
     five-day military mission.
   * August 18 - Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan is
     assassinated near Bogota in Columbia.
   * August 19 - Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity
     activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister, thus becoming the
     first non-communist in Polish power in 42 years.
   * August 20 - In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot
     their wealthy parents to death in their family's den.
   * September 15 - The Sega Genesis is released in the rest of North
     America
   * November 9 - The Berlin Wall comes down.
   * November 10 - The communist regime in Bulgaria is overthrown.
   * November 17 - Participants of peaceful student demonstration in Prague
     are severely beaten by the communist riot police. This date marks the
     commencement of the Velvet Revolution which saw the overthrow of the
     Communist government.
   * December 6 - The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre: an anti-feminist gunman
     murders fourteen young women at the ƒcole Polytechnique in Montreal.
   * December 22 - After a week bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes
     over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceau?escu's communist
     dictatorship.
   * December 29 - Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly
     repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
   * George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as President of the United
     States of America.
   * Rice University celebrates the demisesquicentennial anniversary of its
     founding.
   * Fernando Collor de Mello wins the first elections in Brazil in 29
     years.
   * Kamchatka opened to Russian civilian visitors.
   * Richard M. Daley elected mayor of Chicago.
   * Time and Warner companies merge to become Time Warner Inc.
   * Retirement of the Alize propeller-driven anti-submarine planes from
     carrier service in the British Royal Navy
   * The first national park, in Schiermonnikoog, is established in The
     Netherlands.
   * Soviet sub K-173, Chelyabinsk, commissioned.
   * The wreck of the Lady Elgin discovered off Highland Park, Illinois by
     Harry Zych.
   * Margaret Rey establishes the Curious George Foundation to help creative
     children and prevent cruelty to animals.
   * The most known child murder in Finland was done by Veikko "Jammu"
     Siltavuori, who abducted and murdered two 8 year old girls in Myllypuro
     suburb in Helsinki.
   * Nintendo released its popular handheld video game player, Game Boy

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1989 in film
        o May 24 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
        o Batman, directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton, Jack
          Nicholson and Kim Basinger.
        o Driving Miss Daisy
        o Born on the Fourth of July
        o Dead Poets Society
        o Field of Dreams
        o Godzilla vs Biollante
   * 1989 in literature
        o A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
        o Stephen R. Lawhead writes Arthur part of the Pendragon Cycle.
        o Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye is published.
        o Bill Watterson publishes Yukon Ho!.
   * 1989 in music
        o De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising helps invent the field of
          alternative rap
        o The Band are inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
        o Amon (later Deicide) releases Sacrificial.
   * 1989 in sports
        o January 22 - Super Bowl XXIII San Francisco 49ers (20) def.
          Cincinnati Bengals (16)
        o February 11 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill
          Trenary.
        o March 21 - Sports Illustrated reports allegations that tie Pete
          Rose to baseball gambling.
        o August 24 - Following allegations that he gambled on baseball,
          Baseball player Pete Rose is banned from baseball for life by
          commissioner Bart Giamatti
   * 1989 in television
        o The Seinfeld Chronicles premieres on NBC. The show would later be
          retitled Seinfeld and become one of the most popular sitcoms in
          television history.
        o The Simpsons premieres on FOX. The characters had first appeared
          two years earlier as a segment on the Tracey Ullman Show

Births

   * January 3 - Alex D. Linz, actor
   * July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe, actor

Deaths

   * January 7 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan
   * January 23 - Salvador Dal’, artist
   * January 24 - Ted Bundy, serial killer (electrocuted)
   * February 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer
   * February 6 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian
   * February 11 - George O'Hanlon, actor/director.
   * February 27 - Konrad Lorenz
   * March 9 - Robert Mapplethorpe, artist
   * April 26 - Lucille Ball, actress, comedienne
   * April 30 - Sergio Leone, director
   * May 20 - Gilda Radner, comedian, actress
   * June 28 - Joris Ivens, filmmaker
   * July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice actor
   * October 4 - Graham Chapman, comedian
   * November 5 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
   * November 11 - Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., former minister, former
     librarian and founder of the Kenneth M. Glazier Canadian Authors
     Collection at the University of Calgary, former Secretary of the
     Liberal Party in Alberta
   * December 22 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in
     literature 1969
   * December 25 - Nicolae Ceau?escu, former ruler of Romania is executed

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
   * Chemistry - Sidney Altman, Thomas R Cech
   * Medicine - J Michael Bishop, Harold E Varmus
   * Literature - Camilo JosŽ Cela
   * Peace - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
   * Economics - Trygve Haavelmo

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