Historical Events In 1989

Jan 01   New York City NY transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15 in the year 1989.  

Jan 01   Year of the Young Reader begins in the year 1989.  

Jan 03   Jim &Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!) on this day in history.  

Jan 03   On this day in history russian newspaper Izvestia gets its first commercial advertisement  

Jan 04   In the year 1989 aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F. Kennedy shoot down 2 hostile Libyan Migs.  

Jan 04   Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion on this day in history.  

Jan 04   Two Libyan jets are shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen on this day in history.  

Jan 04   US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean on this day in history.  

Jan 04   On this day in history vice President Bush is first since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President  

Jan 05   In the year 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test  

Jan 06   Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign in the year 1989.  

Jan 07   In the year 1989 akhito becomes emperor of Japan  

Jan 07   British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway on this day in history.  

Jan 07   International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris on this day in history.  

Jan 08   On this day in history boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die  

Jan 08   Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons in the year 1989.  

Jan 09   In the year 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS  

Jan 09   On this day in history johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame  

Jan 11   140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc) in the year 1989.  

Jan 11   On this day in history kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school  

Jan 12   On this day in history 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)  

Jan 12   Idi Amin expelled from Zaire in the year 1989.  

Jan 13   On this day in history "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain  

Jan 13   Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51 in the year 1989.  

Jan 13   Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq on this day in history.  

Jan 13   Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½ year run in the year 1989.  

Jan 13   Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence on this day in history.  

Jan 14   On this day in history 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England  

Jan 14   29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris in the year 1989.  

Jan 14   Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped in the year 1989.  

Jan 15   In the year 1989 big John Studd wins WWF's first Royal Rumble  

Jan 15   On this day in history cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000  

Jan 15   On this day in history wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies  

Jan 16   Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82 in the year 1989.  

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Jun 07   On this day in history birth of michael Joseph Tamboli, Eldesburg Md, born 01:23:45 PM on 6-7-89  

Jul 13   Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume) was born in the year 1989.  

Sep 02   Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer was born on this day in history.  

Sep 02   In the year 1989 birth of ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008)  

Dec 29   In the year 1989 birth of nathan Forbes, British footballer  

Jan 03   Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909) died on this day in history.  

Jan 06   On this day in history hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign  

Jan 08   Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64 in the year 1989.  

Jan 09   Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898) died in the year 1989.  

Jan 10   Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905) died on this day in history.  

Jan 13   Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51 in the year 1989.  

Jan 15   On this day in history wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies  

Jan 16   Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82 in the year 1989.