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   Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its first commercial advertisement in the year 1989.  

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

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 in the year 1989.  

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

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

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   In the year 1989 akhito becomes emperor of Japan  

Jan 07   British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway in the year 1989.  

Jan 07   International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris in the year 1989.  

Jan 08   Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die in the year 1989.  

Jan 08   On this day in history soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons  

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

Jan 09   In the year 1989 johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame  

Jan 11   140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc) on this day in history.  

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   In the year 1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain  

Jan 13   Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51 on this day in history.  

Jan 13   In the year 1989 ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq  

Jan 13   Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½ year run on this day in history.  

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

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

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   In the year 1989 cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000  

Jan 15   In the year 1989 wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies  

Jan 16   Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82 on this day in history.  

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Jun 07   Michael Joseph Tamboli, Eldesburg Md, born 01:23:45 PM on 6-7-89 was born on this day in history.  

Jul 13   In the year 1989 birth of sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)  

Sep 02   In the year 1989 birth of alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer  

Sep 02   On this day in history birth of ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008)  

Dec 29   Nathan Forbes, British footballer was born in the year 1989.  

Jan 03   Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909) died in the year 1989.  

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

Jan 08   In the year 1989 johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64  

Jan 09   In the year 1989 death of bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)  

Jan 10   Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905) died in the year 1989.  

Jan 13   Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51 on this day in history.  

Jan 15   Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies in the year 1989.  

Jan 16   On this day in history pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82