Historical Events In 1989

Jan 01   New York City NY transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 03   In the year 1989 jim &Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)  

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

Jan 04   On this day in history aircraft (VF-32) from USS John F. Kennedy shoot down 2 hostile Libyan Migs.  

Jan 04   On this day in history comet Tempel 1 at perihelion  

Jan 04   In the year 1989 two Libyan jets are shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 07   On this day in history akhito becomes emperor of Japan  

Jan 07   On this day in history british Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway  

Jan 07   In the year 1989 international Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 09   "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS on this day in history.  

Jan 09   Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame in the year 1989.  

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

Jan 11   Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school on this day in history.  

Jan 12   In the year 1989 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)  

Jan 12   On this day in history idi Amin expelled from Zaire  

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

Jan 13   In the year 1989 joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51  

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 13� year run on this day in history.  

Jan 13   In the year 1989 subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence  

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

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

Jan 14   In the year 1989 former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped  

Jan 15   Big John Studd wins WWF's first Royal Rumble on this day in history.  

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

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  

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

Sep 02   On this day in history birth of alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer  

Sep 02   Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, Indian Playback Singer (d. 2008) was born in the year 1989.  

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

Jan 03   In the year 1989 death of sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)  

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

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 in the year 1989.  

Jan 13   On this day in history joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51  

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

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