Historical Events In 1989

Jan 01   New York City NY transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15   

Jan 01   Year of the Young Reader begins   

Jan 03   Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!).   

Jan 03   Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its inaugural commercial advertisement.   

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

Jan 04   Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion.   

Jan 04   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   

Jan 04   Vice President Bush is inaugural since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President   

Jan 05   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   

Jan 07   Akhito is recorded as becoming emperor of Japan.   

Jan 07   British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway   

Jan 07   International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris   

Jan 08   Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die   

Jan 08   Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons   

Jan 09   "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS.   

Jan 09   Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame   

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

Jan 11   Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school   

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

Jan 12   Idi Amin expelled from Zaire.   

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

Jan 13   Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51   

Jan 13   Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) are discovered in Iraq   

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

Jan 13   Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence.   

Jan 14   1000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England.   

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

Jan 14   Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped.   

Jan 15   Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22600000   

Jan 15   In this year, Big John Studd claims WWF's inaugural Royal Rumble   

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

Jan 16   In this year, Three days of riots begin in Miami after a police officer shoots and results in the deaths of a black motorcyclist, which also claims the life of the passenger in the ensuing crash   

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Jun 07   Michael joseph tamboli: Eldesburg md, born 01:23:45 pm on 6-7-89   

Jul 13   Sayumi michishige: Japanese singer (morning musume)   

Sep 02   Alexandre pato: Brazilian footballer   

Sep 02   Ishmeet singh sodhi: Indian playback singer    

Dec 29   Nathan forbes: British footballer   

Jan 03   Sergei lvovich sobolev: Russian mathematician (b. 1909)   

Jan 06   Hirohito: Japan`s emperor (1922-89),    

Jan 08   Johnny jordaan: [jan van musscher], dutch folk singer,    

Jan 09   Bill terry: Baseball player (b. 1898)   

Jan 10   Herbert morrison: American radio reporter (b. 1905)   

Jan 13   Joe spinell: Actor (maniac, star crash, strike force),    

Jan 15   Wilf slack: Cricketer (whilst bat in gambia england player 1986),    

Jan 16   Pierre boileau: Screenwriter (vertigo),