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

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 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 04   On this day in history two Libyan jets are shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen  

Jan 04   In the year 1989 uS F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean  

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

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

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

Jan 07   Akhito becomes emperor of Japan on this day in history.  

Jan 07   In the year 1989 british Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway  

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 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   In the year 1989 kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school  

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

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

Jan 13   On this day in history 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   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   Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000 in the year 1989.  

Jan 15   In the year 1989 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  

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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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Dec 29   On this day in history birth of nathan Forbes, British footballer  

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 on this day in history.  

Jan 08   Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64 on this day in history.  

Jan 09   On this day in history death of bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)  

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

Jan 13   In the year 1989 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   In the year 1989 pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82