Page 14: Historical Events In 1989

Aug 11   "Nightmare on Elm Street 5 The Dream Child" premiers   

Aug 11   John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies   

Aug 11   Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune   

Aug 13   Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS   

Aug 13   US space shuttle STS-28 lands   

Aug 15   F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies   

Aug 16   Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58.   

Aug 18   Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies   

Aug 19   Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected inaugural non-communmist president of Poland   

Aug 20   In Ethiopia a 6.3 earthquake killed 2, injured 2 and damage and rockslides caused in the Galafi-Yoboki area.   

Aug 21   Fifty-one people drown in the River Thames, London when a dredger rams the pleasure cruiser Marchioness.   

Aug 21   Soviet Union reveals deadliest weapon in its air force arsenal, needle-nosed bomber that NATO calls the Blackjack   

Aug 21   Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune.   

Aug 22   The inaugural complete ring around Neptune discovered   

Aug 23   Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies.   

Aug 24   Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.   

Aug 24   Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling.   

Aug 24   Voyager 2 flies past Neptune   

Aug 25   Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80   

Aug 25   Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT).   

Aug 26   Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies   

Aug 26   Trumbull Conn, is inaugural US team since 1983 to win Little League WS   

Aug 27   100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings   

Aug 29   Off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico a 6.7 quake was felt along the coast of Jalisco. Also felt at Guadalajara and in the southern part of the Mexico City area.   

Aug 30   Joe De Santis, dies at 80   

Aug 30   Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner   

Sep 01   A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51.   

Sep 01   Major League Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti dies of a heart attack at age 51.   

Sep 01   Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announce their seperation   

Sep 02   A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51.   

Sep 02   Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst   

Sep 03   A Cuban jetliner crashes shortly after takeoff in Havana, killing 152 people   

Sep 04   Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer/director (Maigret), dies at 86.   

Sep 05   Deborah Norville is recorded as becoming news anchor of the Today Show.   

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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),