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 on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Jim &Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!) in the year 1989.   

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

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

Jan 04   In the year 1989 comet Tempel 1 at perihelion   

Jan 04   Two Libyan jets are shot down by US aircraft in the Mediterranen on this day in history.   

Jan 04   On this day in history uS F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean   

Jan 04   In the year 1989 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 in the year 1989.   

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

Jan 07   British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway on this day in history.   

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

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   6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax) on this day in history.   

Jan 12   In the year 1989 idi Amin expelled from Zaire   

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

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

Jan 13   On this day in history ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq   

Jan 13   In the year 1989 soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13½ year run   

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   On this day in history 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   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   

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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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905) died on this day in history.   

Jan 13   Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51 in the year 1989.   

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