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Hopman Cup
Jan 1 1st Hopman Cup Tennis, Perth: Helena Suková & Miloslav Mečíř win inaugural event for Czechoslovakia; beat Australian pair Hana Mandlíková & Pat Cash 6-2, 6-4 for 2-0 victory
- Jan 2 UCLA beats Arkansas Razorbacks, 17-3 to win the Cotton Bowl Classic in Dallas; record 7th consecutive football bowl game victory for the Bruins
- Jan 2 75th Rose Bowl: #11 Michigan beats #5 Southern California, 22-14
- Jan 2 55th Sugar Bowl: #4 Florida State beats #7 Auburn, 13-7
- Jan 2 18th Fiesta Bowl: #1 Notre Dame beats #3 West Virginia, 34-21 for the national title
- Jan 2 55th Orange Bowl: #2 Miami (FL) beats #6 Nebraska, 23-3
- Jan 2 "Superwoman" single released by Karyn White (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
- Jan 3 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
- Jan 4 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
- Jan 4 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
Historic Event
Jan 4 George H. W. Bush is 1st sitting Vice President since Millard Filmore (in 1850) to declare himself President of the United States
- Jan 7 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
- Jan 7 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers then longest winning streak (11 games)
- Jan 7 Cleveland Cavaliers block 21 NY Knicks shots tying NBA regulation game record
- Jan 8 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances
- Jan 8 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater in NYC after 761 performances
- Jan 8 Boeing 737-400 crashes at Kegworth, England, 46 die
- Jan 8 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
- Jan 8 Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
- Jan 8 AFC Championship, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Bengals beat Buffalo Bills, 21-10
- Jan 8 NFC Championship, Soldier Field, Chicago: San Francisco 49ers beat Chicago Bears, 28-3
- Jan 9 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
Hall of Fame
Jan 9 Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Sports History
Jan 10 LA Kings center Wayne Gretzky becomes NHL’s all-time leading scorer in combined regular season & playoff points; 4 assists in 5-4 home win over Edmonton brings his total to 2,011, 1 more than Gordie Howe
- Jan 11 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
- Jan 11 Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
- 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 13 "Ryan's Hope" ends 13½ year run on ABC-TV
- Jan 13 Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th"/Jerusalem virus
- Jan 13 Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
- Jan 13 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
- Jan 13 Subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
Television Debut
Jan 13 British comedy sketch show series "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie debuts on BBC1
- Jan 14 "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 performances
Historic Event
Jan 14 1,000 muslims burn Salman 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 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 performances
- Jan 15 Big John Studd wins WWF's 2nd Royal Rumble
- Jan 15 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $22.6 million
- Jan 15 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins the Golden CableACE for "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam"
- Jan 16 USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
- Jan 16 5th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
- Jan 17 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
- Jan 17 Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
- Jan 17 Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
- Jan 18 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
- Jan 18 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
- Jan 18 West Indies beat Australia in a rain-affected 3rd final in Sydney to win cricket's World Series Cup Tri-Series, 2-1; match reduced to 18 overs
Hall of Fame
Jan 18 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Dion; Otis Redding; The Rolling Stones; The Temptations; Stevie Wonder; The Ink Spots; Bessie Smith; The Soul Stirrers; and Phil Spector
Sports History
Jan 19 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
- Jan 20 George H. W. Bush inaugurated as 41st US President, Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President
- Jan 20 Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
Sports History
Jan 20 Pittsburgh center Mario Lemieux becomes just the 2nd player in NHL history to score 50 goals in less than 50 games; #50 in 44th game as the Penguins lose 7-3 to the Jets in Winnipeg
- Jan 21 A woman is assaulted and raped in room of an Oklahoma football player
- Jan 21 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
- Jan 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Super Bowl
Jan 22 Super Bowl XXIII, Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami, FL: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16; MVP: Jerry Rice, SF, WR
Super Bowl
Jan 22 After winning his third Super Bowl as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Bill Walsh retires
- Jan 23 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
- Jan 23 NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
- Jan 23 100s feared dead after a powerful earthquake strikes the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tajikistan
- Jan 24 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
- Jan 25 Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
Sports History
Jan 25 Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
- Jan 25 NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
- Jan 25 Mario Lemieux scores a goal and 3 assists in Penguins' 5-4 win over Winnipeg in Pittsburgh; sets NHL record by picking up a point in 14 consecutive games; record stands for 10 years
- Jan 26 "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
- Jan 26 AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
Sports History
Jan 26 Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
- Jan 26 Madison Square Garden announces 2-year $100m renovation plan
- Jan 26 Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney
- Jan 26 US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
- Jan 27 German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed
- Jan 27 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
- Jan 27 Oklahoma linebacker Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Oklahoma grad student
Sports History
Jan 27 Detroit Red Wings center Steve Yzerman becomes the 4th NHL player to record 100 points in 50 games or less with a goal and 2 assists as Red Wings beat Toronto, 8-1
Golden Globes
Jan 28 46th Golden Globes: "Rain Man", Dustin Hoffman, & Jodie Foster win
Sports History
Jan 28 David Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG
Australian Open Women's Tennis
Jan 28 Australian Open Women's Tennis: Steffi Graf of Germany beats Czech Helena Suková 6-4, 6-4 for her 6th career Grand Slam title and her 2nd Australian singles crown
- Jan 29 Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
- Jan 29 Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
- Jan 29 Episcopal Church of the United States appoints Barbara Harris as its first female bishop
- Jan 29 L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
- Jan 29 NFL Pro Bowl, Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI: NFC beats AFC, 34-3; MVP: Randall Cunningham, Philadelphia Eagles, QB
- Jan 29 Orlando Arena opens in Orlando, Florida
- Jan 29 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
Sports History
Jan 29 Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
Australian Men's Tennis Open
Jan 29 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Ivan Lendl wins his first Australian title; beats fellow Czech Miloslav Mecii 6-2, 6-2, 6-2
- Jan 29 5th Sundance Film Festival: "True Love" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Music Awards
Jan 30 16th American Music Awards: Randy Travis and George Michael win
- Jan 30 Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
- Jan 30 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
- Jan 30 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
- Jan 30 Olympian Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
- Jan 30 The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
- Feb 1 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
Historic Event
Feb 1 Diana, Princess of Wales visits New York City
Historic Event
Feb 2 F. W. de Klerk replaces P. W. Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
- Feb 3 Baseball's National League announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will its 1st African American President
Coup d'état
Feb 3 Military coup overthrows Paraguayan Dictator Alfredo Stroessner who flees to Brazil
Historic Event
Feb 6 Solidarity union leader Lech Wałęsa begins negotiating with Polish government
- Feb 7 40th NHL All-Star Game, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 9-5; MVP: Wayne Gretzky, LA Kings, C
Sports History
Feb 7 Tennis superstar Björn Borg apparently attempts suicide in Milan
- Feb 8 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
- Feb 8 American jockey Chris Antley begins record 64-day consecutive winning streak; ends 1 May and includes 147 winners from 486 mounts
- Feb 8 US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
- Feb 9 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
- Feb 9 Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
Hall of Fame
Feb 10 Celtic KC Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame
- Feb 10 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
- Feb 10 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis
- Feb 10 Ron Brown chosen 1st African American chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
- Feb 10 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak v NZ age 16 years 189 days
- Feb 10 Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
- Feb 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 10 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a NJ court
- Feb 10 39th Berlin International Film Festival: "Rain Man" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 11 Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
- Feb 11 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
NBA All-Star Game
Feb 12 39th NBA All-Star Game, Astrodome, Houston, TX: West beats East, 143-134; MVP: Karl Malone, Utah Jazz, F
- Feb 12 5 Pakistani Muslim rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
- Feb 12 50th PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: Larry Mowry wins only career major title; beats Miller Barber & Al Geiberger by 1 stroke
- Feb 12 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
- Feb 12 Wayne Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
- Feb 12 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
- Feb 12 US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
- Feb 12 Loyalist paramilitary group kill Pat Finucane, a Belfast lawyer who represented republican hunger striker Bobby Sands, while he is having dinner with family
- Feb 13 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
- Feb 13 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
- Feb 13 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
- Feb 14 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
- Feb 14 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
- Feb 14 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
Historic Publication
Feb 14 Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini issues a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie and his publishers due to his novel "Satanic Verses". A bounty is also placed on his head.
Soviets Leave Afghanistan
Feb 15 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
- Feb 16 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
Contract of Interest
Feb 16 Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser signs $7.9M-3 year contract
Contract of Interest
Feb 16 Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens signs $7.5M-3 year contract
Sports History
Feb 17 Former baseball player and manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
Music Single
Feb 18 "A Better Man" single released by Clint Black (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
Daytona 500
Feb 19 31st Daytona 500: Darrell Waltrip wins when Hendrick Racing team decides to use fuel strategy, being the only car not to pit in the closing laps
Film & TV History
Feb 22 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls the proposed missile defense system known as Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
- Feb 22 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death threats against Salman Rushdee, author of "The Satanic Verses"
- Feb 22 31st Grammy Awards: "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin; "Faith"by George Michael; and Tracy Chapman win
- Feb 22 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
- Feb 24 150 million year old fossil egg found in Utah with a fossilized dinosaur embryo inside, the oldest dinosaur egg yet found in the Northern Hemisphere
- Feb 24 Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
Film & TV History
Feb 24 Stalker Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
Sports History
Feb 24 Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Durán wins 4th world title in different weight divisions when he beats Iran Barkley in a 12 round split decision in Atlantic City; 37 year old Durán wins WBC middleweight title
- Feb 25 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
- Feb 25 Javed Miandad scores 271 v NZ at Eden Park
- Feb 25 Lowest baramotric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
Boxing Title Fight
Feb 25 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
Sports History
Feb 26 NFL Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
Music History
Feb 26 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 634 performances
- Feb 26 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
Sports History
Feb 26 NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
- Feb 26 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of-contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
- Feb 27 German war criminals Aus der Funten and Fischer freed in Holland
- Feb 27 Venezuela is rocked by the riots of Caracazo
- Feb 28 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
- Feb 28 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
- Feb 28 10-time All Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Feb 28 Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement founded by Olzhas Suleimenov in Kazakhstan, initially aiming to close Semipalatinsk nuclear test site (closed 1991) [1]
- Mar 1 Charlie Francis, coach of disqualified sprinter Ben Johnson tells federal inquiry into Canada's greatest sports scandal Johnson knowingly used steroids since 1981; Johnson first across line Olympic 100m 1988
- Mar 1 Comet du Toit at perihelion
- Mar 1 The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
- Mar 2 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
- Mar 2 Tanker Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
