Events 1 - 200 of 903
- Jan 1 NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
- Jan 1 Year of the Young Reader begins
- Jan 2 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
- Jan 2 UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
- 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
- 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 Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
- 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
Event of Interest
Jan 4 George H. W. Bush is 1st Vice President since Martin Van Buren to declare himself President of the United States

George H. W. Bush

Martin Van Buren
- Jan 5 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
- Jan 5 Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
- Jan 7 Akihito becomes the 125th Emperor of Japan
- Jan 7 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
- Jan 7 NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
- Jan 7 Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick 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 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 Game: Cincinnati Bengals beat Buffalo Bills 21-10
- Jan 8 NFC Championship Game: 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

Johnny Bench

Carl Yastrzemski
- 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
- Jan 14 "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 performances
- 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 Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
- Jan 15 Big John Studd wins WWF's 2nd Royal Rumble
- Jan 15 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
- 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 Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
- 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 2-1 to win cricket's World Series Cup Australian Tri-Series
Event of Interest
Jan 19 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon

George Steinbrenner

Ronald Reagan
- 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
Event of Interest
Jan 20 Reagan becomes 1st US President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive

Ronald Reagan
- Jan 21 A woman is assaulted and raped in room of an Oklahoma football player
Event of Interest
Jan 21 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer

Wayne Gretzky

Marcel Dionne
- Jan 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
Jan 22 Super Bowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals 20-16 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR

Jerry Rice
Event of Interest
Jan 22 After winning his third Super Bowl as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Bill Walsh retires

Bill Walsh
- 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
Event of Interest
Jan 25 Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season

Michael Jordan
- Jan 25 NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
- 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
- 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 Okla linebacker Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student
Film and TV Awards
Jan 28 46th Golden Globes: "Rain Man", Dustin Hoffman, & Jodie Foster win

Jodie Foster

Dustin Hoffman
- Jan 28 Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG
- Jan 29 Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
- Jan 29 Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
- 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: NFC beats AFC 34-3
- Jan 29 Orlando Arena opens in Orlando, Florida
- Jan 29 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
Event of Interest
Jan 29 Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129

Keith Hernandez
Tennis Open
Jan 29 77th Men's Australian Open: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecii (6-2, 6-2, 6-2)

Ivan Lendl
- Jan 29 77th Women's Australian Open: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (6-4, 6-4)
- 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

George Michael
- 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
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Diana, Princess of Wales visits New York City

Diana Spencer
Event of Interest
Feb 2 F. W. de Klerk replaces P. W. Botha as South Africa's National Party leader

F. W. de Klerk
- Feb 3 Baseball's National League announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will its 1st African American President
- Feb 3 Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
- Feb 3 Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out
- Feb 4 Dean Jones scores 216 v WI at the Adelaide Oval
- Feb 5 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
Event of Interest
Feb 6 Solidarity union leader Lech Wałęsa begins negotiating with Polish government

Lech Wałęsa
- Feb 7 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton
Event of Interest
Feb 7 Tennis superstar Bjorn Borg apparently attempts suicide in Milan

Björn Borg
- Feb 8 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
- Feb 8 Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
- 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

Lenny Wilkens
- 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 Main" 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
- Feb 12 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston
- Feb 12 5 Pakistani Muslim rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
- Feb 12 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry
- Feb 12 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
- Feb 12 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 was also place on his head.

Ayatollah Khomeini
- Feb 14 The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System are placed into orbit.
- Feb 15 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
- Feb 15 Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends
- Feb 16 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
- 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

Roger Clemens
Event of Interest
Feb 17 Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash

Leo Durocher
- Feb 17 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
- Feb 17 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
- Feb 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Feb 18 Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
- Feb 18 "A Better Man" single released by Clint Black (Billboard Song of the Year 1989)
- Feb 19 "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
- Feb 19 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
- Feb 19 31st Daytona 500: Darrell Waltrip wins (148.466 MPH)
- Feb 20 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancel an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
- Feb 20 An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
Event of Interest
Feb 22 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"

Stephen Hawking
- 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, Faith, Tracy Chapman
- 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
Event of Interest
Feb 24 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife

David Letterman
- Feb 24 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
- Feb 24 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 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

Mike Tyson

Frank Bruno
Event of Interest
Feb 26 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career

Tom Landry
- Feb 26 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances
- Feb 26 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
- Feb 26 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
- 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 Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
- Mar 1 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
- 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