Historical Events in 1989

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• Jan 1 NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
• Jan 1 Year of the Young Reader begins

• 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

• 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 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 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

• 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 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 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 in a rain-affected 3rd final in Sydney to win cricket's World Series Cup Tri-Series, 2-1; match reduced to 18 overs

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Jan 28 David 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 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

• Jan 29 5th Sundance Film Festival: "True Love" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic

• 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

• Feb 1 The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
• Feb 2 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states

• 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 Australian cricketer Dean Jones scores 216 v WI at the Adelaide Oval
• Feb 5 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points

• Feb 7 40th NHL All-Star Game, Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton: Campbell Conference beats Wales Conference, 9-5; MVP: Wayne Gretzky, LA Kings, C

• 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

• 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
• 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

• 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 16 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market

• Feb 16 William Hayden becomes Governor-General of Australia
• Feb 17 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"

• Feb 17 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
• Feb 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

• 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 when Hendrick Racing team decides to use fuel strategy, being the only car not to pit in the closing laps
• 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

• Feb 21 US bust Chinese drug smuggling ring, capturing a record 820 lbs of heroin worth $1 billion at street value
• Feb 22 Finish ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
• Feb 22 NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)

• 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

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

• Feb 26 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances
• Feb 26 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)

• 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
• 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

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