April 1989 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Apr 2 Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage

WWF Wrestler Hulk Hogan — WWF Wrestler
Hulk Hogan

Event of Interest

Apr 12 Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through

Olympic Executive and Commissioner of Baseball Peter Ueberroth — Olympic Executive and Commissioner of Baseball
Peter Ueberroth

Apr 14 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
Apr 14 In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
Apr 15 Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
Apr 15 Then largest lottery in North America ($69M) drawn in Illinois

Apr 16 Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
Apr 17 18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Nor in 2:24:33
Apr 17 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week
Apr 17 Polish labor union granted legal status
Apr 17 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros
Apr 19 Gun turret explodes on USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors
Apr 19 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
Apr 19 Violent assault and rape of jogger Trisha Meili in NYC's Central Park. Known as the Central Park jogger incident it became according to the NY Times "one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s."
Apr 21 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
Apr 23 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts

Event of Interest

Apr 23 Wine merchant William Sokolin breaks a bottle of 1787 Château Margaux, possibly belonging to Thomas Jefferson, worth $500,000 at the Four Seasons restaurant in New York

3rd US President Thomas Jefferson — 3rd US President
Thomas Jefferson

Apr 24 10s of thousands of student strikes in Beijing, China
Apr 24 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
Apr 26 AT&T announces NJ's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
Apr 27 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
Apr 27 Hurricane in Bangladesh kills 500
Apr 27 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
Apr 28 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
Apr 28 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
Apr 29 2nd government of Lubbers falls in the Netherlands

Beatification

Apr 30 Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar

264th Pope John Paul II — 264th Pope
John Paul II

Event of Interest

Apr 30 World Wide Web (WWW) is first launched in the public domain by CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee

Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee — Computer scientist
Tim Berners-Lee

Birthdays in History

Gedhun Choekyi Nyima

Apr 25 Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama, born in Lhari County, Tibet, China

Deaths in History

Apr 1 Henk Gortzak [Hendricus Gortzak], Dutch carpenter and politician (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
Apr 5 María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
Apr 7 Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123(?)
Apr 10 Joan Barry, dies at 85
Apr 11 Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68
Apr 12 Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52
Apr 15 Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
Apr 15 Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
Apr 16 Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer, dies
Apr 17 Charles Lampkin, dies
Apr 19 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
Apr 21 Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
Apr 22 Huey Newton, American Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47

Emilio G. Segrè

Apr 22 Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements technetium, astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton), dies at 84 of a heart attack

Apr 27 Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
Apr 28 Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at 77
Apr 30 Sergio Leone, Italian director who invented spaghetti westerns (The Man with No Name trilogy), dies of a heart attack at 60
Apr 30 Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)

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