July 1989 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jul 2 Tiananmen Square student leader Wang Dan arrested and imprisoned for spreading counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement (trial not till 1991)

Jul 3 US Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
Jul 4 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)

Meeting of Interest

Jul 5 South African President P. W. Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela

Anti-apartheid Activist and South African President Nelson Mandela

Jul 6 US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
Jul 8 Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina
Jul 8 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 9 Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others
Jul 10 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
Jul 16 South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid
Jul 17 1st test flight of US stealth bomber
Jul 17 Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
Jul 18 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
Jul 19 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
Jul 20 93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix, Arizona, until heat wave of 2023

Event of Interest

Jul 20 Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

Jul 20 Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it
Jul 21 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
Jul 22 Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss
Jul 23 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith, Arkansas
Jul 24 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America

Event of Interest

Jul 27 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)

Jul 28 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz
Jul 30 Chile amends its constitution

Birthdays in History

Jul 22 Caroline Giuliani, daughter of NY mayor Rudy Giuliani, born in NYC, New York

Deaths in History

Jul 3 Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (President of Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), dies just short of his 80th birthday
Jul 6 Janos Kádár, 46th Prime Minister of Hungary 5th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77
Jul 9 Piet Lieftinck, Dutch politician (Minister of Finance 1945-52 - oversaw rebuilding of Dutch economy after WWII), dies at 86
Jul 12 Sidney Hook, American philosopher (The Paradoxes of Freedom), dies at 86
Jul 13 Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered
Jul 13 Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed
Jul 14 Frank Bell, British educator and founder of The Bell Educational Trust Limited, dies at 72
Jul 17 Heinz Risse, German writer, dies at 91
Jul 19 Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
Jul 20 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, French commander of the French resistance, dies at 79
Jul 22 Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
Jul 23 Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931)
Jul 25 Steve Rubell, American night club owner (b. 1943)
Jul 30 Lane Frost, American bull rider, dies from injuries sustained by being gored by a bull at 25