October 1989 in History

Events in History

Oct 1 Danielle Steel’s novel “Daddy” is published

Oct 1 US Army General Colin Powell becomes youngest Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's highest military position, at 52

Oct 1 US Post Office issues a stamp labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus

Oct 3 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails

Oct 15 South African President F. W. de Klerk frees ANC Founder Walter Sisulu and four other political prisoners

Oct 16 Bikenibau Paeniu installed as premier of Tuvalu
Oct 16 Jan Syse becomes premier of Norway
Oct 18 East German state/party leader Erich Honecker resigns
Oct 18 Hungary revises its constitution after the fall of its Communist regime
Oct 18 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
Oct 19 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Oct 20 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India & WI on round-robin
Oct 20 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
Oct 21 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in San Francisco earthquake
Oct 21 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
Oct 22 Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
Oct 23 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record with a 97-yard TD pass
Oct 23 Hungary proclaims itself a republic & declares communist rule ended
Oct 23 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
Oct 23 William Nicholson's "Shadowlands" premieres in London

Oct 24 American televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison for fraud but the sentence is later reduced to eight years on appeal

Oct 4 Dakota Johnson, American actress (50 Shades of Grey), and daughter of Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson, born in Austin, Texas

Oct 13 American politician (Rep-D-New York 2018-), born in New York City

Oct 24 Shenae Grimes (also Grimes-Beech), Canadian-American (90210 - "Annie"), born in Toronto, Ontario

Oct 2 Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies
Oct 3 Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered
Oct 9 Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
Oct 11 M. King Hubbert, American geologist and geophysicist, dies at 86
Oct 12 Jay Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends, Bullwinkle), dies of kidney cancer at 69
Oct 22 Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim, is kidnapped, assaulted and murdered at 11 by Danny Heinrich. His abduction and murder would remain a mystery for 30 years.
Oct 25 Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer (Men of Goods), dies at 91
Oct 25 Mary McCarthy, American novelist (Group), dies, at 77
Oct 26 Charles J. Pedersen, American organic biochemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1987), dies at 85
Oct 30 Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet (Loke Saar Havre), dies at 95