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1989 (MCMLXXXIX common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar .
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown Dates
2 Births
2.1 January - February 2.2 March - April 2.3 May - June 2.4 July - August 2.5 September - October 2.6 November - December 2.7 Unknown date
3 Deaths
3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 May 3.6 June 3.7 July 3.8 August 3.9 September 3.10 October 3.11 November 3.12 December
4 Nobel prize 5 Templeton Prize 6 Right Livelihood Award
Events January February February 1 - Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the VEDC (Victorian Economic Development Co-operation) Crisis.
February 2 - Soviet war in Afghanistan : The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul , ending 9 years of military occupation.
February 2 - Satellite television service Sky Television plc is launched in Europe.
February 3 - A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner , dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
February 3 - After a stroke , Pieter Willem Botha resigns his party's leadership and the presidency of South Africa .
February 7 - The Los Angeles, California City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
February 10 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee , becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party .
February 11 - Barbara Clementine Harris is consecrated as the first female bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America .
February 14 - Union Carbide agrees to pay USD $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster .
February 14 - Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie .
February 14 - The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit.
February 15 - Soviet war in Afghanistan : The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan .
February 16 - Pan Am flight 103 : Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.
February 23 - After protracted testimony, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11-9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.
February 24 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $3-million bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie .
February 24 - United Airlines Flight 811 , a Boeing 747 bound to New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii , rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers and crew out of the first class section.
February 24 - After 44 years, Estonian flag is raised to the Pikk Hermann Pikk Hermann castle tower.
February 27 - Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo .
March March 1 - The Berne Convention , an international treaty on copyrights , is ratified by the United States .
March 1 - A curfew is imposed in Kosovo , where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority.
March 1 -Louis Wade Sullivan starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Commerce .
March 1 - James D. Watkins starts his term of office as U.S. Secretary of Energy .
March 1 - The Politieke Partij Radicalen , Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij , Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelische Volks Partij amalgamate to form Netherlands political party the GroenLinks (GL, GreenLeft).
March 2 - Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
March 3 - Jammu Siltavuori abducts and murders two 8 year old girls in Myllypuro suburb in Helsinki , Finland
March 4 - Time, Inc . and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner .
March 4 - The Purley Station rail crash in London leaves 5 dead and 94 injured.
March 4 - The first ACT (Australian Capital Territory ) elections are held.
March 7 - Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses March 9 - A strike forces financially troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy .
March 14 - Gun control : U.S. President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed assault weapons into the United States .
March 14 - Christian General Michel Aoun declares a 'War of Liberation' to rid Lebanon of Syrian forces and their allies.
March 18 - In Egypt , a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Great Pyramid of Giza .
March 20 - Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke weeps on national television as he admits marital infidelity.
March 22 - Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers an almost fatal injury when another player accidently slits his throat in one of the most grusome sports injuries of all time.
March 23 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce that they have achieved cold fusion at the University of Utah .
March 23 - A 300 m (1,000 ft) diameter Near-Earth asteroid misses the Earth by 500,000 km (400,000 miles).
April April 1 - Margaret Thatcher 's new local government tax, the Poll tax , is introduced in Scotland .
April 2 - In Wrestlemania V , Hulk Hogan defeats Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth in the neutral corner) to become the WWF Champion.
April 4 - Richard M. Daley is elected mayor of Chicago .
April 4 - In Brussels, Belgium , NATO celebrates its 40th anniversary.
April 6 - National Safety Council of Australia chief executive John Friedrich is arrested after defrauding investors to the tune of $235 million.
April 7 - The Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea , killing 41.
April 9 - Georgian demonstrators are massacred by Red Army soldiers in Tbilisi 's central square during a peaceful rally; 20 citizens are killed (mostly young women), many injured.
April 15 - The Hillsborough disaster , one of the biggest tragedies in European football , claims the life of 96 Liverpool supporters.
April 16 - The Dilbert April 18 - The Hillsborough disaster claims its 95th victim when 14-year-old Lee Nichol dies in hospital from his injuries.
April 19 - Trisha Meili is savagely attacked while jogging in New York City 's Central Park ; as her identity remains secret for years, she becomes known as the "Central Park Jogger."
April 19 - Seven crew members die after a gun turret explodes on the U.S. battleship Iowa April 20 - NATO debates modernising short range missiles; although the U.S. and UK are in favour, West German chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision.
April 21 - Students from Beijing , Shanghai , Xian , and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square .
April 21 - Nintendo begins selling the Game Boy in Japan .
April 25 - The term of Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail as the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
April 26 - Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu , Sultan of Perak , becomes the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia .
May June
