1989
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| Centuries: | 19th century - 20th century - 21st century |
| Decades: | 1950s 1960s 1970s - 1980s - 1990s 2000s 2010s |
| Years: | 1986 1987 1988 - 1989 - 1990 1991 1992 |
1989 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.
Contents |
[change] Births
- February 3 - Vania King, American tennis player
- December 10 - Sander Koning, Dutch famous Dutchman
[change] Deaths
- April 12 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
- October 4 - Graham Chapman
- December 22 - Samuel Beckett
[change] Events
- January 7 - Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins
- January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead
- January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola
- January 10 - Assistant Australian Federal Police commissioner Colin Winchester is shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home
- January 16-18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami
- January 17 - A gunman kills 5 children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California
- January 20 - George Herbert Walker Bush succeeds Ronald Wilson Reagan as President of the United States of America
- January 24 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair
- January 30 - American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident
- March 24 - Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
- August - First sighting of the Aurora, a supposed hyptersonic aircraft [1].
- November 2 - Bad Religion releases No Control, which is considered one of the band's best known works in the history of punk music, along with its predecessor Suffer, which came out in the previous year.
[change] Films released
- Batman
- Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Do The Right Thing
- Ghostbusters II
- Great Balls of Fire
- Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- Lethal Weapon II
- Look Who's Talking
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Roadhouse
- Roger and Me
- The Little Mermaid
- Steel Magnolias
- Turner & Hooch
- UHF
- Uncle Buck
[change] Hit songs
- "All She Wants Is" - Duran Duran
- "My Brave Face" - Paul McCartney
- "Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins
- "Batdance" - Prince
- "Bat Attack '89 - Crime Fighters Inc
- "Beds Are Burning" - Midnight Oil
- "Blame It on the Rain" - Milli Vanilli
- "Buffalo Stance" - Neneh Cherry
- "Cartoon" - Soul Asylum
- "Compulsory Hero - 1927
- "Chained To The Wheel - Black Sorrows
- "Cry In Shame Johnny Disel + The Injectors
- "Crying In The Chapel" - Peter Blakley
- "Do You Believe In Shame?" - Duran Duran
- "Dr. Feelgood" - Mötley Crüe
- "Eternal Flame" - The Bangles
- "Eyes Of A Stranger" - Queensrÿche
- "Hangin' Tough" - New Kids On The Block
- "Heavy Metal" - Judas Priest
- "I Drove All Night - Cyndi Lauper
- "I Feel The Earth Move - Martika
- "If I Could" - 1927
- "If I Could Turn Back Time" - Cher
- "If Tomorrow Never Comes" - Garth Brooks
- "Kickstart My Heart" - Mötley Crüe
- "Killin' Time" - Clint Black
- "Leave A Light On For Me - Belinda Carlisle
- "Like a Prayer" - Madonna
- "Listen To Your Heart" - Roxette
- "Lost in Your Eyes" - Debbie Gibson
- "Love Shack"- The B-52's
- "Miss You Much" - Janet Jackson
- "Monsters Of Rock" - Judas Priest
- "Open Letter (To A Landlord)" - Living Colour
- "Orange Crush" R.E.M
- "Rendez-vous chaque soir" - Dalida (inédit)
- "Right Here Waiting" - Richard Marx
- "Ring My Bell - Collette
- "She Drives Me Crazy" - Fine Young Cannibals
- "She Has To Be Loved" - Jenny Morris
- "Sometime To Return" - Soul Asylum
- "Soul Revival" - Johnny Disel + The Injectors
- "Stand" - R.E.M.
- "Stop - Sam Brown
- "Straight Up" - Paula Abdul
- "Talk It Over" - Grayson Hugh
- "The Crack-Up" - The Black Sorrows
- "The Dance" - Garth Brooks
- "The Look" - Roxette
- "The World Seems Difficult" - Mentals
- "Toy Soldiers - Martika
- "Tucker's Daughter - Ian Moss
- "Un soir qu'on oublie pas" - Dalida (inédit)
- "Veronica" - Elvis Costello
- "When I See You Smile" - Bad English
- "We Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
- "Wild Thing" - Tone Loc
- "You Got It" - Roy Orbison
- "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" - New Kids On The Block
- "Young Years" - Dragon
- "You'll Never Know" - 1927
[change] New Books
- Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
- And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
- The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
- Chronicle of the French Revolution - Jean Favier et al
- Daddy - Danielle Steel
- The Face of Battle - John Keegan
- Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
- The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker
- Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
- Hyperion - Dan Simmons
- It's Always Something - Gilda Radner
- Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee
- The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
- The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven
- Licence to Kill - John Gardner
- London Fields - Martin Amis
- Lot's Wife - Tom Wakefield
- The Magick of Candleburning - Gerina Dunwich
- The Negotiator - Frederick Forsyth
- The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
- A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
- Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
- Red Phoenix - Larry Bond
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Russia House - John le Carré
- The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon
- The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
- Six Days in Havana - James A. Michener
- Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler
- Star - Danielle Steel
- Stark - Ben Elton
- The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
- A Time to Kill - John Grisham
- Total Recall - Piers Anthony
- While My Pretty One Sleeps - Mary Higgins Clark
- The Wicked and the Witless - Hugh Cook
- Win, Lose or Die - John Gardner
- New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
- Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon
