Events in year of 1989
- 01-01Actress Kelly McGillis gets married
- 01-01New York City transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
- 01-01Year of the Young Reader begins
- 01-02Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
- 01-02UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
- 01-03Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
- 01-03Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
- 01-04Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
- 01-04US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
- 01-04VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself President
- 01-052 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
- 01-05Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
- 01-07Akhito becomes Emperor of Japan
- 01-07Cleveland Cavs block 21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
- 01-07International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
- 01-08"42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances
- 01-08"Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 performances
- 01-08Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
- 01-08Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
- 01-09"Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
- 01-09Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 01-11140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
- 01-11Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
- 01-126 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
- 01-12Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
- 01-13"Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
- 01-13Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
- 01-13Jerry Parks, Okla defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
- 01-13Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
- 01-13Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
People born in year of 1989
- 01-06Baby lion-tailed macaques: At Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)
- 01-14Sextuplets: Paris, France -- (to a 29-year-old woman)
- 02-19L A Baby orangutan: Born at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
- 03-14Oliver Bernsen: Son of Corbin Bernsen and Amanda Pays
- 03-15Caitlin Wachs: Actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
- 03-25Chicken Kentucky: 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
- 05-29Danielle Riley Keough: Grand Daughter of Elvis Presley
- 06-07Michael Joseph Tamboli: Eldesburg, Maryland -- Born 01:23:45pm on 6-7-89
- 06-11Jeff Linton Osbourne: Son of Jeffrey and Sheri
- 07-22Caroline Giuliani: Daughter of Rudy (Mayor-R-NYC, 1994- )
- 08-21Hayden Panettiere: Actress (One Life to Live)
- 10-04Dakota Johnson: Son of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson
- 10-25Seth Mumy: Actor (3 Wishes)
- 11-12Paul Jessup: Actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
- 11-12Ryan Jessup: Actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
- 12-05Ross Bagley: Actor (Nicky-Fresh Prince Of Bel Air)
People died in year of 1989
- 01-08Johnny Jordaan [Jan van Musscher]: Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
- 01-08Ken McMillan: Actor (Malone, Concrete Beat), dies of heart attack at 56
- 01-08Kenneth McMillan: Actor (Our Family Honor, Malone), dies at 67
- 01-13Joe Spinell: Actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
- 01-16Pierre Boileau: Screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82
- 01-16Romo Vincent: Actor (Naked Jungle)
- 01-16Trey Wilson: Actor (Bull Durham, Twins, Raising Arizona)
- 01-17Sterling A Brown: US Poet / critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
- 01-18Bruce Chatwin: British writer, dies at 49
- 01-19Norma Varden: Actress (Loose in London)
- 01-20Beatrice Lillie: Actress (Thoroughly Modern Millie), dies at 94
- 01-24Ted Bundy: Serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42
- 01-26Paul Daels: Flemish Chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee)
- 01-31Jack Douglas: Humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80
- 01-31Yasushi Akutagawa: Composer, dies at 63
- 02-03John Cassavetes: Actor / director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59
- 02-04Kenneth "Jethro" Burns: Country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69
- 02-05Joe Raposa: Composer / songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51
- 02-06Andre Cayatte
- 02-06Barbara Tuchman: Historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer), dies at 77
- 02-08Maurits Kok: Dutch writer / Poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81
- 02-10Dan Kelly: NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!"
- 02-12Mauritius Balfoort: French / Flemish director, dies at 83
- 02-12Thomas Bernhard: Dutch / Austrian writer (Heldenplatz), dies at 58
- 02-17Lefty Gomez: Pitching great (New York Yankees), dies at 80
- 02-19Jaap van de Merwe: Dutch journalist / cabareter (Hadjememaar)
- 02-19Merwe: Journalist / cabaret performer (Hadjememaar)
- 02-22Joan Woodbury: Actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail)
- 02-27Conrad Lorenz: Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973)
- 02-27Joe Silver: Actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66
Events in year of 1990
- 01-01David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black Mayor of New York City
- 01-01FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
- 01-01Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ
- 01-01New York City MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
- 01-01Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
- 01-02Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
- 01-02Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
- 01-05J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
- 01-06New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
- 01-07Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
- 01-07Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
- 01-0964th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
- 01-09Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
- 01-10"Les Miserables, " opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
- 01-10China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
- 01-10NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
- 01-11Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
- 01-11Pat Lafontaine sets New York Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
- 01-12Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Brooklyn
- 01-12Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
- 01-131st elected US black Governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
- 01-14"Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
- 01-1411th ACE Cable Awards
- 01-14Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
- 01-1542 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
- 01-156th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
- 01-15AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
- 01-15Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
- 01-15New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1 / 10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
- 01-162 Bank of Credit and Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
People born in year of 1990
- 02-03Cody Newton Gifford: Son of Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford
- 03-22Eugenie: Princess of Britain
- 03-23Eugenie Princess of York: Daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
- 04-09Marston Glenn Hefner: Son of Hugh Hefner and Kimberley Conrad
- 05-05Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg: NYC, New York -- Daughter of Caroline
- 05-26Zenouska Mowatt: Granddaughter of English Princess Alexandra
- 05-31Liberty Irene Kasem: Daughter of Casey and Jean Kasam
- 08-01Landry Allbright: Actress (Bridget Forrester - Bold and the Beautiful)
- 09-05Jeremy Snider: US actor (Eric Jr - Bold and the Beautiful)
- 11-02Natasha Smirnoff: Daughter of Yakov Smirnov
- 11-25Yasmin van der Meer: 15 millionth Netherlander
- 11-29Blake Tuomy-Wilhoit: Actor (Full House)
- 11-29Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit: Actor (Full House)
People died in year of 1990
- 01-01Charles Boost: Dutch film critic, dies at 82
- 01-01Suzuki Sochu: Zen teacher (Rinzai line) / abbot of Ryutakuji
- 01-02Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky: Manchuria Composer (Creation), dies at 78
- 01-04Alberto Lleras Camargo: President of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62)
- 01-04Robert F Adams: United States -- Sci-fi Author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57
- 01-05Arthur Kennedy: Actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76
- 01-05Bart LaRue: Entertainer
- 01-06Hans Jaray: Actor (Lydia, Fedora)
- 01-06Ian Charleson: Actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40
- 01-07Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski: Football hall of famer, dies at 81
- 01-07Gail Lucas: Entertainer
- 01-07Horace Stoneham: Baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
- 01-07Joseph Robbie: Lawyer / NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
- 01-10Juliet Berto: Screenwriter / actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
- 01-11Mary Jane Carr: Actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife)
- 01-12Laurence J Peter: Author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70
- 01-12Paul Amadeus Pisk: Composer, dies at 96
- 01-14David Arkin: Actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas)
- 01-15Gordon Jackson: Actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
- 01-17Charles Hernu: French Minister of Defense (1981-85)
- 01-18Melanie Appleby: Rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23
- 01-19Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: Indian guru, dies at 58
- 01-19Herbert Wehner: German ex-communist / Chairman (1958-73), dies at 83
- 01-20Barbara Stanwyck [Ruby Stevens]: Actress (Big Valley), dies at 82
- 01-20Miloslav Istvan: Composer, dies at 61
- 01-20Naruhito Higashi-Kuni: Japanese Prime Minister (1945)
- 01-24Madge Bellamy: Actress (White Zombie), dies at 87
- 01-25Alexander Lockwood: Actor (Duel)
- 01-25Ava Gardner: Actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67
- 01-25Ian Dudley Hardy: Entertainer
Events in year of 1991
- 01-015% sales tax on consumer goods and services goes into effect in the USSR
- 01-01Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak
- 01-01Les Miserables opens at Festival Theatre, Adelaide
- 01-02Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll
- 01-03Israel reopens consulate in the USSR after 23 years
- 01-03LA King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders
- 01-04AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
- 01-04Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
- 01-04Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
- 01-04Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes Premier of Poland
- 01-05"Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances
- 01-05Edwin Jongejans of the Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title
- 01-05Kevin Bradshaw of US International scores NCAA Division 1 record 72 pts
- 01-06"Gypsy" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 477 performances
- 01-06"Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV
- 01-06Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 seconds)
- 01-07"Nia Peeples Party Machine" premieres on TV
- 01-08"Davis Rules, " with Jonathan Winters and Randy Quaid premieres on ABC-TV
- 01-08Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame
- 01-08Rod Carew is 22nd player elected to Hall of Fame on 1st try
- 01-09Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
- 01-09Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
- 01-09Dean Smith of NC is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
- 01-10Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
- 01-10US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
- 01-11Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd
- 01-11Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq
- 01-11Ric Flair wins NWA / WCW wrestling title
- 01-11Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence
- 01-12Largest crowd to watch Atlantic Coast Womens Basketball game (11,520)
People born in year of 1991
- 02-15Nicholas Garland: Son of Pamela Sue Martin
- 03-16Wolfgang Van Halen: Son of Eddie Van Halan and Valerie Bertinelli
- 04-13Dylan Francis Penn: Los Angeles, California -- Daughter of Sean Penn and Robin Wright
- 06-09Abraham Joseph Groening: Son of Simpson creator Matt Groening
- 06-10James Cleveland McFadden-Talbot: Son of Gates McFaden (Star Trek NG)
- 08-02Gabriel Anthony Cohen: Son of Meredith Viera and Richard Cohen
- 08-17Mikhail Moseyevich Botvinnik: World Chess Champion
- 09-28Saffron LeBon: London, England -- Daughter of Simon and Yasmon
- 10-02Beau Grayson: Son of country singer Tanya Tucker
- 10-15Owen Joseph Kline: Son of Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline
People died in year of 1991
- 01-01Charles B Timmer: Dutch writer (Russia Black on White), dies at 83
- 01-01Yvonne Waegemans: Flemish Author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81
- 01-02Renato Rascel: Actor (7 Hills of Rome), dies of heart failure at 78
- 01-04Berry Kroeger: Actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
- 01-04Harry Krimer: Actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94
- 01-04Leo N Wright: US saxophonist (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), dies at 57
- 01-05John Eckhardt: Actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82
- 01-05Marie Madeline Sullivan: Actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark), dies at 80
- 01-05Vasko Popa: Serbian WWII-partisan / Poet (Sporedno Nebo), dies at 68
- 01-06Ada Moore: Entertainer, dies of cancer at 64
- 01-07Joe Hicks: Baseball coach, dies of cancer at 64
- 01-08Steve Clark: Guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria), dies at 30
- 01-10Dimitris Myrat: Dies of cancer at 62
- 01-11Jason Christmas: Dies at 49 of gunshot wound during robbery in New York
- 01-12Vasco Pratolini: Italy -- Writer (Ragazze di San Frediano), dies at 77
- 01-14Sallah Kharaf [Abu Iyad]: Co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated
- 01-17Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V: King of Norway (1957)
- 01-18Hamilton Fish: Congressman (NY), dies at 102
- 01-18Lillian Bond: Actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
- 01-18Nita Krebs: Actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
- 01-19Don Beddoe: Actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
- 01-19Glenn Langan: Actor (Big Chase, Jungle Heat, Rapture), dies at 73
- 01-19John Russell: Actor / writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70
- 01-20Bill Riordon: US tennis promotor (Jimmy Connors)
- 01-20Louis Seigner: Actor (Eclipse, Special Section), dies in a fire at 87
- 01-21Frank Mitchell: Actor (Music is Magic, Prairie Gunsmoke)
- 01-24Lawrence Lott: Actor (Real Men, Philadelphia Experiment), dies of AIDS at 40
- 01-25Stanley Brock: Actor (Tin Men), dies of heart attack at 59
- 01-26Johnny van Doorn: Dutch writer / poet, dies at 46
- 01-28Dale Long: Hit HRs in 8 consecutive games, dies at 66