1989
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Years : | 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 |
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 |
[edit] Births
- February 3 - Vania King, American tennis player
[edit] Deaths
- August 22 - Huey Newton
- October 4 - Graham Chapman
- October 4 - Secretariat
- December 22 - Samuel Beckett
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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 Soilders - 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
[edit] 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