1989 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1989?
- January 8, 1989 – The Kegworth air disaster. British Midland flight 92 crashes into the M1 motorway killing 47 people out of 127 on board.
- February 6, 1989 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 20, 1989 – An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
- March 2, 1989 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
- March 18, 1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
- May 1, 1989 – Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- May 6, 1989 – Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the “coaster wars”.
- June 4, 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army.
- August 8, 1989 – Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission – Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
- August 19, 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist Prime Minister in 42 years.
- August 20, 1989 – The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision, 51 people are killed.
- August 23, 1989 – 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
- August 25, 1989 – Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan’s first female cabinet secretary.
- September 19, 1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
- October 9, 1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
- November 22, 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
- December 17, 1989 – The first episode of television series The Simpsons, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”, airs in the United States.
- December 28, 1989 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
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