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1989 Historical Event(s)
February 6, 1989
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
March 9, 1989
– Financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines filed for bankruptcy.
June 4, 1989
– Solidarity’s victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
August 2, 1989
– A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
August 22, 1989
– Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
August 23, 1989
– 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
October 15, 1989
– Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
October 23, 1989
– The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People’s Republic.
December 13, 1989
– Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch an attack on a British Army nonpermanent vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.
Who Were Born On 1989?
January 9, 1989
– Michaëlla Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
April 23, 1989
– Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
April 27, 1989
– Emily Rios, American actress
May 8, 1989
– Lars Eller, Danish ice hockey player
May 31, 1989
– Marco Reus, German footballer
August 1, 1989
– Tiffany (Stephanie Hwang), American-born South Korean singer (Girls’ Generation)
September 23, 1989
– Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
October 25, 1989
– Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer
December 21, 1989
– Mark Ingram, Jr., American football player