1989 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1989?
- February 6, 1989 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Snake in Chinese astrology.
- February 14, 1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
- March 22, 1989 – Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
- April 1, 1989 – Margaret Thatcher’s new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the “poll tax”), is introduced in Scotland.
- May 13, 1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
- June 3, 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
- June 5, 1989 – The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- June 16, 1989 – Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest.
- July 26, 1989 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
- August 19, 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
- August 23, 1989 – 1,645 Australian domestic airline pilots resign after the airlines threaten to fire them and sue them over a dispute.
- August 24, 1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
- September 13, 1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
- October 9, 1989 – An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
- October 15, 1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
- October 17, 1989 – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
- November 10, 1989 – Longtime leader of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
- December 18, 1989 – The European Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
- December 25, 1989 – Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist President of Romania and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena are condemned to death and executed after a flawed and summary trial.
- December 29, 1989 – Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
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