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Events on the year of 1989 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1989 Actress Kelly McGillis gets married
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01 Jan 1989 Year of the Young Reader begins
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01 Jan 1989 The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.
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02 Jan 1989 Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
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02 Jan 1989 UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
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03 Jan 1989 Jim and Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
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03 Jan 1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
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04 Jan 1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
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04 Jan 1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
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04 Jan 1989 VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself President
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04 Jan 1989 Second Gulf of Sidra incident: a pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation.
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05 Jan 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
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05 Jan 1989 Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
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07 Jan 1989 Akhito becomes Emperor of Japan
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07 Jan 1989 Cleveland Cavs block 21 New York Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
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07 Jan 1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
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07 Jan 1989 Prince Akihito is sworn in as the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Hirohito
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08 Jan 1989 "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 performances
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08 Jan 1989 "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 performances
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08 Jan 1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
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08 Jan 1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
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08 Jan 1989 Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
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08 Jan 1989 Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
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09 Jan 1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
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09 Jan 1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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11 Jan 1989 Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
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11 Jan 1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
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11 Jan 1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
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12 Jan 1989 Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
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12 Jan 1989 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
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13 Jan 1989 "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
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13 Jan 1989 Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
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13 Jan 1989 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
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13 Jan 1989 Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
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13 Jan 1989 Soap opera "Ryan's Hope" final episode after 13
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13 Jan 1989 Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
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14 Jan 1989 "Romance / Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 performances
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14 Jan 1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
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14 Jan 1989 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England
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14 Jan 1989 "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City NY after 297 performances
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14 Jan 1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
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15 Jan 1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
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15 Jan 1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
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15 Jan 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
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15 Jan 1989 10th ACE Cable Awards HBO wins 35 awards
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15 Jan 1989 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City NY after 176 performances
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16 Jan 1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
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16 Jan 1989 USSR announces plan for 2-year manned mission to Mars
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17 Jan 1989 Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
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17 Jan 1989 Victoria Murden & Shirley Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
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17 Jan 1989 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
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17 Jan 1989 Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
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18 Jan 1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder
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18 Jan 1989 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
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18 Jan 1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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18 Jan 1989 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
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18 Jan 1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
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18 Jan 1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
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19 Jan 1989 President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
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20 Jan 1989 Reagan becomes 1st President elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
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20 Jan 1989 Bush inaugurated as 41st President & Quayle becomes 44th Vice President
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20 Jan 1989 Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
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21 Jan 1989 A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player
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21 Jan 1989 Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
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22 Jan 1989 Super Bowl XXIII San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Jerry Rice, San Francisco, Wide Receiver
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22 Jan 1989 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
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23 Jan 1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
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23 Jan 1989 NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
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24 Jan 1989 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
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25 Jan 1989 Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
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25 Jan 1989 Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
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25 Jan 1989 Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
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26 Jan 1989 "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
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26 Jan 1989 AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
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26 Jan 1989 Madison Square Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
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26 Jan 1989 US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
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26 Jan 1989 "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City NY for 829 performances
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26 Jan 1989 Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
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26 Jan 1989 Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia vs West Indies, Sydney
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27 Jan 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
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27 Jan 1989 Oklahoma's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Oklahoma grad student
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27 Jan 1989 German war criminals Fischer & Austrian der F
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28 Jan 1989 46th Golden Globes Rain Man, Working Girl
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28 Jan 1989 63rd Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64)
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28 Jan 1989 Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 vs West Indies at SCG
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29 Jan 1989 Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
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29 Jan 1989 Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
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29 Jan 1989 Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-point loss since October 1987; index at 2,256.43
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29 Jan 1989 Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
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29 Jan 1989 L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
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29 Jan 1989 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
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29 Jan 1989 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
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29 Jan 1989 Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
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29 Jan 1989 Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use New York Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
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29 Jan 1989 Orlando Arena opens
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30 Jan 1989 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins
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30 Jan 1989 Closure of the American embassy in Kabul, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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30 Jan 1989 Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
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30 Jan 1989 Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
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30 Jan 1989 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
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30 Jan 1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
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01 Feb 1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
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01 Feb 1989 Princess Diane of England visits New York City
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01 Feb 1989 The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie–Boulder.
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02 Feb 1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
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03 Feb 1989 Bill White named NL President; 1st black major-league sports head
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03 Feb 1989 A military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
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03 Feb 1989 After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
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04 Feb 1989 Dean Jones scores 216 vs. WI at the Adelaide Oval
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05 Feb 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
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06 Feb 1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government
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06 Feb 1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
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07 Feb 1989 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton
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08 Feb 1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
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08 Feb 1989 Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
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08 Feb 1989 US Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die
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09 Feb 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
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10 Feb 1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
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10 Feb 1989 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
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10 Feb 1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis MO
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10 Feb 1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court
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10 Feb 1989 Celtic Kansas City Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame
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10 Feb 1989 Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major US party (Democrats)
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10 Feb 1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pakistan vs New Zealand age 16 years 189 days
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10 Feb 1989 Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
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10 Feb 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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11 Feb 1989 Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian)
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11 Feb 1989 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
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12 Feb 1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
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12 Feb 1989 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female Bishop of a US Episcopal church
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12 Feb 1989 Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
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12 Feb 1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours
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12 Feb 1989 39th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 143-134 at Houston
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12 Feb 1989 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Larry Mowry
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12 Feb 1989 US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
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13 Feb 1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison
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13 Feb 1989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
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13 Feb 1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed
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14 Feb 1989 Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
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14 Feb 1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" Novelist Rushdie
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14 Feb 1989 Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
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14 Feb 1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
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14 Feb 1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic
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14 Feb 1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster
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14 Feb 1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
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14 Feb 1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
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14 Feb 1989 World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens
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15 Feb 1989 Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends
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15 Feb 1989 Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
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15 Feb 1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt
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16 Feb 1989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
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16 Feb 1989 Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
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16 Feb 1989 Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs record $7.5M-3 year contract
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16 Feb 1989 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract
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16 Feb 1989 William Hayden becomes governor-General of Australia
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17 Feb 1989 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
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17 Feb 1989 Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
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17 Feb 1989 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
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17 Feb 1989 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
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17 Feb 1989 Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
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17 Feb 1989 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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18 Feb 1989 Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at the same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women
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18 Feb 1989 Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am
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19 Feb 1989 "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
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19 Feb 1989 Broadway's biggest flop (lost $5.3 million) "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
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19 Feb 1989 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize
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20 Feb 1989 An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England.
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20 Feb 1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
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20 Feb 1989 Total eclipse of the Moon
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21 Feb 1989 US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)[dup]
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21 Feb 1989 US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)
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21 Feb 1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
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22 Feb 1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
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22 Feb 1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, Author of "Satanic Rituals"
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22 Feb 1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
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22 Feb 1989 31st Grammy Awards Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
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22 Feb 1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
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22 Feb 1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
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24 Feb 1989 United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
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24 Feb 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
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24 Feb 1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
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24 Feb 1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
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24 Feb 1989 Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
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24 Feb 1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
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24 Feb 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 Feb 1989 Lowest baramotric pressure in the Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)
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25 Feb 1989 1st independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms
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25 Feb 1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
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25 Feb 1989 Javed Miandad scores 271 vs New Zealand at Eden Park
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25 Feb 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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26 Feb 1989 Lowest barometric pressure in the Netherlands (95.5 hPa)
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26 Feb 1989 New York Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
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26 Feb 1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances
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26 Feb 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
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26 Feb 1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
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27 Feb 1989 Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
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27 Feb 1989 German war criminals Austria der F
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28 Feb 1989 Memo by Bryant Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
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28 Feb 1989 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
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28 Feb 1989 Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame
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01 Mar 1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
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01 Mar 1989 Julianne Philips and Bruce Springsteen divorce
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01 Mar 1989 The United States becomes a member of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
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02 Mar 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
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02 Mar 1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
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02 Mar 1989 New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez
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02 Mar 1989 Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
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03 Mar 1989 Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines
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03 Mar 1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra
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04 Mar 1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
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04 Mar 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
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04 Mar 1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
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05 Mar 1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
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05 Mar 1989 Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
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05 Mar 1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82)
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06 Mar 1989 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
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07 Mar 1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)
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07 Mar 1989 Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
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08 Mar 1989 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances
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08 Mar 1989 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 seconds)
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09 Mar 1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy
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09 Mar 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds)
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09 Mar 1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
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09 Mar 1989 Financially troubled Eastern Air Lines files for bankruptcy.
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12 Mar 1989 15th People's Choice Awards
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12 Mar 1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
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12 Mar 1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
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13 Mar 1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
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13 Mar 1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
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13 Mar 1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
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15 Mar 1989 "Les Miserables, " opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
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15 Mar 1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
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15 Mar 1989 New York Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
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16 Mar 1989 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
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17 Mar 1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
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17 Mar 1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
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18 Mar 1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth
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18 Mar 1989 California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios
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18 Mar 1989 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington Capital record of 7 points in a game
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18 Mar 1989 Investor group led by George W Bush & Edward W Rose purchases controlling interest of Texas Rangers
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19 Mar 1989 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by E Gordeeva and S Grinkov (USSR)
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19 Mar 1989 The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
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19 Mar 1989 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
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19 Mar 1989 Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf Open Tucson
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19 Mar 1989 World Ice Dance Championship in Paris France won by M Klimova & S Ponomarenko (USR)
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19 Mar 1989 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by E Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
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19 Mar 1989 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Midori Ito (Japan)
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19 Mar 1989 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris France won by Kurt Browning (Canada)
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20 Mar 1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
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20 Mar 1989 Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M Gates as deputy director of CIA
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21 Mar 1989 Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
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21 Mar 1989 1st sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral
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22 Mar 1989 Clint Malarchuk of the Buffalo Sabres suffers a near-fatal injury when another player's skate accidentally slits his throat.
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22 Mar 1989 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announces retirement as NFL commissioner after 29 years
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22 Mar 1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate
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23 Mar 1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
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23 Mar 1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter
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24 Mar 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan, " 1st seen on TV since 1973
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24 Mar 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
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24 Mar 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", 1st time seen on TV since 1973
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24 Mar 1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska
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25 Mar 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
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26 Mar 1989 1st free elections in the USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
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26 Mar 1989 Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
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27 Mar 1989 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations, " premieres on NBC-TV
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27 Mar 1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
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28 Mar 1989 New Zealand wins America's Cup over Stars & Stripes, in a New York court
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29 Mar 1989 61st Academy Awards - "Rainman, " Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win
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29 Mar 1989 1st Soviet hockey players are permitted to play for the NHL
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29 Mar 1989 1st US private commercial rocket takes suborbital test flight (New Mexico)
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29 Mar 1989 9th Golden Raspberry Awards: Cocktail wins
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29 Mar 1989 I M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris France
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29 Mar 1989 Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in New York for racketeering
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31 Mar 1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
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01 Apr 1989 1st New York Met-NY Yankee game in NYC since 1983, Yanks win 4-3
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01 Apr 1989 A Bartlett Giamatti replaces Ueberroth as 7th commissioner of baseball
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01 Apr 1989 Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
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02 Apr 1989 18th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Juli Inkster
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02 Apr 1989 Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage
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02 Apr 1989 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
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03 Apr 1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
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03 Apr 1989 Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St. Louis at Shea Stadium
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04 Apr 1989 New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yanks beat Twins on opening day 4-2
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05 Apr 1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo
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05 Apr 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his 59 consecutive scoreless pitched inning streak
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05 Apr 1989 Solidarity grants legal status in Poland
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06 Apr 1989 Orel Hershiser ends his record 59 consecutive scoreless streak
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07 Apr 1989 Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths
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07 Apr 1989 Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
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08 Apr 1989 1-handed pitcher Jim Abbott debut but lasts only 4 2 / 3 inn
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09 Apr 1989 53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283
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09 Apr 1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
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09 Apr 1989 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
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09 Apr 1989 Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt and loses Masters golf tournament
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09 Apr 1989 Washington DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision (allow abortions)
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09 Apr 1989 The April 9 tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
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10 Apr 1989 H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood and Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
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10 Apr 1989 Intel corp announces shipment of the 80486 chip
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10 Apr 1989 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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10 Apr 1989 24th Academy of Country Music Awards Hank Williams Jr, Alabama win
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11 Apr 1989 Ron Hextall becomes the first goaltender in NHL history to score a goal in the playoffs.
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11 Apr 1989 1st playoff goal scored by a goalee, Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers
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11 Apr 1989 Philadelphia Flyers score short-handed into an empty net beating Capitals 8-5
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12 Apr 1989 Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through
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12 Apr 1989 3rd Soul Train Music Awards Anita Baker wins
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13 Apr 1989 "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 performances
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14 Apr 1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
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14 Apr 1989 In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
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15 Apr 1989 Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
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15 Apr 1989 Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
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15 Apr 1989 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England
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15 Apr 1989 South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
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15 Apr 1989 Then largest lottery in North America ($69 million) drawn in Illinois
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15 Apr 1989 Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests
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15 Apr 1989 Sue Marchiano wins 3rd World Cup female marathon (2:30:48)
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16 Apr 1989 Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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16 Apr 1989 1st Seniors Golf Tradition Don Bies wins
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16 Apr 1989 Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
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16 Apr 1989 Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
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16 Apr 1989 Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28)
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17 Apr 1989 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $245 per week
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17 Apr 1989 Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros
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17 Apr 1989 18th Boston Women's Marath won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway in 2:24:33
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17 Apr 1989 93rd Boston Marathon won by Abebe Mekonen of Ethiopia in 2:09:06
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17 Apr 1989 Polish labor union granted legal status
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18 Apr 1989 Zimbabwe gains independence
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19 Apr 1989 A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
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19 Apr 1989 Kevin Elster (New York Mets), sets errorless shortstop mark at 73
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19 Apr 1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
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21 Apr 1989 George W Bush and Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers
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21 Apr 1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
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21 Apr 1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
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22 Apr 1989 "Welcome to the Club" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 12 performances
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22 Apr 1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter (Rickey Henderson)
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23 Apr 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar plays his last game as a Los Angeles Laker
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23 Apr 1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts
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23 Apr 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
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23 Apr 1989 Nolan Ryan blows a no hitter in 9th inning
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24 Apr 1989 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
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24 Apr 1989 Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China
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25 Apr 1989 Mike Tyson gets a speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York
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25 Apr 1989 Penguin Mario Lemieux ties NHL playoff record of 4 goals in 1st period
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26 Apr 1989 People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
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26 Apr 1989 The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
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26 Apr 1989 AT&T announces New Jersey's 201 area code will split into 908 & 201
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26 Apr 1989 Mike Tyson is ticketed for driving 71 MPH in 30 mile zone in Albany
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27 Apr 1989 "Starmites" opens at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC for 60 performances
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27 Apr 1989 The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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27 Apr 1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
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27 Apr 1989 Mandatory seatbelt law goes into effect in Italy
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27 Apr 1989 Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
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28 Apr 1989 Iran protests sale of "Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie
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28 Apr 1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
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29 Apr 1989 2nd government of Lubbers falls
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30 Apr 1989 Critics Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
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30 Apr 1989 US beats Costa Rica 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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30 Apr 1989 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Sara Lee Golf Classic
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30 Apr 1989 Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar
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01 May 1989 Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
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01 May 1989 US Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting
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01 May 1989 Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
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02 May 1989 Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
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04 May 1989 Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
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04 May 1989 US launches Magellan to Venus
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04 May 1989 US space shuttle STS-30 launched
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04 May 1989 Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
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05 May 1989 Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany, New York
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06 May 1989 115th Kentucky Derby: Pat Valenzuela on Sunday Silence wins in 2:05
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06 May 1989 Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is known as the "coaster wars".
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07 May 1989 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Crestar Golf Classic
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07 May 1989 Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 minutes in Nepal at 21,030 feet
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08 May 1989 Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" and"Ferry Cross the Mersey"
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08 May 1989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands
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09 May 1989 "Saratina!" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 597 performances
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09 May 1989 Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press
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09 May 1989 New York Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
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09 May 1989 New York Mets Rick Cerone, errors after 159 errorless games as catcher
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10 May 1989 FC Barcelona wins 29th Europe Cup II
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10 May 1989 General Manuel Noriega's Government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin
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11 May 1989 217th and final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
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11 May 1989 217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
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11 May 1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
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11 May 1989 Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
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11 May 1989 President Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panam
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12 May 1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
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12 May 1989 The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
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12 May 1989 Last graffiti covered NYC subway car retired
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12 May 1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists
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13 May 1989 Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
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13 May 1989 Approximately 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
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13 May 1989 Minnesota Twin Kirby Puckett becomes the 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
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13 May 1989 Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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14 May 1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
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14 May 1989 "Moonlighting", TV Crime Drama, last airs on ABC
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14 May 1989 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
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14 May 1989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
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14 May 1989 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
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14 May 1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
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14 May 1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
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15 May 1989 "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances
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15 May 1989 Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs. Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers
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15 May 1989 Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston
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15 May 1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years
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15 May 1989 US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
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16 May 1989 Soviet President Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
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17 May 1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
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17 May 1989 Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
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17 May 1989 Nelson Mandela receives a BA degree from University of South Africa
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17 May 1989 Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825 million
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18 May 1989 Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
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19 May 1989 Dow Jones average passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
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19 May 1989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
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20 May 1989 The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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20 May 1989 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8
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20 May 1989 China declares martial law in Beijing
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20 May 1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live
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20 May 1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest top
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21 May 1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
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21 May 1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez (her 3rd LPGA championship)
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23 May 1989 3rd American Comedy Award: Paula Poundstone
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23 May 1989 Angela Visser, 22, of Holland, crowned 38th Miss Universe
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23 May 1989 Cleveland loses & drop to 21-22, this is the latest a sub .500 team is in 1st place (American League East)
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23 May 1989 Lincoln Square in the Bronx is named
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24 May 1989 "Indiana Jones & Last Crusade" premieres
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24 May 1989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres
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24 May 1989 AC Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona
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24 May 1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
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24 May 1989 New York Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of the season
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24 May 1989 NHL's New York Rangers fire general manager & coach Phil Esposito
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24 May 1989 Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack
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25 May 1989 Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montreal for Randy Johnson
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25 May 1989 Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
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25 May 1989 Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy"
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25 May 1989 Eastern Airlines graduates its 1st class of non-union pilots
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25 May 1989 Mariners trade Mark Langston to Montr
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25 May 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union
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25 May 1989 Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames beat Montr
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26 May 1989 At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 second silence, honoring radio
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26 May 1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
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26 May 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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28 May 1989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500
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28 May 1989 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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28 May 1989 Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
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28 May 1989 Emerson Fittipaldi wins the Indianapolis 500 with an average speed of 167.581 mph
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29 May 1989 Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
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29 May 1989 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt, 39, retires
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29 May 1989 Student protesters in Tiananmen Square China construct a replica of the Statue of Liberty
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30 May 1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
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30 May 1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
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31 May 1989 "Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
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31 May 1989 1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
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31 May 1989 A group of six members of the guerrilla group Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.
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31 May 1989 1st International Rock Awards
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31 May 1989 Speaker of the House Jim Wright resigns
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01 Jun 1989 62nd National Spelling Bee: Scott Isaacs wins spelling spoliator
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01 Jun 1989 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson granted final divorce in New Jersey
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02 Jun 1989 "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres
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02 Jun 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
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02 Jun 1989 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
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02 Jun 1989 Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
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02 Jun 1989 Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
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03 Jun 1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing
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03 Jun 1989 Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone
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03 Jun 1989 Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers, 5-4, in 22 innings (7:14:09)
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03 Jun 1989 Leaking pipe of Asha, USSR causes 2 trains to catch fire; 460 die
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03 Jun 1989 Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season and 11th overall
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03 Jun 1989 The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
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04 Jun 1989 Beijing cop shoots andwounds Chinese priemer Li Ping
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04 Jun 1989 Gas explodes near 2 passenger trains in the USSR, kills 100s
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04 Jun 1989 Largest parade in Bronx history honors 350th anniversary
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04 Jun 1989 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
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04 Jun 1989 Red Sox lead Blue Jays 10-0 in 7th, but lose 12-11 in 12 for Blue Jays 12th consecutive victory at Fenway
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04 Jun 1989 Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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04 Jun 1989 The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead.
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04 Jun 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.
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04 Jun 1989 Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia, kills 575 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.
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05 Jun 1989 23rd Music City News Country Awards: R Van Shelton and Randy Travis
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05 Jun 1989 Billy Smith, last original New York Islander, retires
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05 Jun 1989 Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt"
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05 Jun 1989 Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Mil Brewers win 5-3
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05 Jun 1989 The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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06 Jun 1989 Mets turn their 1st triple play in 7 years but lose to Cubs 8-4
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07 Jun 1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors and end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, and beat Brewers 4-2
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07 Jun 1989 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires
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07 Jun 1989 Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons
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07 Jun 1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
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07 Jun 1989 Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173
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07 Jun 1989 Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years
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09 Jun 1989 "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, " premieres in USA
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09 Jun 1989 Michael Changs French Open win makes him youngest male to go to finals
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09 Jun 1989 Rare tornado in Philadelphia kills 1
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10 Jun 1989 "Tales From The Crypt, " TV Anthology, debuts on HBO
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10 Jun 1989 121st Belmont: Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26
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10 Jun 1989 59th French Womens Tennis: A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title
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10 Jun 1989 Major French Open upset, as Spain's Arantxa Sanchez, 17 beats heavily
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11 Jun 1989 7th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Orville Moody
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11 Jun 1989 Robin Hood 16 wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Points Golf International
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11 Jun 1989 59th French Mens Tennis: Michael Chang beats S Edberg (61 36 46 64 62)
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11 Jun 1989 Youngest male French Open champ & 1st US champ since 1955, Michael
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12 Jun 1989 "Doctor Doctor, " TV Comedy starring Matt Frewer, debuts on CBS-TV
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12 Jun 1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
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13 Jun 1989 43rd NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons sweeps LA Lakers in 4 games
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13 Jun 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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13 Jun 1989 Detroit sweeps Los Angeles, for the NBA championship
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14 Jun 1989 Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan
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14 Jun 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
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14 Jun 1989 Ground breaking begins in Minn on the world's largest mall
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14 Jun 1989 Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
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14 Jun 1989 Pistons sweep LA for NBA title, Kareem Abdul Jabber's final NBA game
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14 Jun 1989 Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
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15 Jun 1989 Baltimore Orioles pull their 9th triple play (vs. Yankees)
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15 Jun 1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth
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16 Jun 1989 "Ghostbusters II" premieres
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16 Jun 1989 Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956
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16 Jun 1989 Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)
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16 Jun 1989 Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
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16 Jun 1989 "Ghostbusters II" premiers
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16 Jun 1989 4 golfers shoot a hole-in-one on the same hole at the US Open
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17 Jun 1989 US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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18 Jun 1989 "Starmites" closes at Criter Ctr SR Theater NYC after 60 performances
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18 Jun 1989 89th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Oak Hill Country Club - New York
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18 Jun 1989 John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo
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18 Jun 1989 Laura Davies wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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18 Jun 1989 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
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18 Jun 1989 Curtis Strange wins his 2nd US golf open
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19 Jun 1989 Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37)
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21 Jun 1989 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
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21 Jun 1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson remarry
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21 Jun 1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression
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23 Jun 1989 Movie "Batman" premieres
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23 Jun 1989 The movie "Batman" premiers
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24 Jun 1989 Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th and 40th consecutive bases
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24 Jun 1989 Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests.
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25 Jun 1989 "Day By Day, " last airs on NBC-TV
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25 Jun 1989 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
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26 Jun 1989 Canada updates coins with a new potrait of the Queen
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26 Jun 1989 Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
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26 Jun 1989 Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for the 2nd time
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28 Jun 1989 On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
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29 Jun 1989 Emmy 16th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 10th time
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29 Jun 1989 Susan Lucci loses the daytime emmy for 10th straight year
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30 Jun 1989 "Les Miserables, " opens at Theatre Muzyczyny, Gdynia
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30 Jun 1989 New York State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
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30 Jun 1989 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
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30 Jun 1989 Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to the UK
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30 Jun 1989 Congressman Lukins found guilty of having sex with a 16 year old girl
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30 Jun 1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
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01 Jul 1989 Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
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01 Jul 1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF
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01 Jul 1989 Yanks beat Milwaukee Brewers 4-1, score is changed to 5-1 after game is over. Umpire rules Roberto Kelly scored before a double-play
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02 Jul 1989 10th US Seniors Golf Open: Orville Moody
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02 Jul 1989 17th du Maurier Golf Classic: Tammie Green
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03 Jul 1989 Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm
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03 Jul 1989 Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
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03 Jul 1989 The movie "Batman, " set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
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04 Jul 1989 14 year old actress Drew Barrymore, attempts suicide
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04 Jul 1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
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05 Jul 1989 Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage and knocks himself out
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05 Jul 1989 South-African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela
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05 Jul 1989 Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, and go on to win AL East
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05 Jul 1989 Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions were later overturned.
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06 Jul 1989 Despite retiring May 29, Mike Schmidt elected to start All Star game
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06 Jul 1989 US marshals and FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
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09 Jul 1989 103rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Becker beats Stefan Edberg (60 76 64)
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09 Jul 1989 96th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: S Graf beats M Navratilova (62 67 61)
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09 Jul 1989 Penny Hammel wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
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10 Jul 1989 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
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11 Jul 1989 60th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 5-3 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim All star MVP: Bo Jackson (Kansas City Royals)
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11 Jul 1989 AL beats NL 5-3, (3rd of last 4 All Star Games) in California
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11 Jul 1989 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts the All Star Game
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12 Jul 1989 New York Yankee pitching great Ron Guidry retires (170-91 .651, 3.29 ERA)
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12 Jul 1989 Lotte World Adventure opened in Seoul, South Korea.
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14 Jul 1989 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
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14 Jul 1989 The 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premiers
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17 Jul 1989 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber
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17 Jul 1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"
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17 Jul 1989 Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
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17 Jul 1989 First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
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17 Jul 1989 Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
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17 Jul 1989 Paul McCartney releases "This One"
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18 Jul 1989 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)
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19 Jul 1989 Cleveland Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
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19 Jul 1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
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19 Jul 1989 United Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112.
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19 Jul 1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa
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20 Jul 1989 Burma government puts Author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
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20 Jul 1989 Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
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20 Jul 1989 93
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21 Jul 1989 Mike Tyson KOs Carl Williams in 1:33 for heavyweight boxing title
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21 Jul 1989 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors
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21 Jul 1989 Greg LeMond (US) wins Tour de France in fastest time
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21 Jul 1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Carl "the Truth" Williams in 1:33 of 1st round
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23 Jul 1989 118th British Golf Open: Mark Calcavecchia shoots a 275 at Royal Troon
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23 Jul 1989 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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23 Jul 1989 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)
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23 Jul 1989 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith Arkansas
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24 Jul 1989 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America
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25 Jul 1989 Brandi Sherwood, of Idaho, crowned 7th Miss Teen USA
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26 Jul 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.
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27 Jul 1989 Atlanta Brave Dale Murphy is 10th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (6th)
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28 Jul 1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 HRs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning
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28 Jul 1989 Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run HRs in an inning, 14th man to hit
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29 Jul 1989 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher and Sam Sosa
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29 Jul 1989 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan
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29 Jul 1989 Phillies retire Steve Carltons # 32
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29 Jul 1989 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
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30 Jul 1989 Chile amends its constitution
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30 Jul 1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
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31 Jul 1989 Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to Mets
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02 Aug 1989 Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
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03 Aug 1989 5th jockey to win 6,000 races (Jorge Valesquez)
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03 Aug 1989 Cin Reds send record 20 men to bat with a record 16 hits in 1 inning as they score 14 runs in 1st inning
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03 Aug 1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
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03 Aug 1989 Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 steals in 9 seasons
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05 Aug 1989 General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista National Liberation Front winning a majority.
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06 Aug 1989 "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances
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06 Aug 1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Greater Washington Golf Open
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06 Aug 1989 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as President of Bolivia
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06 Aug 1989 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
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07 Aug 1989 U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
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08 Aug 1989 US space shuttle STS-28 launched
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08 Aug 1989 Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
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11 Aug 1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
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11 Aug 1989 Geoff Marsh and Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand vs. England
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11 Aug 1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" premiers
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11 Aug 1989 Voyager 2 discovers 2 partial rings of Neptune
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13 Aug 1989 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
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13 Aug 1989 71st PGA Championship: Payne Stewart shoots 276 at Kemper Lakes Golf Club - Illinois
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13 Aug 1989 US space shuttle STS-28 lands
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14 Aug 1989 President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
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15 Aug 1989 Cancer sufferer / SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
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15 Aug 1989 Frederik de Klerk becomes President of South Africa
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15 Aug 1989 Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
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15 Aug 1989 In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines
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15 Aug 1989 US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
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16 Aug 1989 A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
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16 Aug 1989 Roger Kingdom of USA sets the 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich
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17 Aug 1989 Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place (1,208th cons game)
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18 Aug 1989 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as New York Yankee manager
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18 Aug 1989 Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets the 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
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19 Aug 1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communmist president of Poland
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20 Aug 1989 Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
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20 Aug 1989 Howard Johnson joins B Bonds and W Mays to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases
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20 Aug 1989 Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
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20 Aug 1989 Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
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21 Aug 1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of the planet Neptune
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22 Aug 1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
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22 Aug 1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 5,000th batter
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23 Aug 1989 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
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23 Aug 1989 Lewis / Everett / Burrell / Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
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24 Aug 1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
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24 Aug 1989 Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
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24 Aug 1989 Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
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25 Aug 1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune and its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
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25 Aug 1989 Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune (0400 GMT)
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26 Aug 1989 Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
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27 Aug 1989 89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
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27 Aug 1989 Betsy King wins LPGA Nestle World Golf Championship
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27 Aug 1989 Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open
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27 Aug 1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
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28 Aug 1989 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
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28 Aug 1989 Frank Viola and Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and Dodgers 1-0
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30 Aug 1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
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31 Aug 1989 Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die (15 on the ground)
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31 Aug 1989 Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion
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01 Sep 1989 "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances
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01 Sep 1989 Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announce their separation
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02 Sep 1989 Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
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03 Sep 1989 "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 performances
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03 Sep 1989 Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st and last US Tennis Open singles victory
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03 Sep 1989 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
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04 Sep 1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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04 Sep 1989 In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
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05 Sep 1989 Chris Evert last US Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison
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05 Sep 1989 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
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06 Sep 1989 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
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06 Sep 1989 Amateur Athletic Federation strips Ben Johnson of all track records
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06 Sep 1989 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder / prostitution
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08 Sep 1989 George Brett gets his 2,500th hit
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08 Sep 1989 Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium
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08 Sep 1989 Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
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08 Sep 1989 Partnair Flight 394 drove into the North Sea, killing 55 people. The investigation showed that the tail of the plane vibrated loose in flight due to sub-standard connecting bolts that had been fraudulently sold as aircraft-grade.
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09 Sep 1989 103rd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (36 75 61)
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10 Sep 1989 109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76)
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10 Sep 1989 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners
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10 Sep 1989 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
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10 Sep 1989 Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown
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10 Sep 1989 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
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10 Sep 1989 Boris Becker beats Yvan Lendl for the US Open championship
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10 Sep 1989 East Germans begin their flight to the west (via Hungary & Czech)
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11 Sep 1989 Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
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11 Sep 1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
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11 Sep 1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
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13 Sep 1989 "Les Miserables, " opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
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13 Sep 1989 Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa
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13 Sep 1989 Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
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13 Sep 1989 Fay Vincent named baseball commissioner
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14 Sep 1989 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in the USSR, win 4-2
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14 Sep 1989 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
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16 Sep 1989 Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990
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16 Sep 1989 Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
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17 Sep 1989 41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany and Candice Bergen win
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17 Sep 1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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17 Sep 1989 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
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17 Sep 1989 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
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17 Sep 1989 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to the US (from New Zealand)
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18 Sep 1989 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
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19 Sep 1989 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
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19 Sep 1989 A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.
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19 Sep 1989 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
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19 Sep 1989 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to New Zealand (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
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20 Sep 1989 FW De Klerk sworn in as President of South Africa
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20 Sep 1989 Musical "Miss Saigon, " premieres in London
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20 Sep 1989 USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die
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21 Sep 1989 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
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22 Sep 1989 Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs
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22 Sep 1989 IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent
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23 Sep 1989 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
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24 Sep 1989 28th Ryder Cup: US and Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
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24 Sep 1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic
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25 Sep 1989 Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
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25 Sep 1989 Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits and 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
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26 Sep 1989 Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
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26 Sep 1989 MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes
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26 Sep 1989 Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet and US chemical weapons
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27 Sep 1989 Oakland wins AL West and SF wins NL West title
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27 Sep 1989 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
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29 Sep 1989 Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981)
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29 Sep 1989 Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
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30 Sep 1989 Senegambia separates back into Gambia and Senegal
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30 Sep 1989 Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
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30 Sep 1989 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
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30 Sep 1989 Nolan Ryan's perfect game is broken with 1 out in the 8th, but he strikes-out his 300th of the year
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01 Oct 1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
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01 Oct 1989 Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle
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01 Oct 1989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
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01 Oct 1989 US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
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01 Oct 1989 Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
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03 Oct 1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
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04 Oct 1989 Giants Will Clark hits 1st NLCS grand slam since 1977
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07 Oct 1989 Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
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07 Oct 1989 Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
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08 Oct 1989 Oakland beats Toronto, 4-3 in Game 5, to advance to the World Series
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09 Oct 1989 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his LA Raiders beat the New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football
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09 Oct 1989 23rd Country Music Association Award: George Strait, Kathy Mattea wins
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09 Oct 1989 27th Tennis Federation Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
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09 Oct 1989 An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
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12 Oct 1989 Musical "Buddy" with Paul Hipp premieres in London
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12 Oct 1989 Herschel Walker is traded from Cowboys to Vikings for 12 players
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13 Oct 1989 Bob Quinn resigns as New York Yankee VP / GM and replaced by Harding Peterson
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13 Oct 1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points
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14 Oct 1989 Dave Stewart is 1st since 1976 to start consecutive World Series openers
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14 Oct 1989 Texas A&I, Johnny Bailey sets NCAA season rush record at 6,085 yards
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15 Oct 1989 South African ANC-founder / leader Walter Sisulu freed
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15 Oct 1989 South African President FW de Klerk frees Sisulu and 4 other political prisoners
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15 Oct 1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
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15 Oct 1989 Billy Graham is given the 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd
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15 Oct 1989 Wayne Gretsky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer
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16 Oct 1989 Bikenibau Paeniu installed as Premier of Tuvalu
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16 Oct 1989 Jan Syse becomes Premier of Norway
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17 Oct 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).
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17 Oct 1989 Earthquake in SF (6.9) cancels 3rd game of 86th World Series - kills 67
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18 Oct 1989 East German state / party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
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18 Oct 1989 Hungary revises constitution
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18 Oct 1989 Peaceful Revolution: Erich Honecker resigns as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
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18 Oct 1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) launches into orbit
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19 Oct 1989 "Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
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19 Oct 1989 The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
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20 Oct 1989 Pakistan win Sharjah Trophy over India and WI on round-robin
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20 Oct 1989 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
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21 Oct 1989 "Dangerous Games" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
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21 Oct 1989 1st black owners (Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m
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21 Oct 1989 Buck Helm found alive after being buried 4 days, in SF earthquake
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21 Oct 1989 Houston becomes 1st major college team to gain 1000 yards in a game
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22 Oct 1989 Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
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22 Oct 1989 Denver Nuggets beat Jugoplastika Split 135-129 in 3rd McDonald Open
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23 Oct 1989 George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album
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23 Oct 1989 Hungary proclaims itself a Republic and declares communist rule ended
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23 Oct 1989 The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös, replacing the communist Hungarian People's Republic.
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23 Oct 1989 Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the nordic countries until then.
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23 Oct 1989 US 62nd manned space mission STS 34 (Atlantis 5) returns from space
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24 Oct 1989 After a week's delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played (World Series #86)
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24 Oct 1989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
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28 Oct 1989 Oakland Athletics sweep SF Giants in earthquake / BART series
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29 Oct 1989 Colleen Walker wins LPGA Nichirei Golf International
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29 Oct 1989 New York City MTA opens 63rd street extension to subway
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29 Oct 1989 Ozzie Newsome ends NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
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29 Oct 1989 NYC MTA opens the 63rd street extension to the subway
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30 Oct 1989 August A Busch III becomes CEO of St. Louis Cardinals
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30 Oct 1989 Smith Dairy at Orrville Ohio, makes largest milk shake (1,575.2 gal)
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31 Oct 1989 Turgat Ozal elected President of Turkey
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01 Nov 1989 "Les Miserables, " opens at Curran Theatre, San Francisco
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01 Nov 1989 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
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02 Nov 1989 "Meet Me in St. Louis" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 253 performances
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03 Nov 1989 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
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03 Nov 1989 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
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04 Nov 1989 1st NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to New Jersey Nets, 111-106
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04 Nov 1989 Rene Muawad elected President of Lebanon
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05 Nov 1989 "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 65 performances
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05 Nov 1989 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
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05 Nov 1989 Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
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05 Nov 1989 US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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06 Nov 1989 US marshals and FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
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08 Nov 1989 Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
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08 Nov 1989 David Dinkins elected 1st black Mayor of New York City
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09 Nov 1989 East Berlin opens its borders
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10 Nov 1989 Bulgarian party President Todor Zjikov, resigns
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10 Nov 1989 Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall
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10 Nov 1989 Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador
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10 Nov 1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
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10 Nov 1989 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
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11 Nov 1989 "Prince of Central Park" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 4 performances
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12 Nov 1989 "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1018 performances
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12 Nov 1989 Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
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13 Nov 1989 Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" and"Ou Est Le Soleil"
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13 Nov 1989 Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & Ou Est Le Soleil"
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14 Nov 1989 Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award
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15 Nov 1989 "Batman" is released on video tape
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15 Nov 1989 "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
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15 Nov 1989 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
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15 Nov 1989 "Batman" is released on video tape
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15 Nov 1989 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
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16 Nov 1989 "Gypsy" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 477 performances
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16 Nov 1989 South African President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
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16 Nov 1989 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
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17 Nov 1989 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royal contract
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18 Nov 1989 Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
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19 Nov 1989 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifying for the 1990 world soccer cup finals. It was US' 1st qualification since 1950
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20 Nov 1989 Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
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21 Nov 1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
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21 Nov 1989 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
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22 Nov 1989 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
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22 Nov 1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn & the Moon
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22 Nov 1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
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22 Nov 1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
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22 Nov 1989 Eastern Airlines pilots & flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
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23 Nov 1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
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24 Nov 1989 Elias Hrawi elected President of Lebanon
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24 Nov 1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
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26 Nov 1989 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
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26 Nov 1989 Comores coup under Bob Benard
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26 Nov 1989 Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay
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26 Nov 1989 Rafael Callejas installed as President of Honduras
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27 Nov 1989 George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" and"Poor Little Girl"
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27 Nov 1989 Luis Alberto Lacelle elected President of Uruguay
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27 Nov 1989 Avianca Flight 203: A Boeing 727 explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel will claim responsibility for the attack.
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27 Nov 1989 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
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27 Nov 1989 George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" & "Poor Little Girl"
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27 Nov 1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
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28 Nov 1989 Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary
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28 Nov 1989 Cold War: Velvet Revolution – In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
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28 Nov 1989 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract
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29 Nov 1989 India President Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
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30 Nov 1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
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01 Dec 1989 "Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
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01 Dec 1989 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
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01 Dec 1989 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year California Angels contract
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01 Dec 1989 USSR President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
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01 Dec 1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
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01 Dec 1989 Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
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02 Dec 1989 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
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02 Dec 1989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
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02 Dec 1989 Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as President of India
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03 Dec 1989 Pat Bradley / Bill Glasson wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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03 Dec 1989 Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
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05 Dec 1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 km/h
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06 Dec 1989 The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
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09 Dec 1989 "Les Miserables" opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
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10 Dec 1989 Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
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10 Dec 1989 President Gustav Hus
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11 Dec 1989 "City of Angels" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
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11 Dec 1989 Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year Kansas City Royals contract
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13 Dec 1989 The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint – The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and one badly wounded.
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13 Dec 1989 Forced repatriation of Vietnamese in Hong Kong
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13 Dec 1989 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
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16 Dec 1989 Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
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16 Dec 1989 U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
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16 Dec 1989 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)
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16 Dec 1989 Geoff Marsh completes 355 for Western Australia against South Australia
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17 Dec 1989 Patti Rizzo / Mike Hill wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
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17 Dec 1989 Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
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17 Dec 1989 Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
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17 Dec 1989 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
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17 Dec 1989 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello president
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17 Dec 1989 Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 South Africa vs Western Australia)
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18 Dec 1989 "I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
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18 Dec 1989 The European Economic Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
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18 Dec 1989 Athol Fugard's "My Children, My Africa" premieres in New York NY
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19 Dec 1989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
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19 Dec 1989 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
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20 Dec 1989 United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega. This is also the first combat use of purpose-designed stealth aircraft.
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20 Dec 1989 US troops invade Panam
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20 Dec 1989 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
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21 Dec 1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (he is executed 12/25)
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21 Dec 1989 US invades Panam
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21 Dec 1989 Vice-President Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon
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22 Dec 1989 Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife flee Bucharest with a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.
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22 Dec 1989 Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
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22 Dec 1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu
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22 Dec 1989 Cold wave: -4
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22 Dec 1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
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24 Dec 1989 Panam
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24 Dec 1989 Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe
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25 Dec 1989 Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena Ceaușescu are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.
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25 Dec 1989 Japanese scientist achieves -271.8
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26 Dec 1989 ODI debut for Mark Taylor & Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG
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27 Dec 1989 The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.
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27 Dec 1989 Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
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28 Dec 1989 A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.
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28 Dec 1989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czechoslovakia
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28 Dec 1989 Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
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29 Dec 1989 Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
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29 Dec 1989 Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
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29 Dec 1989 Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
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29 Dec 1989 Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press
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29 Dec 1989 Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
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30 Dec 1989 Dmitri Volkov swims world record 50 meter freestyle (27.15 seconds)
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31 Dec 1989 "Me & My Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 1420 performances
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31 Dec 1989 "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
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31 Dec 1989 Actress Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) weds Joe Petruzzi
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31 Dec 1989 Fog Bowl: Heavy fog rolls in on Bears 20-12 victory over Eagles
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31 Dec 1989 Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year
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