Historical Events in 1989 (Part 3)

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• Jun 17 US beats Guatemala 2-1 in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
• Jun 18 Comet Churyunov-Gerasimenko at perihelion
• Jun 19 Barry Switzer resigns as head coach of Oklahoma's football team

• Jun 20 Warner Bros Records releases the eleventh studio album by singer Prince, the soundtrack to the film "Batman", it features the single “Batdance”

• Jun 21 Carlton Fisk becomes AL catcher HR hitter, 307th at Yankee stadium
• Jun 21 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression

• Jun 22 Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads

• Jun 24 Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases

• Jun 25 "Day By Day" last airs on NBC-TV
• Jun 25 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
• Jun 25 Mets' defense does not record a single assist in a 5-1 win over Phils

• Jun 26 Supreme Court rules 16-year-olds can receive the death penalty
• Jun 29 South Africa's National Party adopts five year programme of its objectives, including a political "reform" plan to give Black majority role in national and local government; ANC responds it would consider only a one-man, one-vote system

• Jun 30 NASA closes down tracking stations in Santiago, Chile & Guam
• Jun 30 NY State Legislature passes Staten Island secession bill
• Jun 30 Sudan suspends interim constitution following coup
• Jun 30 US Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK
• Jun 30 US Congressman Donald Lukens found guilty of having sex with a 16-year-old girl
• Jul 2 American jockey Steve Cauthen wins Irish Derby on Old Vic to become the first rider in history to sweep the world's 4 major Derbies (Kentucky, Epsom, French, Irish)

• Jul 3 Movie "Batman" set record of quickest $100 million (10 days)
• Jul 3 Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3,000m steeplechase world record of 8:05.39 in Stockholm, Sweden
• Jul 3 US Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions

• Jul 4 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)

• Jul 6 US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
• Jul 7 Concert by the Grateful Dead with Bruce Hornsby & the Range becomes final event at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, six days before structure is condemned
• Jul 8 Carlos Saul Menum becomes President of Argentina
• Jul 8 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• Jul 9 Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others
• Jul 10 Paula Ivan runs female world record 1 mile (4:15.61)
• Jul 11 President Ronald Reagan sportscasts All Star Game

• Jul 16 South Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, holds its third annual congress and intensifies its campaign against apartheid
• Jul 17 1st test flight of US stealth bomber

• Jul 17 Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
• Jul 18 48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)

• Jul 19 NFL owners vote unanimously to form World League of American Football - operated 1991-2007
• Jul 19 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
• Jul 20 93°F, highest overnight low ever recorded in Phoenix, Arizona, until heat wave of 2023

• Jul 20 Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it
• Jul 21 Eastern Airlines submits a reorganization plan to creditors

• Jul 22 Kristin Huxhold, 18, of Missouri, crowned America's Junior Miss
• Jul 23 FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America's Most Wanted)

• Jul 23 Winds gust to 85 MPH at Fort Smith, Arkansas
• Jul 24 Paula Gwynn, 22, crowned 21st Miss Black America

• Jul 28 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
• Jul 28 Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
• Jul 28 NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleve, announce new high-temperature superconductors able to operate at 33 to 37 Gigahertz

• Jul 29 Javier Sotomayor of Cuba sets high jump record (8'0") in San Juan

• Jul 29 Vince Coleman, record streak stopped at 50 straight stolen bases
• Jul 29 White Sox trade Harold Baines to Rangers for Scott Fletcher & Sam Sosa
• Jul 30 Chile amends its constitution
• Jul 31 MLB Minnesota Twins trade AL Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola to New York Mets

• Aug 3 Cincinnati Reds set MLB record for most hits in 1st inning of a game with 16 for 14 runs in an 18-1 rout of Houston Astros
• Aug 3 Future Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder Rickey Henderson sets AL mark of 50 stolen bases in 9 of his first 11 seasons in MLB
• Aug 3 Jorge Velásquez wins aboard Maddie Bumpo in the 3rd at Arlington International Racecourse to become only the 5th jockey in the world to ride 6,000 career winners
• Aug 3 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
• Aug 5 First ever dead heat in harness racing's Hambletonian; Park Avenue Joe and Probe tie the 3rd and final heat; Park Avenue Joe wins series on count back
• Aug 5 General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority.
• Aug 5 NASA Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle, 1st to do so
• Aug 6 Boston Red Sox retire Baseball Hall of Fame left fielder, 1st baseman Carl Yastrezemski's #8
• Aug 6 Jaime Paz Zamora inaugurated as president of Bolivia
• Aug 6 Pilot Union tells pilots okay to cross Eastern picket lines
• Aug 6 Twenty former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders, launch a campaign against apartheid laws
• Aug 7 U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia

• Aug 8 US space shuttle STS-28 launched
• Aug 10 A's bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
• Aug 10 Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
• Aug 11 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
• Aug 11 Geoff Marsh & Mark Taylor complete 329 opening stand v England
• Aug 11 Voyager 2 discovers two partial rings of Neptune
• Aug 13 2 hot-air balloons crash at Alice Springs, Australia, 13 killed
• Aug 13 US space shuttle STS-28 lands

• Aug 15 Italian swimmer Giorgio Lamberti sets world record 200m freestyle (1:46.69) in Bonn, West Germany
• Aug 16 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.
• Aug 16 Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich

• Aug 18 ArenaBowl III, Joe Louis Arena, Detroit: Detroit Drive beats Pittsburgh Gladiators 39-26, George LaFrance MVP
• Aug 18 Arturo Barrios of Mexico sets 10K record (27:08.23) in Berlin
• Aug 18 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as NY Yankee manager
• Aug 18 Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
• Aug 19 1st crack in the Iron Curtain when Hungary opens its borders to Austria for a pan-European picnic for a few hours
• Aug 19 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland
• Aug 20 American Janet Evans swims female 800m freestyle world record 8:16.22 in the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo, Japan
• Aug 20 Dredger "Bow Belle" collides with pleasure boat "Marchioness" on the River Thames in central London; the "Marchioness" sinks in 30 seconds, drowning 51

• Aug 20 Said Aouita runs world record 3,000 m (7:29.45)
• Aug 21 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
• Aug 22 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered

• Aug 23 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
• Aug 23 Lewis, Everett, Burrell and Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
• Aug 23 The Baltic Way - two million people form a human chain across Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania in a peaceful pro-independence demonstration against Soviet occupation [1]
• Aug 24 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain

• Aug 25 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps
• Aug 25 Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary
• Aug 26 Trumbull, Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
• Aug 27 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
• Aug 27 89th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Chris Patton
• Aug 28 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
• Aug 28 Frank Viola and NY Mets outduel Orel Hershiser and LA Dodgers 1-0
• Aug 31 Arbitrator T Roberts orders owners to pay $105 million for collusion

• Sep 1 Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation

• Sep 3 American tennis star Chris Evert beats 15-year-old Monica Seles 6-0, 6-2 in a 4th round match for her 101st and last US Open singles victory
• Sep 3 Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die

• Sep 4 Monday demonstrations demanding political reforms begin at St Nicholas's church in Leipzig, East Germany, would later be replicated around the country
• Sep 5 Chris Evert's final US Open tennis match; defeated by Zina Garrison 7-6, 6-2 in the quarter finals

• Sep 5 Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
• Sep 6 Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
• Sep 6 Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution

• Sep 8 Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk, Belgium
• Sep 8 Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
• Sep 10 Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
• Sep 10 East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary and Czechoslovakia)

• Sep 11 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
• Sep 11 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO

• Sep 13 Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
• Sep 14 Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
• Sep 14 Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
• Sep 14 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• Sep 15 The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.

• Sep 17 -21] Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston, South Carolina
• Sep 17 41st Emmy Awards: "LA Law", "Cheers", Dana Delany & Candice Bergen win
• Sep 17 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
• Sep 17 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US (from NZ)
• Sep 18 Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico

• Sep 19 Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
• Sep 19 Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
• Sep 19 French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die

• Sep 20 USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die
• Sep 21 Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
• Sep 22 IRA bomb kills 10 Royal Marines bandsmen in Kent
• Sep 22 MLB St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs

• Sep 23 Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
• Sep 24 ABC's premiere of "The Preppie Murder", based on 1986 murder in New York City of Jennifer Levin by ex prep school student Robert Chambers
• Sep 25 Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam

• Sep 25 Ronald Harwood's play "Another Time" premieres in London
• Sep 26 Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia

• Sep 27 Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title
• Sep 27 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash

• Sep 30 NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
• Sep 30 Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout
• Sep 30 Senegambia separates back into Gambia & Senegal
• Sep 30 Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
• Sep 30 West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher grants escaping East Germans free passage to the West in speech from West German embassy balcony in Prague
• Oct 1 Dallas Cowboy defensive end, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle in a 30-13 defeat to the New York Giants at Texas Stadium

• Oct 1 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany

• Oct 1 US Post Office issues a stamp labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
• Oct 2 TV true life drama "A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story" premieres on NBC in the US

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