1989

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Years :	1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
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Years:	1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992

1989 is a year in the 20th century. It is a common year.

1 Births
2 Deaths
3 Events
4 Films released
5 Hit songs
6 New Books

[edit] Births

February 3 - Vania King, American tennis player

[edit] Deaths

August 22 - Huey Newton
October 4 - Graham Chapman
October 4 - Secretariat
December 22 - Samuel Beckett

[edit] Events

January 7 - Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins
January 8 - the Kegworth Air Disaster - A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport - 44 dead
January 10 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola
January 10 - Assistant Australian Federal Police commissioner Colin Winchester is shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home
January 16-18 - Race riots in Overtown, Miami
January 17 - A gunman kills 5 children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California
January 20 - George Herbert Walker Bush succeeds Ronald Wilson Reagan as President of the United States of America
January 24 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair
January 30 - American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident
March 24 - Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
November 2 - Bad Religion releases No Control, which is considered one of the band's best known works in the history of punk music, along with its predecessor Suffer, which came out in the previous year.

[edit] Films released

Batman
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Born on the Fourth of July
Do The Right Thing
Ghostbusters II
Great Balls of Fire
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
Kiki's Delivery Service
Lethal Weapon II
Look Who's Talking
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Roadhouse
Roger and Me
The Little Mermaid
Steel Magnolias
Turner & Hooch
UHF
Uncle Buck

[edit] Hit songs

"All She Wants Is" - Duran Duran
"My Brave Face" - Paul McCartney
"Another Day in Paradise" - Phil Collins
"Batdance" - Prince
"Bat Attack '89 - Crime Fighters Inc
"Beds Are Burning" - Midnight Oil
"Blame It on the Rain" - Milli Vanilli
"Buffalo Stance" - Neneh Cherry
"Cartoon" - Soul Asylum
"Compulsory Hero - 1927
"Chained To The Wheel - Black Sorrows
"Cry In Shame Johnny Disel + The Injectors
"Crying In The Chapel" - Peter Blakley
"Do You Believe In Shame?" - Duran Duran
"Dr. Feelgood" - Mötley Crüe
"Eternal Flame" - The Bangles
"Eyes Of A Stranger" - Queensrÿche
"Hangin' Tough" - New Kids On The Block
"Heavy Metal" - Judas Priest
"I Drove All Night - Cyndi Lauper
"I Feel The Earth Move - Martika
"If I Could" - 1927
"If I Could Turn Back Time" - Cher
"If Tomorrow Never Comes" - Garth Brooks
"Kickstart My Heart" - Mötley Crüe
"Killin' Time" - Clint Black
"Leave A Light On For Me - Belinda Carlisle
"Like a Prayer" - Madonna
"Listen To Your Heart" - Roxette
"Lost in Your Eyes" - Debbie Gibson
"Love Shack"- The B-52's
"Miss You Much" - Janet Jackson
"Monsters Of Rock" - Judas Priest
"Open Letter (To A Landlord)" - Living Colour
"Orange Crush" R.E.M
"Rendez-vous chaque soir" - Dalida (inédit)
"Right Here Waiting" - Richard Marx
"Ring My Bell - Collette
"She Drives Me Crazy" - Fine Young Cannibals
"She Has To Be Loved" - Jenny Morris
"Sometime To Return" - Soul Asylum
"Soul Revival" - Johnny Disel + The Injectors
"Stand" - R.E.M.
"Stop - Sam Brown
"Straight Up" - Paula Abdul
"Talk It Over" - Grayson Hugh
"The Crack-Up" - The Black Sorrows
"The Dance" - Garth Brooks
"The Look" - Roxette
"The World Seems Difficult" - Mentals
"Toy Soilders - Martika
"Tucker's Daughter - Ian Moss
"Un soir qu'on oublie pas" - Dalida (inédit)
"Veronica" - Elvis Costello
"When I See You Smile" - Bad English
"We Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
"Wild Thing" - Tone Loc
"You Got It" - Roy Orbison
"You Got It (The Right Stuff)" - New Kids On The Block
"Young Years" - Dragon
"You'll Never Know" - 1927

[edit] New Books

Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave
The Cardinal of the Kremlin - Tom Clancy
Chronicle of the French Revolution - Jean Favier et al
Daddy - Danielle Steel
The Face of Battle - John Keegan
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
The Great and Secret Show - Clive Barker
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
It's Always Something - Gilda Radner
Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Legacy of Heorot - Larry Niven
Licence to Kill - John Gardner
London Fields - Martin Amis
Lot's Wife - Tom Wakefield
The Magick of Candleburning - Gerina Dunwich
The Negotiator - Frederick Forsyth
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
Red Phoenix - Larry Bond
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Russia House - John le Carré
The Sands of Time - Sidney Sheldon
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Six Days in Havana - James A. Michener
Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordecai Richler
Star - Danielle Steel
Stark - Ben Elton
The Temple of My Familiar - Alice Walker
A Time to Kill - John Grisham
Total Recall - Piers Anthony
While My Pretty One Sleeps - Mary Higgins Clark
The Wicked and the Witless - Hugh Cook
Win, Lose or Die - John Gardner
New Revised Standard Version of the Bible
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon