1989 (MCMLXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar , the 989th year of the 2nd millennium , the 89th year of the 20th century , and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade A wave of counter revolutions ended the Eastern Bloc and the Cold War during the year.
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Clean up after Exxon Valdez oil spill
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 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.
February 3 – Paraguayan leader Alfredo Stroessner is removed from office.
February 14 – Iran issues a fatwa (death warrant) against the writer Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses .
March 24 – The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurs at Prince William Sound in southern Alaska . Until 2010 it is the worst oil spill in United States history.
May - Tornadoes hit Georgia, North Carolina , South Carolina and Virginia .
June 4 – Protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing , China , are brutally crushed. An image of a lone protestor defying a tank is shown worldwide.
August – First sighting of the Aurora , a supposed hypersonic aircraft
September - Hurricane Hugo strikes the Leeward Islands , Virgin Islands , Puerto Rico , South Carolina and North Carolina . The hurricane causes $8 billion in damage in the United States, about $10 billion in total. Many people die from this hurricane.
October 17 – A major earthquake strikes San Francisco , California .
October 18 – East Germany 's leader Erich Honecker resigns.
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 .
November 17 – The Berlin Wall in Germany starts to come down.
December 17 – The television series The Simpsons premieres on FOX as a full animated series with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ".
December 22 – The main crossing from East into West Berlin is officially reopened.
December 22 – In Romania , Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is removed from office.
December 25 – Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are executed by a firing squad.
Jason Derulo
Taylor Swift
January 9 – Nina Dobrev , Canadian actress
January 23 – April Pearson , British actress
February 3 – Vania King , American tennis player
February 9 – Shunta Takahashi , Japanese footballer
February 18 – Zhang Li Yin , Chinese singer
February 21 – Corbin Bleu , American actor
March 12 – Holger Badstuber , German footballer
March 13 – Marko Marin , German footballer
March 14 – Ryohei Yamazaki , Japanese footballer
March 16 – Theo Walcott , English footballer
March 19 – James Richman , Latvian-born investor
March 20 – Keisuke Endo , Japanese footballer
March 28 – David Goodwillie , Scottish footballer
April 8 – Koki Otani , Japanese footballer
April 23 – Nicole Vaidisova , German tennis player
May 5 – Chris Brown , American singer
May 11 – Giovani dos Santos , Mexican footballer
May 17 – Tessa Virtue , Canadian ice dancer
June 2 – Freddy Adu , American footballer
June 10 – Alexandra Stan , Romanian singer and songwriter
June 11 – Shia LaBeouf , American actor
July 16 – Gareth Bale , Welsh footballer
June 28 – Markiplier , American YouTube personality
July 23 – Daniel Radcliffe , British actor
August 15 – Joe Jonas , American singer and actor
August 21 – Hayden Panettiere , American actress
August 30 – Bebe Rexha , American singer and songwriter
September 1 – Bill & Tom Kaulitz , German singers
September 10 – Sanjaya Malakar , American singer
September 13 – Thomas Mueller , German footballer
September 21 – Jason Derulo , American singer
September 21 – Emma Watkins , Australian musician (The Wiggles )
September 23 – Brandon Jennings , American basketball player
October 4 – Kimmie Meissner , American ice skater
October 5 – Alex Beznea , Romanian guitarist (Timpuri Grele)
October 13 – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , American politician and activist
October 24 – Pewdiepie , Swedish YouTube personality
October 30 – Seth Adkins , American actor
October 30 – Nastia Liukin , American gymnast
November 11 – Patrick Starrr , American YouTube personality
December 13 – Taylor Swift , American pop singer
December 22 – Jordin Sparks , American singer
December 28 – Mackenzie Rosman , American actress
December 30 – Natasha Baker , English para-equestrian
Batman
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Born on the Fourth of July , nominated for eight Academy Awards
Dead Poets Society , winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Film
Do The Right Thing
Driving Miss Daisy , nominated for nine Academy Awards
Ghostbusters II
Great Balls of Fire!
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , the highest-grossing movie of 1989
Kickboxer
Kiki's Delivery Service , an animated movie
Lethal Weapon II
Tango & Cash
The Little Mermaid , made by Walt Disney Pictures
Lock Up
Look Who's Talking
Next of Kin
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Road House
Roger & Me , directed by Michael Moore
Steel Magnolias , winning a Golden Globe Award for Julia Roberts
Turner & Hooch
UHF
Uncle Buck , directed by John Hughes
Duran Duran in 2012
Garth Brooks in 2009
"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 Diesel + 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
"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
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