August 1989 calendar

August 1989
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in August 1989.
The US president was George H. W. Bush (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on August 1989: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of August 1989?

Events

02 Aug 1989 NASA confirms Voyager 2's discovery of three more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24.
03 Aug 1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
05 Aug 1989 General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority.
06 Aug 1989 Oh! Calcutta! closes at Edison Theater NYC after 5959 performances
07 Aug 1989 U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (Democrat-Texas) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
08 Aug 1989 US space shuttle STS-28 launched
11 Aug 1989 Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child premieres
13 Aug 1989 2 hot-air balloon crash at Alice Springs Australia, 13 killed
14 Aug 1989 President Pieter W Botha of South Africa, resigns
15 Aug 1989 Cancer sufferer / SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
16 Aug 1989 Roger Kingdom of USA sets the 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich, Switzerland.
17 Aug 1989 Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken moves into 3rd place
18 Aug 1989 Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galan is assassinated near Bogota in Colombia.
19 Aug 1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist President of Poland
20 Aug 1989 Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
21 Aug 1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
22 Aug 1989 Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
23 Aug 1989 Lewis / Everett / Burrell / Heard run world record 4x200 m
24 Aug 1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
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
26 Aug 1989 Trumbull Conn, is 1st US team since 1983 to win Little League WS
27 Aug 1989 100 march through Bensonhurst protesting racial killings
28 Aug 1989 1st regular-season matchup of defending Cy Young Award winners
30 Aug 1989 Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
31 Aug 1989 Aeromexico DC-9 collides over LA, 82 die
15 Aug 1989 China Eastern Airlines Flight 5510 crashes after takeoff from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, killing 34 of the 40 people on board.