August 1989 calendar

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 LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings
• 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

Famous Birthday

• Hayden Panettiere

  American actress, model, singer, and activist.

• Joe Jonas

  American singer/songwriter.

• Lil Romeo

  American rapper and actor.

• Priscilla (French singer)
• Amarillo (Texas)
• Tunis (Tunisia)
• Bebe Rexha

  World Music Singer.

• James Harden

  Basketball Player.

• Belinda Peregrín Schüll
• Tiffany (South Korean singer)
• Lil B

  Rapper.

• Landry Allbright
• Sara Nuru
• Shavon Kirksey
• Carlos Pena Jr

  American actor and singer (Big Time Rush).

• Arequipa (Peru)
• Jules Bianchi

  French Formula One car driver, he crashed on 5th October 2014 (Suzuka Grand Prix, Japan).

• Sesil Karatantcheva

  Bulgarian-Kazakhstan tennis player.

• César Azpilicueta

  Spanish footballer.

• Alice Raucoules
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Famous Deaths

• R D Laing

  Scottish psychiatrist (Born 1927).

• Tim Richmond

  American race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS (born 1955).

• Amanda Blake

  American actress (Gunsmoke), dies at age 60 (born 1929).

• Ralph Meeker

  American film, stage and television actor best known for starring in the 1953 Broadway production of Picnic, and in the 1955 film noir cult...

• Irving Stone

  United States -- Author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life).

• John Ogdon

  Manchester, England -- Pianist / composer.

• Henk Heidweiller

  Ambassador of Suriname.

• Joe De Santis

  Dies at 80.

• George Adamson

  India-born English game warden and lion expert (Born 1906).

• Samuel Okwaraji

  Nigerian footballer (Born 1964).

• Larkin Smith

  American politician (Born 1944).

• Robert Grondelaers

  Belgian cyclist (Born 1933).

• Mohammed Abed Elhai

  Sudanese writer and academic (Born 1944).

• Seymour Krim

  American journalist, essayist and literary critic (Born 1922).

• Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos

  Greek Army officer (Born 1897).

• Peter Scott

  English explorer, naturalist, and painter (Born 1909).

• Ricky Berry

  American basketball player (Born 1964).

• Mickey Leland

  American politician, United States Congressman from Texas (Born 1944).

• F de Jong Edz

  Dutch Historian / director (IISG).

• John Meillon

  Actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Prince - Batdance
2. Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
3. Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted
4. Bobby Brown - On Our Own
5. Love and Rockets - So Alive

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - Swing The Mood
2. Black Box - Ride On Time
3. Kylie Minogue - Wouldn't Change A Thing
4. Lil' Louis - French Kiss
5. Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting