December 1989 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1989 Mark Langston signs record US$3.2 million per year California Angels contract.
• 02 Dec 1989 KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
• 03 Dec 1989 Pat Bradley / Bill Glasson wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
• 04 Dec 1989 Prime Minister of Jordan Zaid ibn Shaker resigns and is replaced by Mudar Badran.
• 05 Dec 1989 France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph.
• 06 Dec 1989 Frances Bavier, American actress (Aunt Bee - The Andy Griffith Show) dies at age 86 (born 1902).
• 09 Dec 1989 Les Miserables opens at Princess Theatre, Melbourne
• 11 Dec 1989 City of Angels opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 878 performances
• 13 Dec 1989 Walter Davis (Denver Nuggets) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games.
• 14 Dec 1989 Lee Van Cleef, American actor (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Sabata), dies at age 64.
• 15 Dec 1989 The Romanian Revolution begins in Timişoara when rioters break into the Committee Building and cause extensive vandalism. Their attempts to set the buildings on fire are foiled by military units.
• 16 Dec 1989 Walter LeRoy Moody begins his terrorist bombing streak when he sends Judge Robert Smith Vance a bomb in the mail, instantly killing him near his house in Birmingham, Alabama.
• 17 Dec 1989 Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello President
• 18 Dec 1989 I Love Lucy Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
• 19 Dec 1989 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
• 20 Dec 1989 American forces launch Operation Just Cause in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. 13,000 U.S. troops are sent to occupy Panama City, along with the 12,000 already there.
• 21 Dec 1989 US Vice-President Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Christmas cards with word "beacon" spelled "beakon".
• 22 Dec 1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
• 23 Dec 1989 Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu are captured in Târgoviște.
• 24 Dec 1989 Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K Doe.
• 27 Dec 1989 Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games.
• 28 Dec 1989 Alexander Dubcek elected parliament Chairman of Czech
• 29 Dec 1989 Riots break-out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
• 30 Dec 1989 10th United Negro College Fund raises $12,000,000
• 31 Dec 1989 Me & My Girl closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 1420 performances

Famous Birthday

• Taylor Swift

  American singer-songwriter, moved to Nashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music.

• Marion Maréchal-Le Pen
• Ashley Benson

  American actress.

• Nicholas Hoult

  Movie Actor.

• Mackenzie Rosman

  American actress.

• Jordin Sparks

  American singer and American Idol winner.

• Tal (singer)
• Onew

  South Korean singer (SHINee), musical actor and TV host.

• Jane Levy

  TV Actress.

• Ryan Sheckler

  American professional skateboarder.

• Yuri (South Korean singer)
• Cassie Steele

  TV Actress.

• Pirat Nitipaisalkul
• George Blagden
• André Ayew
• Kei Nishikori

  Tennis Player.

• Yong Jun-hyung

  South Korean singer-songwriter rapper and producer (Beast).

• Jen Ledger

  Drummer.

• Ajak Deng
• Shin (Cinema Bizarre)
• See more

Famous Deaths

• Samuel Beckett

  Irish author of prose, fiction and avant-garde plays, who established the contemporary theater of the absurd with his surrealistic "Waiting...

• Silvana Mangano

  Italian actress who became a sultry star in 1949 with her role in "Bitter Rice.

• Lee Van Cleef

  One of the great movie villains, Lee Van Cleef started out as an accountant.

• Hans Hartung

  German artist, a pioneer abstract expressionist painter and member of the abstract wing of the Paris school after 1945.

• Alvin Ailey

  American black gay choreographer, dancer and director, the founder of the famous Alvin Ailey Dance Theater.

• Andrei Sakharov

  Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

• Billy Martin

  American baseball player and manager, famous for his gutsy all-out baseball playing style and barroom fighting brawls.

• Billy Martin

  American baseball player and manager, famous for his gutsy all-out baseball playing style and barroom fighting brawls.

• Jock Mahoney

  Actor (Dallas, Cow Town, Range Rider), dies at 70.

• Nicolae Ceaucescu

  Romanian Dictator (1945-89), executed.

• Sir John Pritchard

  English conductor (Born 1921).

• Arnold Moss

  American actor (Born 1910).

• Andrei D Sakharov

  Russian physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1921).

• John M Pritchard

  British conductor, dies at age 68 (born 1921).

• Jan Cikker

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Frances Beauvier

  Actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86.

• Madoline Thomas

  Actress (Girl in the Canal).

• Kurt Bohme

  German bass (Born 1908).

• Nicolea Ceausescu

  Dictator of Romania, executed.

• Elena Ceaucescu

  Wife of Romanian Dictator Nicolae, executed.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Milli Vanilli - Blame It On The Rain
2. Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
3. Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise
4. Linda Ronstadt - Don't Know Much
5. Paula Abdul - (It's Just) The Way That You Love Me

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)
2. Kylie & Jason - Especially For You
3. Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville - Don't Know Much
4. Erasure - Crackers International (EP)
5. Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers - Let's Party