February 1989 calendar

February 1989
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in February 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 February 1989: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of February 1989?

Events

01 Feb 1989 Princess Diane of England visits New York City
03 Feb 1989 Bill White named NL President; 1st black major-league sports head
04 Feb 1989 Dean Jones scores 216 versus West Indies at the Adelaide Oval.
05 Feb 1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes first NBA player to score 38,000 points.
06 Feb 1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government.
07 Feb 1989 The Los Angeles, California, City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
08 Feb 1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
09 Feb 1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix Suns) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games.
10 Feb 1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, Saint Louis, Missouri.
11 Feb 1989 George O'Hanlon, American actor/director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at age 71 (born 1912).
12 Feb 1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting Satanic Verses novel
13 Feb 1989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
14 Feb 1989 Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens
15 Feb 1989 Soviet military occupation of Afgh nist n ends
16 Feb 1989 Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
17 Feb 1989 Former baseball player / manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
18 Feb 1989 Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open / Itoki Pro-Am
19 Feb 1989 Legs Diamond closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 64 performances
20 Feb 1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancel an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players.
21 Feb 1989 US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)[dup]
22 Feb 1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
23 Feb 1989 After protracted testimony, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11-9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.
24 Feb 1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
25 Feb 1989 Lowest baramotric pressure in the Netherlands
26 Feb 1989 Lowest barometric pressure in the Netherlands
27 Feb 1989 Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo riots.
28 Feb 1989 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public

Famous Birthday

Famous Deaths

John Cassavetes
American actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at age 59 (born 1929).
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.
Ondrej Nepela
Slovak figure skater and coach (d. 1989).
Lefty Gomez
New York Yankees pitching great, dies at age 80.
James Bond
American ornithologist and zoologist (d. 1989).
Andre Cayatte
French filmmaker (Born 1909).
Maurits Kok
Dutch writer / Poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81.
Wayne Hays
American politician (Born 1911).
Kenneth "Jethro" Burns
country singer (Homer and Jethro), dies at age 69.
Mauritius Balfoort
French/Flemish director, dies at age 83.
Jaap van de Merwe
Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies.
Barbara W Tuchman
American historian (Born 1912).
Osbourne 'King Tubby' Ruddock
Jamaican Dub music performer (Born 1941).
Moises da Costa Amaral
East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (Born 1938).
Alex Thepot
French footballer (Born 1906).
Lionel Newman
American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (Born 1916).
Arnold Nordmeyer
New Zealand minister and politician 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (d. 1989).
Barbara Tuchman
American historian (Guns of August - Pulitzer Prize), dies at age 77 (born 1912).
Hermann Burger
Writer, dies at 46.
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