March 1989 calendar

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

Historical Events

Which were the important events of March 1989?

Events

01 Mar 1989 Julianne Philips and Bruce Springsteen divorce
02 Mar 1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
03 Mar 1989 Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, two years probation for Iran-Contra.
04 Mar 1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
05 Mar 1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises US$37,002,000.
07 Mar 1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, North West North America, Greenland).
08 Mar 1989 Heidi Chronicles opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances
09 Mar 1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60 metre hurdles indoor (7.36 seconds).
12 Mar 1989 Two cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA).
13 Mar 1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
14 Mar 1989 Stack's auctions a $1000 US Treasury note for US$100,000, a record price for paper money.
15 Mar 1989 Les Miserables, opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
16 Mar 1989 The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union approves agricultural reforms allowing farmers the right to lease state-owned farms for life.
17 Mar 1989 Chu Chem opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
18 Mar 1989 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
19 Mar 1989 Boeing B-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft makes maiden flight
20 Mar 1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
21 Mar 1989 First sea test of Trident 2 missile self-destructs, Cape Canaveral.
22 Mar 1989 US Supreme Court upholds one person one vote rule of New York City, New York Board of Estimate.
23 Mar 1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
24 Mar 1989 Mary Martin in Peter Pan, 1st seen on TV since 1973
26 Mar 1989 1st free elections in the USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
27 Mar 1989 1st half-black soap opera, Generations, premieres on NBC-TV
29 Mar 1989 61st Academy Awards - Rainman, Dustin Hoffman and Jodie Foster win
31 Mar 1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern Airlines' Northeast Shuttle.

Famous Birthday

Lily Collins
Movie Actress.
Xavier Dolan
Canadian French Young prodigy, actor and filmmaker, born to actor and singer Manuel Tadros of Egyptian descent and Geneviève Dolan.
Peaches Geldof
English journalist, television presenter, model and fashion icon; the second daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates.
Discovery of Uranus
Kim Tae-yeon
Pop Singer.
Antwerp (Belgium)
Anton Yelchin
Russian/American actor.
Pierre Niney
French stage and film actor, member of the Comédie-Française.
Blake Griffin
American basketball player.
Erin Heatherton
American fashion model.
Alyson Michalka
American actress and singer.
Agnieszka Radwanska
Polish tennis player.
Marloes Horst
Sterling Knight
American actor.
Jake Lloyd
American actor.
Caitlin Upton
American model and actress Miss Teen USA 2007.
Shraddha Kapoor
Movie Actress.
Allison Stokke
Colby O'Donis
American musician.
Nathalie Emmanuel
TV Actress.
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Famous Deaths

Robert Mapplethorpe
American contemporary photographer whose prints began at a price of $5,000 while sittings started at $10,000.
Bernard Blier
French character actor.
Harry Andrews
Kent, England -- Actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha).
Edward Abbey
American author and environmentalist, dies after surgery at age 62 (born 1927).
Jack Starrett
American actor and film director (Born 1936).
Piet Kruiver
Dutch soccer player, dies at age 51.
Tiny Grimes
American jazz and R&B guitarist (Born 1916).
John J McCloy
United States Secretary of War (Born 1895).
Valerie Quennessen
French actress (Born 1957).
Muhammad Jameel Didi
Maldivian poet (Born 1915).
Hai Zi
Chinese poet (Born 1964).
Robert J Wilke
American actor (Born 1914).
Zita
Italian-Austrian royalty, the consort of Charles I, the last ruler of Habsburg, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Empress of Austria and...
Vasantdada Patil
Indian farmer and politician 9th Governor of Rajasthan (d. 1989).
May Allison
American stage and film actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in the medium of silent film.
Maurice Evans
English actor producer and screenwriter (d. 1989).
Josephine van Gasteren
Dutch actress / director (Bluejackets), dies at 72.
Merritt Butrick
Actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29.
Milton Frome
Actor (Family Jewels).
William Challee
Actor (Desperate, Moonchild).
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