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year	1989
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1/1 - NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15

1/1 - Year of the Young Reader begins

1/2 - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship

1/2 - UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game

1/3 - Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)

1/3 - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement

1/4 - VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president

1/4 - US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean

1/4 - Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion

1/5 - 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test

1/5 - "Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990"

1/7 - Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record

1/7 - NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)

1/7 - International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris

1/7 - Akhito becomes emperor of Japan

1/8 - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.

1/8 - Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons

1/8 - "Boeing 737-400 crashes at Kegworth, England, 46 die"

1/8 - Starlight Express closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs

1/8 - "42nd Street closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs"

1/9 - Pat Sajak Show premieres on CBS

1/9 - Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1/11 - Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school

1/11 - "Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet"

1/11 - "140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)"

1/12 - "6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)"

1/12 - Idi Amin expelled from Zaire

1/13 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence

1/13 - Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq

1/13 - "Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate"

1/13 - "Computers across Britain hit by ""Friday the 13th"" virus"

1/13 - Ryan's Hope ends 13ﾂｽ year run on ABC-TV

1/13 - Friday the 13th virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain

1/14 - Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped

1/14 - 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris

1/14 - "1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' ""Satanic Verses"" in Bradford England"

1/14 - Romance/Romance closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 perfs

1/15 - "Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000"

1/15 - Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble

1/15 - Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic

1/15 - 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards

1/15 - Ain't Misbehavin' closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 perfs

1/16 - Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague

1/16 - USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars

1/17 - "Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami"

1/17 - Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)

1/17 - "Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard:: 5 students slain, 30 wounded"

1/17 - Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach

1/18 - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup

1/18 - "Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder"

1/18 - IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988

1/18 - Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)

1/20 - George H W Bush inaugurated as 41st US President & Dan Quayle becomes 44th Vice President

1/20 - Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket

1/20 - "Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a ""0"" year, since 1840, to leave office alive"

1/21 - Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer

1/21 - A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Oklahoma football player

1/22 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1/22 - "Super Bowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR"

1/23 - "Challenge to ""who is a Jew"" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court"

1/23 - NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak

1/24 - 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex

1/25 - "Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission"

1/25 - "Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season"

1/25 - Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II

1/26 - US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus

1/26 - "Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney"

1/26 - Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan

1/26 - Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG

1/26 - Black & Blue opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances

1/27 - German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed

1/27 - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games

1/27 - "Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student"

1/28 - "Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG"

1/28 - 63rd Australian Womens Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (6-4 6-4)

1/28 - "46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl"

1/29 - "Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129"

1/29 - USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit

1/29 - Orlando Arena opens

1/29 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3

1/29 - L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion

1/29 - "Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987:: index at 2,256.43"

1/29 - Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic

1/29 - Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt

1/29 - 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)

1/30 - "Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident"

1/30 - Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore

1/30 - Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter

1/30 - Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor

1/30 - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins

1/30 - "The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes."

1989-1-2

UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game