About the day » Wednesday January 11, 1989Calender converter

• Denise Naömi Laffra, Groningen

• Antonia van den Eijnde (91), Deurne en Liessel,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Ale Harmens (Allen Herman) Slump (Slumpff, Stumpf) (99), Sebastopol, Californië, Verenigde Staten
• Betty June Sarrett (68), Torrance, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Augustijn de Bart (73), Kloetinge
• Catharina (Ka) Bakker (82), Domburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• aaltje wilhelmina KOREVAAR (73), vierpolders
• Ale Slump (99), Santa Monica,CA
• Anna Maria Sanders (77), Helmond
• Antonius Horsten (85), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Marinus Wienese (78), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1987 » Daniel Semenzato, Italian footballer
• 1987 » Danuta Kozák, Hungarian sprint canoer
• 1987 » Jamie Vardy, English footballer
• 1987 » Kim Young-kwang, South Korean actor and model
• 1987 » Scotty Cranmer, American Professional BMX rider
• 1988 » Rodrigo José Pereira, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Kane Linnett, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Ryan Griffin, American football player
• 1991 » Andrea Bertolacci, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Dani Carvajal, Spanish footballer

• 1985 » Edward Buzzell, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1895)
• 1985 » William McKell, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Andrzej Czok, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 1986 » Sid Chaplin, English author and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1987 » Albert Ferber, Swiss-English pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1988 » Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Ray Moore, English radio host (b. 1942)
• 1990 » Carolyn Haywood, American author and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Carl David Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Robert
4. Michael
5. Mark
6. Niels
7. Kevin
8. Jeroen
9. Patrick
10. Peter
11. Nick
12. Robin
13. David
14. Johannes
15. Sander
16. Stefan

1. Kim
2. Maria
3. Laura
4. Sanne
5. Linda
6. Jessica
7. Chantal
8. Anne
9. Lisanne
10. Anna
11. Johanna
12. Stephanie
13. Sarah
14. Samantha
15. Charlotte
16. Nicole

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
• January 30 » The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
• June 4 » Solidarity's victory in the first (somewhat) free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland sparks off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe, leads to the creation of the so-called Contract Sejm and begins the Autumn of Nations.
• August 2 » Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
• August 8 » Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
• October 15 » Eight of those convicted in the Rivonia Trial are released from prison.
• December 6 » The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.

The temperature on January 11, 1989 was between 0.3 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.