About the day » Monday February 27, 1989Calender converter

• Shane William Rogers, Penrith

• Bernadus Johannes LIEBRAND (65), Gendringen, Oude IJsselstreek (NL)
• Bernardus Johannes Liebrand (65), Gendringen
• Bertha Alida de Vriend (78), Aardenburg
• Elbert Allen Bourn (66), Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States
• Adorina Maria Johanna Verhaegen (95), Hulst
• Cornelis Leonardus van den Hurk (85), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Angele Josephine Robert (68), Canterbury, Kent, England
• Alma Mae Overly (83), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Cornelis Johannes Voermans (77), TIlburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ada Gabrielle Gould (73), Northam, West Australia, Australia

• 1987 » Bridie Kean, Australian wheelchair basketball player
• 1987 » Florence Kiplagat, Kenyan runner
• 1987 » Sandy Paillot, French footballer
• 1987 » Scott Davies, English footballer
• 1987 » Valeriy Andriytsev, Ukrainian wrestler
• 1988 » Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 » Iain Ramsay, Australian footballer
• 1989 » David Button, English footballer, goalkeeper
• 1989 » Lloyd Rigby, English footballer
• 1990 » Elijah Taylor, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1980 » George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1985 » Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician and diplomat, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1902)
• 1985 » J. Pat O'Malley, English-American actor and singer (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Ray Ellington, English singer and drummer (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
• 1987 » Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
• 1987 » Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1992 » S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)

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

1. Kim
2. Maria
3. Laura
4. Linda
5. Sanne
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.
• March 24 » In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000m) of crude oil after running aground.
• April 15 » Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
• June 24 » Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• July 26 » A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
• August 2 » A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
• August 18 » Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.

The temperature on February 27, 1989 was between 2.1 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.