About the day » Tuesday January 3, 1989Calender converter

• Jacob Martin Lewis, Sidney, Shelby, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2017)

• Anna Catharina Paumen (68), Sittard (Sittard-Geleen), Limburg, Nederland
• Bisselink (75), 's-Hertogenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Cornelis van Hees (57)
• Beatrice Brekke (80), Blue Earth, Faribault, Minnesota, United States of America
• "Prosper" Friedrich Karl Gustav Heinrich von Castell-Castell (66), Frankfurt am Main, Allemagne
• Anna Wiebes Rijpma (86), Bolsward, Gem. Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Voortman (62)
• Bastiaan Donker (72), Utrecht, NL
• Abel Nienhuis (81), Groningen
• Antje Planting (85), Oenkerk

• 1987 » Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and singer
• 1987 » Reto Berra, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender
• 1988 » Ikechi Anya, Scottish-Nigerian footballer
• 1988 » J. R. Hildebrand, American racing driver
• 1988 » Matt Frattin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Ben Matulino, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese artistic gymnast
• 1990 » Yoichiro Kakitani, Japanese footballer
• 1991 » Özgür Çek, Turkish footballer
• 1991 » Jerson Cabral, Dutch footballer

• 1975 » Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1880)
• 1977 » William Gropper, American lithographer, cartoonist, and painter (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
• 1980 » George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Joy Adamson, Austrian-Kenyan author (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
• 1988 » Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-German poet and author (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Judith Anderson, British actress (b. 1897)
• 2002 » Satish Dhawan, Indian engineer (b. 1920)

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

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.
• February 24 » United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
• April 2 » ASUS corporation is founded.
• June 7 » Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
• August 24 » Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
• August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
• December 20 » The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.

The temperature on January 3, 1989 was between -0.6 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.