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Died on Sunday January 1, 1989
- Berend Jan Dijkhuis (80), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
- Anna Marie Johanna Reelick (85)
- Antonia Maria Peek (51), Nieuwegein
- Agatha Ent (81)
- Berendina Hemstede (82)
- Antje [Jansd] de Boer (99)
- Bernard Winston Banks [K] (91), Mt. Pleasant, Titus County, Texas
- Amos Houston Keith (69), Georgia, Verenigde Staten
- Anna Maria Segeren (78), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Aaltje van den Hoorn (91), Nunspeet, Gemeente Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland
Born on January 1
- 1985 » Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
- 1985 » Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player
- 1986 » Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
- 1986 » Ramses Barden, American football player
- 1987 » Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
- 1987 » Patric Hörnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 » Marcel Gecov, Czech footballer
- 1989 » Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player
- 1990 » Julia Glushko, Israeli tennis player
- 1991 » Darius Slay, American football player
Died on January 1
- 1981 » Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Australian pianist (b. 1920)
- 1982 » Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
- 1984 » Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
- 1992 » Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (b. 1906)
- 1994 » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
- 1994 » Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1994 » Edward Arthur Thompson, Irish historian and academic (b. 1914)
- 1995 » Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
- 1996 » Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
- 1996 » Arthur Rudolph, German-American engineer (b. 1906)
Names that were popular for boys in 1989
- Thomas
- Jan
- Robert
- Michael
- Mark
- Niels
- Kevin
- Nick
- Patrick
- Jeroen
- Peter
- Robin
- David
- Johannes
- Sander
- Stefan
Names that were popular for girls in 1989
- Kim
- Maria
- Laura
- Linda
- Sanne
- Chantal
- Jessica
- Anne
- Lisanne
- Anna
- Stephanie
- Johanna
- Sarah
- Samantha
- Tamara
- Charlotte
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1989
- 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.
- October 17 » The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing Sixty-three.
- November 7 » David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.
- November 10 » Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.
- November 10 » Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
- December 3 » Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between NATO and the Soviet Union may be coming to an end.
Weather January 1, 1989
The temperature on January 1, 1989 was between 5.5 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.