About the day » Thursday January 5, 1989Calender converter

• Joseph Ted van de Merwe, Teaneck, New Yersey

• Eite Sanneman (51), Rasquert
• Anna Margaretha Zoete (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Christiaan Johannes Fenthur (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alegría Benzecry Benmergui BENZECRY (73), Caracas, Venezuela
• Cornelia Maria Hulsebosch (93), Haarlem,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elaine Rae Reynolds (61), Yakima (Yakima County) (Washington)
• Aloysius Verbist (79), Kapellen (B), België
• Aaltje Jacobs (68), Rheden-Velp
• Dorothy Marie Kick (66)
• Anna S Bieniek (90)

• 1979 » Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman), Canadian musician
• 1982 » Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
• 1984 » Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter
• 1985 » Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
• 1988 » Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist
• 1988 » Luke Daniels, English footballer
• 1989 » Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 » Mark Nicholls, Australian rugby league player

• 1981 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Edmund Herring, Australian general and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (b. 1892)
• 1982 » Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (b. 1875)
• 1987 » Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (b. 1926)
• 1990 » Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1912)

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

1. Kim
2. Maria
3. Laura
4. Linda
5. Jessica
6. Sanne
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 6 » The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
• May 13 » Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
• June 5 » The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• August 19 » Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
• December 17 » The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
• December 22 » Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

The temperature on January 5, 1989 was between 2.9 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.