About the day » Friday February 17, 1989Calender converter

• Glenn Charley Christiaan Tap, 's-Gravenhage († 1989)
• Jermaine Damien Koster, Dordrecht († 1989)
• Sabrina Maria Rita van Hees, Tilburg († 2012)
• Jermaine Damien Koster, Dordrecht († 1989)
• James Ben Baker, Louisiana († 1990)

• Arend Willem Biewenga (83), Haren
• Adrienne HERINCX (64), Genk (B)
• * Johannes Cornelis (Joop) Stahlhofer (72), Schiedam
• Antonius L. Schonk (61), Rotterdam
• Antonius Nieuwenhuizen (66)
• Avis Ora Gross (83), Independence, Jackson Co. Missouri
• Aaltje Dekker (83), Vaassen, Nederland
• Anna Johanneske Jetses Noordenbos (71), Rauwerd, Rauwerderhem, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Oliemeulen (71), Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Cornelis van Galen (72)

• 1984 » AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
• 1985 » Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper
• 1988 » Vasyl Lomachenko, Ukrainian boxer
• 1989 » Chord Overstreet, American actor and singer
• 1989 » Rebecca Adlington, English swimmer
• 1990 » Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater
• 1991 » Bonnie Wright, English actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1991 » Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1993 » Marc Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1993 » Nicola Leali, Italian footballer

• 1982 » Lee Strasberg, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
• 1988 » John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Karpoori Thakur, Indian educator and politician, 11th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French mountaineer, skier, and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1994 » Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (b. 1951)
• 1998 » Ernst Jünger, German soldier, philosopher, and author (b. 1895)

• 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 6 » Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh are sentenced to death for conspiracy in the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; the two men are executed the same day.
• February 14 » Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
• April 21 » Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
• August 20 » The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
• October 3 » A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
• December 29 » The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.

The temperature on February 17, 1989 was between -3.9 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.