About the day » Thursday April 27, 1989Calender converter

• Kato VERNIERS, Duffel († 1989)
• Patrick Miltenburg

• Albert Vito Morelli (57), Palm Beach, Florida, United States
• Agada van Schie (82), Leiden
• Aafje Purmer (77), Middenmeer
• Adriaan Kees Constandse (59), Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Barend Johannes van der Walt (78)
• Aukje Wartena (81), sneek
• Arnoldus Op den Camp (72), Geleen (Sittard-Geleen) Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Huibertje GROENEVELT (81), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bernardus Hendrik Kerkmeijer (63), Zeist
• Bernard Frederik Herst (75), Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1987 » Taylor Chorney, American ice hockey player
• 1988 » Joeri Dequevy, Belgian footballer
• 1988 » Kris Thackray, English footballer
• 1988 » Lizzo, American singer and rapper
• 1988 » Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Dmytro Kozban, Ukrainian footballer
• 1989 » Lars Bender, German footballer
• 1989 » Sven Bender, German footballer
• 1989 » Tim Glasby, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Trude Raad, Norwegian deaf track and field athlete

• 1988 » Fred Bear, American hunter and author (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1927)
• 1992 » Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1995 » Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1921)
• 1996 » Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1996 » William Colby, American diplomat, 10th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
• 1998 » John Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1915)

• 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 2 » Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.
• April 3 » The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.
• August 8 » Space Shuttle program: STS-28 Mission: Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day military mission.
• August 20 » The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
• December 20 » The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.
• December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on April 27, 1989 was between -2.2 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.