About the day » Monday May 22, 1989Calender converter

• Samantha Miranda Roxanne Rebel, Almere, Flevoland, Nederland († 1994)
• Brit Jochems, Vianen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin, Alexis, Matthias BLIN, Saint-Malo, 35 († 1994)
• Laetitia CONVENT, Wilrijk, 11051, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Fontijne († 1989)

• Agnes Dohmen (85), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis van Iwaarden (89), Rilland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Kirstine Pedersen (79)
• Arthur A. Amick (76), New Enterprise, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
• Catharina Warmond (85), Leiderdorp
• Dieuwke (Sjoerds) Stienstra (86)
• Audri Lynn Witteveen (23)
• Edwin Roks (8)
• Allegonda Johanna Aanraad (76), Raamsdonksveer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Celio Rodrigues de Araujo Cintra (87), Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1986 » Julian Edelman, American football player
• 1986 » Matt Jarvis, English footballer
• 1986 » Tatiana Volosozhar, Russian figure skater
• 1987 » Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
• 1987 » Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
• 1988 » Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
• 1989 » Corey Dickerson, American baseball player
• 1990 » Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
• 1991 » Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » Suho, South Korean singer and actor

• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1988 » Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)
• 1990 » Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)
• 1991 » Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899)
• 1991 » Stan Mortensen, English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 1992 » Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)

• 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 1 » The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
• April 19 » A gun turret explodes on the USSIowa, killing 47 sailors.
• May 12 » The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
• May 20 » The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
• December 15 » Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights relating the abolition of capital punishment is adopted.
• December 27 » The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.

The temperature on May 22, 1989 was between 12.7 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.