January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of death April 13, 1989
The temperature on April 13, 1989 was between 4.7 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
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.
January 8 » Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
January 29 » Cold War: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
June 7 » Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
August 2 » A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.
August 24 » Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
December 17 » The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire".
Day of burial April 17, 1989
The temperature on April 17, 1989 was between 3.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
April 26 » People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
August 22 » Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
October 17 » The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing Sixty-three.
October 26 » China Airlines Flight 204 crashes after take off from Hualien Airport in Taiwan, killing all 54 people on board.
December 10 » Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
December 17 » Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
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