20th of Jan
Cold front strikes US, breaking several low temperature records in mutiple areas

15th of Feb
Teen film "The Breakfast Club" is released, written and directed by John Hughes,
starring Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy

15th of March
The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered

23rd of April
New Coke debuts; Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula

22nd of MAy
"A View to a Kill", 14th James Bond film, last to star Roger Moore,
also starring Grace Jones and Christopher Walken, premieres in San Francisco

10th of June
Coca-Cola announces they're bringing back their 99-year-old formula

3rd of July
Back to the Future" directed by Robert Zemeckis and
starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd is released

5th of Aug
Establishment of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is announced

13th of Sept
Super Mario Bros game first appears, created by Shigeru Miyamoto at Nintendo

16th of Oct
Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip

16th of Nov
President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit
with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

2nd of Dec
NFL quarterback legends Dan Marino and John Elway (Denver Broncos) face each other for the first time,
a 30-26 win for Marino's Miami Dolphins (390 yards and 3 TDs)

28th of Jan
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral,
with all 7 crew members killed, including Christa McAuliffe who was to be the first teacher in space

3rd of Feb
Pixar Animation Studios (Toy Story; The Incredibles) headed by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith,
is spun off from Lucasfilm, Ltd as an independent film production company, with backing of Steve Jobs

3rd of March
ELektra Records releases "Master of Puppets",
the third studio album by American heavy metal band Metallica

26th of April
World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes,
31 die, radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe

16th of May
"Top Gun", directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise premieres

8th of June
Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected President of Austria

18th of July
Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains

22nd of Aug
"Stand By Me" film based on the novella by Stephen King,
directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman,
and Jerry O'Connell is released

7th of Sept
Dan Marino throws his 100th career touchdown pass, the fastest QB in NFL history to do so

27th of Oct
MLB World Series: NY Mets win their second title;
beat Boston Red Sox, 8-5 at Shea Stadium for 4 games to 3 series win

15th of Nov
Beastie Boys release their debut album "Licensed to Ill" - 1st No. 1 rap album on Billboard charts

16th of Dec
Revolt in Kazakhstan against Communist party, known as Zheltoksan,
which becomes the first sign of ethnic strife during Gorbachev's tenure

25th of Jan
Super Bowl XXI, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA: NY Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20;

26th of Feb
NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record

6th of March
First "Lethal Weapon" film starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, directed by Richard Donner is released

16th of April
Michael Jordan becomes the second NBA player in history to score 3,000 points in a season

30th of May
Mike Tyson beats Pinklon Thomas by TKO in round 6 in Las Vegas to retain
WBC / WBA heavyweight boxing titles

12th of June
US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall

21 of July
Guns and Roses debut album "Appetite for Destruction" is released, and becomes
the best-selling debut album of all time with more than 30 million copies sold

21st of August
"Dirty Dancing" film directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey opens in the US

22nd of Sept
US TV series "Full House" starring Bob Saget and John Stamos debuts

25th of Oct
Baseball World Series: Minnesota Twins beat St Louis Cardinals,
4-2 at HHH Metrodome for 4-3 series win and franchise first in Minneapolis;

3rd of Nov
Gordon Gould issued US patent US4704583 for the laser,
ending his 30-year battle to be credited as the inventor of the laser

11th of Dec
"Wall Street" film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen is released

31st of Jan
Super Bowl XXII, Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, CA: Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10;

12th of Feb
US Navy frigate USS Yorktown bumped by Russian frigate Bezzavetny
in the Black Sea in dispute over right of innocent passage

2nd of March
The flaming basketball is adopted as NBA franchise Miami Heat’s official logo from over 13,000 entries;
Mark Henderson submits the winning entry

7th of April
Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan

16th of May
US Surgeon General C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin

3rd of June
"Big" film directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks premieres in US

15th of July
"Die Hard" directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman is released in the US

8th of Aug
Rap group N.W.A. release their debut studio album "Straight Outta Compton"

23rd of Sept
Jose Canseco is baseball's 1st to steal 40 bases and hit 40 HRs

1st of Oct
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet,
effectively head of state of the Soviet Union

8th of Nov
Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected President of the United States,
defeating Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis

12th of Dec
"Rainman" directed by Barry Levinson and starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise
premieres in New York (Best Picture 1989)

25th of Jan
Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season

15th of Feb
Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends as the last Soviet troops cross the Soviet-Afghan border

2nd of March
Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial

30th of April
World Wide Web (WWW) is first launched in the public domain by CERN scientist Tim Berners-Lee

24th of May
"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Harrison Ford,
and produced by George Lucas' Lucasfilms premieres

23rd of June
Movie "Batman" premieres directed by Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson

5th of July
"Seinfield" (originally titled The Seinfeld Chronicles" screens its pilot episode starring Jerry Seinfeld,
Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards on NBC

2nd of Aug
NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 and 1989 N24

22nd of Sept
TV drama "Baywatch" starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson debuts on NBC

1st of Oct
Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany

9th of Nov
East Berlin opens its borders, The Fall of the Berlin Wall

3rd of Dec
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over