Historical Events for September 1989
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Months in 1989: January February March April May June July August October November December
Results 1 - 69 of 69
1st - "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances
1st - Princess Anne & Mark Phillips announce their separation
2nd - Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
3rd - "Into the Woods" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 764 perfs
3rd - Iljushin-62 crashes down on residential area of Havana, 170 die
3rd - Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st & last US Tennis Open singles victory
4th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
4th - Jerry Lewis' 24th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $42,737,219
5th - Chris Evert last US Open match, she is defeated by Zina Garrison
5th - Deborah Norville becomes news anchor of Today Show
6th - 6th MTV Awards: Living Colour wins
6th - Amateur Athletic Fed strips Ben Johnson of all track records
6th - Police computer accuses 41,000 Parisians of murder/prostitution
8th - George Brett gets his 2,500th hit
8th - Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium
8th - Norwegian Convair 580 crashes at Jutland in sea (55 murder)
9th - 103rd US Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats M Navratilova (36 75 61)
10th - 109th US Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (76 16 63 76)
10th - 5 days after hitting a HR for Yankees in a 12-2 win over the Mariners
10th - Browns allow Pittsburgh only 53 net yards, a team defensive record
10th - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech)
10th - Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
10th - Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown
11th - Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
11th - KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO
12th - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
13th - "Les Miserables," opens at Fisher Theatre, Detroit
13th - Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in S Africa
13th - Fay Vincent elected baseball's 8th commissioner
14th - Calgary Flames become 1st NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2
14th - Jeff Reardon is 1st to record 30 saves in 5 consecutive seasons
14th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
15th - The U.S. Congress recognizes Terry Anderson's continued captivity in Beirut.
16th - Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990
16th - Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
17th - -21] Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston SC
17th - 41st Emmy Awards: LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany & Candice Bergen win
17th - Beth Daniel wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
17th - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
17th - Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
17th - NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to US (from NZ)
18th - Hurricane Hugo causes extensive damage in Puerto Rico
19th - Chase Manhattan Discovery Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden opens
19th - French DC-10 crashes near Niger, 171 die
19th - Appeals court restores America's Cup to US after NY Supreme Court gave it to NZ (NZ protested US's use of a catamaran)
20th - FW De Klerk sworn in as president of South Africa
20th - Musical "Miss Saigon," premieres in London
20th - USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die
21st - Poland's Sejm (National Assembly) approves prime minister Mazowiecki
22nd - Cards outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs
22nd - IRA-bomb kills 10 British marines in Kent
23rd - Blue Jays bat out of order against Brewers in 6th inning
24th - 28th Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
24th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic
25th - Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
25th - Ronald Harwood's "Another Time," premieres in London
25th - Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
26th - Last Vietnamese soldiers leave Cambodia
26th - MPAA creates NC-17 rating for movies with adult themes
26th - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for total destruction of Soviet & US chemical weapons
27th - Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title
27th - Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash
29th - Glenn Frey joins Don Henley on-stage (for 1st time since 1981)
29th - Zsa Zsa Gabor convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
30th - NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
30th - Nolan Ryan's perfect game broken in 8th, but gets his 300th strikeout
30th - Senegambia separates back into Gambia & Senegal
30th - Toronto Blue Jays wins AL East title
30th - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
