What Happened In October 1989 In History

Historical Events for October, 1989

• 9th » An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a Unidentified flying object e.g UFO in Voronezh.
• 15th » Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
• 17th » 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (7.1 on the Richter magnitude scale known as Richter scale) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly (and 6 indirectly).
• 18th » Peaceful Revolution: Erich Honecker resigns as Leadership of East Germany named General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
• 19th » The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
• 23rd » Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine; the biggest bankruptcy in the nordic countries until then.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1989

• 1st » Brie Larson, American actress and singer
• 2nd » George Christopher Nash, English rower
• 3rd » Nate Montana, American football player
• 4th » Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
• 4th » Lil Mama, American rapper, dancer, and actress
• 4th » Stacey Solomon, English singer
• 5th » Marcel Baude, German footballer
• 5th » Ify Ibekwe, American basketball player
• 6th » Pizzi (Portuguese footballer) e.g Pizzi, Portuguese footballer
• 6th » Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2014)
• 8th » Mahmut Temür, Turkish footballer
• 8th » Armand Traoré, French footballer
• 9th » Ana Savić, Croatian tennis player
• 10th » Emer Kenny, English actress and writer
• 10th » Aimee Teegarden, American actress and producer
• 11th » Henry Lau, Canadian-Chinese singer-songwriter (Super Junior-M and Younique Unit)
• 11th » Michelle Wie, American golfer
• 13th » Breno Borges, Brazilian footballer
• 14th » Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress
• 15th » Blaine Gabbert, American football player
• 15th » Leandro Antonio Martínez, Argentinian-Italian footballer
• 15th » Alen Pamić, Croatian footballer (d. 2013)
• 17th » Oleksandr Isakov, Ukrainian swimmer
• 18th » Joy Lauren, American actress
• 19th » Miroslav Stoch, Slovakian footballer
• 20th » Colin Wilson (ice hockey) called Colin Wilson, Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 21st » Mads Dahm, Norwegian footballer
• 21st » Luke Murphy, English footballer
• 21st » Jonathan Viera, Spanish footballer
• 21st » Sam Vokes, Welsh footballer
• 24th » PewDiePie, Sweden named Swedish YouTube personality.
• 24th » Anderson Conceição, Brazilian footballer
• 24th » Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
• 24th » Eric Hosmer, American baseball player
• 24th » Richard Kolitsch, German footballer (d. 2014)
• 24th » Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
• 25th » Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer
• 26th » Emil Sayfutdinov, Russian motorcycle racer
• 28th » Camille Muffat, French swimmer
• 30th » Seth Adkins, American actor
• 30th » Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer
• 30th » Nastia Liukin, Russian-American gymnast
• 30th » Vanessa White, English singer-songwriter and dancer (The Saturdays)
• 31st » Warren Weir, Jamaican sprinter

Famous Deaths for October 1989

• 2nd » Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian tenor and director (b. 1898)
• 4th » Secretariat (horse) known as Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
• 4th » Graham Chapman, English comedian and actor (b. 1941)
• 6th » Bette Davis, American actress and singer (b. 1908)
• 9th » Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 11th » M. King Hubbert, American geologist (b. 1904)
• 12th » Carmen Cavallaro, American pianist (b. 1913)
• 12th » Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (b. 1920)
• 14th » Michael Carmine, American actor and singer (b. 1959)
• 20th » Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
• 21st » Jean Image, Hungarian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 22nd » Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915)
• 23rd » Armida (actress) known as Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 24th » Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
• 25th » Mary McCarthy (author) or Mary McCarthy, American author and critic (b. 1912)
• 26th » Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 28th » Henry Hall (bandleader) named Henry Hall, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1898)

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