* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* Nuclides and Isotopes – 14th Edition, GE Nuclear Energy, 1989.

* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Dominic Roco, Filipino actor

* 1989 – Felix Roco, Filipino actor

* 1989 – Jang Wooyoung, South Korean singer ( 2PM )

* 1989 – Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater and actress

* 1989 – Romain Amalfitano, French footballer

* 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Meredith Deane, American actress

* 1989 – Jason Heyward, American baseball player

* 1989 – Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer

Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

* 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

* 1961 – Pete de Freitas, Spanish drummer ( Echo & the Bunnymen ) ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Vanes-Mari Du Toit, South African netball player

A convention was held on May 21, 1989 at the Philippine International Convention Center ( PICC ).

* 1989 Philippine coup attempt

Also, the Pacific Fleet was involved in Joint Task Force Philippines during the December 1989 coup attempt there, which involved two carrier battle groups, USS Midway and USS Enterprise-with their associated air wings operating in the Philippine Sea, chopped to JTF Philippines.

* Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism ( PCIJ, founded 1989 )

The shrine, built in 1989 originally to commemorate the memories of the People Power Revolution and its peaceful outcome, stands on the site of two peaceful demonstrations that toppled Philippine presidents Ferdinand Marcos ( the People Power Revolution or EDSA I ) and Joseph Estrada ( the EDSA Revolution of 2001 or EDSA II ).

Shells have also been featured on many coins, including the Bahamian dollar ( 1974 ), the Cuban peso ( 1981 ), the Haitian gourde ( 1973 ), the Nepalese rupee ( 1989 ) and Philippine peso ( 1993 ).

In 1989, the network relaunched as " New Vision 9 ", but later fell into a ratings slump due the resurgence of ABS-CBN and the recent re-launch of GMA Radio-Television Arts as GMA Network, but the reformatting positively resulted in another first for Philippine television as it became the first to go into 24-hour broadcasting.

In June 1989, he began his famous column " Here's the Score ", published by the Philippine Star.

It was renamed Leon B. Postigo by virtue of Republic Act No. 6830 on December 30, 1989, in honor of Leon Bayot Postigo, a Philippine Constabulary corporal whose 10-hectare lot on the town was donated by his heirs to the local government.

MegaLink was formed in September 1989 by Equitable Banking Corporation ( now merged with BDO ), Far East Bank and Trust Company ( now part of BPI ), Philippine National Bank, and United Coconut Planters Bank, MegaLink, with its fundamental belief in universal sharing, became the first operational shared ATM network in the Philippines.

Diplomatic ties were resumed in 1989 because succeeding Philippine administrations have placed the claim in the back burner in the interest of pursuing cordial economic and security relations with Kuala Lumpur.

France and Comoros signed a mutual security treaty in 1978 ; following the mercenary coup against Abdallah in 1989, French troops restored order and took responsibility for reorganizing and training the Comorian army.

Since the 1989 coup and subsequent expulsion of South African-financed mercenaries, Comoros likewise turned away from South Africa and toward France for assistance with its security needs.

Dissatisfied military personnel made two coup attempts in May 1988 and May 1989, but military leadership supported the constitutional order.

An alternative choice to commemorate the reunification could have been the day the Berlin Wall came down — November 9, 1989, which coincided with the anniversary of the proclamation of the German Republic in 1918 and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923.

On February 3, 1989, Stroessner was overthrown in a military coup headed by General Andrés Rodríguez.

In August 1989, Senegalese-Gambian military cooperation, which began with the joint Senegalese-Gambian efforts during the 1981 coup attempt, ceased with the dissolution of the Senegambian Confederation.

" After an alleged attempt to overthrow President Momoh in March 1987, more than 60 senior government officials were arrested, including Vice-President Francis Minah, who was removed from office, convicted for plotting the coup, and executed by hanging in 1989 along with 5 others.

The political system of the Republic of Sudan was restructured following a military coup on 30 June 1989, when Omar al-Bashir, then a colonel in the Sudanese Army, led a group of officers and ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi.

After a military coup in 1989, regional assemblies were suspended.

After Mahdi was overthrown in a 1989 coup d ' état, the military government of Omar Al-Bashir resumed diplomatic relations with Libya, as part of a policy of improving relations with neighboring Arab states.

On December 23, 1989, a presidential security detail arrested about 30 civilians and military personnel accused of plotting a coup in collaboration with the Burkinabe external opposition.

On February 3, 1989, only six months after being sworn in for his eighth full term, Stroessner was ousted in a bloody coup d ' état led by General Andrés Rodríguez.

In 1989, fearing a probable coup d ' état, president Ahmed Abdallah signed a decree ordering the Presidential Guard, led by Bob Denard, to disarm the armed forces.

With his lieutenant Dominique Malacrino, he had to face charges in May 1999 for his role in the 1989 coup, in which, according to the French prosecution, president Ahmed Abdallah was killed on the orders of Denard because he was about to remove Denard as head of the presidential guard.

The Palace was seized by rebels several times, starting from the People Power Revolution, the 1989 coup attempt, where the palace was bombed by T-28 Trojans, the 2001 Manila riots, EDSA II and the May 1 riots.

For several months after the events of December 1989, it was widely argued that Ion Iliescu and the National Salvation Front ( FSN ) had merely taken advantage of the chaos to stage a coup.

But Peacock's supporters began to plot against Howard, and in May 1989 they mounted a party room coup which returned Peacock to the leadership.

He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi.

In 1989 he organised a leadership coup against the veteran leader of the NPA, Ian Sinclair.