In the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, residents of San Francisco's Marina District help run lengths of fire hose from a fireboat to firefighters ashore after the hydrant system failed.

The structure was re-striped to accommodate six lanes on October 18, 1989 in response to the temporary closing of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, and the permanent widening of the approaches was completed by July 2003.

Gilson sold his production laboratory to a Japanese firm in the 1980s, but production has ceased since ; so did Chatham's, after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.

* Cocteau, Jean, The White Book ( Le Livre blanc ), sometimes translated as The White Paper, translated by Margaret Crosland, City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1989

Mark Davis, the 1989 league leader in saves ( 44 ) and boasting a 1. 85 earned run average while earning the 1989 National League Cy Young winner and back-to-back All-Star selections ( 1988, 1989 ) with the San Diego Padres, became a free agent at the close of the 1989 season.

In late April 1989, he was involved in an incident in a San Francisco International Airport restroom in which he claimed to have been attacked by neo-Nazis who painted a swastika on his face and attempted to shave his head.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, by 1989 Unification Church members preferred to be called " Unificationists " rather than " Moonies.

* 1989 – 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ( 7. 1 on the Richter scale ) hits the San Francisco Bay Area and causes 57 deaths directly ( and 6 indirectly ).

The Marina District of San Francisco, hard hit by the 1989 earthquake, was built on fill that had been placed there for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition ( 1915 ), although liquefaction did not occur on a large scale.

Much of this first construction was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, but the university retains the Quad, the old Chemistry Building ( which is not in use and has been boarded up since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake ), and Encina Hall ( the residence of Herbert Hoover, John Steinbeck, and Anthony Kennedy during their times at Stanford ).

Following the 1989 World Series defeat to the Oakland A's, a local ballot initiative to fund a new stadium in San Francisco failed, threatening the franchise's future in the city.

In 1989, the Padres took the scripted Padres logo that was used from 1985 to 1988 and put it in a tan ring that read " San Diego Baseball Club " with a striped center.

Super Bowl XXIV was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion San Francisco 49ers and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Denver Broncos to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1989 season.

* October 17 – The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7. 1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco – Oakland region of Northern California, killing 67 people and delaying the 1989 World Series for ten days

The IWW has stepped in several times to help the rank and file in mainstream unions, including saw mill workers in Fort Bragg in California in 1989, concession stand workers in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1990s, and most recently at shipyards along the Mississippi River.

In 1970, Nature first opened its Washington office ; other branches opened in New York in 1985, Tokyo and Munich in 1987, Paris in 1989, San Francisco in 2001, Boston in 2004, and Hong Kong in 2005.

A 1989 production of the opera by the San Francisco Opera featured noted tenor Placido Domingo in the role of da Gama.

After moving from San Francisco to Seattle, he founded the Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet in the early 1930s and received the Governor's Heritage Award ( of the state of Washington ) in 1989.

* 1990: Staff of San Jose Mercury News, " for its detailed coverage of the October 17, 1989, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and its aftermath.

The Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on October 17, 1989, a rupture of the San Andreas fault that affected the entire San Francisco Bay Area.

Ruptures along the nearby San Andreas fault caused severe earth movement in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1906 and 1989.

The northern segment of the fault runs from Hollister, through the Santa Cruz Mountains, epicenter of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, then on up the San Francisco Peninsula, where it was first identified by Professor Lawson in 1895, then offshore at Daly City near Mussel Rock.

* 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake: About were ruptured ( although the rupture did not reach the surface ) near Santa Cruz, California, causing 63 deaths and moderate damage in certain vulnerable locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The National Organization of Restoring Men ( NORM ) was founded in 1989 in San Francisco, as a non-profit support group for men restoring the appearance of a foreskin.

Courtney Love — a close friend and former bandmate of Bjelland when the two lived in Portland and San Francisco — had a very brief stint in the band in 1987 as a bass player, before being kicked out and forming Hole in 1989.

In 1989, Clouthier presented an alternative cabinet ( a British style Shadow Cabinet ) with Diego Fernández de Cevallos, Jesús González Schmal, Fernando Canales Clariond, Francisco Villarreal Torres, Rogelio Sada Zambrano, María Elena Álvarez Bernal, Moisés Canales, Vicente Fox, Carlos Castillo Peraza and Luis Felipe Bravo Mena as cabinet members and Clouthier as cabinet coordinator.

In 1989, the socialist regime collapsed after 40 years, despite its omnipresent secret police, the Stasi.

* 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police.

Scott made Someone to Watch Over Me, a romantic thriller starring Tom Berenger and Mimi Rogers in 1987, and Black Rain ( 1989 ), a police drama starring Michael Douglas and Andy García, shot partially in Japan.

* September 1 – In Beijing, police arrest Shen Tong for his role in organizing the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

COPS, which first aired in the spring of 1989 and came about partly due to the need for new programming during the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, showed police officers on duty apprehending criminals ; it introduced the camcorder look and cinéma vérité feel of much of later reality television.

A FOX staple since 1989, COPS is, as of 2010, in its 23rd season, having outlasted all competing scripted police shows.

Up until 1989 the PUWP held dictatorial powers ( the amendment to the constitution of 1976 mentioned " a leading national force "), and controlled an unwieldy bureaucracy, the military, the secret police, and the economy.

In June 1989, the Special Representative told the Administrator-General that this behavior was totally inconsistent with the settlement proposal, which required the police to be lightly armed.

On the 20th anniversary of the disaster, government minister Andy Burnham called for the police, ambulance, and all other public bodies to release documents which had not been made available to Taylor in 1989.

In 1989, he starred in Ridley Scott's international police crime drama Black Rain opposite Andy García and Kate Capshaw.

Between December 25, 1979, and February 15, 1989, a total of 620, 000 soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan ( though there were only 80, 000 – 104, 000 serving at one time ): 525, 000 in the Army, 90, 000 with border troops and other KGB sub-units, 5, 000 in independent formations of MVD Internal Troops, and police forces.

On 11 November 2005, the Austrian police in the southern state of Styria, acting under the 1989 warrant, arrested Irving.

Jack, after getting off the bus, then sends himself under the bus via a cart towed from a vehicle leading the bus to try to defuse the bomb with Harry's verbal help to no avail, but Harry's team soon discover the identity of the bomber: Howard Payne, a former bomb expert from Atlanta's police force who retired in 1989 after an explosion that caused him to lose a finger.

Before 1989, the city had traditional, separate police and fire departments.

When the current police headquarters was built and opened next door in the other direction in 1989 ( at 300 Gardnertown Road ), it became an auxiliary Town Hall, housing the Code Compliance, Planning and Zoning Departments.

In response, the police chief, David Broussard, engaged in a hunger strike, only taking coffee, water, and a few beers, for 12 days beginning on May 24, 1989.

As of June 1989, police officer vehicles had rooftop rights, and police officers no longer hide in underbrush.

It is only used as a congregation area for the police and stewards, and has not held fans since the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

From 1984 to 1989, Olmos starred in his biggest role up to that date as the taciturn police Lieutenant Martin Castillo in the television series Miami Vice, opposite Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.

( 1989 – 1993 ) and the 1990 musical flop Cop Rock, which combined straight police drama with live-action Broadway singing and dancing.

One small packet of ashes was scattered at a 1989 ceremony which unveiled a monument to six unarmed IWW coal miners buried in Lafayette, Colorado, who had been machine-gunned by Colorado state police in 1927 in the Columbine Mine Massacre.

In 1989, while working on the set, O ' Connor was hospitalized and had to undergo open heart surgery, which caused him to miss four episodes at the end of the second season ( actor Joe Don Baker took his place in those episodes as an acting police chief.

Doctor Who was originally transmitted from 1963 to 1989 ; as police boxes were phased out in the 1970s, over time the image of the blue police box became associated as much with Doctor Who as with the police.