Rivaldo began his professional career at the age of 16, when he signed with Paulistano, from Pernambuco, in 1989, despite the Paulistano coaches believing him too physically weak to succeed.

Rivaldo's father Romildo was killed in a road accident in 1989, but Rivaldo went on to his first professional contract later that year.

Other gender-free dance groups started up in the area after that, and in 1989, at the gender-free dance group in Jamaica Plain, MA, a group of dancers led by Janet Dillon protested the use of these terms, and the armband system was devised: the traditionally male-role dancers would wear armbands and be called " armbands " or just " bands ," and the traditionally female-role dancers would be called " bare arms " or just " bares.

Work on the mosque was started in 1980, and was intended to be completed for the 60th birthday of the former Moroccan king, Hassan II, in 1989.

He started out in 1989 as a student at the current Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, where he lived in a typical student house with all the stereotypical side-kicks, such as the fat boy, the beer drinker, the bossy girl who checks if everybody keeps to the house rules, and the tramps who use the heated shared hallway to stay the night.

In October 1989, after prayers for peace at St. Nicholas Church, established in 1983 as part of the peace movement, the Monday demonstrations started as the most prominent mass protest against the East German regime.

The movement of manufactured goods and of passengers on all means of transportation started to decline in 1989.

The first machines were tested in 1989, after which NeXT started selling limited numbers to universities with a beta version of the NeXTSTEP operating system installed.

Apple started the Taligent project in 1989, with the goal of building a NeXT-like operating system for the Macintosh, with collaboration from both HP and IBM.

Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation was started in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language ( itself inspired by SETL ) capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.

Design work started in 1989 ; the team decided to use a superscalar architecture, with on-chip cache, floating-point, and branch prediction.

Things started to change in 1989 when Coronation Street began airing three times a week.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

Until recently, the regions surrounding Bucharest were largely rural, but after 1989, new suburbs started to be built around Bucharest, in the surrounding Ilfov county.

The code that eventually evolved into the current version of CVS started with Brian Berliner in April 1989, with later input from Jeff Polk and many other contributors.

* Francesco Marino Mannoia ( born 1951 ) started to collaborate in October 1989.

Next to the Duomo were the Civic Tower ( existing at least from 1330 and enlarged in 1583 by Pellegrino Tibaldi ): its fall on March 17, 1989, was the final motivating force that started the last decade's efforts to save the Leaning Tower of Pisa from a similar fate.

In March 1989, Joyce and Rourke started legal proceedings against their former bandmates, arguing that they were equal partners in The Smiths and each entitled to a 25 percent share of the band's profits on all activities other than songwriting and publishing.

ISHRAE was started at Delhi in 1981 and a chapter was started in Bangalore in 1989.

Botha had fully recuperated by 1 April 1989 when implementation of UNSCR 435 officially started and the South African – appointed Administrator-General, Louis Pienaar, began the territory's transition to independence.

In 1989, their performance in Zagreb started with the Serbian instrument the gusle and in Belgrade, the NSK philosopher Peter Malkar held a speech as a cynical parody of Slobodan Milošević's speeches in SAP Kosovo.

The East German regime started to falter in May 1989, when the removal of Hungary's border fence opened a hole in the Iron Curtain.

This complex was started in 1989, and resulted in a counter-threat of secession from the Titusville end of the county.

The Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) realized the loss of its most important diplomatic patron, due to the deterioration of the Soviet Union that started in 1989, and Arafat's failing relationship with Moscow.

The final troop withdrawal started on May 15, 1988, and ended on February 15, 1989 under the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev.

He started DJing in 1989 playing mainly Electro, and in 1990 he opened a record store in Orlando, Florida called The Hottie Shop.

In 1989, a group of European and American scholars in the field of anthropology established the European Association of Social Anthropologists ( EASA ) which serves as a major professional organization for anthropologists working in Europe.

* 1989 – Ryan Sheckler, American professional skateboarder

* 1989 – Jharal Yow Yeh, professional rugby league player

The Help Desk Institute ( HDI ) was formed as a professional association in 1989 focused on the professional development of technical support professionals and the sharing of best practices.

* 1989 – Natalie Osman, American professional wrestler and valet

It was founded in 1989 and provides computer security training, professional certification through Global Information Assurance Certification ( GIAC ), and a research archive-the SANS Reading Room.

Szasz describes the deceased ( 1989 ) Laing in vitriolic terms, accusing him of being irresponsible and equivocal on psychiatric diagnosis and use of force, and detailing his past " public behavior " as " a fit subject for moral judgment " which he gives as " a bad person and a fraud as a professional ".

* Marv Cook was born to Marilyn Cook February 24, 1966 in West Branch, Iowa, is a former professional American football player who was selected by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 1989 NFL Draft.

George Kenneth " Ken " Griffey, Jr. ( born November 21, 1969 ), nicknamed " Junior " and " The Kid ", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for three teams ( 1989 – 2010 ).

It is a rookie-level professional baseball league run by Major League Baseball since 1989.

On June 28, 1989, after 20 professional seasons, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced his retirement.

Zidane made his professional debut with Cannes on 18 May 1989 at the age of seventeen in a Ligue 1 match against Nantes.

Traditionally composed of amateur players, a 1989 rule change by FIBA allowed USA Basketball to field teams with professional players.

* Kim Taek-Yong ( b. 1989 ), known by the pseudonym Bisu, a professional StarCraft player from South Korea

* Margie Santimaria ( born 1989 ), a professional triathlete

Since 1989, Lanesboro has been home to the Commonweal Theatre Company, a professional ensemble dedicated to celebrating the human condition through actor-based storytelling.

* Connor Lade ( born 1989 ), professional soccer player.

* Jim Ed Rice: former professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox from 1974 to 1989.

* Andre Ware, 1989 Heisman Trophy winner ( University of Houston, quarterback ) and former professional football player

* Kenneth Sims ( born 1959 )-Former professional football player ( New England Patriots ; 1982 – 1989 )

Sugar Ray Robinson ( born Walker Smith Jr., May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989 ) was an American professional boxer.

Martin started her professional boxing career at the age of 21 with a six round loss to Angela Buchanan in 1989.

In 1989, Waugh returned to Essex for his first full season as the overseas professional.

* The 1989 crash of Surinam Airways Flight 764 killed a group of Surinamese players known as " The Colorful 11 ", whose members played professional football in the Netherlands.