1989 Australian Open – Men's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for men's singles at the 1989 Australian Open.


1989 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles
Jana Novotná and Jim Pugh were the defending champions and won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Zina Garrison and Sherwood Stewart.


1989 Australian Open – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1989 Australian Open – Women's Doubles
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the defending champions and won in the final 3–6, 6–3, 6–2 against Patty Fendick and Jill Hetherington.


1989 Australian Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1989 Australian Open – Women's Singles
First-seeded Steffi Graf was the defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating Helena Suková 6–4, 6–4 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1989 Australian Open.


1989 Australian Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Steffi Graf is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1989 Australian Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
This article displays the qualifying draw for women's singles at the 1989 Australian Open.


1989 Australian Production Car Championship
The 1989 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Production Cars complying with Group 3E regulations. These regulations were formulated by CAMS to facilitate the racing in Australia of mass-produced motor vehicles with minimal modifications. The championship was contested over an eight round series with one race per round.


1989 Australian Production Car Championship
Championship points were awarded on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first ten finishers in each round. Only the best seven round results were retained in determining each driver's points total.


1989 Australian Rally Championship
The 1989 Australian Rally Championship was a series of six rallying events held across Australia. It was the 22nd season in the history of the competition.


1989 Australian Rally Championship
Greg Carr and navigator Mick Harker in a Lancia Delta Integrale won the 1989 Championship convincingly, with a record setting five wins from the six starts, giving Carr his third Australian Rally Championship title. Murray Coote and Iain Stewart in the Mazda 323 4WD were consistently in the placings and finished the season on 81 points compared to Carr's 115. Ross Dunkerton and Fred Gocentas in the Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 were the only other team to win an event, the final round in the ACT.


1989 Australian Rally Championship, Season review
The 22nd Australian Rally Championship was held over six events across Australia, the season consisting of one event each for Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and Australian Capital Territory.


1989 Australian Rally Championship, The Rallies
The six events of the 1989 season were as follows.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship
The 1989 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group 3A Touring Cars. The championship, which was the 30th Australian Touring Car Championship, began on 5 March at Amaroo Park and ended on 9 July at Oran Park Raceway after eight rounds. The 1989 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was contested over the same eight round series.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship
The championship, which was promoted as the Shell Ultra Australian Touring Car Championship, was won by Dick Johnson driving a Ford Sierra RS500. Toyota won the Australian Manufacturers' Championship.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers
The following drivers and teams competed in the 1989 Australian Touring Car Championship.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Following on from their dominant 1988 championship 1-2, the Dick Johnson Racing Ford Sierra RS500 drivers Dick Johnson and John Bowe again finished 1-2 in the title race, winning the first six rounds with Johnson's fifth (and last) championship win equaling the record of Ian Geoghegan. Like Geoghegan, all of Dick Johnson's championships were won driving Fords.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
The championship also saw long time Holden driver Peter Brock turn to Fords (after a year with BMW) in a bid to return to the top in Australia with two cars secured from British Sierra expert Andy Rouse for himself and Albury based driver Brad Jones. Brock's pole in Round 2 at Symmons Plains was his first touring car pole since the 1986 Sandown 500, while his win in the final round at Oran Park was his first ATCC win since 1986 and his first ever ATCC win in anything other than a Holden.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Brock in his Mobil 1 Racing Sierra would prove to be the Shell team's most consistent challenger, finishing third in the championship, his highest placing since he finished third in 1985. Most observers felt that Brock adapted to the powerful Sierra's quicker than most, though he readily admitted his link with Rouse and the technical help he gave was a big factor in the Mobil teams revival. Also, unlike most of his fellow competitors when they started racing the Sierra's, Brock wasn't a stranger to racing turbocharged cars having raced a Porsche 956B at Silverstone and Le Mans in the 1984 World Sportscar Championship.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Other driver/team changes in 1989 included a new Ford Sierra team for former Nissan driver Glenn Seton who took Nissan's Peter Jackson cigarette sponsorship with him to his new team. Also switching from Nissan was his father Barry Seton who became the chief engine builder for his sons new team. 1988 Tooheys 1000 winner Tony Longhurst expanded his Benson & Hedges Racing to a two car team with a second Sierra for former JPS Team BMW teammate Neville Crichton.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
The two B&H cars had been acquired from the Wolf Racing Australasia team formerly run by Robbie Francevic and his long-time patron Mark Petch. Colin Bond also expanded his Caltex-backed Sierra team to two cars, running a second for Sydney car dealer Ken Mathews who had purchased the Bathurst winning Sierra from Longhurst. For the first time in Australian Group A, BMW wasn't represented by one of the top teams which prompted BMW Australia to pull out. The M3 was reduced to a class runner and it was left to privateers John Cotter and his regular co-driver Peter Doulman running one of the ex-JPS/Mobil M3's purchased from Brock at the end of 1988 to keep a BMW presence on the grid.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
1989 also saw the last ATCC round win for long time factory Nissan driver George Fury when he took victory in Round 7 at the tight Winton circuit in rural Victoria in what proved to be the most competitive race of the championship.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
In fact, when Peter Brock led at the end of lap one at Winton it was actually the first time since Round 6 in 1988 at Lakeside that someone other than Dick Johnson or John Bowe had led the first lap of an ATCC race (on that occasion it was the Sierra of Andrew Miedecke leading as Johnson had been pinged for a jump start, though Johnson led on the road).


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Fury, who had been with the team since its inaugural year in 1981, was joined in the Nissan team by 1985 and 1987 champion Jim Richards, and the teams 1987 Australian 2.0 Litre champion Mark Skaife, each driving a turbocharged Skyline HR31 GTS-R. The Skyline, which had been late arriving in 1988 and had run short of development, was more of a force in 1989 with the team finding greater power and reliability from the turbocharged 6 cyl 2.0L twin cam engine as well as getting the cars down to the Nissan's weight limit of 1100 kg, some 70 kg lighter than 1988. Skaife made his first appearance of the series at the Mallala circuit in South Australia for Round 5, and avoided the first corner carnage (caused by an out of control Brock) to finish a fine fifth.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
The 1989 championship was the first since 1970 to be contested without an appearance by a factory supported Holden team. The Holden Special Vehicles team did not compete in the series, despite entering two Commodores for highly respected British driver Win Percy and Channel 7 commentator Neil Crompton in the opening round at Amaroo Park (a fact that Crompton's co-commentators Mike Raymond and Gary Wilkinson constantly reminded him about during the race telecasts).


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Allan Grice was the highest placed Holden driver in the championship, finishing in a hard-fought fourth position after a one-off appearance at Winton in a privately entered Roadways Racing Commodore he had driven in the 1988 Tooheys 1000. The Winton round, which started on a wet track and was damp throughout with a couple of additional showers, saw Grice ran the race on one set of wet tyres.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
The highest placed Holden driver from 1987 and 1988 championship, Larry Perkins, appeared in only two rounds (Sandown and Winton) with his privately entered Commodore, the same car he had driven at Bathurst the previous year as part of the factory backed Holden Special Vehicles/TWR team. 1989 was thus the first year in which no Holden driver had finished the championship inside the top ten positions since Herb Taylor placed twelfth in a Holden EH in 1968, the last year in which the ATCC was contested as a single race.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Holden's lack of interest in the 1989 ATCC was not well received either by the fans or television broadcaster Channel 7. It was Holden's lack of representation from the factory backed team or the privateers that highlighted the growing costs of Group A racing, something which would cause a change in the sport after 1992.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Venue changes from the 1988 Championship were the deletion of the round at Calder Park and the addition of a round at the 2.601 km (1.616 mi) Mallala Motor Sport Park, located 55 km north of Adelaide. Mallala returned to the championship for the first time since 1971, replacing the round at the Bob Jane owned Adelaide International Raceway.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Calder owner Bob Jane had signed an agreement with "Vic Health" which saw cigarette advertising banned at his race tracks (cigarette sponsorship was prominent in the ATCC with the Seton and Longhurst teams sponsored by Peter Jackson and Benson & Hedges respectively). As Jane also owned the Adelaide circuit, this saw AIR also dropped from the calendar.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
Round 3 of the championship at Lakeside just north of Brisbane was full of drama. Initially scheduled to be run on 2 April, the meeting was postponed two weeks due to almost a weeks worth of heavy rain in the area which flooded the nearby Lake Kurwongbah that gives the circuit its name. The flooding saw both the front straight and pit area under about a foot of water.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
The race then took place on 16 April but was marred by a fiery crash on the back straight when Andrew Miedecke's Sierra collided with the VL Commodore of Graham Lusty while Lusty was being lapped. Both cars crashed heavily into the fence, as did the Sierra of the closely following Glenn Seton (Racecam from Brock's car caught the moment out of his rear window when the pair touched). Both the Commodore and Miedecke Sierra were engulfed in flames and wisely the race was red flagged.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
After a delay while the clean up was on, the race was reduced from 60 to 30 minutes with half points to be awarded for the round. Dick Johnson went on to win on his home circuit for the first time since his epic battle with Brock which won him his first ATCC back in 1981.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Season review
1989 would prove to be the last ATCC contested by four-time champion Allan Moffat with the Canadian born driver retiring from driving at the end of the year.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race calendar
The 1989 Australian Touring Car Championship was contested over eight rounds, with each round being a single race over a duration of approximately one hour.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Points system
Points were awarded on a 20–15–12–10–8–6–4–3–2–1 basis for the top ten race positions. Only half points were awarded for Round 3 at Lakeside due to the stoppage of the initial race and the reduced 30-minute duration of the restarted race. The pointscore system allowed a driver to retain points only from his or her seven best round results. Discarded placings are shown within brackets in the table below.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, Australian Manufacturers' Championship
The 1989 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, which was contested concurrently with the 1989 Australian Touring Car Championship, was won by Toyota.


1989 Australian Touring Car season
The 1989 Australian Touring Car season was the 30th year of touring car racing in Australia since the first runnings of the Australian Touring Car Championship and the fore-runner of the present day Bathurst 1000, the Armstrong 500.


1989 Australian Touring Car season
There were 12 touring car race meetings held during 1990; an eight-round series, the 1989 Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC); a support programme event at the 1989 Australian Grand Prix and three long-distance races, nicknamed 'enduros'.


1989 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, Race calendar
The 1989 Australian touring car season consisted of 12 events.


1989 Australian Touring Car season, Results and standings, Yokohama Cup Group A Races
This meeting was a support event of the 1989 Australian Grand Prix. This was the first time that the Group A cars ran two races at the Australian Grand Prix meeting, one on the Saturday afternoon and the second on the Sunday morning.


1989 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1989 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 7–9 April 1989 at Phillip Island and was the first ever World Championship Motorcycle Grand Prix to take place in Australia.


1989 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Green light on the 5-row grid sees Wayne Rainey, Tadahiko Taira and Kevin Schwantz head into the first turn in front of the field, with Wayne Gardner in 4th. Second lap in 2nd place, Schwantz gets on the throttle while looking behind him and highsides out of Turn Ten; as he walked away from his Suzuki, he looked like he wished he did not know the guy who just binned it so foolishly.


1989 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Rainey pulled out a lead of more than a second, followed by Kevin Magee, Taira, Gardner, Mick Doohan and Eddie Lawson. Eventually, Gardner got past Magee at Turn Four, and Pierfrancesco Chili crashed out for the second successive race. Gardner caught Rainey and began to swap the lead, while Magee, Christian Sarron, Freddie Spencer and Lawson closed in. Sarron caught and goes to the front, with the leaders, while Magee hung on in 4th spot. Spencer fell off and did not finish.


1989 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Last lap: Gardner, Rainey, Sarron and a small gap to Magee. Rainey's early break may have cost him rubber, because he seemed desperate to find a different line that will get him to slide his way past Gardner, but nothing works, with Gardner winning the race, followed by Rainey and Sarron.


1989 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Rainey: "Gardner ran into the back of me twice, and didn’t even notice. He was one of the sloppiest guys I ever raced – he reminded me of a bulldog on a bike. When he was on a good day, he could ride that thing right out of the saddle. He was a bit like Kevin, but more out of control. Not a thinking racer: he rode by the excitement of the crowd. If nobody was there I think he wouldn’t do much".


1989 Australian pilots' dispute
The 1989 Australian pilots' dispute was one of the most expensive and dramatic industrial disputes in Australia's history. It was co-ordinated by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP) after a prolonged period of wage suppression, to support its campaign for a large pay increase (which it quantified at 29.5%).


1989 Australian pilots' dispute
The dispute began impacting the public on 18 August 1989 with pilots working "9-5" and was never formally resolved due to the mass resignation of pilots, cancellation of their award and de-recognition of their union.


1989 Australian pilots' dispute
As part of this campaign, AFAP pilots imposed on their employers (Ansett Australia, East-West, Ipec and Australian Airlines) a limitation on the hours they were prepared to work, arguing that if they were to be treated in exactly the same way as other employee groups (the stance adopted by the Government), their work conditions should also be the same. This initially took the form of making themselves available for flying duties only within the normal office working hours of 9am to 5pm.


1989 Australian pilots' dispute
The dispute severely disrupted domestic air travel in Australia and had a major detrimental impact on the tourism industry and many other businesses. A few days earlier, Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke declared a national emergency and allowed Royal Australian Air Force planes and pilots and overseas aircraft and pilots to provide services. The RAAF provided limited domestic air services to ease the impact of the dispute.


1989 Australian pilots' dispute
The employers recruited new pilots from overseas, and for a while, some overseas airlines operated charter 737 and 757 aircraft on east coast routes, and travel between Perth and the East Coast was also possible via Singapore, using international flights. The dispute was superficially resolved after the mass resignation of a significant number of domestic airline pilots to avoid litigation from the employers.


1989 Australian pilots' dispute
The RAAF ceased ‘public transport operations’ on 15 December 1989, by 31 December 1989 regular leasing of seats on international flights ceased and, by 12 January 1990, the Government ceased its waiver of landing charges. The airlines were able to slowly return to normal schedules as they hired replacement pilots. Thus no specific date can be set for when the dispute stopped impacting flights, tourism and the economy.


1989 Australian pilots' dispute
Ansett, Australian Airlines, East-West and Ipec no longer exist. East-West was a subsidiary of Ansett in 1989, and was absorbed fully in 1993. Australian Airlines was merged with Qantas in 1992. Ipec was acquired by Toll Holdings in 1998. The dispute crippled the Australian Federation of Air Pilots and cleared the road to airline industry deregulation.


1989 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1989 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix was the seventh round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 2–4 June 1989 at the Salzburgring.


1989 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Another pole for Kevin Schwantz, with Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey on his left as the light turns green. Lawson leads a large group through the first lap, with Rainey, Schwantz and about 4 other riders. Soon it’s a trio of the leading riders, until Schwantz begins to desperately open a gap, his bike squirming and bucking into the corners.


1989 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
A red mist seems to descend on Rainey, as he passes Lawson on the outside to briefly move into second, while Ron Haslam leads a fight for fourth that includes Christian Sarron, Pierfrancesco Chili, Kevin Magee and Mick Doohan, the last going off track trying to come to terms with the pace.


1989 Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Schwantz enlarges his gap, while Lawson drops Rainey, which turns out to be the podium order. Rainey’s 13 point lead over Lawson is down to 11.


1989 Autoworks 500
The 1989 Autoworks 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on November 5, 1989, at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona.


1989 Autoworks 500, Race report
Five of the most dominant drivers of the 1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season were Dale Earnhardt (average finish 10th place), Rusty Wallace (average finish 10th place), Mark Martin (average finish 11th place), Darrell Waltrip (average finish 12th place), and Bill Elliott (average finish of 13th place).


1989 Autoworks 500, Race report
The first caution was for a dog on the track on lap 48.


1989 Autoworks 500, Race report
Bill Elliott defeated Terry Labonte by six car lengths in front of 63,000 spectators. Three hundred and twelve laps were run on the paved oval spanning 1 mile or 1.6 kilometres in two hours and fifty-seven minutes. Ken Schrader would qualify for the pole position with a speed of 124.645 miles per hour (200.597 km/h) while the average speed at the actual race was 105.683 miles per hour (170.080 km/h). Five cautions occurred for 24 laps. Forty-three drivers competed in this race; the only foreign competitor was Canadian Roy Smith. Butch Miller would finish last due to an engine problem on lap 16.


1989 Autoworks 500, Race report
Richard Petty only finished 42nd once, in this race. He did finish worse on two occasions in races with larger fields (55th at Charlotte in 1960 due to being disqualified and 57th at Daytona in 1959 due to an early engine failure).


1989 Autoworks 500, Race report
An incident occurred during this race that sparked some controversy. Wallace was leading and coming up on the lapped car of #90 Stan Barrett on lap 254. Barrett’s car made contact with Wallace in turn one, causing it to veer right and slam into the outside wall. Wallace’s car was damaged but still in racing condition. He would lose a lap. The next week the Missouri native won his first and only championship over Dale Earnhardt.


1989 Autoworks 500, Race report
Alan Kulwicki led the most laps in the race. Bobby Hamilton would make his Winston Cup debut in this race and was performing astoundingly, taking the lead from Geoff Bodine on lap 209. Five laps after he took the lead going into turn 3. However, the engine let go, spraying oil and parts all over the track, ending his day. He was possibly heading toward winning in his debut. Hamilton qualified in fifth place using a "movie car" from the 1990 motion picture Days of Thunder, which was sponsored by Exxon and driven by the fictional driver Rowdy Burns (Michael Rooker).


1989 Autoworks 500, Race report
This was the final career race for car owner Leroy Throop.


1989 Autoworks 500, Race report, Qualifying
Failed to qualify:  Tommy Ellis (#18), Danny Lawson (#41), Bob Howard (#89), Keith Van Houten (#35), Mark Walbridge (#07), Jack Sellers (#44), Robert Sprague (#19), Butch Gilliland (#24), St. James Davis (#22), Bob Walker (#80), Rick McCray (#08), John Krebs (#99), Duke Hoenshell (#38), Hershel McGriff (#04), Rick Scribner (#50)


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season
The 1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season was the 11th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Occurrences
During the first week of April, the Añejo Rum 65ers acquired Rey Cuenco from Shell in a trade that sent the team's first-round pick Romeo Dela Rosa to the Zoom Masters. Dela Rosa decided to sit out and opted not to sign a contract with Añejo before the season started. Cuenco played his first game with Añejo in a must-win situation against his former team Shell and the Rum Masters responded with a 155–135 victory.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Occurrences
Añejo playing-coach Sonny Jaworski was fined and suspended for one game due to the punching foul he committed against Jojo Lastimosa of Purefoods in their second-round elimination match on April 4.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Occurrences
In the Open Conference, Añejo Rum 65 failed to advanced in the semifinal round for the first time since Jaworski handled the team starting in 1985 after losing to Alaska in the knockout game on April 13.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
March 9: Import Carlton McKinney scored when it mattered most as Añejo Rum 65 slipped past Presto Ice Cream, 119-117, for their first win of the season in two games, after losing to sister team San Miguel Beer two nights before.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
April 11: Añejo survived another do-or-die situation in their last game in the eliminations against Alaska, the Rum Masters stayed alive and force a playoff with the Airmen following a 117-107 victory.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
August 1: Robert Jaworski topscored with 18 points and starred in two crucial plays in the last minute, resulted to a triple by Chito Loyzaga and a runaway basket by Philip Cezar for the final count, a 101-98 victory over San Miguel for their second win in the semifinals of the All-Filipino Conference and their fourth straight triumph since the eliminations.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
October 15: Carlos Briggs sizzled for 81 points with five three-point shots in a dazzling one-man show, leading Añejo to a pulsating 135-132 victory over Formula Shell. Briggs became the fifth player in PBA history to pass the 80-point mark.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
October 24: Carlos Briggs converted nine three-point shots and finished with 64 points as Añejo got back at Purefoods, 150-137, in the second round of eliminations. The win was the fourth straight for the Rum Masters and improved their won-loss standings to 5-3.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
November 2: Añejo won for the third time over San Miguel Beermen, 142-140 in overtime, at the start of the semifinal round of the Third Conference.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
November 5: Añejo beats Presto Tivoli in another overtime-thriller, 144-143, for their second win in the semifinals, Carlos Briggs was the top scorer with 71 points.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
November 19: Añejo Rum needed an extra five minutes to outlast Alaska Milk, 145-142, as the Rum Masters keeps its hopes alive for a finals seat.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
November 21: In yet another great escape, Carlos Briggs' late-game heroics kept Añejo's finals hopes alive with a 135-134 triumph over Purefoods, the Hotdogs were 21 seconds away from a finals clash with San Miguel Beer when they led by four, 134-130, on Alvin Patrimonio's short stab. Briggs, who finish with 75 points, stole the ball from Dindo Pumaren with 18 seconds left and completed a three-point play off a foul by Jojo Lastimosa with eight seconds remaining that capped a stirring comeback by the Rum Masters.


1989 Añejo Rum 65ers season, Notable dates
November 26: Añejo advances into the Third Conference finals with a 113-112 win over Purefoods Hotdogs, which played sans import Dexter Shouse in their knockout game. The Rum Masters will play sister team and grandslam-bound San Miguel Beermen in the finals of the season-ending conference.


1989 BC Lions season
The 1989 BC Lions finished in fourth place in the West Division with a 7–11 record and failed to make to playoffs.


1989 BDO World Darts Championship
The 1989 Embassy World Darts Championship was the 12th World Professional Championships, and was staged at the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green, Surrey, England for the fourth successive year. The tournament was organised by the British Darts Organisation (BDO).


1989 BDO World Darts Championship
Following the 1988 Winmau World Masters ITV pulled all their coverage of darts and the BBC decided to withdraw their coverage of the 1988 British Professional Championship, meaning that this World Championship was the only televised darts tournament in 1989. The World Championship would remain the only annual televised event for the next four years.


1989 BDO World Darts Championship
In an attempt to improve the image of the game (which contributed to the loss of television coverage and sponsors), the BDO decided that players would no longer be allowed to drink alcohol during matches - allowing just water on the stage.


1989 BDO World Darts Championship
The tournament itself saw old rivals Jocky Wilson and Eric Bristow meet in the final after Wilson had beaten defending champion Bob Anderson and Bristow had seen off John Lowe in the semi-finals. Wilson raced into a five sets to nil lead, but Bristow took the next four sets to set up a tense finish - until, after missing several double attempts, Wilson finally took the title 6–4.


1989 BDO World Darts Championship, Prize money
There was also a 9 Dart Checkout prize of £52,000, along with a High Checkout prize of £1,000.


1989 BP National Championships
The 1989 BP National Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Wellington, New Zealand and was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament and was held from 2 January through 8 January 1989. Eighth-seeded Kelly Evernden won the singles title.


1989 BP National Championships, Finals, Doubles
'Peter Doohan /  Laurie Warder defeated  Rill Baxter /  Glenn Michibata 3–6, 6–2, 6–3


1989 BP National Championships – Doubles
Dan Goldie and Rick Leach were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


1989 BP National Championships – Doubles
Peter Doohan and Laurie Warder won in the final 3–6, 6–2, 6–3 against Rill Baxter and Glenn Michibata.


1989 BP National Championships – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1989 BP National Championships – Singles
Ramesh Krishnan was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Patrick Baur.


1989 BP National Championships – Singles
Kelly Evernden won in the final 7–5, 6–1, 6–4 against Shuzo Matsuoka.


1989 BP National Championships – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1989 BYU Cougars football team
The 1989 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University (BYU) in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1989 Badminton World Cup
The 1989 Badminton World Cup was the eleventh edition of an international tournament Badminton World Cup. The event was held in from 15 to 19 November 1989. China won the men's singles & women's doubles categories while South Korea secured titles in men's doubles & mixed doubles discipline. Indonesia's Susi won women's singles title.


1989 Ball State Cardinals football team
The 1989 Ball State Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented Ball State University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its fifth season under head coach Paul Schudel, the team compiled a 7–3–2 record (6–1–1 against conference opponents) and won the MAC championship. The team played its home games at Ball State Stadium in Muncie, Indiana.


1989 Ball State Cardinals football team
The team's statistical leaders included David Riley with 1,929 passing yards, Bernie Parmalee with 662 rushing yards, Sean Jones with 518 receiving yards, and Kenny Stucker with 84 points scored.


1989 Ballon d'Or
The 1989 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Marco van Basten on 26 December 1989.


1989 Ballon d'Or
There were 27 voters, from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.


1989 Ballon d'Or
Van Basten was awarded to Ballon d'Or for the second time.


1989 Ballon d'Or, Super Ballon D'Or
France Football awarded Alfredo Di Stéfano with the Super Ballon d'Or as the Argentinian legend came out on top beating Johan Cruyff and Michel Platini in the vote. All the previous winners of the award since 1956 were considered eligible for the nomination.


1989 Ballymena Borough Council election
Elections to Ballymena Borough Council were held on 17 May 1989 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 23 councillors.


1989 Ballymena Borough Council election, Districts results, Ballymena Town
1985: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Unionist1989: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Unionist1985-1989 Change: Alliance gain from DUP


1989 Ballymena Borough Council election, Districts results, Braid Valley
1985: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP1989: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Independent1985-1989 Change: Independent gain from DUP


1989 Ballymena Borough Council election, Districts results, Kells Water
1985: 5 x DUP, 1 x UUP1989: 4 x DUP, 2 x UUP1985-1989 Change: UUP gain from DUP


1989 Ballymena Borough Council election, Districts results, The Main
1985: 4 x DUP, 1 x UUP1989: 4 x DUP, 1 x UUP1985-1989 Change: No change


1989 Ballymoney Borough Council election
Elections to Ballymoney Borough Council were held on 17 May 1989 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 16 councillors.


1989 Ballymoney Borough Council election, Districts results, Ballymoney Town
1985: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Independent1989: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Independent1985-1989 Change: No change


1989 Ballymoney Borough Council election, Districts results, Bann Valley
1985: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin1989: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 2 x SDLP1985-1989 Change: SDLP gain from Sinn Féin


1989 Ballymoney Borough Council election, Districts results, Bushvale
1985: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP1989: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x SDLP1985-1989 Change: No change


1989 Baltimore Orioles season
The 1989 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Orioles finishing 2nd in the American League East with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses. The team was known as the Comeback Kids as they rebounded from the 54 wins and 107 losses of the 1988 season. The season also took on the "Why Not?!" promotional slogan as the team's pursuit of the pennant went down to the final series of the regular season.


1989 Baltimore Orioles season
The Orioles went into the three-game season finale against the first place Toronto Blue Jays down by one game in the AL East standings and needing either a sweep to win the AL East championship, or two wins to force a one-game playoff. The Blue Jays won the first two games of the series, clinching first place on the penultimate game of the season.


1989 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In


1989 Banbridge District Council election
Elections to Banbridge District Council were held on 17 May 1989 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.


1989 Banbridge District Council election, Districts results, Banbridge Town
1985: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP1989: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP1985-1989 Change: No change


1989 Banbridge District Council election, Districts results, Dromore
1985: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP1989: 4 x UUP, 1 x SDLP1985-1989 Change: UUP gain from DUP


1989 Banbridge District Council election, Districts results, Knockiveagh
1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist1985-1989 Change: No change


1989 Bandy World Championship
The 1989 Bandy World Championship was the 16th Bandy World Championship and was contested between five men's bandy playing nations. The championship was played in the Soviet Union from 29 January-5 February 1989. This was the first ever indoor championships, held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, except for two matches in Krasnogorsk. The Soviet Union became the champion team.


1989 Bangalore Mahanagara Palike election
The 1989 Bangalore Mahanagara Palike election was held in May 1989 for all 87 wards of Bangalore.


1989 Bangalore Mahanagara Palike election, Background
In 1989, the BMP expanded to include 87 wards. The tenure of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike ended in 1988. A new election was necessary to elect new Corporators and Mayor


1989 Bangalore Mahanagara Palike election, Background, Organization
New Mayor will be elected for a term of one year and Corporators will be in office for 5 years


1989 Bangalore Mahanagara Palike election, Schedule
The schedule of the election was announced by the State Election Commission in March 1989 and date of counting / announcement of result was in May 1989


1989 Bangladesh pogroms
The 1989 Bangladesh riots were a series of attacks against the Bengali Hindus in October - November, apparently as a reaction to the laying of the foundation of Ram temple adjacent to Demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in India. In the pogroms, thousands of Hindu homes and businesses were destroyed. More than 400 Hindu temples were destroyed.


1989 Bangladesh pogroms
On 30 October 1989, Hindu shops were looted and set on fire in Chittagong, in spite of a curfew. Hindu men and women were attacked and molested. On 10 November, a Muslim mob shouting anti-Hindu slogans took out a procession in Khulna. Hindu temples were attacked and destroyed by the mob. On 11 November, an Muslim mob attacked Hindu shops and temples in Narsingdi. More than 25 Hindu-owned shops were set on fire and images in three temples were smashed. The mob was led by Maulana Tajul Islam, who carried firearms and raised anti-Hindu slogans.


1989 Bangladesh pogroms
On 17 November, the Hindu students of Brojomohun College in Barisal were attacked, beaten up and thrown out of the hostel. In Comilla, brick-bats were thrown on Hindu devotees during the Ram Thakur festival. Some of the devotees were seriously injured. On 18 November, a 500 strong Muslim mob hurled stones at Hindu-owned shops in Khulna, injuring 50 people.


1989 Barber Saab Pro Series
The 1989 Barber Saab Pro Series season was the fourth season of the series. All drivers used Saab powered Goodyear shod Mondiale chassis. Robbie Buhl won the championship.


1989 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1989 followed the system in place since 1978. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players andelected two, Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski. The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions to consider older major league players as well as managers, umpires, executives, and figures from the Negro leagues. It also selected two people, Al Barlick and Red Schoendienst. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on July 23, 1989.


1989 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1969 or later, but not after 1983; the ballot included candidates from the 1988 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1983. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.


1989 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Voters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. The ballot consisted of 41 players; a total of 447 ballots were cast, with 336 votes required for election. A total of 3,016 individual votes were cast, an average of 6.75 per ballot. Those candidates receiving less than 5% of the vote would not appear on future BBWAA ballots, but could eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.


1989 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Candidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (†). The two candidates who received at least 75% of the vote and were elected are indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics. The 20 candidates who received less than 5% of the vote, thus becoming ineligible for future BBWAA consideration, are indicated with an asterisk (*).


1989 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
The newly-eligible players included 16 All-Stars, three of whom were not included on the ballot, representing a total of 71 All-Star selections. Among the new candidates were 18-time All-Star Carl Yastrzemski, 14-time All-Star Johnny Bench, 6-time All-Star Bert Campaneris and 5-time All-Stars Bobby Murcer and Gaylord Perry. The field included two Most Valuable Players (Bench, who won twice, and Yastrzemski), two Cy Young Award-winners (Ferguson Jenkins and Gaylord Perry, who won twice) and three Rookies of the Year (Bench, John Matlack and Bake McBride). The field also included some prominent Gold Glove winners: Jim Kaat, whose 16 at pitcher was the record until broken by Greg Maddux; Johnny Bench, whose 10 at catcher was the record until broken by Iván Rodríguez; and Carl Yastrzemski, who won seven as an outfielder.


1989 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election
Players eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Larry Biittner, Doug Bird, Tim Blackwell, Bill Castro, Larry Christenson, Bill Fahey, Ed Farmer, Don Hood, Mike Ivie, Dave LaRoche, Randy Moffitt, Jerry Morales, Rowland Office, Mike Phillips, Steve Renko, Aurelio Rodríguez, Elías Sosa, Jerry Turner and Otto Vélez.


1989 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award
Bob Hunter (1913–1993) and Ray Kelly (1914–1988) received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award honoring baseball writers. The awards were voted at the December 1988 meeting of the BBWAA, and included in the summer 1989 ceremonies.


1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships
The 1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Amelia Island Plantation on Amelia Island, Florida in the United States that was part of the Category 5 tier of the 1989 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from April 10 through April 16, 1989. Third-seeded Gabriela Sabatini won the singles title.


1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships, Finals, Doubles
Larisa Savchenko /  Natasha Zvereva defeated  Martina Navratilova /  Pam Shriver 7–6(7–4), 2–6, 6–1


1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles
Zina Garrison and Eva Pfaff were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles
Larisa Savchenko and Natasha Zvereva won in the final 7–6, 2–6, 6–1 against Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver.


1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Singles
Martina Navratilova was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Gabriela Sabatini.


1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Singles
Sabatini won in the final 3–6, 6–3, 7–5 against Steffi Graf.


1989 Bausch & Lomb Championships – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1989 Bavarian Tennis Championships
The 1989 Bavarian Tennis Championships was an Association of Tennis Professionals men's tennis tournament held in Munich, West Germany. The tournament was held from 1 May through 7 May 1989. Andrei Chesnokov won the singles title.


1989 Bavarian Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles
Javier Sánchez /  Balázs Taróczy defeated  Peter Doohan /  Laurie Warder 7–6, 6–7, 7–6


1989 Bavarian Tennis Championships – Doubles
Rick Leach and Jim Pugh were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


1989 Bavarian Tennis Championships – Doubles
Javier Sánchez and Balázs Taróczy won in the final 7–6, 6–7, 7–6, against Peter Doohan and Laurie Warder.


1989 Bavarian Tennis Championships – Singles
Guillermo Pérez Roldán was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals this year.


1989 Bavarian Tennis Championships – Singles
Andrei Chesnokov won the title, defeating Martin Střelba, 5–7, 7–6, 6–2 in the final.


1989 Baylor Bears football team
The 1989 Baylor Bears football team represented the Baylor University in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Bears finished the season fourth in the Southwest Conference. In the season's final game, Baylor defeated Texas by the score of 50 to 7. It was Baylor's seventh victory in Austin and the first there since 1951.


1989 Baylor Bears football team, Team players drafted into the NFL
The following players were drafted into professional football following the season.


1989 Beaver River federal by-election
A by-election was held in the Alberta federal riding of Beaver River on March 13, 1989. The election was triggered by the death of incumbent John Dahmer, who died five days after winning the seat in the 1988 federal election.


1989 Beaver River federal by-election
Reform candidate Deborah Grey won the by-election, becoming the party's first elected MP.


1989 Belfast City Council election
Elections to Belfast City Council were held on 17 May 1989 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used nine district electoral areas to elect a total of 51 councillors, most representing the more heavily populated north and west.


1989 Belfast City Council election
The UUP remained the largest party, and Reg Empey became the Lord Mayor.


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Balmoral
1985: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance1989: 2 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP1985-1989 Change: SDLP gain from DUP


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Castle
1985: 2 x UUP, 1 SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Unionist 1989: 2 x Independent Unionist, 1 x UUP, 1 SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance 1985-1989 Change: Independent Unionist gain from UUP


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Court
1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x PUP, 1 x Protestant Unionist, 1 x Independent Unionist1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x PUP, 1 x Protestant Unionist, 1 x Independent Unionist1985-1989 Change: No change


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Laganbank
1985: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP 1989: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP 1985-1989 Change: No change


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Lower Falls
1985: 3 x Sinn Féin, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance1989: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP1985-1989 Change: SDLP gain from Alliance


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Oldpark
1985: 2 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Workers' Party1989: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Workers' Party1985-1989 Change: UUP gain from DUP


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Pottinger
1985: 3 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance1989: 2 x DUP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 Independent Unionist1985-1989 Change: Independent Unionist gain from UUP


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Upper Falls
1985: 2 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance1989: 3 x Sinn Féin, 2 x SDLP1985-1989 Change: Sinn Féin gain from Alliance


1989 Belfast City Council election, District results, Victoria
1985: 3 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP1989: 3 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 2 x DUP1985-1989 Change: No change


1989 Belgian Grand Prix
The 1989 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 27 August 1989. It was the eleventh race of the 1989 Formula One World Championship.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix
The 44-lap race was won from pole position by Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna, driving a McLaren-Honda. Senna finished just ahead of French teammate Alain Prost, with Englishman Nigel Mansell third in a Ferrari. The win, Senna's fifth of the season, moved him to within 11 points of Prost in the Drivers' Championship.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Pre-qualifying report
In the Friday morning pre-qualifying session, an Onyx topped the time sheets for the fifth Grand Prix in succession. Stefan Johansson was again comfortably fastest by over a second, and his team-mate Bertrand Gachot also pre-qualified in third. The other two pre-qualifiers were the Larrousse-Lola cars of Michele Alboreto in second, and Philippe Alliot in fourth.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Pre-qualifying report
Those failing to proceed to the main qualifying sessions included both Osellas; Nicola Larini and Piercarlo Ghinzani close together in fifth and sixth. Roberto Moreno was seventh in his Coloni, with the AGS of Gabriele Tarquini eighth. The struggling Zakspeed drivers were ninth and tenth, Bernd Schneider marginally faster than Aguri Suzuki. The other AGS of Yannick Dalmas was next, ahead of Gregor Foitek, driving the older EuroBrun ER188B after the new car had not been successful. Foitek quit the team after this Grand Prix, to be replaced by their 1988 driver Oscar Larrauri. Bottom of the time sheets was the second Coloni of debutant Enrico Bertaggia, who was unable to put a proper timed lap together. He was replacing Pierre-Henri Raphanel, who had left Coloni to join Rial after Volker Weidler had quit the team.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report
Ayrton Senna took his eighth pole position of the season by nearly six-tenths of a second from McLaren teammate Alain Prost, with almost a further second back to Gerhard Berger in the Ferrari in third. The two Williams were fourth and fifth with Thierry Boutsen, in his home race, ahead of Riccardo Patrese, followed by Nigel Mansell in the second Ferrari. Alessandro Nannini was seventh in the Benetton, over two seconds behind Mansell, and the top ten was completed by Stefano Modena in the Brabham, Maurício Gugelmin in the March and Derek Warwick in the Arrows.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report
The major talking point, however, was the failure of both Nelson Piquet and Satoru Nakajima to qualify, the first time in the Lotus team's history that neither of its cars had qualified.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix, Qualifying, Qualifying report
All the times were determined in the second qualifying session, after the first had taken place in wet conditions.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
The race was delayed for some time due to the wet conditions. At the start, Senna led the way from Prost and Berger. Mansell managed to pass both Williams on the grass on the run to La Source hairpin to claim fourth position by the first corner. Johnny Herbert retired when he spun off on lap 4 in his first race for Tyrrell. René Arnoux then retired in the pit lane on lap 5 after a collision with the Lola of Philippe Alliot at La Source. Early on, Berger pressured Prost but was unable to find a way through.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Senna comfortably led from start to finish in conditions similar to those in which he won his first Belgian Grand Prix in 1985. Behind him, Berger suffered his tenth consecutive retirement of the season when he spun out on lap 10, leaving Prost to fend off a charging Mansell who, in his efforts to pass the McLaren, made a number of unorthodox moves at the exit of La Source in an attempt to gain a better run at the McLaren through Eau Rouge and on to the long uphill straight.


1989 Belgian Grand Prix, Race, Race report
Senna eased up in the last few laps, allowing Prost and Mansell to finish within two seconds of him. Boutsen finished fourth in his 100th race. Johnny Herbert, in his first race for Tyrrell (replacing Jean Alesi who was busy competing in the F3000 championship), said during the BBC commentary that in order to see the car in front it was necessary to press the helmet visor against the lens of the rear-facing visibility light from the car in front. Unusually, Eddie Cheever received the black and white warning flag for 'unsportsmanlike behaviour' for his alleged baulking of Mansell.


1989 Belgian Open
The 1989 Belgian Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Brussels, Belgium that was part of the Category 2 tier of the 1989 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 17 July until 23 July 1989. Second-seeded Radka Zrubáková won the singles title.


1989 Belgian Open, Finals, Doubles
Manon Bollegraf /  Mercedes Paz defeated  Carin Bakkum /  Simone Schilder 6–1, 6–2


1989 Belgian Open – Doubles
Mercedes Paz and Tine Scheuer-Larsen were the defending champions but only Paz competed that year with Manon Bollegraf.


1989 Belgian Open – Doubles
Bollegraf and Paz won in the final 6–1, 6–2 against Carin Bakkum and Simone Schilder.


1989 Belgian Open – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1989 Belgian Open – Singles
Arantxa Sánchez was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1989 Belgian Open – Singles
Radka Zrubáková won in the final 7–6, 6–4 against Mercedes Paz.


1989 Belgian Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix was the tenth round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 30 June-2 July 1989 at Spa-Francorchamps.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Kevin Schwantz makes it six poles in a row, and John Kocinski makes his 500 debut.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
The first turns go to Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey and Schwantz. Christian Sarron watches from fourth as the three ahead scrape fairings. The quartet get well clear, but wet patches begin to appear on the track.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Rainey and Schwantz raise their hands to stop the race, but ahead of them Lawson and Sarron continue at race pace. Lawson soon becomes aware of the water and raises his hand too, but Sarron, perhaps under the mistaken impression that he’s dropping the other three, seems too enthusiastic to stop and loses the front-end on a fast left. The riders pit with 5 laps raced.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
It looks like the restart on aggregate time will be dry, and again Lawson, Rainey and Schwantz get away at the front, though the sky darkens. Again, the leaders raise their hands after the 9th lap, but before everyone can pit, Mick Doohan and Kocinski collide, sliding without serious injury.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
The podium of the second leg is Lawson, Schwantz and Rainey, but the race organizers decide to run a third leg in the wet.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
The third race sees Schwantz get away from Rainey, while Lawson gets into a tussle with Kocinski for third. On the last lap, with a comfortable lead, Schwantz crashes out on the brakes, and Rainey wheelies in for the lead, followed by Kocinski and Lawson. However, the results of the third race are later nullified, giving Lawson the win and closing the gap to Rainey. The points are later halved when a rule is discovered that only one restart is allowed.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
The FIM had decided by 1989 that there could be no more than two starts and that after the second race, started on slicks, was stopped due to rain, the race would be deemed complete.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
In an interesting footnote, the 1989 Belgium Grand Prix in Spa Francorchamps, scheduled for 18 laps and 73.3 miles, was entered in the books as a “complete” eight-lap, 34.5-mile sprint race victory for Eddie Lawson. But if you look at the old magazines you’ll see Kevin Schwantz celebrating the victory atop a wet podium and John Kocinski standing third in his 500 debut.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
In fact, the race director, fearing a riot if he sent the fans home after only seeing two aborted starts and eight recorded laps, decided to appease the crowd by sending the riders out again even though it was clearly against the rules. Word was that the “promoter” ordered the race director to do this. The “promoter” was Bernie Ecclestone. Eventually half points were awarded and the FIM realized that something had to be done. Thus the “wet race” and “dry race” rules were instituted.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Under these rules if a race starts in the dry with riders on slicks and rain begins to the extent that the race director believes that there is insufficient traction for slick tires, he orders red flags. If three or more laps have been run, the original race distance, minus the number of laps run and minus one additional lap, is established for the second leg. However, regardless of the conditions at the start of the second part, the race is declared “wet,’ meaning that it would not be stopped simply because it begins to rain. Riders go out for part two with the understanding that, if they opted for the wrong tires, they either have to wobble around like Steve Manship at Silverstone or come in for a change. The final results are then to be based on aggregate times.


1989 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
This worked from the late eighties until 2003 when Dorna, protecting their TV coverage against long delays, overrode strong MSMA (Motorcycle Sport Manufacturers Association) objections and managed to introduce the first of three variants of “flag to flag” racing -- races which would not be stopped and restarted due to rain.


1989 Belgian regional elections
A regional election was held in Belgium on 18 June 1989 to elect representatives to the first Brussels Regional Council, which replaced the Brussels Agglomeration Council as a result of the creation of the Brussels-Capital Region. Elections to the European Parliament were held on the same day.


1989 Belgian regional elections
A total of 75 seats were up for election, of which 64 went to French-speaking parties and 11 to Dutch-speaking parties.


1989 Belgian regional elections, Background
The constitutional revision of 1970 provided for three Regions: the Flemish Region, the Walloon Region and the Brussels Region. However, no regional institutions were created until 1980, when the Flemish Council and the Flemish Executive were created for the Flemish Region and the Walloon Council and Walloon Executive for the Walloon Region. A Brussels Agglomeration comprising the 19 municipalities which today form the Brussels Region had already been established in 1971, but no regional institutions were created for Brussels until 1989 because of political disagreements on the subject.


1989 Belgian regional elections, Background
The Brussels Regional Council was the first of the three Regional Councils to be directly elected, as the Flemish Council and the Walloon Council consisted, respectively, of the Flemish and the Walloon members of the Belgian Federal Parliament, however, the Council of the German-speaking Community had already been directly elected since 1974. The first direct elections for the Flemish and Walloon Councils took place in 1995, since then all regional elections are held on the same day and once every 5 years.


1989 Belgian regional elections, Results
Turnout was 477,689, representing 81.94% of the electorate. A total of 438,192 valid votes were cast.


1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash
On 4 July 1989, a pilotless MiG-23 jet fighter of the Soviet Air Forces crashed into a house in Kortrijk, Belgium, killing one person. The pilot had ejected over an hour earlier near Kołobrzeg, Poland, after experiencing technical problems, but the aircraft continued flying for around 900 km (600 mi) before running out of fuel and descending into the ground.


1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash, History of the flight
The incident started as a routine training flight. Colonel Nikolai Skuridin, the pilot, was to fly a MiG-23M from the Bagicz Airbase near Kołobrzeg, Poland. During takeoff, the engine's afterburner failed, causing a partial loss of power. At an altitude of 150 m (500 ft) and descending, the pilot elected to abandon the aircraft and ejected safely. However, the engine kept running and the aircraft remained airborne, flying on autopilot in a westerly direction.


1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash, History of the flight
The unmanned aircraft left Polish airspace, crossing into East Germany and then West Germany, where it was intercepted by a pair of F-15s from the 32d Tactical Fighter Squadron of the United States Air Forces Europe, stationed at Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands. The F-15 pilots reported that the MiG had no crew.


1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash, History of the flight
The MiG-23 crossed into Dutch airspace and continued into Belgium. The escorting F-15s were instructed to shoot down the plane over the North Sea, but as the MiG ran out of fuel, it started a slow turn to the south, prompting the French Air Force to put its fighters on alert. After flying over 900 km (560 mi), the MiG eventually crashed into a house near Kortrijk, less than 10 km (6 mi) from the French border, killing an 18-year-old resident.


1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash, Political aftermath
The Belgian government made a formal protest to the Soviet Union for the lack of notification about the stray aircraft. The then Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens expressed concern that "from the time the MiG-23 was first picked up on NATO radar to the time it crashed more than an hour later, no word of warning came from the Soviet side," and that "there was also a 'notable slowness' on the part of the Soviets in disclosing whether the jet was carrying nuclear or toxic weapons."


1989 Belizean general election
General elections were held in Belize on 4 September 1989. The result was a narrow victory for the People's United Party, which won 15 of the 28 seats. Voter turnout was 72.6%.


1989 Belizean general election, Background
The ruling United Democratic Party was finishing its first term and sought re-election on the basis of improved economic indicators and standard of living. The People's United Party painted them as lusting after foreign aid and recognition, particularly from the United States and Taiwan.


1989 Belizean general election, Background
Another issue was national security; the PUP attacked a CIA-like operation known as the Secret Intelligence Service as being a spy network for the UDP and promised freedom of the press and other fundamental freedoms enshrined in the constitution.


1989 Belizean general election, Background
Longtime PUP leader George Cadle Price returned to both the House of Representatives and as prime minister after his surprise ouster in the 1984 election, winning the Pickstock constituency in the Belize District.


1989 Beninese parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Benin on 18 June 1989. At the time, the country was a one-party state under the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin, with voters given the choice of approving the party's list of 206 candidates for the National Revolutionary Assembly (increased from 196 in the 1984 elections) or not. In the election, 89.6% of voters approved the list, with 9.7% voting against. Turnout was 86%.


1989 Beninese parliamentary election
Following the election, Mathieu Kérékou was re-elected President unopposed by the Assembly on 2 August.


1989 Benson & Hedges Championships
The 1989 Benson & Hedges Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wembley Arena in London, England that was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 14th edition of the tournament and was held from 7 November until 12 November 1989. Second-seeded Michael Chang won the singles title.


1989 Benson & Hedges Championships, Finals, Doubles
Jakob Hlasek /  John McEnroe defeated  Jeremy Bates /  Kevin Curren 6–1, 7–6


1989 Benson & Hedges Championships – Doubles
Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Jeremy Bates and Kevin Curren.


1989 Benson & Hedges Championships – Doubles
Jakob Hlasek and John McEnroe won in the final 6–1, 7–6 against Bates and Curren.


1989 Benson & Hedges Championships – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1989 Benson & Hedges Championships – Singles
Jakob Hlasek was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Martin Střelba.


1989 Benson & Hedges Championships – Singles
Michael Chang won the final 6–2, 6–1, 6–1 against Guy Forget.


1989 Benson & Hedges Championships – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1989 Benson & Hedges Cup
The 1989 Benson & Hedges Cup was the eighteenth competing of cricket’s Benson & Hedges Cup.


1989 Benson and Hedges Open
The 1989 Benson and Hedges Open was a men's Grand Prix tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand. The tournament was held from 9 January to 16 January 1989. Second-seeded Ramesh Krishnan won the singles title.


1989 Benson and Hedges Open, Finals, Doubles
Steve Guy /  Shuzo Matsuoka defeated  John Letts /  Bruce Man-Son-Hing 7–6, 7–6


1989 Benson and Hedges Open – Singles
Ramesh Krishnan defeated Amos Mansdorf 6–4, 6–0 to win the 1989 Heineken Open singles competition. Mansdorf was the defending champion.


1989 Benson and Hedges Open – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1989 Berlin Marathon
The 1989 Berlin Marathon was the 16th running of the annual marathon race held in Berlin, West Germany, held on 1 October. Australia's Alfredo Shahanga won the men's race in 2:10:11 hours, while the women's race was won by Finland's Päivi Tikkanen in 2:28:45. Heinz Frei (1:40:11) and Daniela Jutzeler (1:55:23), both of Switzerland, won the men's and women's wheelchair races. A total of 13,433 runners finished the race, 12,233 men and 1200 women.


1989 Bermudian general election
General elections were held in Bermuda on 9 February 1989. The result was a victory for the United Bermuda Party, which won 23 of the 40 seats in the House of Assembly.


1989 Bhagalpur violence
The Bhagalpur riots of 1989 refers to the violence between Hindus and Muslims in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar, India. The riots started on 24 October 1989, and the violent incidents continued  for 2 months, affecting the Bhagalpur city and 250 villages around it. Over 1,000 people were killed (around 900 of which were Muslims), and another 50,000 were displaced as a result of the violence. It was the worst instance of Hindu-Muslim violence in independent India at the time.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Background
Bhagalpur has a history of communal violence, and in 1989, the Hindu-Muslims tensions had escalated during the Muharram and Bisheri Puja festivities in August.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Background
In 1989, as part of the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign, which aimed to construct a Hindu temple at Ayodhya in place of the Babri mosque, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had organized a "Ramshila" procession in Bhagalpur. The procession aimed to collect bricks (shilas) for the proposed Ram temple at Ayodhya. One such procession passing through Fatehpur village provoked brickbatting and arson on 22 October.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Background
Prior to the outbreak of the riots, two false rumors about the killing of Hindu students started circulating: one rumor stated that nearly 200 Hindu university students had been killed by the Muslims, while another rumor stated that 31 Hindu boys had been murdered with their bodies dumped in a well at the Sanskrit College. Apart from these, the political and criminal rivalries in the area also played a role in inciting the riots.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The trigger
On 24 October 1989, the Ramshila processions from the various parts of the district were to proceed to the Gaushala area, from where they would move on to Ayodhya. The procession coming from Parbatti area passed peacefully through Tatarpur, a Muslim-dominated area, after its leader Mahadev Prasad Singh told the Hindus not to raise any provocative slogans.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The trigger
Sometime later, another procession from Nathnagar arrived at Tatarpur. This massive procession was escorted for safety by the police, in the presence of the Superintendent of Police KS Dwivedi. Some members of the procession shouted slogans such as Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan, Mullah Bhago Pakistan ("India is for Hindus, Mullahs go away to Pakistan") and Babur ki auladon, bhago Pakistan ya Kabristan ("Children of Babur, run away to Pakistan or to the graveyard"). The District Magistrate (DM) Arun Jha stopped the procession at the Parbatti-Tatarpur junction. The DM then requested the Muslims to allow the procession to pass through Tatarpur, but the Muslims refused and suggested that the procession take an alternative route to Gaushala.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The trigger
As the discussions were going on, crude bombs were thrown at the procession from the premises of the Muslim high school nearby. Although no one was killed in the bombing, 11 policemen suffered minor injuries. This is considered as the event which triggered these riots.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots
A curfew was imposed by the state government immediately in the afternoon of October 24, and all the civilian assemblies were declared illegal. When the police opened fire to disperse the crowd at Tatarpur, the Muslims hurled bombs at the District Magistrate, the Superintendent of Police, the other administration officials and the police. The police fired more rounds, leading to the deaths of 2 people.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots
Meanwhile, the Hindu procession retreated from the Parbatti-Tatarpur junction, and turned into a mob. The mob attacked shops owned by the Muslims on the Nathnagar road (later renamed to Lord Mahavir Path). The Hindu rioters also attempted to storm the Muslim-dominated locality of Assanandpur, but the Muslims there fired at them from the rooftops. The mob then turned to the Hindu-dominated locality Parbatti, where it massacred at least 40 Muslims. As the news of the violence reached the other Ramshila processions at Gaushala, the Hindus went on a rampage, killing Muslims, looting their shops and destroying their property.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots
On October 25, an 8,000-strong mob looted and destroyed Madaninagar, a Muslim settlement, turning it into a ghost town. They also attacked Kanjhiagram, a nearby locality. Bhatoria, a Muslim-dominated village was attacked on October 25, and again on October 27, killing several Muslims. In Hasnabad, the Shahi Masjid built during Aurangazeb's reign was damaged.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots
The alleged police atrocities further fueled the violence. Upon immediate request from the state government,   Army was called in on October 26. KS Dwivedi, the Police Superintendent accused of being anti-Muslim, was asked by the Bihar Chief Minister Satyendra Narayan Sinha  to hand over the charge to Ajit Datt on the same day. However, during a tour of the riot-affected area, the Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi overruled Dwivedi's transfer at the demand of a mob composed of policemen and VHP supporters.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots
On October 26, at least 11 Muslims were killed in the Brahmin-dominated Parandarpur village. The same day, 18 Muslims including 11 children were killed in full public view, in the Nayabazar area of Bhagalpur. Around 44 Muslims, including 19 children, were provided refuge by some local Hindus in the Jamuna Kothi building. At 11:30 am, a 70-strong mob entered the Jamuna Kothi with swords, axes, hammers and lathis. Within 10 minutes, 18 Muslims were killed. Some of the children were beheaded, some had their limbs cut off while the others were thrown off the third floor. A woman called Bunni Begum had her breasts chopped off. Some other Muslims who had been provided refuge by the Hindus in the neighbouring buildings, managed to survive. In Assanandpur, Muslims also escorted several hostel-resident Hindu students to safety.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots
Hindustan, a Hindi daily in the state capital Patna, reported that on 31 October, the army soldiers had recovered Pakistan-made arms and ammunition from some miscreants in the Tatarpur area. However, the District Magistrate Arun Jha dismissed the report as "sheer nonsense", and termed the 'foreign hand' theory as "silly".


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots
According to official figures 1,070 people were killed & 524 injured. 15 out of 21 blocks of Bhagalpur were affected by the riots. 11,500 houses in 195 villages were destroyed, displacing 48,000 people. 600 power looms and 1,700 handlooms were burnt to ashes. 68 mosques and 20 mazars were destroyed.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots, Chandheri massacre
The Chandheri (also spelled Chanderi) village was attacked from three sides by the people from the adjoining villages on the evening of 27 October. The Yadavs of the neighbouring settlement had disapproved of the construction of a mosque in the village. The attackers set the mosque on the fire, along with some houses, killing 5 people. A Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry regiment, led by Major G.P.S. Virk and stationed at the Sabaur thana, was overseeing Chandheri and the neighbouring settlement of Rajpur.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots, Chandheri massacre
When Major Virk arrived at the village, he found that some of the Muslims had fled to the neighboring villages, while around 125 of them were hiding in a large house belonging to one Sheikh Minnat. He provided them with police protection, and left with an assurance that he would return in the morning with an army unit to evacuate them to safety.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots, Chandheri massacre
In the early next morning, a large number of Yadavs, Dusadhs and Kurmis arrived at Sheikh Mannat's house. They claimed that they had come to evacuate the Muslims. However, as soon as the Muslims came out, they were attacked: some were killed on the spot, while the others were paraded to a hyacinth pond before being attacked.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots, Chandheri massacre
When Major Virk returned to Chandheri at 9:38 am on 28 October, he found the house vacant. At the pond, he found Malika Bano, a survivor whose right leg had been chopped off. 61 mutilated dead bodies were recovered from the pond. The police later filed charges against 38 people in the case, out of which 16 were convicted and awarded rigorous life terms; the other 22 were acquitted.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, The riots, Logain massacre
At the Logain village, 116 Muslims were killed by a 4000-strong mob led by the police officer Ramchander Singh. Their bodies were buried and camouflaged by the plantation of cauliflower and cabbage saplings to hide the evidence. 14 people, including the former police officer, were convicted and sentenced to rigorous life imprisonment for the killings, in 2007.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath
A three-member Commission of Inquiry was set up by the Bihar State Government consisting of Bihar High Court Judges C.P. Sinha and S. Samshul Hassan to investigate the riots. The Commission submitted its final report in year 1995 and blamed several police officers, including the superintendent of police KS Dwivedi, for failing to stop the violence. A second round of violence happened in March 1990.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath
142 FIRs were recorded in various police stations. 1,283 persons were accused. 535 cases out of the 864 cases filed were closed, and most of the accused were acquitted for the lack of evidence. The victims accused the Congress government of doing little to stop the riots, and also of not providing them with adequate relief and rehabilitation. The riots happened during the tenure of the Chief Minister Satyendra Narayan Sinha, who stepped down.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath
To pacify the Muslims, the Congress replaced him with Jagannath Mishra, who had become popular in the Muslim community ever since he made Urdu one of the official languages of the State. In his autobiography Meri Yaadein, Meri bhoolein, Sinha accused his Congress colleagues of "fanning" the riots out of personal jealousy and ill-will, specifically mentioning the former chief minister Bhagwat Jha Azad and the former speaker Shivchandra Jha.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath
He also accused the Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of overruling his order to transfer the then superintendent of police K S Dwivedi without consulting him, although Dwivedi had completely failed to control the riots. He alleged that the decision was "not only an encroachment of the Constitutional right of the state government but also a step detrimental to ongoing efforts to ease tensions". Sinha also stated that after being dismissed as the Chief Minister, he informed Rajiv Gandhi about the "role of some Congress leaders" in the riots.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath
The Muslims in Bihar had traditionally served as a Congress (I) vote bank, but after the 1989 violence, they shifted their loyalty to Lalu Prasad Yadav, who became the Chief Minister of the state in 1990. However, the subsequent governments were also accused of not meting out the justice. The survivors accused Lalu Prasad Yadav of not punishing the rioters because many of them belonged to his own caste.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath
On 12 May 2005, a Bhagalpur court sentenced 10 people to life imprisonment on 12 May for the murder of five Muslims in Kamarganj village of the district in the riots.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath
When Nitish Kumar became the Chief Minister, he ordered 27 cases to be reopened for investigation in 2006. This led to the re-trial of Kameshwar Yadav, who had earlier been acquitted and given a citation by the state police for "maintaining communal harmony". He was convicted for killing of 15-year old Mohammad Qayyum. However, in 2017, he was acquitted by the Patna High Court. It was alleged that he "benefited from his proximity to both RJD and BJP and, most importantly, due to JD(U)’s alliance with these parties and Congress." After acquittal, he expressed his desire to contest election on a Bhartiya Janata Party ticket.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath
In 2007, 14 more people were convicted for their role in the Logain massacre. A number of victims were compensated in 2012 by the State Government.


1989 Bhagalpur violence, Aftermath, NN Singh Enquiry Commission Report
Soon after coming to power in November 2005, Nitish Kumar set up the Bhagalpur Riots Probe Commission under Justice N. N. Singh to probe the riots. The Commission submitted its 1000-page report in February 2015; the report was presented in the Bihar Legislative Assembly on 7 August 2015. It held the inaction by the then Congress government, the local administration and the police responsible for the deadly clashes.


1989 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1989 Big East Baseball Tournament was held at Muzzy Field in Bristol, CT. This was the fifth Big East baseball tournament, and was won by the Villanova Wildcats. As a result, Villanova earned the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. This was the Wildcat's first tournament championship.


1989 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The 1989 Big East baseball tournament was a 4 team double elimination tournament. The top two teams from each division, based on conference winning percentage only, earned berths in the tournament. Each division winner played the opposite division's runner up in the first round. Connecticut earned the second seed from the North by winning the season series against Boston College.


1989 Big East Conference Baseball Tournament, Jack Kaiser Award
Rafael Novoa was the winner of the 1989 Jack Kaiser Award. Novoa was a pitcher for Villanova.


1989 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City, from March 9 to March 12, 1989. Its winner received the Big East Conference's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Tournament. It is a single-elimination tournament with four rounds. Georgetown had the best regular season conference record and received the #1 seed.


1989 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
Georgetown defeated Syracuse in the championship game 88–79, to claim its sixth Big East Tournament championship.


1989 Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 Big Eight Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 10–12 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri.


1989 Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Second-seeded Missouri defeated #1 seed Oklahoma in the championship game, 98–86, to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Tournament.


1989 Big League World Series
The 1989 Big League World Series took place from August 12–19 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Taipei, Taiwan defeated Maracaibo, Venezuela in the championship game. It was Taiwan's third straight championship.


1989 Big League World Series
This year featured the debut of the Central America region.


1989 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 9–11 at the BSU Pavilion at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho.


1989 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Regular season co-champions Idaho and Boise State, defending tournament champions and host, met in the  championship game. Both had 13–3 conference records with five overall losses, and had split their season series with home wins. Under first-year head coach Kermit Davis, Idaho prevailed, 59–52. It was the Vandals' third Big Sky tournament title; the wins in 1981 and 1982 were under head coach Don Monson.


1989 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The tournament format was modified again in 1989, with the field reduced from eight to six teams. The top two teams in the league standings received a bye, and the next four played in the quarterfinals.


1989 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, NCAA tournament
The Vandals received the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, and were seeded thirteenth in the West Regional. They played UNLV in the first round in Boise and lost by twelve points. No other Big Sky members were invited to the tournament; Boise State lost in the first round of the NIT to Oklahoma State.


1989 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 2–4, 1989 at the Winthrop Coliseum in Rock Hill, South Carolina. For the first time in their school history, the UNC Asheville Bulldogs won the tournament, led by head coach Don Doucette.


1989 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
All of the conference's seven members participated in the tournament, hosted at the Winthrop Coliseum, home of the Winthrop Eagles. Teams were seeded by conference winning percentage.


1989 Big South Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, All-Tournament Team
This was the last year in which six players were selected to the All-Tournament Team. It was reduced to five the following year.


1989 Big Ten Baseball Tournament
The 1989 Big Ten Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Ray Fisher Stadium on the campus of the University of Michigan in Minneapolis, Minnesota from May 19 through 20. The top four teams from the regular season participated in the double-elimination tournament, the ninth annual tournament sponsored by the Big Ten Conference to determine the league champion. Illinois won their first tournament championship and earned the Big Ten Conference's automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. Illinois was the first team other than Michigan and Minnesota to win the event.


1989 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The 1989 tournament was a 4-team double-elimination tournament, with seeds determined by conference regular season winning percentage only. Iowa claimed the second seed by tiebreaker over Illinois


1989 Big Ten Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Outstanding Player
Rich Capparelli was named Most Outstanding Player. Capparelli was a pitcher for Illinois.


1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 8–11 at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California. This was the first tournament after the Big West Conference renamed itself from the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) in July 1988.


1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Top-seeded UNLV defeated New Mexico State in the final, 68–62, and captured their fifth PCAA/Big West championship. This was the Runnin' Rebels' fifth title in seven seasons.


1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The Rebels, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Tournament, where they would advance to the Elite Eight.


1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
There were no changes to the tournament format from 1988. All ten conference members participated in the field, with teams seeded in the bracket based on regular season conference records.


1989 Big West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
The top six seeds were given a bye into the quarterfinal round while the four lowest-seeded teams were placed into an initial preliminary round.


1989 Birthday Honours
Queen's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen's Official Birthday in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The dates vary, both from year to year and from country to country. All are published in supplements to the London Gazette and many are formally conferred by the monarch (or her representative) some time after the date of the announcement, particularly for those service people on active duty.


1989 Birthday Honours
The 1989 Queen's Birthday honours lists were announced on 16 June 1989.


1989 Birthday Honours
Recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honours.


1989 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The 1989 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen in her right as Queen of New Zealand, on the advice of the New Zealand government, to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 17 June 1989.


1989 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.


1989 Boise State Broncos football team
The 1989 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State University in the 1989 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Broncos competed in the Big Sky Conference and played their home games on campus at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho. The Broncos were led by third–year head coach Skip Hall, Boise State finished the season 6–5 overall and 5–3 in conference.


1989 Bolivarian Games
The XI Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos) were a multi-sport event held between January 14–25, 1989, in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The Games were organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO).


1989 Bolivarian Games
The opening ceremony took place on January 14, 1989, at the Estadio Olímpico Pachencho Romero in Maracaibo, Venezuela. The Games were officially opened by Venezuelan president Jaime Lusinchi. Torch lighter was 76-year-old former tennis player and gold medalist Carlos Leal.


1989 Bolivarian Games
A detailed history of the early editions of the Bolivarian Games between 1938 and 1989 was published in a book written (in Spanish) by José Gamarra Zorrilla, former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee, and first president (1976–1982) of ODESUR. Gold medal winners from Ecuador were published by the Comité Olímpico Ecuatoriano.


1989 Bolivarian Games, Participation
About 1286 athletes from 6 countries were reported to participate:


1989 Bolivarian Games, Sports
The following 20 sports (+ 2 exhibition events) were explicitly mentioned:


1989 Bolivarian Games, Medal count
The medal count for these Games is tabulated below. A slightly different number of medals was published elsewhere. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.


1989 Bolivian general election
General elections were held in Bolivia on 7 May 1989. As no candidate for the presidency received over 50% of the vote, the National Congress was required to elect a President on 6 August. Although the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement had received the most votes, its candidate for President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was defeated by Jaime Paz Zamora of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) in the Congressional vote, despite the MIR only finishing third in the public vote.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
In the initial months of 1989, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) tried in vain to postpone the election date, arguing that the deadline for electoral registration restricted citizen participation. In December 1988, the party's delegation in Congress had managed to amend the electoral law of 1986. Arguing that the new registration requirements, which limited registration to citizens who possessed cédulas de identidad (national identity cards), constituted a violation of universal suffrage, the MNR pushed through legislation that added birth certificates and military service cards as valid registration documents. Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) refused to go along with its ally and eventually charged the MNR with conducting fraudulent registrations. By mid-February this issue had triggered the rupture of the pacto.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
The end of the pacto revealed an old reality about Bolivian politics. To achieve power, broad electoral alliances must be established; yet, electoral alliances have never translated into stable or effective ruling coalitions. On the contrary, electoral alliances have exacerbated the tensions built into a complex system. Thus, once in power, whoever controls the executive must search for mechanisms or coalitions such as the pacto to be able to govern. This search was the single most important challenge facing Bolivian politicians into the 1980s.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
As expected, every political party was forced to scramble for new allies. The ADN joined forces with the now minuscule Christian Democrats by naming Luis Ossio as Banzer's running mate in an effort to attract other political elements. Banzer led every major poll, and the ADN repeatedly called for Congress to respect the first majority to emerge from the May 7 election.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
The situation was more complex in the MNR where, after a bitter internal struggle, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, a pragmatic former Minister of Planning and Coordination and prominent entrepreneur, captured the party's nomination. The MNR's strategy was to develop Sánchez de Lozada's image as a veteran movimientista (movement leader) to capture populist support. At the same time, party strategists intended to attract support from outside the party by building on the candidate's entrepreneurial background. The task of converting the candidate into an old party member apparently succeeded: old-line populist politicians dominated the first slots on the party's legislative lists. The naming of former President Walter Guevara Arze as the vice presidential candidate was perceived as further evidence of the party's success in influencing the candidate.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
Following a similar electoral logic, the MIR sought to broaden its base of support by establishing ties with several parties, including Carlos Serrate Reich's 9 April Revolutionary Vanguard, the Revolutionary Front of the Left, and a number of dissidents from the MNRI. Paz Zamora, the MIR's candidate, led in some polls, and most analysts agreed that he would pose a significant threat to the MNR and ADN.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
The left attempted a comeback following the disastrous experience of the UDP years. Headed by Antonio Aranibar's Free Bolivia Movement, the left grouped into a broad front labelled the United Left (IU). The IU brought together splinter factions of the MIR, the Socialist Party-1, and the Communist Party, and it counted on the support of organized labor, especially the COB. Given the historical divisions within the Bolivian left, however, the IU was not perceived to be a serious contender. If it could maintain unity beyond the 1989 elections, observers believed that its impact might be greater than anticipated.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
The main newcomer to national electoral politics, although no stranger to La Paz politics, was Carlos Palenque. Popularly known as el compadre (the comrade), Palenque was a former folksinger turned radio and television owner and talk show host. His "popular" style of broadcasting had always enjoyed widespread appeal in the working-class and marginal neighborhoods surrounding La Paz. For at least a decade, Palenque had been regarded as a possible candidate for mayor of La Paz; during the 1987 municipal elections, his name was under consideration by the MNR.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
Palenque's move into national politics was prompted by the closing down of his television station for airing accusations made by an infamous drug trafficker, Roberto Suárez Goméz, against the Bolivian government. To promote his candidacy, Palenque founded Conscience of the Fatherland (Conciencia de la Patria—Condepa), which grouped together a bizarre strain of disaffected leftists, populists, and nationalists who had defected from several other parties.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
Ten parties and fronts contested the election, which was held as scheduled on May 7, 1989. The results, a virtual three-way tie among the MNR, ADN, and MIR, were not surprising. As expected, Congress once again was given the task of electing the next president from the top three contenders. But the slight majority (a mere 5,815 votes) obtained by the MNR's candidate, Sánchez de Lozada, was surprising to observers, as was the unexpected victory by Palenque in La Paz Department. His showing was significant in a number of ways.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
First, it demonstrated that none of the major political parties had been able to attract lower middle-class and proletarian urban groups, who had flocked to el compadre; Palenque had wisely targeted marginal and displaced sectors of La Paz. Second, Condepa's showing reflected the growth of racial and ethnic tension in Bolivian electoral politics. For the first time in the history of the Bolivian Congress, for example, a woman dressed in native garb would serve as a deputy for La Paz Department.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
Claims of fraud from every contender, especially in the recounting of the votes, clouded the legitimacy of the process. At one stage, fearing an agreement between the ADN and MIR, the MNR called for the annulment of the elections. Indeed, negotiations were well advanced between the MIR and ADN to upstage the relative victory obtained by the MNR. Between May and early August, the top three finishers bargained and manipulated in an attempt to secure control of the executive branch.


1989 Bolivian general election, Campaign
The composition of Congress exacerbated the tensions between the parties in contention. Because seventy-nine seats are needed to elect a president, compromise was indispensable. In mid-1989, however, it was unclear whether the political system in Bolivia had matured enough to allow for compromise.


1989 Bolivian general election, Results, Congressional ballot
MIR's Paz Zamora was supported by Nationalist Democratic Action and Conscience of Fatherland, whilst the MNR's Sánchez was not supported by any other party. The United Left abstained from the vote. For the support of the ADN, the MIR chose to elect Hugo Banzer's running mate Luis Ossio (PDC) as vice president rather than Gustavo Fernández Saavedra, Paz Zamora's running mate.


1989 Bordeaux Open
The 1989 Bordeaux Open also known as the Grand Prix Passing Shot was a men's tennis tournament played on clay courts at Villa Primrose in Bordeaux in France that was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 12th edition of the tournament and was held from 25 September until 29 September 1989. First-seeded Ivan Lendl won the singles title.


1989 Bordeaux Open, Finals, Doubles
Tomás Carbonell /  Carlos di Laura defeated  Agustín Moreno /  Jaime Yzaga 6–4, 6–3


1989 Boston City Council election
Boston City Council elections were held on November 7, 1989. Eleven seats (seven district representatives and four at-large members) were contested in the general election, as the incumbents in districts 3 and 5 were unopposed. Nine seats (the four at-large members, and districts 1, 6, 7, 8, and 9) had also been contested in the preliminary election held on September 26, 1989.


1989 Boston City Council election, At-large
Councillors Dapper O'Neil, Christopher A. Iannella, Rosaria Salerno, and Michael J. McCormack were re-elected.


1989 Boston College Eagles football team
The 1989 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Eagles were led by ninth-year head coach Jack Bicknell, and played their home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Their 2–9 final record represented the fourth consecutive year of declining results for the Eagles, and their worst record in 11 years.