1989 Spanish Open – Singles
Arantxa Sánchez won in the final 6–2, 5–7, 6–1 against Helen Kelesi.


1989 Spanish 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 Spanish general election
The 1989 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 29 October 1989, to elect the 4th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 254 seats in the Senate. An election had not been due until 28 July 1990 at latest, but Prime Minister Felipe González called for a snap election nine months ahead of schedule, allegedly on the need of implementing tough economic measures. González hoped to capitalize on a still strong economy and his party's electoral success in a European Parliament election held in June, after a troubled legislature which had seen an increase of social protest on his government's economic policy and the calling of a massive general strike in 1988.


1989 Spanish general election
The election was regarded as one of the most controversial in the democratic history of Spain. Close results in many constituencies, coupled with severe flaws in electoral register data, an inefficient structure of the electoral administration and the ongoing political struggle between the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the opposition parties over the Socialist absolute majority in the Congress of Deputies, led to a major scandal when election results in a number of constituencies were contested under accusations of irregularities and fraud. Judicial courts were forced to intervene, determining by-elections for Murcia, Pontevedra and Melilla.


1989 Spanish general election
The issue was appealed to the Constitutional Court of Spain, which overruled previous rulings and validated the vote in Melilla only, with a new election being held on 25 March 1990. In the end, the disputed seat was won over by the People's Party (PP), depriving the PSOE from its 176th seat in Congress.


1989 Spanish general election
The election saw an erosion in popular support for the incumbent Socialists, who nonetheless scored a decisive win and emerged again as the largest party. As a result, Felipe González was able to be re-elected for a third consecutive term in office with confidence and supply support from the Canarian Independent Groups (AIC). The newly amalgamated PP, led into the election by José María Aznar, exceeded initial expectations and slightly improved on the People's Coalition 1986 result while performing better than in the June European Parliament election. Julio Anguita's left-wing coalition, United Left (IU), scored a remarkable success by doubling its 1986 totals, whereas Adolfo Suárez's Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) fell short of its goal of becoming a government alternative and lost votes and seats.


1989 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
The Spanish Cortes Generales were envisaged as an imperfect bicameral system. The Congress of Deputies had greater legislative power than the Senate, having the ability to vote confidence in or withdraw it from a prime minister and to override Senate vetoes by an absolute majority of votes. Nonetheless, the Senate possessed a few exclusive, yet limited in number functions—such as its role in constitutional amendment—which were not subject to the Congress' override. Voting for the Cortes Generales was on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprised all nationals over eighteen and in full enjoyment of their political rights.


1989 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
For the Congress of Deputies, 348 seats were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with an electoral threshold of three percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied in each constituency. Seats were allocated to constituencies, corresponding to the provinces of Spain, with each being allocated an initial minimum of two seats and the remaining 248 being distributed in proportion to their populations. Ceuta and Melilla were allocated the two remaining seats, which were elected using plurality voting. The use of the D'Hondt method might result in a higher effective threshold, depending on the district magnitude.


1989 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
For the Senate, 208 seats were elected using an open list partial block voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties. In constituencies electing four seats, electors could vote for up to three candidates; in those with two or three seats, for up to two candidates; and for one candidate in single-member districts.


1989 Spanish general election, Overview, Electoral system
Each of the 47 peninsular provinces was allocated four seats, whereas for insular provinces, such as the Balearic and Canary Islands, districts were the islands themselves, with the larger—Majorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife—being allocated three seats each, and the smaller—Menorca, Ibiza–Formentera, Fuerteventura, La Gomera, El Hierro, Lanzarote and La Palma—one each. Ceuta and Melilla elected two seats each. Additionally, autonomous communities could appoint at least one senator each and were entitled to one additional senator per each million inhabitants.


1989 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The term of each chamber of the Cortes Generales—the Congress and the Senate—expired four years from the date of their previous election, unless they were dissolved earlier. The election decree was required to be issued no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the date of expiry of the Cortes in the event that the prime minister did not make use of his prerogative of early dissolution. The decree was to be published on the following day in the Official State Gazette (BOE), with election day taking place between the fifty-fourth and the sixtieth day from publication.


1989 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The previous election was held on 22 June 1986, which meant that the legislature's term would expire on 22 June 1990. The election decree was required to be published in the BOE no later than 29 May 1990, with the election taking place on the sixtieth day from publication, setting the latest possible election date for the Cortes Generales on Saturday, 28 July 1990.


1989 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
The prime minister had the prerogative to dissolve both chambers at any given time—either jointly or separately—and call a snap election, provided that no motion of no confidence was in process, no state of emergency was in force and that dissolution did not occur before one year had elapsed since the previous one. Additionally, both chambers were to be dissolved and a new election called if an investiture process failed to elect a prime minister within a two-month period from the first ballot. Barred this exception, there was no constitutional requirement for simultaneous elections for the Congress and the Senate. Still, as of 2021 there has been no precedent of separate elections taking place under the 1978 Constitution, with governments having long preferred that elections for the two chambers of the Cortes take place simultaneously.


1989 Spanish general election, Overview, Election date
On 25 August 1989, it was confirmed by governmental sources that Felipe González would be calling a snap election for 29 October.


1989 Spanish general election, Background
Felipe González's second term as prime minister was characterized by economic growth, with public investments favoured by the Structural Funds coming from the European Economic Community to which Spain had recently accessed. The GDP grew by around or above 5% between 1987 and 1989 and unemployment decreased from 20.6% to 16.9%. This period saw a consolidation of welfare system reforms initiated during González's first term, allowed through a better financing derived from a relatively progressive tax system.


1989 Spanish general election, Background
But the economic expansion fostered by the government's liberal policies brought about an increase in wealth differences and of inequality, leading to social unrest and a loss of popularity for the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), made apparent in the local, regional and European Parliament elections. In December 1988, the two major trade unions in Spain, CCOO and UGT, called a general strike which succeeded in paralyzing the country and in forcing González's government to negotiate a partial withdrawal of its economic policies.


1989 Spanish general election, Background
Concurrently, the opposition People's Alliance (AP) suffered from a profound internal crisis since the 1986 election, which had seen the break up of the People's Coalition and the resignation of party leader Manuel Fraga. His successor, Antonio Hernández Mancha, proved unable to improve AP's electoral fortunes and saw his political credibility decimated after an unsuccessful attempt to bring down Felipe González through a motion of no confidence in March 1987.


1989 Spanish general election, Background
Hernández Mancha ended up quitting in early 1989, with Fraga returning as a caretaker leader who oversaw the merging of AP with its former allies, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Liberal Party (PL), into the new People's Party (PP). Intending his national leadership as temporary, Fraga appointed a then-unknown President of Castile and León José María Aznar as his successor.


1989 Spanish general election, Background
The 1986–1989 period saw an increase in the terror activity of the ETA Basque separatist group. This reached its peak with the Hipercor bombing on 19 June 1987, which—with 21 dead and 45 injured—would eventually become the deadliest attack in ETA's history. Other deadly attacks included the Plaza República Dominicana bombing on 14 July 1986, three weeks after the previous general election and one day before the newly elected Cortes re-assembled, which left 12 dead and 32 injured; and the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing, with 11 dead—including 5 children—and 88 injured.


1989 Spanish general election, Background
Concurrently, the PSOE government introduced a policy of dispersion of imprisoned terrorists throughout the entire Spanish territory in order to restrict contacts between them and prevent terrorist organizations from organizing themselves from prison. Political parties signed several anti-terrorist agreements, such as the Ajuria Enea Pact or the Madrid Agreement on Terrorism, aimed at increasing inter-party cooperation on the issue. In January 1989, ETA declared a ceasefire in order to start negotiation talks in Algiers with the Socialist government, but no successful conclusion was reached and ETA resumed its violence campaign.


1989 Spanish general election, Background
The opposition had pressed for a snap election since the general strike in December 1988. It was not until the PSOE success in the 1989 European Parliament election, the end of the Spanish rotational Presidency of the Council of the European Union in June and the need for tough economic measures before the end of the year that Felipe González chose to call a snap general election for 29 October.


1989 Spanish general election, Parliamentary composition
The Cortes Generales were officially dissolved on 2 September 1989, after the publication of the dissolution decree in the Official State Gazette. The tables below show the composition of the parliamentary groups in both chambers at the time of dissolution.


1989 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, coalitions and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form a coalition ahead of an election were required to inform the relevant Electoral Commission within ten days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list of candidates.


1989 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
Below is a list of the main parties and electoral alliances which contested the election:


1989 Spanish general election, Parties and candidates
The People's Party (PP) and Navarrese People's Union (UPN) signed a coalition agreement on 8 September 1989 to run together in Navarre, renewing the alliance in existence between the PP's predecessors, the People's Alliance (AP) and the People's Coalition (CP), and UPN, in both the 1982 and 1986 elections.


1989 Spanish general election, Campaign period
Despite Aznar's designation as PP candidate, the opposition remained divided and weak on the road to the 1989 election. This, coupled with a buoyant economy, made a new PSOE victory inevitable. The electoral campaign, thus, focused on whether the Socialists would be able to maintain their absolute majority on the Congress of Deputies for a third term in office. United Left had also appointed a new leader, Julio Anguita, and had high expectations to increase their parliamentary representation from the 7 seats they had won in 1986. During the campaign, Felipe González pledged that this would be the last time he would stand for the office of Prime Minister. He would eventually stand for two more elections, until 1996.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Initial reactions
The 1989 election night was one of the most dramatic since González's first victory in 1982, as PSOE's overall majority in the Congress of Deputies—set at 176—lingered during the entire vote tally. Exit polls and initial counts showed the PSOE below the majority threshold—with as few as 170 seats in some projections—. As the vote tally progressed, the party was allocated more seats, and with 98% of the votes counted at 4 am it was awarded the decisive 176th seat.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Initial reactions
Earlier in the night, the party's Secretary for Organization Txiki Benegas, Deputy Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra and González himself had commented that, notwithstanding the final outcome, the PSOE still remained the largest party by far and would lead the new government on its own, rejecting any coalition deal.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Initial reactions
The tight result could not hide the loss of nearly 800,000 voters and a clear erosion in support since 1986, which led opposition parties and some international media—such as the Financial Times, The Independent or The Times—to ask González for a change of direction in government, accusing him of acting "arrogantly" during his previous seven years in office.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Initial reactions
PP candidate José María Aznar found his party's results as "satisfactory", slightly improving on Fraga's result in 1986. Additionally, the PP had won the election in Madrid for the first time ever, considered as a symbolical feat as both Aznar and González were personally leading their parties's lists in the constituency. IU experienced a remarkable growth by doubling its 1986 results, with its leaders highlighting "the electorate's displacement to the left".


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Initial reactions
On the other hand, the CDS lost votes and seats compared to 1986 and its result was commented as "not the one I expected for" by party leader Adolfo Suárez, who also acknowledged his public image had "deteriorated" in recent times. The breakdown of results would show a noticeable transfer of votes from the PSOE to IU in industrial and urban areas, with the Socialists holding their own in rural constituencies.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Irregularities and judicial intervention
During the days after the election, the 176th seat determining the PSOE's absolute majority remained in dispute. PP leaders voiced their concerns over a delay in the Ministry of the Interior's presentation of detailed results during the election night, during which the PSOE was awarded several seats by very few votes in the later stages of the vote tally; seats which ultimately proved decisive for the PSOE retaining its majority.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Irregularities and judicial intervention
In Barcelona, the PP claimed that its own tallies awarded the PSC–PSOE up to 5,000 votes less than those officially acknowledged by the Ministry, which would have resulted in them winning a 4th seat in the province from the PSC. Additionally, they alleged that this seat had changed hands from the PP to the PSC only when 99.98% of the votes were counted. IU's Julio Anguita criticized the vote tally, openly questioning that "How can [PSOE] go from 172 to 176 seats so fast?". IU announced that they would ask the Electoral Commission to review the voting records of 1,087 polling station wards in the constituency of Murcia, where the last seat had been allocated to PSOE from IU by a narrow margin of 96 votes.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Irregularities and judicial intervention
PP claims in Barcelona were cast off after the tally of Spaniards voting abroad gave an even larger margin for the PSC and secured their 14th seat in the constituency. On 5 November, the Electoral Commission found irregularities in Murcia after determining that the number of voters and of ballot papers did not match up in fifteen wards. The new provisional results published on 6 November, which did not include the wards where irregularities had been found, awarded the last seat to PSOE by just two votes.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Irregularities and judicial intervention
Some IU members openly accused the PSOE of fraud, claiming that Socialist intervenors had voted twice in some wards not just in Murcia, but also in Málaga, Madrid and La Rioja—where, however, election results had not been contested—. A new tally on 11 November in Murcia resulted in the Commission awarding the seat to IU, which prompted a PSOE appeal to the Superior Court of Justice of Murcia.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Irregularities and judicial intervention
Concurrently, both the PP and the CDS alleged to have found irregularities in several polling stations in Melilla and Pontevedra, where seats had been awarded to PSOE by just a handful of votes, and asked for the vote to be declared void in those constituencies. The chaotic situation was further aggravated when, on 22 November, the PP denounced that it had found cases of name duplicity in the electoral register of Ceuta, with the party also demanding for the election to be repeated in Murcia after denouncing irregular procedures by the Electoral Commission during the vote tally. The Spanish Attorney General, Javier Moscoso, entered the fray and stated on 24 November that the disputed Murcia's seat belonged to PSOE. On 1 December, the Superior Court of Murcia voided the election results in the constituency and required the government to call a by-election within three months.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Irregularities and judicial intervention
The judicial decision in Murcia raised speculation in other constituencies where results had been appealed that the local Superior Courts would issue similar rulings. This happened in Pontevedra, where the number of counted votes exceeded the number of voters. Finally, the Superior Court of Andalusia ruled that the election in Melilla was void, but dismissed the appeal on Ceuta where it declared the election validity. González's government announced that it would appeal the decision to the Constitutional Court which, on 25 January 1990, provisionally suspended the scheduled by-elections in Murcia, Pontevedra and Melilla.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Irregularities and judicial intervention
From 15 to 19 February, the Court overruled the Superior Courts of Justice of Murcia and Galicia and annulled the by-elections for Murcia and Pontevedra, declaring the 29 October results in these as valid and final. For Melilla, it determined that the magnitude of the irregularities found was such that a new, full election was required in the constituency. The election in Melilla on 25 March 1990 gave the constituency's single deputy and its two senators to the PP, thus reducing the PSOE's deputy count to 175. A by-election was also held on 7 October 1990 in a polling station in Mamblas, Ávila, as the consequence of a judicial conflict between the PP and the CDS over one senator in the constituency, which resulted in the PP winning the disputed senator from the CDS.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Irregularities and judicial intervention
Irregularities were found to be a consequence of flawed electoral registers, lack of knowledge on election rules by those appointed to integrate the polling bureaus, a lack of means for the active monitoring of the election process and an inefficient structure of the electoral administration, all of which was coupled with the detection of some illicit votes in several wards. While these flaws had been present in past elections, the closeness of results in the 1989 election and the fact that the PSOE overall majority relied on a single seat meant that these were abruptly exposed. As a result, the electoral law was subsequently amended in 1991 in order to improve the efficiency of the electoral administration.


1989 Spanish general election, Aftermath, Investiture
On 5 December 1989, Felipe González was re-elected as Prime Minister in the first round of voting with an absolute majority of votes. As a consequence of seat disputes, only 332 deputies had been sworn in for the investiture, as results for the remaining 18 seats had been temporarily suspended by the Superior Courts. After all 350 seats had been allocated, Prime Minister Felipe González voluntarily submitted himself to a vote of confidence to rectify the atypical investiture vote. The result was essentially a repeat of the December 1989 voting, with some parties previously voting 'No' choosing to abstain. González's parliamentary support remained the same as it was.


1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the fourth round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 28–30 April 1989 at the Jerez circuit.


1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Wayne Rainey on pole goes into the first turn ahead of Pierfrancesco Chili, Eddie Lawson, and Kevin Schwantz. Schwantz wastes little time in catching and passing Rainey. As Schwantz pulls ahead, Rainey battles Lawson for the first time in the season, Lawson seeming to come to terms with the Honda. Rainey can only watch as Lawson passes and claws away at a gap.


1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Meanwhile, Chili tries passing Ron Haslam on the hairpin leading into the straight by braking late on the inside. Chili clumsily bumps Haslam, who’s in no mood to be shoved and decides to shove back, taking them both off-track, though Haslam’s detour end up being much longer than Chili’s.


1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Up ahead, Schwantz is enjoying a large lead with 5 laps to go when he throws it away, clutching his head in disbelief as he walks through the gravel. Lawson is handed the win, followed by Rainey and Mackenzie.


1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
"At Jerez there was four laps to go and I was almost six seconds in front of Eddie. I had watched the race the previous year after the bike broke and I remembered watching him haul in Rainey and keep Rainey from winning his first Grand Prix. I was thinking to myself, come on you've just got to keep above those five seconds. Get it down to less than five laps with more than five seconds and there's no way he can catch you.' ""I had got there and done that.


1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
I went over the line and around the back of the big Kodak box that is a scoreboard with all the times on it. As I went past the back it changed to show four laps to go and more than five seconds, I thought, 'yeah I've got it,' and immediately fell off. It was just a loss of concentration, I thought I had it in the bag. I went into the corner, didn't have it down on my knee where I needed to be. The front end pushed and before I could even think, 'Oh shit', I was sitting on the haybales."


1989 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
The gap between Lawson and Rainey is now 10 points.


1989 Special Honours (New Zealand)
The 1989 Special Honours in New Zealand was a Special Honours List, dated 6 February 1989, in which two appointments were made to the Order of New Zealand and one judge received a knighthood.


1989 Speedway Champions Cup
The Speedway Champions Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway competition that took place between 1986 and 1993, featuring the national champions of the sixteen participating nations. It was discontinued with the introduction of the Speedway Grand Prix in 1995.


1989 Speedway Champions Cup
The 1989 championship was held at Natschbach-Loipersbach and the winner was Jan O. Pedersen from	Denmark.


1989 Speedway Champions Cup, Results
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance •  t - exclusion for touching the tapes •  x - other exclusion •  e - retired or mechanical failure •  f - fell •  ns - non-starter •  nc - non-classify


1989 Speedway World Pairs Championship
The 1989 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the twentieth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Leszno, Poland. The championship was won by Denmark (48 points) who beat Sweden (44 points) and England (37 points).


1989 Speedway World Team Cup
The 1989 Speedway World Team Cup was the 30th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.


1989 Speedway World Team Cup
The final was staged at Odsal Stadium, Bradford, England. The English team dominated the meeting, following near tragedy for Denmark. Jeremy Doncaster, Kelvin Tatum, Paul Thorp and Simon Wigg defeated Denmark, Sweden and the USA in a single meeting final. The Danish run of sixth consecutive titles finally came to an end and England once more went top of the all time list, with nine titles.


1989 Speedway World Team Cup
The World Cup Final saw the end of the career of three time World Champion Erik Gundersen of Denmark. In the first race of the meeting, Gundersen won the start from gate 4 and headed the field into the first turn. His engine suddenly seized causing his bike to lock up he was knocked off by the rider behind. As he lay on the race track he was hit in the head by another rider's rear wheel.


1989 Speedway World Team Cup
After the accident he was not expected to live and he remained in coma for a period of time but he eventually regained consciousness. Gundersen had to learn to walk again and raised a large amount of money for the Bradford Royal Infirmary which saved his life and he later became manager of the Danish Speedway Team. None of the riders involved in the accident - Gundersen, Simon Cross (Eng), Jimmy Nilsen (SWE) and Lance King (USA), took any further part in the final and Denmark were clearly affected by the accident.


1989 Sri Lankan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 15 February 1989, the first since 1977. The elections that should normally have been held by 1983 had been cancelled by the 1982 referendum.


1989 St. Louis Cardinals season
The St. Louis Cardinals 1989 season was the team's 108th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 98th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 86-76 during the season and finished 3rd in the National League East division.


1989 St. Louis Cardinals season
Shortstop Ozzie Smith and third baseman Terry Pendleton won Gold Gloves this year.


1989 St. Louis Cardinals season
On September 29, team owner August A. Busch, Jr. died at the age of 90.


1989 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season
The over-achieving 1989 Cardinal team almost made the playoffs. Pedro Guerrero finished third in the National League MVP voting while leading the league with 42 doubles and finishing second in RBIs (117). Joe Magrane won 18 games while José DeLeón won 16 games. Milt Thompson played in 155 games and hit .290, mostly substituting for the injured Willie McGee. Vince Coleman lead the league in stolen bases for the fifth straight year. However, it would be the arch-rival Cubs who would claim the division and move on to the playoffs. This team featured three former college football punters -- Vince Coleman, Cris Carpenter, and Matt Kinzer who played one game for the Detroit Lions.


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


1989 St. Louis mayoral election
The 1989 St. Louis mayoral election was held on April 4, 1989 to elect the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri. It saw the re-election of Vincent C. Schoemehl to a third term.


1989 St. Louis mayoral election
The election was preceded by party primaries on March 7.


1989 Stanford Cardinal football team
The 1989 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. They were coached by first-year coach Dennis Green, previously an assistant coach with the San Francisco 49ers and hired to replace Jack Elway, who was fired the previous year.


1989 Stanford Cardinal football team, Season summary, Notre Dame
Steve Smith set the Pac-10 single game record for pass attempts.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1989 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1988–89 season, and the culmination of the 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Calgary Flames and the Montreal Canadiens, the top two teams during the regular season. This was the second time in the decade after 1986 that the Canadiens and Flames met in the Finals. The 1989 series remains the last time that two Canadian teams faced each other for the Stanley Cup.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals
The Flames defeated the Canadiens in six games to win their first and only Stanley Cup. The winning goal in game six was scored by Doug Gilmour. They became the first team to win a Stanley Cup after relocating, as they had begun life as the Atlanta Flames in 1972. Since then, four more teams have accomplished this feat: the New Jersey Devils (formerly the Kansas City Scouts and Colorado Rockies), the Colorado Avalanche (formerly the Quebec Nordiques), the Dallas Stars (formerly the Minnesota North Stars), and the Carolina Hurricanes (formerly the New England/Hartford Whalers).


1989 Stanley Cup Finals
The Flames would later reach the Finals again in 2004, losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning; they had gone that entire span without a single playoff series victory. This was also the second-to-last of eight consecutive Finals where either the Flames or their provincial rival Edmonton Oilers represented Alberta in the Stanley Cup Finals. Both Calgary and Montreal were the only two teams to win the Stanley Cup in the 1980s other than the New York Islanders and the Edmonton Oilers.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals
This was the Canadiens' first defeat in a Cup Finals since 1967. Montreal would later win the Finals again in 1993, their most recent Finals victory. The defeat was Patrick Roy's only Cup Finals where he was not on the winning side; he went on to win the 1993 Cup with the Canadiens and the 1996 and 2001 Cups with the Avalanche.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1989 Finals featured two coaches making their first appearances, as Calgary's Terry Crisp faced Montreal's Pat Burns. For Crisp it was his only appearance, while Burns returned one more time in 2003 where he led the Devils to their third Cup. In the interim between their two matches both teams had replaced their coaches; Crisp was hired to replace Badger Bob Johnson after his departure following the 1987 season while Burns took over for 1986 Cup winning coach Jean Perron after his 1988 firing. For Crisp, this was his third Stanley Cup championship in his career. He had already won two as a player with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1974 and 1975. Following the series, Bob Gainey, Rick Green, and Lanny McDonald retired, while long time defenceman Larry Robinson would sign with the Los Angeles Kings, where he played the final three years of his career.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
Calgary defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4–3, the Los Angeles Kings 4–0 and the Chicago Blackhawks 4–1 to advance to the Final.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
Montreal defeated the Hartford Whalers 4–0, the Boston Bruins 4–1 and the Philadelphia Flyers 4–2.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
Co-captain Lanny McDonald scored the second Flames goal in game six. This turned out to be the last goal in his Hockey Hall of Fame career because he retired during the following off-season. It was also his only Stanley Cup victory. Doug Gilmour scored two goals in the third period, including the eventual game and Cup winner to cement the victory for the Flames. Al MacInnis won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, and at 31 points, became the first defenceman to lead the NHL in post-season scoring. The Calgary Flames are the only visiting team to have won the Stanley Cup at the Montreal Forum, via defeating the Canadiens.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals, Broadcasting
This was the first Cup Finals since 1984 that the CBC had the sole English-language rights to the entire series in Canada instead of having to share it with another network. This was also the first season that SportsChannel America held the national U.S rights.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals, Team rosters
Years indicated in boldface under the "Finals appearance" column signify that the player won the Stanley Cup in the given year.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1989 Stanley Cup was presented to Flames co-captains Lanny McDonald, Tim Hunter, and Jim Peplinski by NHL President John Ziegler following the Flames 4–2 win over the Canadiens in game six.


1989 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Flames players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1989 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup Finals Patch
The 1989 Stanley Cup Final was the first to feature a special commemorative patch on both teams' sweaters, in honor of the championship series. Placed on each player's left shoulder, the patch employed the same design that would be used from 1989–1994 before being tweaked for the 1995 Final. A commemorative patch has been issued in every Stanley Cup Final since, though subsequent patches were sewn onto the sweaters'` upper right breast area (with the only exceptions being the 1994 and 2014 New York Rangers, whose diagonal wordmark necessitated the patch's placement on the top of each sweater's left shoulder).


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs
The 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, the playoff tournament of the National Hockey League (NHL) began on April 5, after the conclusion of the 1988–89 NHL season. This was the final year that all of the Division Semifinals began with teams playing the first four games in a span of five days. The playoffs concluded on May 25 with the champion Calgary Flames defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4–2 to win the Stanley Cup Finals four games to two.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs
It remains the last time that the Cup Finals was contested between two Canadian hockey teams. Montreal finished the regular season with 115 points, only two behind the league leader Calgary. They had last faced each other in 1986, with Montreal winning in five games. Calgary was only the second opposing team in NHL history to win a Stanley Cup at the Montreal Forum (the New York Rangers defeated the Montreal Maroons in 1928) and the first and only to do so against the Canadiens.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs
Flames defenceman Al MacInnis won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, while Lanny McDonald, who ended the regular season with exactly 500 goals, got his name on the Cup in his last NHL game. Flames co-owner Sonia Scurfield became the first Canadian woman to have her name inscribed on the Stanley Cup.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs
Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings met the defending champion Oilers in the first round. Gretzky and the Kings defeated the defending Stanley Cup champions after falling behind 3–1. In the second round the Kings were swept by the eventual champion Calgary Flames in four games.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs
Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Ron Hextall became the first goaltender to shoot and score a goal in the playoffs, a shorthanded, empty-net score in Game 5 of the Patrick Division Semifinal against the Washington Capitals. One round later Mario Lemieux equaled four NHL-records (most goals in a game, most goals in a period, most points in a game and most points in a period) by scoring five goals and eight points in a 10–7 Pittsburgh win in game five of the Patrick Division Finals. Hextall then made headlines in the Wales Conference Finals, attacking Montreal's Chris Chelios in the late stages of Game 6 as retribution for Chelios' unpenalized hit on Flyers forward Brian Propp in game one. Hextall received a 12-game suspension at the start of the 1989–90 season for his actions.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs
Former Flyers head coach Mike Keenan led Chicago to the Campbell Conference finals in his first year behind the bench. The Blackhawks had 66 points, the fewest points of any playoff team this season yet they upset first place Detroit and then St. Louis before losing to Calgary.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A1) Montreal Canadiens vs. (A4) Hartford Whalers
This was the fourth playoff series meeting between these two teams, and were meeting for the second straight year. Montreal won all three previous meetings, including last year's Adams Division Semifinals in six games.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A2) Boston Bruins vs. (A3) Buffalo Sabres
This was the fourth playoff series meeting between these two teams, and were meeting for the second straight year. Boston won all three previous meetings, including last year's Adams Division Semifinals in six games.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P1) Washington Capitals vs. (P4) Philadelphia Flyers
This was the second straight and third overall playoff series between these two teams. Washington won both prior meetings, including last year's Patrick Division Semifinals in seven games.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P2) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (P3) New York Rangers
This was the first playoff series between these two teams.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (N1) Detroit Red Wings vs. (N4) Chicago Blackhawks
This was the 12th playoff series between these two teams. Chicago lead the all-time meetings 6–5. Detroit won their most recent meeting in a four-game sweep in the 1987 Norris Division Semifinals.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (N2) St. Louis Blues vs. (N3) Minnesota North Stars
This was the eighth playoff series meeting between these two teams. St. Louis won four of the prior seven meetings. The most recent meeting was won by St. Louis 3–2 in the 1986 Norris Division Semifinals.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S1) Calgary Flames vs. (S4) Vancouver Canucks
This was the fourth playoff series meeting between these two teams. Calgary won two of the previous three meetings, including their most recent meeting 3–1 in the 1984 Smythe Division Semifinals.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S1) Calgary Flames vs. (S4) Vancouver Canucks
Calgary defeated Vancouver in seven games. This was the first of three consecutive series between these two teams that ended in overtime of game seven (with the winner of all three series making it to the Stanley Cup Finals). The seventh game went into overtime with both teams having great chances to win the game. The best of these chances was a breakaway for Canucks' captain Stan Smyl who was stopped by Calgary goaltender Mike Vernon. Joel Otto scored the series winner at 19:21 of the first overtime after Jim Peplinski banked it in off Otto's skate to send the Flames into the Smythe Division Final.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Semifinals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S2) Los Angeles Kings vs. (S3) Edmonton Oilers
This was the fourth playoff series meeting between the Oilers and Kings, and the first since Wayne Gretzky was traded to the Kings. Edmonton won two of the past three playoff series, including the most recent in the 1987 Smythe Division Semifinals in five games.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Prince of Wales Conference, (A1) Montreal Canadiens vs. (A2) Boston Bruins
This was the 24th playoff series between these two teams. Montreal lead 20–3 in all-time playoff meetings. Boston won last year's Adams Division Finals in five games.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P2) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (P4) Philadelphia Flyers
This was the first playoff series between these two teams.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Prince of Wales Conference, (P2) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (P4) Philadelphia Flyers
In Game 5, Mario Lemieux, listed as questionable before the game due to his neck, tied four NHL playoff records for goals in one period (4), goals in a game (5), points in a game (8) and points in a period (4).


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (N2) St. Louis Blues vs. (N4) Chicago Blackhawks
This was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, and were meeting for the second straight year. Chicago has won four of the previous five meetings. St. Louis won last year's Norris Division Semifinals in five games.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Division Finals, Clarence Campbell Conference, (S1) Calgary Flames vs. (S2) Los Angeles Kings
This was the second consecutive and fourth overall playoff meeting between these two teams; with Los Angeles winning two of the three previous series. They met in last year's Smythe Division Semifinals, which Calgary won in five games.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Prince of Wales Conference Final, (A1) Montreal Canadiens vs. (P4) Philadelphia Flyers
This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams. Montreal won two of the previous three playoff series. Philadelphia won the most recent meeting in six games in the 1987 Prince of Wales Conference Final.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Conference Finals, Clarence Campbell Conference Final, (S1) Calgary Flames vs. (N4) Chicago Blackhawks
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams. Calgary won the only previous meeting in a three-game sweep in the 1981 Preliminary Round.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals
This was the second playoff series between these two teams, with the only previous meeting being the 1986 Stanley Cup Finals where Montreal defeated Calgary in five games. This was the Flames second appearance in the Finals, while Montreal was making their thirty-third appearance in the Finals. Calgary was trying to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history, while Montreal last won the Stanley Cup in 1986.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals
The Stanley Cup Finals was decided between the two teams with the best records of the 1988–89 NHL regular season. Co -captain Lanny McDonald scored the second Flames goal in game six. This turned out to be the last goal in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, as he retired during the following off-season. Doug Gilmour scored two goals in the third period, including the eventual game and Cup winner to cement their first title for the Flames.


1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, Player statistics, Goaltenders
This is a combined table of the top five goaltenders based on goals against average and the top five goaltenders based on save percentage, with at least 420 minutes played. The table is sorted by GAA, and the criteria for inclusion are bolded.


1989 Star World Championships
The 1989 Star World Championships were held in Porto Cervo, Italy in 1989.


1989 Star World Championships, Results
Legend: DNC – Did not come to the starting area; DNF – Did not finish; DNS – Did not start; DSQ – Disqualified; PMS – Premature start; YMP – Yacht materially prejudiced;


1989 State of Origin series
The 1989 State of Origin series was the eighth time the annual three-game series between New South Wales and Queensland was contested entirely under 'state of origin' selection rules. It was Queensland's second consecutive Origin clean-sweep and an unpleasant inauguration for New South Wales' new coach Jack Gibson who, along with a new captain in Gavin Miller and eight new players, was brought into a dramatically overhauled Blues side that had lost its five last State of Origin matches.


1989 State of Origin series, Game I
Jack Gibson had never before coached at representative level and turned from Origin commentator to coach. He was pitted against his good friend and golfing buddy Arthur Beetson who had been recalled as Queensland coach to take over from Wayne Bennett. With experienced Blues Peter Sterling, Brett Kenny and Wayne Pearce all retired from representative football, New South Wales were forced to elevate some debutantes and only four players in game I of 1989 were in the squad from game III of 1988 - Garry Jack, John Ferguson, Des Hasler and Andrew Ettingshausen.


1989 State of Origin series, Game I
Queensland's Michael Hancock became the youngest State of Origin footballer from either state that night. Hancock was one of four Maroons making their Origin debut in Game 1, the others being Kerrod Walters, Dan Stains and reserve forward Gary Coyne.


1989 State of Origin series, Game I
Gavin Miller had not represented for New South Wales since 1983 but was selected and posted as skipper. Canberra teenagers Laurie Daley and Bradley Clyde made their debut at the intimidating Lang Park "Cauldron", with Daley also handed the goal kicking duties despite the experienced Terry Lamb in the team at Five-eighth. Daley showed his nerves when missed his first shot on goal, a penalty from only 15 metres out from the posts and directly in front when Qld were leading 6-0.


1989 State of Origin series, Game I
Also making their debut for NSW were Chris Johns, Mario Fenech, 1986 Kangaroo Tourist and World Cup Final second rower Paul Sironen, and reserve forward Glenn Lazarus. Winger Johns, normally a centre with the Brisbane Broncos, made history by becoming the first player chosen to represent NSW Origin while playing for a Queensland-based club.


1989 State of Origin series, Game I
The game seemed to start well for the Blues as Maroons winger Alan McIndoe knocked on fielding the kick off. From the scrum win NSW applied the pressure and forced a line drop out, but Qld quickly gained the upper hand. Wally Lewis put up a towering goal line drop out that landed some 8 metres on the Blues side of halfway and was let bounce by NSW fullback Garry Jack instead of catching the ball and putting the Blues back on the attack.


1989 State of Origin series, Game I
Jack fielded the bouncing ball just inside his own quarter line allowing the Qld defence to trap NSW in their own half. From there things just went from bad to worse for NSW as Queensland seemed to make line breaks and score tries at will. Michael Hancock scored two tries in his Origin debut, while Mal Meninga signalled his return to representative football with two tries and four goals of his own. Also scoring for the Maroons were Langer, McIndoe and Bobby Lindner. However, on the night there was none better than Martin Bella who's powerhouse performance in the front row gave the likes of Wally Lewis and Allan Langer the room they needed and earned him the Man of the Match award.


1989 State of Origin series, Game I
The many Blues new faces were overwhelmed and suffered what was New South Wales' biggest losing margin: 30 points. Only a late try to reserve back Andrew Ettingshausen who grounded a kick from his Cronulla club mate Gavin Miller, prevented NSW from losing the game 36-0.


1989 State of Origin series, Game II
Queensland wrapped up the 1989 series in game II in probably their most courageous effort in Origin history. They lost Allan Langer with a broken leg, Mal Meninga with a fractured eye socket and Paul Vautin with an elbow injury by half-time. In the second half, Michael Hancock came off with a bruised shoulder while Bob Lindner played on with a fracture in his ankle which he carried for much of the match before retiring five minutes from the end, leaving the Maroons down to 12 men.


1989 State of Origin series, Game II
Lindner, who stayed on the field despite his injury as there were no reserves left, claimed it was the toughest match in which he had played and Wally Lewis, who scored a memorable 40-metre try, rated it as Queensland's greatest performance. Maroon's coach Beetson was irate at the Blues' intimidating tactics, claiming New South Wales hard man Peter Kelly was allowed by referee Manson to get away with illegal tackling.


1989 State of Origin series, Game II
The day before the game, some NSW players entered Jack Gibson's hotel room to talk to him and were reportedly shocked to find their coach entertaining the enemy. In the room, long-time friends Gibson and Maroons coach Arthur Beetson were enjoying a drink and playing cards.


1989 State of Origin series, Game II
Despite the 36-6 thrashing in Game 1, the NSW public got behind their team which resulted in a capacity crowd of 40,000 attending Game 2 at the Sydney Football Stadium. To date this was the second largest Sydney crowd in Origin history after the 42,048 that had attended Game 2 of the 1987 series at the Sydney Cricket Ground.


1989 State of Origin series, Game III
The first points came after Queensland hooker Kerrod Walters made a break from dummy half within his own half and passed on to his winger Alan McIndoe to run forty metres to score. Australian test winger Dale Shearer, who had moved from the bench to starting in the centres replacing the injured Mal Meninga and also took over the goal kicking duties despite the 1988 NSWRL season's top point scorer Gary Belcher playing at fullback, missed the sideline conversion attempt so the score remained 4 nil in favour of the Maroons.


1989 State of Origin series, Game III
After collecting the ball from a scrum win within ten metres of Queensland's line, Blues halfback Greg Alexander dashed forth before passing it to his halves partner Des Hasler who dived over next to the uprights to equalize. Michael O'Connor made no mistake with the conversion and New South Wales were in front 6 - 4. The Maroons hit back when they got the ball after a Blues mistake and from over forty metres out, Michael Hagan kicked downfield for Shearer to beat the defence to and score in the left corner.


1989 State of Origin series, Game III
Shearer missed this conversion as well so Queensland led 8 - 6. New South Wales responded with another try after lock forward Brad Mackay made a break about twenty metres out from Queensland's line before offloading in a tackle to Eastern Suburbs hooker David Trewhella coming through in support to score behind the posts. O'Connor's successful conversion put the score at 12 - 8 in favour of the Blues. New South Wales then crossed twice but were called back both times so the score remained unchanged for the half-time break.


1989 State of Origin series, Game III
Queensland opened the scoring in the second half when Kerrod Walters again made a break from dummy half, running about forty metres before getting the ball out to support players, who passed on to a flying Michael Hancock to dive over in the left corner. Shearer's third conversion attempt was successful so Queensland had regained the lead at 14 - 12. Garry Jack fumbled as he stooped to pick up a Wally Lewis grubber and Walters dived on the loose ball to score the Maroons' next try. Shearer kicked the extras, giving Queensland a 20 - 12 lead.


1989 State of Origin series, Game III
The Maroons' next try came after playing the ball over twenty metres out and keeping it alive, three players passing from tackles until it went to Gary Belcher who broke for the try-line and scored near the uprights. Shearer's kick was successful so Queensland led 26 - 12. The points kept coming for Queensland who started another movement from within their own half, putting the ball through the hands to players coming through in support until it made its way out to Tony Currie to dive over in the left corner. They didn't stop there though, with Shearer at dummy-half and in an attacking position passing the ball to Lewis before running around him to re-collect it and race through almost untouched to score again. Shearer then converted his own try and the score was 36 - 12.


1989 Stella Artois Championships
The 1989 Stella Artois Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London, United Kingdom that was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. It was the 87th edition of the tournament and ran from 12 June until 19 June 1989. First-seeded Ivan Lendl won the singles title.


1989 Stella Artois Championships, Finals, Doubles
Darren Cahill /  Mark Kratzmann defeated  Tim Pawsat /  Laurie Warder 7–6, 6–3


1989 Stella Artois Championships – Doubles
Ken Flach and Robert Seguso were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Tim Pawsat and Laurie Warder.


1989 Stella Artois Championships – Doubles
Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzmann won in the final 7–6, 6–3 against Pawsat and Warder.


1989 Stella Artois Championships – Singles
Boris Becker was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1989 Stella Artois Championships – Singles
Ivan Lendl won in the final 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 against Christo van Rensburg.


1989 Stella Artois Indoor
The 1989 Stella Artois Indoor was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palatrussardi in Milan, Italy that was part of the Super Series of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix. The tournament was held from 13 February through 19 February 1989. Boris Becker won the singles title.


1989 Stella Artois Indoor, Finals, Doubles
Jakob Hlasek /  John McEnroe defeated  Heinz Günthardt /  Balázs Taróczy 6–3, 6–4


1989 Stella Artois Indoor – Doubles
The 1989 Stella Artois professional tennis tournament was part of the ATP World Tour and was held in Milan, Italy. Boris Becker and Eric Jelen were the defending champions but only Jelen competed in 1989 with Wally Masur. Jelen and Masur lost in the first round to Paolo Canè and Michael Mortensen.


1989 Stella Artois Indoor – Doubles
Jakob Hlasek and John McEnroe won in the final 6–3, 6–4 against Heinz Günthardt and Balázs Taróczy.


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


1989 Stella Artois Indoor – Singles
Yannick Noah was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Slobodan Živojinović.


1989 Stella Artois Indoor – Singles
Boris Becker won in the final 6–1, 6–2 against Alexander Volkov.


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


1989 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
The 12th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards were released by the Hastings Bad Cinema Society in 1990 to honour the worst films the film industry had to offer in 1989. As follows, there was only a Worst Picture category with provided commentary for each nominee, as well as a list of films that were also considered for the final list but ultimately failed to make the cut (26 films total).


1989 Stockholm Open
The 1989 Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Stockholm Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden that was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 21st edition of the tournament and was held from 6 November until 12 November 1989. First-seeded Ivan Lendl won the singles title.


1989 Stockholm Open, Finals, Doubles
Jorge Lozano /  Todd Witsken defeated  Rick Leach /  Jim Pugh 6–3, 5–7, 6–3


1989 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Kevin Curren and Jim Grabb were the defending champions but only Grabb competed that year with Patrick McEnroe.


1989 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Grabb and McEnroe lost in the semifinals to Jorge Lozano and Todd Witsken.


1989 Stockholm Open – Doubles
Lozano and Witsken won in the final 6–3, 5–7, 6–3 against Rick Leach and Jim Pugh.


1989 Stockholm Open – Doubles, Seeds
All eight seeded teams received byes to the second round.


1989 Stockholm Open – Singles
Boris Becker was the defending champion but lost in the third round to Jan Gunnarsson.


1989 Stockholm Open – Singles
Ivan Lendl won in the final 7–5, 6–0, 6–3 against Magnus Gustafsson.


1989 Stockholm Open – Singles, Seeds
All sixteen seeds received a bye to the second round.


1989 Strabane District Council election
Elections to Strabane 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 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Derg
1985: 2 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist1989: 1 x DUP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Unionist1985-1989 Change: SDLP and Independent Unionist gain from DUP and Independent Nationalist


1989 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Glenelly
1985: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin1989: 2 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance1985-1989 Change: Alliance gain from Sinn Féin


1989 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Mourne
1985: 2 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist1989: 2 x Independent Nationalist, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Sinn Féin, 1 x UUP1985-1989 Change: Independent Nationalist leaves SDLP


1989 Sudanese coup d'état
The 1989 Sudanese coup d'état was a military coup that occurred in Sudan on 30 June 1989 against the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and President Ahmed al-Mirghani. The coup was led by military officer Omar al-Bashir who took power in its aftermath and would go on to rule the country for the next 30 years until he was overthrown in 2019.


1989 Sudanese coup d'état, History, Background
In 1983, a civil war broke out between Sudan's central government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army, and it was fought at great cost to the country's civilian population. In 1989 the number of civilian casualties that resulted from famine alone was estimated to be as high as 250,000. By February 1989, a group of Sudanese Army officers presented an ultimatum to the incumbent Prime Minister, Sadiq al-Mahdi, in which they asked him to either end the war or give the military the means to end it, with Mahdi choosing the former.


1989 Sudanese coup d'état, History, Background
Mahdi's inability to put an end to the conflict in the months that followed, along with a crippled Sudanese economy, led to growing tension between him and the army officials. His decision on 18 June to arrest a group of 14 military officials and 50 civilians, all of whom were accused of being engaged in a plan to overthrow the government and restore former President Gaafar Nimeiry to power, may have further motivated the coup, though Nimeiry himself denied having any involvement in the plot.


1989 Sudanese coup d'état, History, Coup
On 30 June 1989, military officers under the command of then Brigadier Omar Hassan al-Bashir, with instigation and support from the National Islamic Front (NIF), replaced the Sadiq al-Mahdi government with the Revolutionary Command Council for National Salvation (RCC), claiming to be saving the country from the "rotten political parties." That same day, Al-Bashir was declared head of state, Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. The new military junta would consist of 15 military officers (reduced to 12 in 1991) and it was assisted by a civilian cabinet.


1989 Sudanese coup d'état, History, Aftermath
The coup put an end to the newly facilitated democratic system of government in Sudan, which was established in 1985, and replaced it with a totalitarian regime led by Omar al-Bashir, which was responsible for a series of war crimes and human rights violations.


1989 Sudanese coup d'état, History, Aftermath
The support which the new Sudanese government received from the NIF, which would eventually lead it to receive support from Iran, enabled it to make large-scale arms purchases from China and the former Soviet republics, which it used to step up the still on-going civil war in the south in an effort to end it with a military victory. Under the heavy influence of the NIF, the government also banned political parties, trade unions, and other "nonreligious institutions", imposed tight controls on the press as well as strict dress and behavior codes on women. More than 78,000 people were purged from the army, police and civil administration, resulting in a thorough reshaping of the state apparatus.


1989 Sudanese coup d'état, History, Aftermath
Al-Bashir has been held responsible for the Darfur Genocide by the International Criminal Court, which has sought his extradition since 2008 on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.


1989 Sudanese coup d'état, History, Aftermath
Al-Bashir's regime was removed from power in another military coup on 11 April 2019.


1989 Sudirman Cup
The 1989 Sudirman Cup was the first tournament of the World Mixed Team Badminton Championships, the Sudirman Cup. It was held from May 24 to May 29, 1989, in Central Jakarta, Indonesia.


1989 Sudirman Cup, Teams
28 teams around the world took part in this tournament. Geographically, they were 13 from Europe, 10 teams from Asia, two from Americas, two from Oceania and one from Africa. India and Pakistan entered the competition but ultimately did not participate.


1989 Sugar Bowl
The 1989 Sugar Bowl was the 55th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Monday, January 2. Part of the 1988–89 bowl game season, it featured the fourth-ranked independent Florida State Seminoles and the #7 Auburn Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Favored Florida State won the defensive slugfest, 13–7.


1989 Sugar Bowl
Sponsored by the USF&G insurance company, the game was officially known as the USF&G Sugar Bowl. New Year's Day was on Sunday in 1989, and the college bowl games were played the following day.


1989 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Florida State
The Seminoles opened the season ranked first, but were shut out 31–0 at Miami in the opener and fell to tenth in the AP poll. They won the remainder of their games.


1989 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Auburn
The Tigers' only loss was by a point at LSU on October 8, and they fell from fourth to twelfth in the AP poll.


1989 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
The game kicked off shortly after 7:30 p.m. CST, following the Rose Bowl on ABC, and shortly after the start of the Orange Bowl on NBC. Played on Monday night, the broadcast team in the booth was from ABC's Monday Night Football.


1989 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Florida State played well on its first offensive possession, and running back Dayne Williams capped an 84-yard drive with a two-yard touchdown run. That would mark the only touchdown Florida State would score in the game. Auburn quarterback Reggie Slack's first pass of the game was intercepted by strong safety Stan Shiver at the Auburn 44-yard line. Florida State's four-play drive ended with a 25-yard Bill Mason field goal to put the score at 10–0 Florida State.


1989 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
At the end of the first quarter, Florida State defensive back Dedrick Dodge intercepted a Reggie Slack pass at the Auburn 38-yard line and the succeeding drive Mason's second field goal of the game, a 31-yarder, more than three minutes into the second quarter, which was FSU's last score of the game. With 4:09 left in the first half, Reggie Slack threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Walter Reeves, on a playaction pass,  making it Florida State 13–7, and neither team scored again.


1989 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
The game was filled with several mistakes from Florida State. Running back Sammie Smith score on a 69-yard touchdown run was wiped out by a holding penalty. Despite the penalty, he would still finish the game with a game high 115 yards rushing. Florida State had first and goal at the Auburn 4-yard line, but came up empty after a fake field goal missed. These errors nearly cost Florida State the game.


1989 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
With 3:30 left in the game, Auburn drove from its own 4-yard line to Florida State's 22-yard line. With five seconds left Reggie Slack's pass was intercepted in the end zone by Deion Sanders, sealing Florida State's win.


1989 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath
Florida State climbed to third in the final AP poll and Auburn remained at seventh.


1989 Sukhumi riots
The Sukhumi riot was a riot in Sukhumi, Abkhaz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, in July 1989, triggered by an increasing inter-ethnic tensions between the Abkhaz and Georgian communities and followed by several days of street fighting and civil unrest in Sukhumi and throughout Abkhazia.


1989 Sukhumi riots
The riots started as an Abkhaz protest against opening of a  branch of Tbilisi State University in Sukhumi, and concluded with looting of the Georgian school which was expected to house the new university on 16 July 1989. The ensuing violence quickly degenerated into a large-scale inter-ethnic confrontation. By the time when the Soviet army managed to temporarily bring the situation under control, the riots resulted in at least 18 dead and 448 injured, mostly Georgians. The first case of inter-ethnic violence in Georgia, it effectively marked the start of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Background
From 1921 until 1931 Abkhazia was a quasi-independent Soviet republic, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia (SSR Abkhazia), united with the Georgian SSR in a special treaty status but not fully subservient. This arrangement ended when the SSR Abkhazia was downgraded into the Abkhaz ASSR and fully under the control of the Georgian SSR, a move not popular amongst the Abkhaz. Protests were held opposing this move, and repeated again in 1957, 1967, and in 1978. Only in 1978 were there any concessions from either the Georgian or Soviet government, including the upgrading of the Sukhum Pedagogical Institute into a full university, Abkhaz State University.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Background
It was with the onset of perestroika within the Soviet Union that gave renewed hope to the Abkhaz in their desire to leave the Georgian SSR. On 17 June 1988, an 87-page document, known as the 'Abkhazian Letter', was sent to Mikhail Gorbachev and the rest of the Soviet leadership. Signed by 60 leading Abkhazians, it outlined the grievances the Abkhaz felt, and argued that despite the  concessions of 1978, autonomy had largely been ignored in the region.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Background
It concluded by asking for Abkhazia to be removed from the Georgian SSR, and it to be restored as a full Soviet republic, akin to the SSR Abkhazia. Though the letter failed to gain the attention of the Soviet authorities, it raised concern amongst the Georgian leadership, who implemented a policy calling for increased instruction of the Georgian language in schools; this faced opposition in Abkhazia, where most ethnic Abkhaz did not speak Georgian but instead used up to three other languages (Abkhaz, Mingrelian, and Russian).


1989 Sukhumi riots, Background
Further issues occurred on 18 March 1989. Around 37,000 people met at the village of Lykhny, a traditional meeting spot for the Abkhaz, and signed what became known as the Lykhny Declaration. It once again called for Abkhazia to become a separate republic like it was between 1921 and 1931. The Declaration, which unlike the prior 'Abkhazian Letter' was made public immediately saw mass opposition demonstrations from the Georgian community in Abkhazia.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Background
The protests climaxed in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and evolved into a major anti-Soviet and pro-independence rally on 9 April 1989, which was violently dispersed by Soviet Interior Ministry troops, resulting in the deaths of at least nineteen, mostly young women, and the injury of hundreds of demonstrators. At a plenum of the Georgian central committee the following day the Communist party first secretary, Jumber Patiashvili, resigned and was replaced by the former head of the Georgian KGB, Givi Gumbaridze. The 9 April tragedy removed the last vestiges of credibility from the Soviet regime in Georgia and pushed many Georgians into radical opposition to the Soviet Union, and exacerbated ethnic tensions between Georgians and other groups, in particular the Abkhaz and Ossetians.


1989 Sukhumi riots, The university controversy
The issue of a university had always been very sensitive in Abkhazia. Sukhumi State University was established in 1978 as a part of the concessions towards the Abkhaz secessionist demands, which in its turn was triggered by the Georgian national mobilization in defense of their language and culture. The university had three sectors: Abkhaz, Georgian, and Russian. However, Georgian students repeatedly complained of discrimination at the hands of their Abkhaz and Russian lectors and administration.


1989 Sukhumi riots, The university controversy
In the aftermath of the 9 April events, Georgian students at Sukhumi State University started a hunger strike, calling for the Georgian sector of the university to be transformed into a branch of Tbilisi State University, and in effect controlled by Georgians and not Abkhaz. Joined by students and faculty from the Subtropical Institute, this was part of a campaign started by ethnic Georgians in Abkhazia for greater cultural separation, and more clear division between the two ethnic groups. Aware it would cause unrest in Abkhazia, the authorities approved the measure on 14 May. In response Abkhaz organized a sit-in.


1989 Sukhumi riots, The university controversy
The Supreme Soviet in Moscow also launched a commission, which ruled that the Georgians had no authority to establish the university, as that was solely under its purview. They concluded that a region the size of Abkhazia had no need for two universities. It also found that despite Georgian claims they were discriminated against under the language system in place, they had a higher percent of applications than the Abkhaz sector (33.5% for the Georgian compared to 24% for Abkhaz; the Russian, which would have had applicants from all three groups, saw 42.5% of all applications.


1989 Sukhumi riots, The riots
Despite the ruling against the legality of the university, entrance exams were scheduled for 15 July. Attempts by Abkhaz to photograph the crowds of Georgians congregated in the city is said to have started the violence. By 7:00pm the university was under attack. Late on 16 July, a crowd of five thousand Abkhaz, many of whom were armed, surged into the building. Several members of the Georgian exam commission were beaten up, and the school was looted.


1989 Sukhumi riots, The riots
This set off a chain of events that produced further casualties and destruction as the both sides engaged in armed fighting for several days to come. That evening, Abkhaz and Georgians began mobilizing all over Abkhazia and western Georgia. Svans, an ethnic Georgian subgroup from northeastern Abkhazia, and Abkhaz from the town of Tkvarcheli in Abkhazia clashed in a shootout that lasted all night and intermittently for several days afterward. Meanwhile, up to 25,000 Georgians from western Georgia, and the predominantly Georgian Gali district in southern Abkhazia, gathered near Ochamchire. Soviet Interior Ministry troops were sent in to restore order, and by 17 July the violence had largely dissipated.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Aftermath
The July events in Abkhazia left at least 18 dead and 448 injured, of whom, according to official accounts, 302 were Georgians. It also marked the first case of inter-ethnic violence in Georgia; while previous protests and demonstrations had occurred in Abkhazia, none had seen any casualties. Although a continuous presence of the Interior Ministry troops maintained a precarious peace in the region, outbursts of violence did occur, and the Soviet government made no progress toward solving any of the inter-ethnic problems.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Aftermath
The Georgians suspected the attack on their university was intentionally staged by the Abkhaz secessionists in order to provoke a large-scale violence that would prompt Moscow to declare a martial law in the region, thus depriving the government in Tbilisi of any control over the autonomous structures in Abkhazia. At the same time, they accused the Soviet government of manipulating ethnic issues to curb Georgia's otherwise irrepressible independence movement.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Aftermath
On the other hand, the Abkhaz claimed that the new university was an instrument in the hands of Georgians to reinforce their cultural dominance in the region, and continued to demand that the investigation of the July events be turned over to Moscow and that no branch of Tbilisi State University be opened in Sukhumi.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Aftermath
Tensions remained high in Abkhazia, and saw the Abkhaz totally disregard Georgian authority in the region. This was confirmed on 25 August 1990, when the Abkhaz Supreme Soviet passed a declaration, "On Abkhazia's State Sovereignty," which gave supremacy to Abkhaz laws over Georgian ones. The same day the Supreme Soviet also declared Abkhazia to be a full union republic within the Soviet Union. This was countered by accusations from Georgians that the Abkhaz were not the original inhabitants of the region, a claim first promoted by Georgian scholars in the 1950s but without any serious academic or historic basis.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Aftermath
The victory of a nationalist coalition in October 1990 only further led to increased issues, as the newly-elected Chairman of the Georgian Supreme Soviet, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, was outspoken in his desire to reduce the autonomy of the non-Georgian population in the country. By this point, however, Georgian authority had effectively ceased in Abkhazia: Abkhazia took part in the Soviet referendum on 17 March 1991, which the rest of Georgia boycotted, while the non-Georgian population of region (along with South Ossetia, another autonomous region of Georgia), in turn boycotted the referendum on independence on 9 April 1991.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Aftermath
A power-sharing deal was agreed upon in August 1991, dividing electoral districts by ethnicity, with the 1991 elections held under this format, though it did not last. However with the breakdown of the Gamsakhurida government in Georgia, and efforts by Eduard Shevardnadze to delegitimize Gamsakhurdia by failing to honour agreements he signed, and Abkhaz desires to utilize the ongoing Georgian Civil War, it fell apart. Thus on 23 July 1992, the Abkhaz Supreme Soviet re-instated the 1925 constitution, which had called Abkhazia a sovereign state, albeit one in treaty union with Georgia.


1989 Sukhumi riots, Aftermath
Georgia responded militarily on 14 August, starting an offensive. The ensuing war would last until September 1993, and lead to the ongoing Abkhaz–Georgian conflict. In the aftermath of the 1992–1993 war, the Sukhumi branch of Tbilisi State University, which had remained open, was relocated to Tbilisi as the city fell out of Georgian control. It was re-established in Tbilisi in December 1993, and remains there.


1989 Summer Deaflympics
The 1989 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 16th Summer Deaflympics, is an international multi-sport event that was held from 7 to 17 January 1989 at Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch, New Zealand.


1989 Summer Universiade
The 1989 Summer Universiade, also known as the XV Summer Universiade, took place in Duisburg, West Germany.


1989 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 4–6 at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.


1989 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
Top-seeded South Alabama easily defeated Jacksonville in the championship game, 105–59, to win their first Sun Belt men's basketball tournament.


1989 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The Jaguars, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Tournament. No other Sun Belt members received at-large bids to the tournament.


1989 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
There were no changes to the existing tournament format. All eight conference members were placed into the initial quarterfinal round and each team was seeded based on its regular season conference record.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships
The 1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix and of Category 2 of the 1989 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from April 17 through April 23, 1989. Stefan Edberg and Kumiko Okamoto won the singles titles.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles
Ken Flach /  Robert Seguso defeated  Kevin Curren /  David Pate 7–6, 7–6


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles
Jill Hetherington /  Elizabeth Smylie defeated  Ann Henricksson /  Beth Herr 6–1, 6–3


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
John Fitzgerald and Johan Kriek were the defending champions but only Fitzgerald competed that year with Anders Järryd.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Fitzgerald and Järryd lost in the second round to Tomas Nydahl and Olli Rahnasto.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles
Ken Flach and Robert Seguso won in the final 7–6, 7–6 against Kevin Curren and David Pate.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
John McEnroe was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Stefan Edberg.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
Edberg won in the final 6–3, 2–6, 6–4 against Ivan Lendl.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Robin White were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
Jill Hetherington and Elizabeth Smylie won in the final 6–1, 6–3 against Ann Henricksson and Beth Herr.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – 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 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
Patty Fendick was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Singles
Kumiko Okamoto won in the final 6–4, 6–2 against Elizabeth Smylie.


1989 Suntory Japan Open Tennis Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1989 Super Bowl of Poker
The Super Bowl of Poker (also known as Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker or SBOP) was the second most prestigious poker tournament in the world during the 1980s. While the World Series of Poker was already drawing larger crowds as more and more amateurs sought it out, the SBOP "was an affair limited almost exclusively to pros and hard-core amateurs."


1989 Super Bowl of Poker
Prior to 1979, the only high dollar tournament a person could enter was the WSOP. 1972 WSOP Main Event Champion and outspoken ambassador for poker Amarillo Slim saw this as an opportunity. "The World Series of Poker was so successful that everybody wanted more than one tournament," he said. Slim called upon his connections and friendships with poker's elite to start a new tournament in the February 1979.


1989 Super Bowl of Poker
Before the SBOP had developed a reputation of its own, many of the most respected names in poker attended the tournament "more to support Slim and take advantage of the very fat cash games the event would obviously inspire." Slim modelled his SBOP after the WSOP with several events and a $10,000 Texas Hold'em Main Event.


1989 Super Bowl of Poker
One of the principal differences between the WSOP and the SBOP was the prize structure. The WSOP's prize structure was flat ensuring more people received smaller pieces of the prize pool. The SBOP typically used a 60-30-10 payout structure. In other words, only the first three places received money and generally in the ratio of 60% to first place, 30% to second place, and 10% to third. This payment schedule predominated the SBOP for the first 5 years of the event, but as the event grew the number of payouts increased while keeping the payout schedule top heavy.


1989 Super Bowl of Poker, 1989 Tournament
The 1989 SBOP was the third time wherein Poker Hall of Famer Stu Ungar won the Main Event. Ungar was the only person to win back-to-back tournaments and the only person to win the SBOP three times. Ungar was also the only person to win the WSOP Main Event three times. While Johnny Moss is a three-time WSOP Main Event winner, his first victory came as a result of a vote rather than the elimination tournament that it would assume the following year.


1989 Super Bowl of Poker, 1989 Tournament
Berry Johnston, another Hall of Famer, also won an event by claiming the title in the $200 Pot Limit Omaha with Rebuys tournament. Relatively little is preserved about the 1989 tournament. In most cases, the only thing that has been preserved was the name of the event winners, and in a few cases not even that much was recorded.


1989 Superbike World Championship
The 1989 Superbike World Championship was the second FIM Superbike World Championship season. The season started on 27 March at Donington Park and finished on 19 November at Manfeild Autocourse after 11 rounds.


1989 Superbike World Championship
American Fred Merkel won his second riders' championship and Honda won the manufacturers' championship.


1989 Supercopa Libertadores
The 1989 Supercopa Libertadores was the second edition of the Supercopa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's new international football club tournament. The competition was won by Boca Juniors, who clinched their first title by beating fellow Argentinian side, Independiente in the finals.


1989 Supercopa Libertadores
The competition was dominated by the Argentine teams, with three of the four semi-finalists coming from Argentina, namely, Boca Juniors, Independiente and Argentinos Juniors. The final between Boca Juniors and Independiente marked the first time in South American club history that both finalists in any competition had come from the same country.


1989 Supercopa Libertadores
As the new reigning Copa Libertadores champions, Colombian side Atlético Nacional were admitted into the competition increasing the number of competitors to 14.


1989 Supercopa Libertadores, First round
The matches were played from 3 October to 10 October. Teams from the same nation could not be drawn against one another. Racing Club, as the title holders, entered the competition at the quarterfinal stage. Boca Juniors also advanced to that same stage after a draw of lots.


1989 Supercopa Libertadores, Quarter-finals
The matches were played from 18 October to 1 November.


1989 Supercopa Libertadores, Semi-finals
The matches were played from 8 November to 16 November.


1989 Supercopa Libertadores Finals
The 1989 Supercopa Libertadores Finals was a two-legged football series between Independiente and Boca Juniors to decide the 1989 Supercopa Libertadores champion. The matches were played on November 22 and November 29 of that same year.


1989 Supercopa Libertadores Finals
In the first leg, held in La Bombonera, both teams tied 0–0. The second leg was held in La Doble Visera, where both clubs also tied 0–0. As both teams equaled on points, a penalty shoot-out had to be carried out to decide a winner. Boca Juniors won 5–3 on penalties to claim their first Supercopa Libertadores title.


1989 Supercoppa Italiana
The 1989 Supercoppa Italiana was a match played by the 1988–89 Serie A winners Internazionale and 1988–89 Coppa Italia winners Sampdoria. It took place on 29 November 1989 at the San Siro in Milan, Italy. Inter won the match 2–0, to earn their first Supercoppa.


1989 Supercup
The SAT 1 Supercup '89 was the fourth and final season of the Supercup, a West German auto racing series organized by the ADAC and sponsored by SAT 1 television. Held over five events in West Germany and Great Britain, the driver's championship was won by Frenchmen Bob Wollek; his team Joest Racing won the team's championship. The series was canceled following the 1989 season, ending a yearly series of German sports car championships dating back to 1972.


1989 Supercup, Schedule and results
The series ventured outside West Germany for the first time, replacing the traditional Hockenheimring event with a race at the Silverstone Circuit in Great Britain. The Silverstone round allowed many competitors from the BRDC Sportscar Championship to compete alongside the Supercup. The other four events of the series remained in their calendar positions.


1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was the 11th edition of the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira, the annual Portuguese football season-opening match contested by the winners of the previous season's top league and cup competitions (or cup runner-up in case the league- and cup-winning club is the same). The 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira was contested over two legs, and opposed Belenenses and Benfica of the Primeira Liga. Benfica qualified for the SuperCup by winning the 1988–89 Primeira Divisão, whilst Belenenses qualified for the Supertaça by winning the 1988–89 Taça de Portugal.


1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
The first leg which took place at the Estádio da Luz, saw Benfica defeat Belenenses 2–0. The second leg which took place at the Estádio do Restelo saw Benfica defeat Belenenses 2–0 (4–0 on aggregate), which claimed the Encarnados a third Supertaça.


1989 Svenska Cupen Final
The 1989 Svenska Cupen final took place on 29 June 1989 at Råsunda in Solna. The match was contested by Allsvenskan sides Malmö FF and Djurgårdens IF. Djurgården played their first final since 1975 and their third final in total, Malmö FF played their first final since 1986 and their 16th final in total. Malmö FF won their 14th title with a 3–0 victory.


1989 Swatch Open
The 1989 Swatch Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Nice Lawn Tennis Club in Nice, France, and was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was the 18th edition of the tournament and took place from 17 April through 23 April 1989. Sixth-seeded Andrei Chesnokov won the singles title.


1989 Swatch Open, Finals, Doubles
Ricki Osterthun /  Udo Riglewski defeated  Heinz Günthardt /  Balázs Taróczy 7–6, 6–7, 6–1


1989 Swatch Open – Doubles
Guy Forget and Henri Leconte were the defending champions but only Leconte competed that year with Eric Winogradsky.


1989 Swatch Open – Doubles
Leconte and Winogradsky lost in the quarterfinals to Heinz Günthardt and Balázs Taróczy.


1989 Swatch Open – Doubles
Ricki Osterthun and Udo Riglewski won in the final 7–6, 6–7, 6–1 against Günthardt and Taróczy.


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


1989 Swatch Open – Singles
Henri Leconte was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Goran Ivanišević.


1989 Swatch Open – Singles
Andrei Chesnokov won in the final 6–4, 6–4 against Jérôme Potier.


1989 Swatch 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 Swedish Golf Tour
The 1989 Swedish Golf Tour was the sixth season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments held in Sweden and Finland.


1989 Swedish Golf Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of 14 events played between May and September.


1989 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The 1989 Swedish Golf Tour was the fourth season of the Swedish Golf Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women held in Sweden and Denmark.


1989 Swedish Golf Tour (women)
The tour shared Tournament Directors with the 1988 Swedish Golf Tour, Arne Andersson, Bengt Norström and Claes Grönberg. The player council consisted of Pia Nilsson, Maria Lindbladh, Viveca Hoff and Liv Wollin. Tournaments were played over 54 holes with no cut, the SI and LET events over 72 holes with cuts. The Grundig Team Trophy was a limited field best ball event played over 36 holes.


1989 Swedish Golf Tour (women), Schedule
The season consisted of 12 tournaments played between May and September, where two events were included on the 1989 Ladies European Tour.


1989 Swedish football Division 1, Overview
It was contested by 28 teams, and Hammarby IF and Östers IF won the championship.


1989 Swedish football Division 2
Statistics of Swedish football Division 2 for the 1989 season.


1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 11–13 August 1989 at the Anderstorp circuit.


1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Wayne Rainey takes pole, then it’s Kevin Schwantz and Eddie Lawson. Rainey gets the start, and Lawson moves into second, followed by Schwantz.


1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
A lead group forms, with Rainey, a small gap to Lawson, then another small gap to Schwantz, Kevin Magee and Christian Sarron.


1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Schwantz cruises into the pits with a mechanical, and Lawson closes the gap to Rainey and moves into the lead. Sarron is in third a couple of bike lengths behind, and Wayne Gardner passes Magee for fourth spot.


1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
With two laps to go, Rainey is right behind Lawson and highsides on the exit of a right-hander. It's a long tumble, but he gets up and doesn’t try to pick up the bike. Though it’s Rainey’s only real mistake all year, Lawson’s consistency and improvement brings him the win and a lead in the standings by 13.5 points. Sarron takes second, Gardner third.


1989 Swedish motorcycle Grand Prix, 500 cc race report
Says Lawson of the lap that saw Rainey go down: "That was my fastest lap of the race; I'd never got on the throttle that early all race. When I cracked it open, Wayne followed me, and there was no way the Dunlop was going to do that. It wasn’t Wayne, it was the tyres."


1989 Swiss Indoors
The 1989 Swiss Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland that was part of the 1989 Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. It was the 20th edition of the tournament and took place from 3 October until 8 October 1989. Unseeded Jim Courier won the singles title.


1989 Swiss Indoors, Finals, Singles
Jim Courier defeated  Stefan Edberg 7–6, 3–6, 2–6, 6–0, 7–5


1989 Swiss Indoors, Finals, Doubles
Udo Riglewski /  Michael Stich defeated  Omar Camporese /  Claudio Mezzadri 6–3, 4–6, 6–0


1989 Swiss Indoors – Doubles
Jakob Hlasek and Tomáš Šmíd were the defending champions but Hlasek did not compete this year, as he decided to focus on the singles tournament. Šmíd teamed up with Jan Gunnarsson and lost in the first round to tournament runners-up Omar Camporese and Claudio Mezzadri.


1989 Swiss Indoors – Doubles
Udo Riglewski and Michael Stich won the title by defeating Camporese and Mezzadri 6–3, 4–6, 6–0 in the final.


1989 Swiss Indoors – Singles
Stefan Edberg was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Jim Courier. The score was 7–6, 3–6, 2–6, 6–0, 7–5 in the final.


1989 Swiss referendums
Three referendums were held in Switzerland in 1989. The first was held on 4 June on a popular initiative "for nature-oriented farming—against animal factories", which was rejected by voters. The second and third were held on 26 November on popular initiatives "for a Switzerland without army and a comprehensive policy of peace" and on introducing 130 and 100 kilometres per hour speed limits, both of which were rejected.


1989 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1989 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was led by ninth-year head coach Dick MacPherson and played their home games in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. Syracuse finished with an 8–4 record and played in the 1989 Peach Bowl, where they beat Georgia, 19–18. They also played a regular season game in Tokyo, Japan, in the Coca-Cola Classic against Louisville.


1989 São Paulo FC season
The 1989 season was São Paulo's 60th season since club's existence.


1989 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 Trans America Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament (now known as the Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Tournament) was held March 7–9 at Barton Coliseum in Little Rock, Arkansas.


1989 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Arkansas–Little Rock easily defeated Centenary (LA) in the championship game, 100–72, to win their second TAAC/Atlantic Sun men's basketball tournament. The Trojans, therefore, received an automatic bid to the 1989 NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Louisville in the first round.


1989 TAAC Men's Basketball Tournament
For the third straight year, only the top eight teams (out of 10) in the conference standings were invited to the tournament.


1989 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1989 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season . The Horned Frogs finished the season 4–7 overall and 2–6 in Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Jim Wacker, in his seventh year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1989 TFL Statewide League season
The 1989 TFL Statewide League premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged across Tasmania, Australia over eighteen (18) roster rounds and six (6) finals series matches between 1 April and 16 September 1989. The League was known as the Cascade-Boags Statewide League under a dual commercial naming-rights sponsorship agreement with both Cascade Brewery in Hobart and Boag's Brewery in Launceston.


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
The 1989 TFL Statewide League season was the fourth season of statewide football and the football public were treated to some magnificent football throughout the season.


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
North Launceston were tipped to be the big improvers as were North Hobart, with Glenorchy and Devonport looming as possible outside chances.


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Hobart under Mark Browning had had a large cleanout over the summer following their dismal end to 1988 and the jury was out on whether they would take the step up this season.


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
On the opening day Clarence threw their hat into the ring with a sensational 89-point demolition of North Hobart but their season would be punctuated with brilliant displays such as this, followed by the mediocre, sometimes even in the same game as in two such cases where they led Devonport by 55-points at three-quarter time at Bellerive Oval on 8 April only to see the Blues steam home to draw the game and again at the same venue on 14 July against the Burnie Hawks, the Roos again led by 55-points at the final change only to see the Hawks fly home to fail by one point.


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
North Launceston would be all the rage in the north of the state, the high-flying Robins would finally demonstrate their full potential to take the minor premiership ahead of North Hobart, who had produced many moments of champagne-football throughout the season including a Statewide League record score against the hapless New Norfolk at Boyer on 3 August with 38.15 (243).


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
On the eve of the finals, the rampaging Demons sent reigning premier Devonport, who had suffered a very disappointing fall from grace away from North Hobart Oval (the site of their ground-breaking premiership only eleven months previous) with a staggering 161-point defeat.


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
After a moderate start, Hobart would go on a rampage as well and storm into the finals with ten wins from their final eleven games to take third spot and aim for their first premiership since 1980.


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
Both Clarence and Glenorchy would be far from their dominant selves for much of the season, indeed Glenorchy were looking likely to miss the finals for the first time since 1973 but managed to produce four wins from their final five matches to sneak into the five over the Burnie Hawks, who lost their final two matches to miss out while Clarence won their final five matches to claim fourth spot.


1989 TFL Statewide League season, Season Summary
At the other end of the table New Norfolk continued to wallow at the foot of the table and suffer from disastrous financial turmoil, during the season a crisis meeting was held at New Norfolk where discussions were held on what the future of the club may be, whether it be a merger, dropping out of the league or a last-ditch effort to rescue the club's ailing finances.