What Happened in November 1989

Publish date: 2024-09-26

November1989 Calendar

Historical Events

Nov 1 Despite 107 from Desmond Haynes, Saleem Malik with 71 leads Pakistan to 4 wicket win v West Indies in cricket's Nehru Cup Final in Kolkata, India
Nov 1 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights

Television Finale

Nov 2 "Blackadder Goes Forth" final episode "Goodbyeee" airs on BBC-TV starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Nov 2 Musical "Meet Me In St Louis", based on the 1944 film, opens at Gershwin Theater, NYC; runs for 253 performances
Nov 3 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights

Sports History

Nov 3 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Cincinnati Reds, replacing Pete Rose who is banned for life for gambling on MLB games

Nov 3 NBA expansion Minnesota Timberwolves make NBA debut; lose 106-94 against SuperSonics at Seattle Center Coliseum; Tyrone Corbin T-Wolves top scorer with 20 points
Nov 3 Šarūnas Marčiulionis and Alexander Volkov become first Russians to play in a regular season NBA game; Marciulionis scores 19 as Golden State lose 136-106 to Phoenix; Volkov held scoreless in Atlanta's 126-103 defeat by Indiana

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov 4 Alexanderplatz demonstrations for political reforms draw over half a million people in East Berlin, significant event that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall

Nov 4 Alexanderplatz demonstrations for political reforms draw over half a million people in East Berlin, significant event that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
Nov 4 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Gulfstream Park; winners: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
Nov 4 First NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106
Nov 4 Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
Nov 4 The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.

Nov 5 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
Nov 5 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions

Music History

Nov 5 Revival of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil's "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 65 performances

Nov 5 US plays El Salvador in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
Nov 6 US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
Nov 7 Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year

NYC Firsts

Nov 7 NYC elects it's 1st African American mayor (David Dinkins) & 1st female comptroller (Elizabeth Holtzman)

Nov 8 "Byker Grove" begins broadcasting on the BBC
Nov 8 Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
Nov 8 Douglas Wilder wins election for Governor of Virginia, 1st African-American elected to the office in any state
Nov 8 Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service
Nov 9 East Berlin opens its borders at Checkpoint Charlie after thousands arrive after a bureaucratic error announces restrictions on travel to the West had lifted
Nov 10 Bulgarian Communist party president Todor Zhikov (78) resigns
Nov 10 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall
Nov 10 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
Nov 11 Don Sebesky and Gloria Nissenson's musical "Prince of Central Park", starring Jo Anne Worley, closes at Belasco Theater, NYC, after 4 performances
Nov 11 Romanian students protest in Bucharest before the Communist Party congress, shouting "we want reforms", in a sign of the revolution to come
Nov 12 Brazil holds its 1st free presidential election in 29 years
Nov 12 George Forrest's musical "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 1018 performances and wins 5 Tony Awards

Nov 14 Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award
Nov 15 "Batman" film is released on video tape
Nov 15 "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
Nov 15 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
Nov 15 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll

Nov 15 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games

Music Premiere

Nov 16 Revival of Jules Styne and Stephen Sondheim's musical "Gypsy" starring Tyne Daly, opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 476 performances, winning 2 Tony Awards

Nov 16 Six Jesuit priests including Ignacio Ellacuría and two others are assassinated killed by Salvadoran army - one of the most notorious acts of the Salvadoran civil war

Separate Amenities Act

Nov 16 South African President F. W. de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act

Nov 16 UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
Nov 17 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract
Nov 17 Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29
Nov 18 Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
Nov 19 39th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Rusty Wallace wins

Nov 19 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950
Nov 20 Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP

Nov 21 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
Nov 22 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
Nov 22 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and the Moon
Nov 22 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired

Puckett's $3M Contract

Nov 22 MLB center fielder Kirby Puckett signs record $3,000,000 per year contract with Minnesota Twins

Nov 22 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
Nov 23 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines

The Bounty Bowl

Nov 23 The "Bounty Bowl": Philadelphia Eagles defeat Dallas Cowboys 27-0 at Thanksgiving in an ill-tempered game, after which Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson accuses Eagles coach Buddy Ryan of placing bounties on players

Nov 23 Xenophon Zolotas is sworn in as premier of Greece
Nov 24 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
Nov 24 Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
Nov 24 Sachin Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty aged 16 years 214 days, a record

Nov 26 CFL Grey Cup, SkyDome, Toronto: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40 on Dave Ridgway's field goal winner was known as 'The Kick'
Nov 26 Comores coup under Bob Benard

V. P. Singh

Nov 26 India's Congress Party led by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi loses the general election to an opposition front led by V. P. Singh

Nov 26 Luis Alberto Lacalle wins Uruguayan presidential election
Nov 26 Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
Nov 27 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
Nov 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll

Nov 27 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space

All Hail the Queen

Nov 28 Queen Latifah releases her debut hip hop album "All Hail the Queen" featuring single "Ladies First"

Henderson's Record Contract

Nov 28 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 contract per year with baseball's Oakland Athletics

Nov 29 8th Largest wrestling crowd UFW U-Cosmos (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
Nov 29 Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after losing national elections
Nov 30 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb

Famous Birthdays

Nov 2 Katelyn Tarver, American singer and actress (The Secret Life of the American Teenager), born in Glennville, Georgia
Nov 2 Stevan Jovetić, Montenegrin soccer striker (51 caps; Fiorentina, Monaco), born in Podgorica, Montenegro
Nov 3 Nav [Navraj Singh Goraya] Canadian singer-songwriter and rapper (Bad Habits), born in Toronto, Ontario
Nov 3 Paula DeAnda, American pop-dance singer-songwriter ("Walk Away (Remember Me)"), born in San Angelo, Texas
Nov 6 Jozy Altidore, American footballer, born in Livingston, New Jersey
Nov 7 Nadya Tolokonnikova, Russian musician and political activist (Pussy Riot), born in Norilsk, Russia
Nov 8 Can Yaman, Turkish actor (Erkenci Kuş), born in Istanbul, Turkey
Nov 8 Giancarlo Stanton, American MLB player (New York Yankees), born in Panorama City, California
Nov 10 Taron Egerton, Welsh actor (Rocketman), and singer, born in Birkenhead, England
Nov 11 Adam Rippon, American figure skater (US National Champion, 2016; Winter Olympics- bronze 2018), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Nov 11 Reina Tanaka, Japanese pop singer (Lovendor), born in Fukuoka, Japan
Nov 12 Paul Jessup, actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
Nov 12 Ryan Jessup, actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
Nov 14 Jake Livermore, English footballer
Nov 14 Mary Bashua-Alimi, Nigerian radio and TV personality
Nov 19 Tyga [Micheal Ray Stevenson], American rapper (Legendary), born in Compton, California
Nov 20 Cody Linley, American actor, born in Lewisville, Texas
Nov 21 Bára Gísladóttir, Icelandic contemporary classical and experimental music composer and double bassist (Elja Ensemble), born in Reykjavík, Iceland
Nov 22 Alden Ehrenreich, American actor (Solo: A Star Wars Story), born in Los Angeles, California
Nov 24 Johnny Exantus, Haitian soccer player
Nov 25 Patsy Ferran, Spanish-British actress (stage production A Streetcar Named Desire), born in Valencia, Spain

Famous Deaths

Nov 1 Louis Barron, American composer (electronic music), dies at 69
Nov 2 Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times), dies at 80
Nov 3 Dorothy Fuldheim, American print and broadcast journalist (The Cleveland Press; WEWS-TV, Cleveland, Ohio), credited as being 1st woman in US to anchor a television news broadcast, dies at 96
Nov 5 Barry Sadler, American singer ("Ballad Of The Green Berets"), dies from complications of being shot 14 months earlier at 49
Nov 5 Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist (Variations on a Theme from Carmen), dies of a heart attack at 85
Nov 6 Dickie Goodman, American parody singer and producer ("The Flying Saucer"; "Energy Crisis '74"; "Mr. Jaws"), dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 55
Nov 6 Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (Detective Story), dies of cancer at 40
Nov 8 Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
Nov 11 Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (The Rose), dies of cancer at 60 [1]
Nov 12 Armando Gentilucci, Italian composer, dies at 50
Nov 13 Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89), dies at 83
Nov 13 Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (b. 1964)
Nov 16 Ignacio Ellacuría, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit priest, philosopher and human rights activist, assassinated during the Salvadoran Civil War at 59 [1]
Nov 16 Jean-Claude Malépart, Quebec politician (b. 1938)
Nov 17 Billy Lee, actor (Sons of Legion, Biscuit Eater), dies
Nov 17 Emerson Buckley, American conductor (Greater Miami Opera, 1950-86), dies at 73

Nov 17 Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
Nov 18 Henry de Vries, Dutch painter and poet (Toovertuin), dies at 83
Nov 20 Lynn Bari [Margaret Schuyler Fisher], American actress (Shock, Nocturne, 6 Gun Law), dies from a heart attack at 71
Nov 22 C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
Nov 22 Rene Muawad, assassinated 17 days after elected president of Lebanon
Nov 22 Vijay Rajindernath, Indian cricketer wicket keeper, dies at 61
Nov 23 Armand Salacrou, French playwright, dies at 90
Nov 24 Guus Weitzel, Dutch radio personality and actor, dies at 85
Nov 25 Alva R. Fitch, American World War II and Korean soldier (b. 1907)
Nov 25 Birago Diop, Senegalese writer and ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs), dies at 82
Nov 25 Frank M Thomas, actor (Behind the Headlines, M'Liss), dies
Nov 25 Ratu Sir George Cakobau, Fiji cricketer/Gov-General, dies
Nov 26 Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies
Nov 28 (Johanne) "Jo" Vincent, Dutch concert soprano (Royal Concertgebouw, 1924-42 - St. Matthew's Passion; Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony), and voice teacher, dies at 91
Nov 29 Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], Dutch jazz singer, dies of throat cancer at 56
Nov 29 Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (New Gourna Village), dies at 89
Nov 29 Sir G O "Gubby" Allen, English cricket all-rounder (25 Tests; refused to bowl 'Bodyline' tactics 1932), dies of complications after stomach surgery at 87
Nov 30 Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59

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