1989 in the United States

1989
in
the United States

Decades:
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
  • 1980s
  • 1990s
  • 2000s
See also:

Events from the year 1989 in the United States.

Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

January 20: George H. W. Bush becomes President

February

  • February 7
    • The Los Angeles, California City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
    • The 101st United States Congress rejects a proposed 51 percent pay raise for its members, federal judges, and certain other high-ranking government officials.
  • February 10
  • February 11 Barbara Harris is the first woman consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
  • February 14 The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit.
  • February 23 After protracted testimony, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11–9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.
  • February 2327 U.S. President Bush visits Japan, China, and South Korea, attending the funeral of Hirohito and then meeting with China's Deng Xiaoping and South Korea's Roh Tae-woo.
  • February 26 60 Minutes in the United States airs a report claiming that apples sprayed with Alar may cause cancer in children, leading many schools to remove apples from their cafeterias.

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

October 17: Loma Prieta earthquake
October 18: Galileo and its Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster being deployed by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.

November

December

Ongoing

Births

Deaths

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See also

References

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