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1989 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1989th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 989th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade.
November 15–16 – November 1989 tornado outbreak: Tornadoes in the Eastern United States kill at least 31 people. November 16 Six Jesuit priests—among them Ignacio Ellacuría , Segundo Montes , and Ignacio Martín-Baró —their housekeeper, and her teenage daughter, are murdered by U.S. trained Salvadoran soldiers .
Highest-grossing films of 1989 by In-year release [57]; Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1. Batman: Warner Bros. $251,188,924 2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1989 is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, released on October 27, 2014, by Big Machine Records. Titled after Swift's birth year as a symbolic rebirth, it was the album that recalibrated her artistic identity from country music to pop .
Highest-grossing films of 1989 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Batman: Warner Bros. $251,188,924 2 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Paramount: $197,171,806 3 Lethal Weapon 2: Warner Bros. $147,253,986 4 Look Who's Talking: TriStar: $140,088,813 5 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures: $130,724,172 6 Back to ...
Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million.Basinger would lose the town to her partner in the deal, the pension fund of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., in 1993 after being forced to file for bankruptcy when a California judge ordered her to pay $7.4 million for refusing to honor a verbal contract to star in the film Boxing Helena.
On 5 June 1989, The Wall Street Journal reported on the fighting: "As columns of tanks and tens of thousands of soldiers approached Tiananmen, many troops were set on by angry mobs who screamed, 'Fascists'. Dozens of soldiers were pulled from trucks, severely beaten, and left for dead.
The #1 song of 1989, "Look Away" by Chicago, despite reaching #1 in late 1988, never reached #1 in 1989. An asterisk (*) by a date indicates an unpublished, "frozen" week, due to the special double issues that Billboard published in print at the end of the year for their year-end charts.