Events

• Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses is published and sparks immediate controversy. Islamic militants put a price on his head.
• America's beloved comedienne Lucille Ball dies at age 87.
• Visionary Jaron Lanier coins the term virtual reality and produces the equipment to experience it.

Movies

• Glory, Born on the Fourth of July, My Left Foot, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Field of Dreams

Books

• Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
• Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
• Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

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Entertainment Awards

Oscars awarded in 1989
Academy Award, Best Picture: Rain Man, Mark Johnson, producer (United Artists)


Grammys awarded in 1989
Record of the Year: "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin
Album of the Year: Faith, George Michael (Columbia/CBS)
Song of the Year: "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin, songwriter
Miss America: Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson (MN)

Deaths

• Jim Backus
• Lucille Ball
• Salvador Dali
• Bette Davis
• Ferdinand Marcos
• Laurence Olivier

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Sports

Super Bowl San Francisco d. Cincinnati (20-16)
World Series Oakland A's d. SF Giants (4-0)
NBA Championship Detroit Pistons d. LA Lakers (4-0)
Stanley Cup Calgary d. Montreal (4-2)
Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. M. Navratilova (6-2 6-7 6-1)
Men: Boris Becker d. S. Edberg (6-0 7-6 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion Sunday Silence
NCAA Basketball Championship Michigan d. Seton Hall (80-79 OT)
NCAA Football Champions

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U.S. Events

• George Herbert Walker Bush inaugurated as 41st US President (Jan. 20).
• Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound (March 24).
• US jury convicts Oliver North in Iran-Contra affair (May 4).
• Army Gen. Colin R. Powell is first black Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (Aug. 9).
• A San Francisco Bay area earthquake measuring 7.1 in magnitude, killed 67 and injured over 3,000. Over 100,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. (Oct. 17)

U.S. Statistics

President: George Bush
Vice President: J. Danforth Quayle
Population: 246,819,230
Life expectancy: 75.1 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 57.4
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 50.8Miami-FL (11-1-0)