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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 1989. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
Ipswich Town F.C. scored a 2–0 upset win over Sheffield Wednesday F.C. in an English soccer football match that would turn out to have been fixed. On April 12, 1965, The People, a London tabloid newspaper, would break the story that three of the Sheffield players, including a national team player, Peter Swan, had bet on their team to lose, and had made a £100 profit.
The third, and longest, expedition by the Compagnie générale transsaharienne (CGT) to find an effective automobile route across the Sahara Desert completed an 18-day, 2,200-mile (3,500 km) journey, reaching Savè (now in Benin) after having departed from Colomb-Béchar in Algeria on November 15.
[18] 2021 – A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central , Midwestern , and Southern regions of the United States . Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky , where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others.
18 December 18, 1944 (Monday) 19 December 19, 1944 (Tuesday) ... The People's Army of Vietnam was formed. Born: Steve Carlton, baseball player, in Miami, Florida;
Only 2,046 people turned out to Boston Garden to watch the Christmas Eve game. [67] A roof collapse killed 21 coal miners in Iran at the Shemshak mine, 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Tehran. [68] Born: Charles Ng, Hong Kong-born serial killer who committed numerous crimes in the United States with his accomplice Leonard Lake; in British Hong ...
This list is part of the List of organisms named after famous people, and includes organisms named after famous individuals born between 1 January 1900 and 31 December 1949. It also includes ensembles (including bands and comedy troupes) in which at least one member was born within those dates; but excludes companies, institutions, ethnic ...
In Montreal, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross was released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days, turning him over to a Cuban delegation at the negotiation site where the Expo '67 World's Fair had been held. [10]