During the night of June 1–2, American
serial killerOba Chandler raped 36-year-old Joan Rogers and her 17- and 14-year-old daughters Michelle and Christe and then murdered them by throwing them, alive, into
Tampa Bay,
Florida, weighted with concrete blocks.[4][5]
18-year-old Tina Bell disappeared in
Billingham, England. Her remains would be found in
April 1990 on wasteland at
ICI Billingham. As of 2019[update], Bell's murder would remain unsolved.[13]
The
Uniroyal Chemical Co. announced a voluntary halt to sales in the
United States of the chemical
Alar, used to improve the shelf life and color of
apples. Studies had linked Alar with tumor development in lab animals.[14]
A giant wave struck the
trimaranRose-Noëlle, carrying four men from New Zealand on an adventure trip to
Tonga, flipping it upside-down. The men would drift at sea for 119 days before winds and currents carried the wrecked yacht in a loop to
Great Barrier Island.[50]
The news of the
death of Ayatollah Khomeini was announced to the people of Iran at 7:00 a.m. by Mohammad Reza Hayati, one of the veteran news anchors of
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) tv1 and IRIB radio Iran. After hearing the news, people mourned on the streets and highways in Tehran and other cities. The text of the news of Ayatollah Khomeini's death on Radio Iran: "At 7:00 AM, this is Tehran, the voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, inna lleh wa inna aliyeh rajiyun, the high spirit of the leader of the Muslims and the leader of the free people of the world, Imam Khomeini, has joined the kingdom of Allah." At 9:00 a.m.,
Ali Khamenei, the
President of Iran, began reading Khomeini's last will and testament to the
Assembly of Experts.[48] In the afternoon
the Assembly elected Khamenei as Supreme Leader (rahbar).[47][48]
Ufa train disaster: A
natural gas explosion near
Ufa,
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, killed 575 as two trains passing each other threw sparks near a leaky pipeline. The disaster received relatively little media attention, possibly due to Soviet censorship and the other major news events of the day.[51]
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre: An unknown Chinese protester, "
Tank Man", stood in front of a column of military tanks on
Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, temporarily halting them, an incident which achieved iconic status internationally through images taken by Western photographers.[66]
Eight people were killed, and hundreds injured, in a
human crush during the viewing of Ayatollah Khomeini's body at the
Musalla in Tehran.[48]
Officials aborted the Ayatollah Khomeini's first funeral in Tehran after a large crowd stormed the funeral procession, nearly destroying Khomeini's wooden casket in order to get a last glimpse of his body. At one point, the body almost fell to the ground, as the crowd attempted to grab pieces of the death shroud. The Ayatollah's body had to be returned for the burial preparations to be repeated, before being brought back to the cemetery a few hours later.[47][48]
The Surinam Airways accident aircraft, photographed in February 1989
Surinam Airways Flight 764, originating from
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, crashed in
Paramaribo,
Suriname, due to pilot error, killing 176. Among the dead were 14 members of an exhibition
football team known as the "Colourful XI" (Kleurijk Elftal) (one of whom died in hospital three days later) and their coach; three players survived.[79]
U.S. PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush held the first
prime timenews conference of his presidency. When asked whether he had contacted any of China's leaders by telephone about the recent events there, Bush replied, "Line was busy. Couldn't get through."[92]
27-year-old New Zealand mountaineer David Heymann fell 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) to his death from the
Hörnli Ridge on the
Matterhorn. His climbing partner, Greg Houston, descended the mountain alone without the pair's ropes, which Heymann had been carrying.[119]
A powerful
time bomb killed at least seven people and injured or maimed 54 others at the main railroad station in
New Delhi,
India.[128]
The
Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., canceled
Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition, "Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment", due to its sexually explicit content. Mapplethorpe had died of
AIDS in March 1989.[129]
The
Secretary of State (United Kingdom) announced that, in cases where people incorrectly refused entry into the UK as children because they were "not related as claimed" could now prove their relationship to their relatives in the UK through
DNA fingerprinting, in order to immigrate to the UK they would have to prove that they were still dependent on their UK sponsors and, if they were over 18, that there were compassionate circumstances other than the fact of wrongful separation.[163]
A crowd of at least 100,000 gathered at
Heroes Square in
Budapest for the reburial of
Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister who had been executed in
1958.[186]
At about 7 a.m., three bank robbers, one of them disguised as a
security guard, took four employees and police officer Daniel C. O'Connell hostage at the
City National Bank of Florida in
Hallandale, Florida. Police Lt. David H. Miles arrived on scene and a shootout ensued. Miles was shot in the upper abdomen and neck but survived due to his
bulletproof vest and arrested one robber; O'Connell shot a second robber to death. The third man escaped but would be arrested on January 23, 1990.[187][188][189] Miles and O'Connell would be named Officers of the Year by the Broward 10-13 Club in New York City in
January 1991.[189]
Burma officially changed its name in
English to the
Union of Myanmar, also changing the name of its people's nationality from "Burmese" to "Myanmar". "
Rangoon", the name of Myanmar's capital, was to be spelled "
Yangon" in English.[215]
The Troubles: At 1:10 a.m., a bomb exploded at the barracks of the
British Army's
Osnabrück Garrison in
Osnabrück, West Germany, blowing a hole about 8 feet (2.4 m) in diameter from the ground floor to the roof of the building. No one was injured in the blast. A 62-year-old West German
boilerman surprised two suspects before they could set four more bombs to detonate; they fled after hitting the boilerman in the face, leaving him with bruises and scratches. West German authorities believed the
Provisional Irish Republican Army was responsible for the bombing.[216]
A group of 16- and 17-year-old
volunteer firefighters at the
District Heights Fire Station in
Prince George's County, Maryland, were discussing their frustration with their fire chief's criticisms of their performance when one of them suggested setting a fire to help prove themselves. The conversation led to some of the first in a series of
arsons that would continue until
July 1990 and also involve young volunteer firefighters from Boulevard Heights, acting independently of the District Heights group.[263]
At 10:29 a.m., an
electrical fire broke out on the sixth floor of the South Tower of Peachtree 25th, a 10-story office building in Atlanta, Georgia. The fire killed five people and injured 29.[300]
In Washington, D.C., over 900 artists and supporters of the late Robert Mapplethorpe took part in a protest of the cancellation of his exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, during which enlargements of Mapplethorpe's photos were projected onto the façade of the gallery.[129]
^"Soviet unrest kills 2, injures at least 72". The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The Associated Press. 13 June 1989. p. 6A. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^www.lomaselite.com (17 May 2011).
"Candidatas a Señorita Valle 2011-2012" [Candidates for Miss Valle 2011-2012] (in Spanish). LoMasElite. Archived from
the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
^"Roxana Cocoș". Olympedia. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^"Ed Davis Stats". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^"Profile". Megumi Nakajima Official Web Site (in Japanese). Archived from
the original on 1 December 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
^"Maurice Phillippe". World Championship team bosses. OldRacingCars.com. Allen Brown. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^"George Beadle, 85: Nobel-winning geneticist". Deaths Elsewhere. The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The New York Times. 13 June 1989. p. 3B. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^"Jose Lopez Rega, 72: Argentine official". Deaths Elsewhere. The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The Associated Press. 13 June 1989. p. 3B. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^"JOSE LOPEZ REGA". historiadelpais.com.ar (in Spanish). Archived from
the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
^Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia (13 October 2022).
"José López Rega". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
^"Director Quine commits suicide". People. The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. 13 June 1989. p. 2A. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^Elliott, Steve (13 June 1989).
"Search fails to find missing tour plane in Hawaii". The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The Associated Press. p. 4A. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^Byrd, Lee (13 June 1989).
"Ben Johnson admits using steroids". The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The Associated Press. p. 1D. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^Proulx, Michel (1990). An Unfinished Destiny - Scott Ross, Master of the Harpsichord., cited in
"The rumour about Aids was swelling". On An Overgrown Path. 1 December 2006. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
^"Reagan accepts knighthood". People. The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. 13 June 1989. p. 2A. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^"Evacuate because of dynamite". The Bryan Times. Vol. 41, no. 142. Bryan, Ohio. UPI. 17 June 1989. p. 1. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^"Odion Ighalo". National Football Teams. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
^Guichaoua, André (2004).
"Chronologie thématique". In Guichaoua, André (ed.). Exilés, réfugiés, déplacés en Afrique centrale et orientale [Exiles, refugees, displaced persons in Central and East Africa] (in French). Paris:
Éditions Karthala. p. 39.
ISBN2-84586-525-2. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2021 – via Google Books.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (
link)
^Juroszek, Joanna (5 July 2016).
"Maćku, do zobaczenia w niebie!" [Maciek, see you in heaven!]. wiara.pl (in Polish). Instytut Gość Media. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
During the night of June 1–2, American
serial killerOba Chandler raped 36-year-old Joan Rogers and her 17- and 14-year-old daughters Michelle and Christe and then murdered them by throwing them, alive, into
Tampa Bay,
Florida, weighted with concrete blocks.[4][5]
18-year-old Tina Bell disappeared in
Billingham, England. Her remains would be found in
April 1990 on wasteland at
ICI Billingham. As of 2019[update], Bell's murder would remain unsolved.[13]
The
Uniroyal Chemical Co. announced a voluntary halt to sales in the
United States of the chemical
Alar, used to improve the shelf life and color of
apples. Studies had linked Alar with tumor development in lab animals.[14]
A giant wave struck the
trimaranRose-Noëlle, carrying four men from New Zealand on an adventure trip to
Tonga, flipping it upside-down. The men would drift at sea for 119 days before winds and currents carried the wrecked yacht in a loop to
Great Barrier Island.[50]
The news of the
death of Ayatollah Khomeini was announced to the people of Iran at 7:00 a.m. by Mohammad Reza Hayati, one of the veteran news anchors of
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) tv1 and IRIB radio Iran. After hearing the news, people mourned on the streets and highways in Tehran and other cities. The text of the news of Ayatollah Khomeini's death on Radio Iran: "At 7:00 AM, this is Tehran, the voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful, inna lleh wa inna aliyeh rajiyun, the high spirit of the leader of the Muslims and the leader of the free people of the world, Imam Khomeini, has joined the kingdom of Allah." At 9:00 a.m.,
Ali Khamenei, the
President of Iran, began reading Khomeini's last will and testament to the
Assembly of Experts.[48] In the afternoon
the Assembly elected Khamenei as Supreme Leader (rahbar).[47][48]
Ufa train disaster: A
natural gas explosion near
Ufa,
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, killed 575 as two trains passing each other threw sparks near a leaky pipeline. The disaster received relatively little media attention, possibly due to Soviet censorship and the other major news events of the day.[51]
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre: An unknown Chinese protester, "
Tank Man", stood in front of a column of military tanks on
Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, temporarily halting them, an incident which achieved iconic status internationally through images taken by Western photographers.[66]
Eight people were killed, and hundreds injured, in a
human crush during the viewing of Ayatollah Khomeini's body at the
Musalla in Tehran.[48]
Officials aborted the Ayatollah Khomeini's first funeral in Tehran after a large crowd stormed the funeral procession, nearly destroying Khomeini's wooden casket in order to get a last glimpse of his body. At one point, the body almost fell to the ground, as the crowd attempted to grab pieces of the death shroud. The Ayatollah's body had to be returned for the burial preparations to be repeated, before being brought back to the cemetery a few hours later.[47][48]
The Surinam Airways accident aircraft, photographed in February 1989
Surinam Airways Flight 764, originating from
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, crashed in
Paramaribo,
Suriname, due to pilot error, killing 176. Among the dead were 14 members of an exhibition
football team known as the "Colourful XI" (Kleurijk Elftal) (one of whom died in hospital three days later) and their coach; three players survived.[79]
U.S. PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush held the first
prime timenews conference of his presidency. When asked whether he had contacted any of China's leaders by telephone about the recent events there, Bush replied, "Line was busy. Couldn't get through."[92]
27-year-old New Zealand mountaineer David Heymann fell 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) to his death from the
Hörnli Ridge on the
Matterhorn. His climbing partner, Greg Houston, descended the mountain alone without the pair's ropes, which Heymann had been carrying.[119]
A powerful
time bomb killed at least seven people and injured or maimed 54 others at the main railroad station in
New Delhi,
India.[128]
The
Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., canceled
Robert Mapplethorpe's photography exhibition, "Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment", due to its sexually explicit content. Mapplethorpe had died of
AIDS in March 1989.[129]
The
Secretary of State (United Kingdom) announced that, in cases where people incorrectly refused entry into the UK as children because they were "not related as claimed" could now prove their relationship to their relatives in the UK through
DNA fingerprinting, in order to immigrate to the UK they would have to prove that they were still dependent on their UK sponsors and, if they were over 18, that there were compassionate circumstances other than the fact of wrongful separation.[163]
A crowd of at least 100,000 gathered at
Heroes Square in
Budapest for the reburial of
Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime Minister who had been executed in
1958.[186]
At about 7 a.m., three bank robbers, one of them disguised as a
security guard, took four employees and police officer Daniel C. O'Connell hostage at the
City National Bank of Florida in
Hallandale, Florida. Police Lt. David H. Miles arrived on scene and a shootout ensued. Miles was shot in the upper abdomen and neck but survived due to his
bulletproof vest and arrested one robber; O'Connell shot a second robber to death. The third man escaped but would be arrested on January 23, 1990.[187][188][189] Miles and O'Connell would be named Officers of the Year by the Broward 10-13 Club in New York City in
January 1991.[189]
Burma officially changed its name in
English to the
Union of Myanmar, also changing the name of its people's nationality from "Burmese" to "Myanmar". "
Rangoon", the name of Myanmar's capital, was to be spelled "
Yangon" in English.[215]
The Troubles: At 1:10 a.m., a bomb exploded at the barracks of the
British Army's
Osnabrück Garrison in
Osnabrück, West Germany, blowing a hole about 8 feet (2.4 m) in diameter from the ground floor to the roof of the building. No one was injured in the blast. A 62-year-old West German
boilerman surprised two suspects before they could set four more bombs to detonate; they fled after hitting the boilerman in the face, leaving him with bruises and scratches. West German authorities believed the
Provisional Irish Republican Army was responsible for the bombing.[216]
A group of 16- and 17-year-old
volunteer firefighters at the
District Heights Fire Station in
Prince George's County, Maryland, were discussing their frustration with their fire chief's criticisms of their performance when one of them suggested setting a fire to help prove themselves. The conversation led to some of the first in a series of
arsons that would continue until
July 1990 and also involve young volunteer firefighters from Boulevard Heights, acting independently of the District Heights group.[263]
At 10:29 a.m., an
electrical fire broke out on the sixth floor of the South Tower of Peachtree 25th, a 10-story office building in Atlanta, Georgia. The fire killed five people and injured 29.[300]
In Washington, D.C., over 900 artists and supporters of the late Robert Mapplethorpe took part in a protest of the cancellation of his exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, during which enlargements of Mapplethorpe's photos were projected onto the façade of the gallery.[129]
^"Soviet unrest kills 2, injures at least 72". The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The Associated Press. 13 June 1989. p. 6A. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^www.lomaselite.com (17 May 2011).
"Candidatas a Señorita Valle 2011-2012" [Candidates for Miss Valle 2011-2012] (in Spanish). LoMasElite. Archived from
the original on 26 September 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
^"Roxana Cocoș". Olympedia. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
^"Ed Davis Stats". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^"Profile". Megumi Nakajima Official Web Site (in Japanese). Archived from
the original on 1 December 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
^"Maurice Phillippe". World Championship team bosses. OldRacingCars.com. Allen Brown. 1 October 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
^"George Beadle, 85: Nobel-winning geneticist". Deaths Elsewhere. The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The New York Times. 13 June 1989. p. 3B. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^"Jose Lopez Rega, 72: Argentine official". Deaths Elsewhere. The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The Associated Press. 13 June 1989. p. 3B. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^"JOSE LOPEZ REGA". historiadelpais.com.ar (in Spanish). Archived from
the original on 27 June 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
^Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia (13 October 2022).
"José López Rega". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
^"Director Quine commits suicide". People. The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. 13 June 1989. p. 2A. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^Elliott, Steve (13 June 1989).
"Search fails to find missing tour plane in Hawaii". The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The Associated Press. p. 4A. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^Byrd, Lee (13 June 1989).
"Ben Johnson admits using steroids". The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. The Associated Press. p. 1D. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^Proulx, Michel (1990). An Unfinished Destiny - Scott Ross, Master of the Harpsichord., cited in
"The rumour about Aids was swelling". On An Overgrown Path. 1 December 2006. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
^"Reagan accepts knighthood". People. The Ledger. Vol. 83, no. 235. Lakeland, Florida. 13 June 1989. p. 2A. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^"Evacuate because of dynamite". The Bryan Times. Vol. 41, no. 142. Bryan, Ohio. UPI. 17 June 1989. p. 1. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Google News.
^"Odion Ighalo". National Football Teams. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
^Guichaoua, André (2004).
"Chronologie thématique". In Guichaoua, André (ed.). Exilés, réfugiés, déplacés en Afrique centrale et orientale [Exiles, refugees, displaced persons in Central and East Africa] (in French). Paris:
Éditions Karthala. p. 39.
ISBN2-84586-525-2. Archived from the original on 2 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2021 – via Google Books.{{
cite book}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (
link)
^Juroszek, Joanna (5 July 2016).
"Maćku, do zobaczenia w niebie!" [Maciek, see you in heaven!]. wiara.pl (in Polish). Instytut Gość Media. Retrieved 7 November 2021.