Formula One Championship: Alain Prost
(France) / McLaren-Honda
1989 Bathurst Winner: Dick Johnson & John Bowe
/Sierra RS500
NRL Grand Final: Canberra (19) def.
Balmain (14)
VFL/AFL Grand Final: Hawthorn (21.18.144) def.
Geelong (21.12.138)
Melbourne Cup: Tawriffic (
R. Dye)
Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. M.
Navratilova (6-2 6-7 6-1)
Wimbledon Men: Boris Becker d. S. Edberg
(6-0 7-6 6-4)
The Movies:
- Glory
- Born on the Fourth of July
- My Left Foot
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape
- Field of Dreams
Academy Awards:
- Best Picture - Driving Miss Daisy
- Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot)
- Best Actress - Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy)
Gold Logie: Daryl Somers (Hey Hey
It's Saturday, Nine)
The Charts:
- Ride On Time - Blackbox
- If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher
- You Got It - New Kids On The Block
- Don't Know Much - Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
- Like A Prayer - Madonna
- Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
- Living Years - Mike & The Mechanics
- Eternal Flame - Bangles
- I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
- Bedroom Eyes - Kate Ceberano
Farewells:
- Jim Backus (shipwrecked with Gilligan)
- Lucille Ball (Comedienne)
- Samuel Beckett (Irish playwright)
- Salvador Dali (Surrealist Painter)
- Bette Davis (Actress with piercing eyes)
- Dolores Ibarruri Gomez (La Pasionaria) (Spanish
Communist politician, orator, memoirist, journalist and writer)
- Ferdinand Marcos (Former Phillipine President)
- Billy Martin (Major League Baseballer)
- Laurence Olivier (Actor)
- Sugar Ray Robinson (Legend of the Ring)
- Andrei Sakharov (Soviet nuclear scientist)
- R.D. Laing (Psychopathologist)
- Robert Penn Warren (American Poet)
- Nicolae Ceausescu (Romanian Despot)
