• Science: Sir Tim Berners-Lee created “hypertext markup language” (HTML) to make Web pages and the “Uniform Resource Locator” (URL) to identify where information is stored. It is the basis for our WWW.
• The Top Song was Another Day In Paradise by Phil Collins
• The Big Movies included Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Lethal Weapon 2
• Price of a Sony Walkman: $79.00
  Price of Commodore 128D Computer in 1989: $399.99
• The World Population was ~ 5,156,000,000
• Marcia Griffiths’ Electric Slide was the hottest dance step.
• “All your base are belong to us” is some badly translated English from the opening cutscene of the European Mega Drive version of the 1989 arcade game Zero Wing, which has become a catchphrase.
• And… in a trip to America in 1989, USSR leader Boris Yeltsin stopped at a local supermarket, (Randall’s) in Texas. After seeing the amount and variety of food available to American consumers, he regretted what communism had done – ‘What have they done to our poor people?’

“It keeps going, and going, and going…”
– Energizer Batteries

“This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?”
– Partnership for a Drug-Free America

“Fahrvergnügen”
– Volkswagon

“Cotton. The fabric of our lives.”
– Cotton Incorporated

“I’m Batman”
– Michael Keaton, in Batman

“Eat My Shorts”
– Bart Simpson, The Simpsons

“I’ll have what she’s having.”
– Estelle Reiner, in When Harry Met Sally…

“Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.”
– Robin Williams, in ‘Dead Poets Society’

The phrase “And the winner is…” was changed to “And the Oscar goes to…” for the 1989 Oscars.

After Soviet leader Boris Yeltsin visited the US, seeing an ordinary Houston supermarket caused him to rethink his “Bolshevik consciousness” and leave the Communist party. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of US supermarkets, “there would be a revolution.”

Minutes before Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, between Oakland and San Francisco, was the first time an Earthquake was aired live in the United States. Before the 1989 World Series, the San Francisco mayor told a television station he didn’t want to bet against the Oakland mayor, because there “was nothing in Oakland he wanted to win”.

Will Smith won the first-ever Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1989 for Parents Just Don’t Understand.

Flea from The Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote and played the bass line for Young MC’s Bust a Move, and he never received a songwriting credit or any royalties from it. He was paid $200 for his studio time, and the song became a #1 hit and sold millions of records.

In London, Ontario, a flame of hope was lit in 1989 as a tribute to Dr. Frederick Banting and all the people who have lost their lives to diabetes. The flame will remain lit until there is a cure for diabetes.

Daniel Day-Lewis hasn’t appeared on stage since 1989 after he played Hamlet and claimed to see his father’s ghost during the performance.

The first ‘Best Hard Rock/Metal’ Grammy awarded in 1989 went to Jethro Tull over huge favorite Metallica in a decision many critics view as ‘out of touch.’ Metallica responded by adding ‘Grammy Award LOSERS’ to their albums; Jethro Tull countered that flutes are a ‘heavy, metal instrument.’

After winning a record four consecutive Emmys (85-88) for his role on Night Court, John Larroquette asked not to be considered in 1989.

The AOL “Welcome” & “You’ve Got Mail” sounds were recorded in 1989 on a cassette deck.

A Michigan farmer found a camera attached to balloons in his field. It contained images of what appeared to be a mutilated corpse, sparking a yearlong FBI investigation. It was footage for Nine Inch Nails’ first music video, Down In It, filmed 200 miles away.

William Lamm, a scuba diver, was sucked up by a Florida nuclear power plant intake pipe, dragged over 1,600 feet, and deposited in one of the reactor cooling ponds. He lived.

On September 15 1989, NASA published a comprehensive report on house plants that are best for cleaning indoor air pollution.

In 1968 – over years before the events happened – the television program Laugh-in had a comedy bit called ‘News from the Future’ where they correctly predicted Ronald Reagan would be President in 1988 and the Berlin Wall would collapse in 1989.

After buying a painting for $4, the new owner discovered the first print of the 1776 Declaration of Independence hidden in the frame. He sold it for $2.4 million.

Star Wars was one of the first films to be preserved by the newly established National Film Registry in 1989. However, the registry does not have the 1977 theatrical copy as mandated. Instead, Lucas Film offered the Special Edition version from 1997. #Hanshotfirst

The biggest solar storm in history was recorded in 1989. The storm was so massive that the Northern Lights could be seen in southern states like Florida

When he died in 1989, Mel Blanc, the voice of Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and many other characters from Looney Toons, has the phrase ‘That’s all folks!’ on his tombstone.

Cost of a Superbowl ad in 1989: $675,000

An NHL player (Clint Malarchuk) had his throat slit during a game and left the ice only because he knew his mother was watching the game on TV and didn’t want her to see him die. He had an equipment manager call and told her he loved her. He survived the incident with 300+ stitches.

In 1989, the best-paid player in the MLB was paid about $2.76 Million. By 2009, it was $33 Million.

Before 1989, Veterinary surgeons trained in the US were taught to ignore animal pain.

Allegations that Major League Baseball star Pete Rose gambled on the Game became public.

Police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, conducted a drug raid at the home of an elderly couple, Lloyd Smalley and Lillian Weiss, after receiving inaccurate information from an informant. Police said they were certain no one was inside after tossing in a stun grenade – Smalley and Weiss died of smoke inhalation while hiding from the attack.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill in which the tanker hit Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef and spilled an estimated 11 to 30 million gallons of oil on March 24. The captain, Joseph Hazelwood, was drinking at the time.

The Ufa Train/Pipeline Explosion: In 1989, a Soviet pipeline that had knowingly been leaking, managed to fill an entire valley with propane. Sparks from a train ignited the gas, causing an explosion as large as ten kilotons of TNT, killing 575 people.

Celebrity Murder: Rebecca Schaeffer, star of TV’s My Sister Sam, was killed by a stalker who got her address from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles. Private information is no longer available from them.

Salmon Rushdie published The Satanic Verses – as Muslin wrote the heresy in the book, Ayatollah Khomeini ordered a ‘fatwa’ on him – a command ordering followers of the Muslim faith to kill him. The fatwah was lifted in 1998.

Ninety-six people were killed after being crushed by the crowds at a soccer match in Sheffield, England.

Domino’s Pizza discontinued the ‘Avoid the Noid’ marketing campaign after Kenneth Lamar Noid held two employees hostage at gunpoint in 1989, under the impression the campaign directly targeted him. He later killed himself, resulting in the permanent cancellation of the campaign.

A MiG-23 pilot mistakenly ejected on take off from Poland, and the aircraft continued flying 560 miles on autopilot only to crash into a house in Belgium, killing a teenager.

An estimated 10.2 million people gathered for the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran, in Tehran in 1989. This was around one-sixth of the population at the time, and the largest percentage of a country’s population to attend a funeral.

No one knows what happened to “Tank Man,” who stood in front of government tanks at Tiananmen Square, in China. To evade internet censorship in China, people used to refer to the events that took place at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, as “May 35th”, among other alternative names.

The Hershey Kiss bell-choir Christmas commercial first came out in 1989 and has been running since each holiday season.

NEC’s TurboGrafx-16, Tetris, Sega Genesis, Lynx by Atari, Polly Pockets, Nintendo Game Boy, Trolls, Super Mario Land video game

Traditional Home began publication

First for Women began publication

The Energizer Bunny was introduced to the public, replacing gymnast Mary Lou Retton as the energetic spokesperson.

Reading Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy

(Data is compiled from charts including Billboard’s Pop, Rock, Airplay, R&B/Dance, and Singles Charts. The Hot 100 is the primary chart used for this list.)

December 23, 1989 – January 19, 1990: Phil Collins – Another Day in Paradise

(according to boxofficemojo)
1. Batman
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Lethal Weapon 2
4. Look Who’s Talking
5. Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
6. Back To The Future Part II
7. Ghostbusters II
8. Driving Miss Dasy
9. Parenthood
10. Dead Poets Society

The Abyss, Batman, Back to the Future Part II, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Born on the Fourth of July, Christmas Vacation, Dead Poets Society, Driving Miss Daisy, ERik the Viking, Field of Dreams, Ghostbusters II, Harlem Nights, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lethal Weapon 2, The Little Mermaid, Look Who’s Talking, Parenthood, Pet Sematary, Sea of Love, See No Evil Hear No Evil, Steel Magnolias, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Tango & Cash, Turner & Hooch, Uncle Buck, The War of the Roses, Weekend at Bernie’s, When Harry Met Sally…