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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 18, 1989 |
Milan-San Remo |
Laurent Fignon (Fra) |
294 km |
| April 2, 1989 |
Tour of Flanders |
Edwig Van Hooydonck (Bel) |
264 km |
| April 9, 1989 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Jean-Marie Wampers (Bel) |
265 km |
| April 16, 1989 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Sean Kelly (Ire) |
267 km |
| April 24-May 15, 1989 |
Vuelta a Espana |
Pedro Delgado (Spa) |
22 Stages,
3,656 km |
| May 21-June 11, 1989 |
Giro d'Italia |
Laurent Fignon (Fra) |
22 Stages
3,418 km |
| July 1-July 23, 1989 |
Tour de France |
Greg LeMond (USA) |
21 Stages
3,279 km |
| August 27, 1989 |
World
Championships |
Greg LeMond (USA) |
Chambery, France 259.4 km |
October 14, 1989 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Tony Rominger (Sui) |
Como-Milan,
260 km |
• Afghanistan - the Soviet Union pulled out of Kabul after a nine-year unsuccessful military occupation.
• Alaska - the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground spilling 11 million gallons of oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
• Germany - November 1989 , for the first time since 1961 East German opened its borders. Germans started the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
• Beijing, China - live television covered the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
Notable Deaths - Emperor Hirohito of Japan, 1901-1989, Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989, his reign was the longest of all Japanese Emperors.
Nicolae Ceausecu, 1918-1989, tyrannical communist leader of Romania, was tried for genocide by military tribunal and executed.
* World Road Race Champion: Elio Meullenberg (Bel), 1912-1989, the World Champion in 1937.
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