Tina Turner 'Simply The Best' 1989

Birth name Anna Mae Bullock
Also known as Tina Turner
Born November 26, 1939 (1939-11-26) (age 69)
1989
This singer is full of energy even though she's 50 something that time. She's simply the best. Everybody want to be the best, including me. But to be the best, we have to work harder, don't be arrogant, respect the others specially the older one and try to be humble

• January 20 – George H. W. Bush succeeds Ronald Reagan as the 41st President of the United States of America.
• February 2 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul, ending 9 years of military occupation.
• February 14 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
• April 15 – The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football, claims the life of 96 Liverpool supporters.
• April 26 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak, becomes the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• May 26 – Arsenal wins the First Division league title against Liverpool, with the last kick of the season, thanks to a late goal from Michael Thomas.
• May 30 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10 m (33 ft) high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
• June 3 – The Ayatollah Khomeini dies in Iran; during the funeral, his corpse falls out of the casket into the mob of mourners.
• June 23 – Batman (1989 film) is released to positive reviews and becomes the highest grossing film based on a DC comic book, until The Dark Knight (2008).
• July 5 – The television show Seinfeld premieres.
• July 20 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest.
• November 9 – Cold War: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began tearing the wall down).
• December 21 – Nicolae Ceausescu addresses an assembly of some 110,000 people outside the Parliament Palace in Bucharest. The crowd begin to protest against Ceausescu and he orders in the army to attack the protesters.
• December 22 – After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending the communist dictatorship ofNicolae Ceauşescu, who flees his palace in a helicopter to escape inevitable execution after the palace was invaded by rioters. The Romanian troops, who yesterday had followed Ceausescu's orders to attack the demonstrators, change sides and join the uprising.
• December 23 – Nicolae and Ceausescu are captured in Targoviste.
• December 25 – Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena are executed for crimes against humanity by military troops after being found guilty of crimes against humanity.

SPORTS
Soccer:
• April 15 – Hillsborough disaster, that occurred at Hillsborough, before the FA Cup Semi-Final between Liverpool & Nottingham Forest.
• May 20 – FC Liverpool wins the FA Cup over Everton after 3-2 AET, thanks to two goals from Ian Rush.
• May 26 – Arsenal beat Liverpool FC 2-0 to dramatically win the English Football League First Division, thanks to an injury time goal from Michael Thomas.

Tennis:
• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
1. Australian Open - Ivan Lendl
2. French Open - Michael Chang
3. Wimbledon championships - Boris Becker
4. US Open - Boris Becker
• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
1. Australian Open - Steffi Graf
2. French Open - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario
3. Wimbledon championships - Steffi Graf
4. US Open - Steffi Graf

Top grossing films (U.S.)
Rank Title Studio Gross
1. Batman
Warner Bros.
$251,188,924
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Paramount
$197,171,806
3. Lethal Weapon 2
Warner Bros.
$147,253,9
Div 1 1988-89
1 Arsenal 38 22 10 6 73 36 +37 76
2 Liverpool 38 22 10 6 65 28 +37 76
3 Nottm Forest 38 17 13 8 64 43 +21 64