Prices 1985 to 1989:

item	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
postage stamp	0.22	0.22	0.22	0.25	0.25
bread	0.74	1.02	1.28	1.28	1.29
milk	1.98	1.92	1.98	2.00	2.14
gas	1.24	1.22	1.07	1.07	1.08
avg car	$6,495.00	$6,768.00	$7,012.00	$7,222.00	$8,243.00
avg. income	$12,747.00	$13,129.00	$13,523.00	$13,929.00	$14,347.00
avg. house	$116,805.00	$123,229.00	$121,021.00	$123,182.00	$124,348.00

 More News:  

·         Arsenio Hall becomes first African American to host nightly talk show. 

 

·         Cold War comes to an end. 

 

·         Exxon Oil disaster happens off the coast of Alaska in March. 

 

·         Lucille Ball dies April 26th. 

 

·         Tienanmen Square protest in China leaves 3000-7000 dead. 

 

·         Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are overnight sensation. 

 

·         Rob Lowe is discovered in soft porn video with underage girl. 

 

·         Milli Vanilli win best new artist of 1989, but are stripped of their Grammy in 1990 when it’s discovered they were lip-syncing. 

 

·         Soviet Union officially withdraws from Afghanistan. 

 

·         Parents of two Judas Priests fans sue the band claiming subliminal messages in their song "Better By You, Better Than Me" caused their sons suicide. 

 

·         Top Song of the Year: Another Day In Paradise - Phil Collins. 

 

·         The RIAA releases first black and white universal parental warning sticker. 

 

·         Pepsi pulls commercial set to Madonna's "Like A Prayer" because religious groups are offended. 

 

·         Best Video Of Year Award: This Note's For You - Neil Young 

 

·         Top Grossing Movie Of Year: Batman (251+ million) 

 

·         Top TV Show: Rosanne. 

 

·         Cindy Crawford hosts the House Of Style. 

 

·         First Heavy Metal Grammy given to Jethro Tull. 

 

 

 Top 100 songs from 1989:

1. Look Away, Chicago 2. My Prerogative, Bobby Brown 3. Every Rose Has Its Thorn, Poison 4. Straight Up, Paula Abdul 5. Miss You Much, Janet Jackson 6. Cold Hearted, Paula Abdul 7. Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler 8. Girl You Know Its True, Milli Vanilli 9. Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird, Will To Power 10. Giving You The Best That I Got, Anita Baker 11. Right Here Waiting, Richard Marx 12. Waiting For A Star To Fall, Boy Meets Girl 13. Lost In Your Eyes, Debbie Gibson 14. Don't Wanna Lose You, Gloria Estefan 15. Heaven, Warrant 16. Girl I'm Gonna Miss You, Milli Vanilli 17. The Look, Roxette 18. She Drives Me Crazy, Fine Young Cannibals 19. On Our Own, Bobby Brown 20. Two Hearts, Phil Collins 21. Blame It On The Rain, Milli Vanilli 22. Listen To Your Heart, Roxette 23. I'll Be There For You, Bon Jovi 24. If You Don't Know Me By Now, Simply Red 25. Like A Prayer, Madonna 26. I'll Be Loving You (Forever), New Kids On The Block 27. How Can I Fall?, Breathe 28. Baby Don't Forget My Number, Milli Vanilli 29. Toy Solider, Martika 30. Forever Your Girl, Paula Abdul 31. The Living Years, Mike + the Mechanics 32. Eternal Flame, The Bangles 33. Wild Thing, Tone Loc 34. When I See You Smile, Bad English 35. If I Could Turn Back Time, Cher 36. Buffalo Stance, Neneh Cherry 37. When I'm With You, Sheriff 38. Don't Rush Me, Taylor Dayne 39. Born To Be My Baby, Bon Jovi 40. Good Thing, Fine Young Cannibals 41. The Lover In Me, Sheena Easton 42. Bust A Move, Young M.C. 43. Once Bitten, Twice Shy, Great White 44. Batdance, Prince 45. Rock On, Michael Damian 46. Real Lov, Jody Watley 47. Love Shack, B-52's 48. Every Little Step, Bobby Brown 49. Hangin' Tough, New Kids On The Block 50. My Heart Can't Tell You No, Rod Stewart 51. So Alive, Love and Rockets 52. You Got It (The Right Stuff), New Kids On The Block 53. Armageddon It, Def Leppard 54. Satisfied, Richard Marx 55. Express Yourself, Madonna 56. I Like It, Dino 57. Soldier Of Love, Donny Osmond 58. Sowing The Seeds Of Love, Tears For Fears 59. Cherish, Madonna 60. When The Children Cry, White Lion 61. 18 And Life, Skid Row 62. I Don't Want Your Love, Duran Duran 63. Second Chances, .38 Special 64. The Way You Love Me, Karyn White 65. Funky Cold Medina, Tone Loc 66. In Your Room, Bangles 67. Miss You Like Crazy, Natalie Cole 68. Love Song, Cure 69. Secret Rendesvous, Karyn White 70. Angel Eyes, Jeff Healey Band 71. Patience, Guns N' Roses 72. Walk On Water, Eddie Money 73. Cover Girl, New Kids On The Block 74. Welcom To The Jungle, Guns N' Roses 75. Shower Me With Your Love, Surface 76. Stand, R.E.M. 77. Close My Eyes Forever, Lita Ford 78. All This Time, Tiffany 79. After All, Cher and Peter Cetera 80. Roni, Bobby Brown 81. Love In An Elevator, Aerosmith 82. Lay Your Hands On Me, Bon Jovi 83. This Promise, When In Rome 84. What I Am, Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians 85. I Remember Holding You, Boys Club 86. Paradise City, Guns N' Roses 87. Iwanna Have Some Fun, Samantha Fox 88. She Wants To Dance With Me, Rick Astley 89. Dreamin', Vanessa Williams 90. It's No Crime, Babyface 91. Poison, Alice Cooper 92. This Time I Know It's For Real, Donna Summer 93. Smooth Criminal, Michael Jackson 94. Heavan Help Me, Deon Estus 95. Rock Wit'cha, Bobby Brown 96. Thinking Of You, Sa-fire 97. What You Don't Know, Expose 98. Surrender To Me, Ann Wilson and Robin Zander 99. The End Of The Innocence, Don Henley 100. Keep On Movin', Soul II Soul

Some significant events from 1989
Jan 9 - The Sega Genesis is released.

Jan 22 - Super Bowl XXIII San Francisco 49ers defeat Cincinnati Bengals 20-16.

Jan 24 - Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida’s electric chair.

Feb 2 - The last Soviet Union armored column leaves Kabul ending nine years of military occupation in Afghanistan.

Feb 14 - The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System is placed into orbit.

March 4 - Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans for a merger forming Time-Warner.

March 9 - A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy.

March 23 - A 1,000-foot diameter asteroid misses the Earth by 400,000 miles.

March 24 - Exxon’s Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons of oil off Alaska.

March 26 - 190 million votes cast for Boris Yeltsin in the first free elections in USSR.
June 4 - Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing and is covered live on television.

June 4 - Solidarity wins first free Polish election since WWII, inspiring a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe.

June 15 - Ronald Reagan knighted by Queen Elizabeth.

Aug 20 - In Beverly Hills, California, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in their family’s den.

Aug 24 - Following allegations that he gambled on baseball, commissioner Bart Giamatti bans Pete Rose from baseball for life.

Nov 9 - The Berlin Wall comes down.

Nov 10 - The communist regime in Bulgaria is overthrown.

Nov 17 - Communist riot police beat participants of a peaceful student demonstration in Prague marking the commencement of the ‘Velvet Revolution’, which saw the overthrow of the Communist government.

Dec 21 - U.S. invades Panama and ousts General Manuel Noriega.
Dec 24 - Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize.

 Movies released in 1989

"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "Batman," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Born on the Fourth of July," "Dead Poets Society," "Field of Dreams."

 1989 in television

"The Seinfeld Chronicles" premieres on NBC. The show would later be retitled Seinfeld.

"The Simpsons" premieres on FOX. The characters first appeared two years earlier on the Tracey Ullman Show.

 Deaths in 1989

Jan 7 - Emperor Hirohito of Japan.

Jan 23 - Salvador Dali, artist.

Feb 3 - John Cassavetes, actor, director, writer.

March 9 - Robert Mapplethorpe, artist.

April 26 - Lucille Ball, actress, comedienne.

April 30 - Sergio Leone, director.

May 20 - Gilda Radner, comedian, actress.

June 4 - Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini of Iran.

July 10 - Mel Blanc, voice actor

Oct 4 - Graham Chapman, comedian, actor.

Dec 22 - Samuel Beckett, writer, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in literature.