20 years ago : Remembering 1989 - A few events of that year.

I did a search tonight for events that happened on this day in history and found something that made me remember exactly what I was doing in January of 1989. As many of you may have read in one or two of my back posts I was at one time a radio DJ and as part of my duties I had to read the news. Most of the time I looked for the odd news, but on January 24th I was following a particular news story.

On that day the state of Florida would execute a serial killer and the world awaited to see if he would get a stay of execution. That serial Killer was Ted Bundy. Bundy confessed to killing 30 people, but it will never be know for sure if that was the truth. It is possible that he killed possibly up to 100 people over the years. In between songs I was running back and forth to the AP Newswire, searching for any new news and woud read it as soon as I got anything. It wasnt that it was important to the people of my state but that I had followed the case, reading the news, books, magazines, and watching the made for tv movie with Ted Harmon as Bundy. So more or less this was for me because I wanted to follow this evil man until he got the punishment he deserved. After I recieved word of his execution I would refuse to read anymore news for the rest of my shift.

Other events that happened in 1989

• George H. W. Bush would become president of the United States.
• Emperor Hirohito (129th emporor of japan)would die after 62 years under his rule.
• Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses" would have a $3,000,000 bounty place on him by The Ayatollah Khomeini.Later in the Year, Iran would cut ties with the United Kingdom breaking off all diplomatic relations because of the book.
• The Exxon Valdez would spill 240,000 barrels of oil when it ran aground.The Spill would cost Exxon 287 million for actual damages and $5 billion for punitive damages.
• The Ayatollah Khomeini died.
• Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is indicted as the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
• Hurricane Hugo cause 7 Billion dollars in damage after making landfall in South Carolina.
• North and South Dakota would celebrate 100 years of being recognized states.
• Seinfeld and the Simpsons made their TV debut.

Lets hope 2009 is a better year than 1989 was.

Im out!