Monday, July 20, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
How Times Change... Looking Back at 1989
- Yearly Inflation Rate U.S.A. 4.83%
- Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 2753
- Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 10.50%
- Average Cost of new house $120,000.00
- Average Income per year $27,450.00
- Average Monthly Rent $420.00
- Average Price for new car $15,3500.00
- 1 gallon of gas 97 cents
- US Postage Stamp 25 cents
Sunday, May 24, 2009
It happened in 1989…
In the News 1989
- Michael Milken is indicted on 98 fraud and racketeering charges.
- Burma changes its name to Myanmar
- Soviet Union begins fully withdraws from Afghanistan after 10 years of fighting with Afghan mujahedeen forces.
-Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses is published and sparks immediate controversy. Islamic militants put a price on his head. Visionary Jargon Lanier coins the term virtual reality and produces the equipment to experience it. - Pete Rose is banned from baseball for betting on games, August 24, 1989 Science
- Human gene transfer developed by Steven Rosenberg, R. Michael Blaese, and W. French Anderson (US). Background: genetic engineering
- First World Wide Web server and browser developed by Tim Berners-Lee (England) while working at CERN.
- Peter Deutsch of McGill University who develops Archie, an archive of FTP sites, the first effort to index the Internet. Another indexing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server), is developed by Brewster Kahle of Thinking Machines Corp. Background: Computers and Internet
- Voyager 2 speeds by Neptune after making startling discoveries about the planet and its moons
Sports
Super Bowl
San Francisco d. Cincinnati (20-16)
World Series
Oakland A's d. SF Giants (4-0)
NBA Championship Detroit Pistons d. LA Lakers (4-0)
Stanley Cup - Calgary d. Montreal (4-2)
Wimbledon
Women: Steffi Graf d. M. Navratilova (6-2 6-7 6-1)
Men: Boris Becker d. S. Edberg (6-0 7-6 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion Sunday Silence
NCAA Basketball Championship Michigan d. Seton Hall (80-79 OT)
NCAA Football Champions Miami-FL (11-1-0)
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $5,438.70 billion
Federal spending: $1143.17 billion
Federal debt: $2868.0 billion
Median Household Income (current dollars): $28,906
Consumer Price Index: 124 Unemployment: 5.3% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.25
The Movies:
• Glory
• Born on the Fourth of July
• My Left Foot
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape
• Field of Dreams
Around the Country
- President George H. W. Bush (41) inaugurated - January 20, 1989
- Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons - March 25, 1989
- World Series interrupted by Earth Quake - October 17, 1989 (Oakland A’s Sweep the San Francisco Giants)
Around the World
- US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean - January 4, 1989 - 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre - June 4, 1989
- P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's President - August 14, 1989 - Czech Parliament Ends Communist domination November 30, 1989 - Berlin Wall Comes Down - November 9, 1989 - Romanian uprising overthrows Communists December 15, 1989 - Romanian tyrant President Ceausescu and wife executed - December 25, 1989
- US Troops liberate Panama, US capture of General Manuel Noriega - December 20, 1989
Academy Awards:
• Best Picture - Driving Miss Daisy
• Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis (My Left Foot)
• Best Actress - Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy) Gold Logie: Daryl Somers (Hey Hey It's
Saturday, Nine)
Science
- Human gene transfer developed by Steven Rosenberg, R. Michael Blaese, and W. French Anderson (US). Background: genetic engineering
- First World Wide Web server and browser developed by Tim Berners-Lee (England) while working at CERN.
- Peter Deutsch of McGill University who develops Archie, an archive of FTP sites, the first effort to index the Internet. Another indexing system, WAIS (Wide Area Information Server), is developed by Brewster Kahle of Thinking Machines Corp. Background: Computers and Internet
- Voyager 2 speeds by Neptune after making startling discoveries about the planet and its moons
Entertainment
- Arsenio Hall becomes first African-American to host a nightly talk show January 3, 1989
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles become an overnight sensation
- Milli Vanilli gets Best New Artist Grammy which is later stripped when it's learned they were lip synching for another (much uglier) duo. -
Farewells:
• Jim Backus (shipwrecked with Gilligan)
• Lucille Ball (Comedienne)
• Samuel Beckett (Irish playwright)
• Salvador Dali (Surrealist Painter)
• Bette Davis (Actress with piercing eyes)
• Dolores Ibarruri Gomez (La Pasionaria) (Spanish Communist politician, orator, memoirist, journalist and writer)
• Ferdinand Marcos (Former Philippine President)
• Billy Martin (Major League Baseball)
• Laurence Olivier (Actor)
• Sugar Ray Robinson (Legend of the Ring)
• Andrei Sakharov (Soviet nuclear scientist)
• R.D. Laing (Psychopathologist)
• Robert Penn Warren (American Poet)
• Nicolae Ceausescu (Romanian Despot)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Reunion News!!! -- UPDATE!!!
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Pre-Reunion Get Together
Friday, October 16, 2009 at McGinty’s Public House
Light appetizers and drink specials
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75th Blair Anniversary Activities
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Antique Car Parade (Wayne Homecoming Parade Route)
Tour of Old Blair - Parade to New Blair High School - Tour of New Blair
Blair high school vs. BCC high school Football
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Class of 1989 Reunion – 20 Years
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at Four Points Sheraton in New Carrollton
Silent Auction Reception, Premium Open Bar, Dinner, and DJ
Early Registration: (by June 30, 2009) $75 per person, $150 per couple
Regular Registration: (by August 31, 2009) $85 per person, $170 per couple
Late Registration: (by September 30, 2009) $100 per person, $200 per couple
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Champagne Farewell Brunch
Sunday, October 18, 2009 at Four Points Sheraton in New Carrollton
$40 per person
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Hotel Rooms at Four Points Sheraton in New Carrollton $89 per night.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Save the Date: October 17, 2009
October 17, 2009
Four Points Sheraton at New Carrollton
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- Pre-Reunion Get-Together - October 16
- Blair 75th Anniversary Activities - October 17
- Farewell Reunion Brunch - October 18
For early registration prices and hotel reservation information visit: Early Registration
For more information contact Abby Zweig Hendrix at ReunionCommittee@blairblazer89.org or 240-461-9803
