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Are you a 1989 graduate of Douglas County High School or Highlands
Ranch High School? Our 20 year high school reunion is just
around the corner and we need to start planning it soon.
Do you have a certian idea or expectation
for our 20 year reunion? Share it with the planning committee
be emailing reunion@dchs89.info.If
you want to be on the planning committee, contact reunion@dchs89.info
to get involved.
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Ask the Class of 89 |
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What was happening in 1989?
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Economics of 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
Average Income per year $27,450
Average Monthly Rent $420
Average Price for new car $15,350
1 gallon of gas 97 cents
US Postage Stamp 25 cents

The United States in
1989
George H.W. Bush is inaugurated as President
Dan Quayle is inaugurated as Vice President
A jury convicts Oliver North in the Iran-Contra
affair
A San Francisco Bay area earthquake measuring
7.1 in magnitude, killed 67 and injured over
3,000. Over 100,000 buildings damaged or destroyed
Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's
electric chair
The Exxon Valdez dumps 11 million gallons of
crude oil into Alaska's Price William Sound

The World in 1989
Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President
The Berlin Wall is open to West
US troops invade Panama, seeking capture of
General Manuel Noriega
US Fighter Jets shoot down two Libyan fighters
over international waters in Mediterranean
Ayatollah Khomeini sentences Salman Rushdie's
to death for his novel Satanic Verses. We find out years
later that U2 lead-man Bono hosted Salman's exile for many years.
Soviet Union troops pull out of Afghanistan
Tiananmen Square

Technology of 1989
Voyager 2 spacecraft passes by Neptune
The first GPS satellites are launched into space
Scientists pronounce 1989 as the warmest on
record possibly a sign of the greenhouse effect
Intel introduces the 486 MicroProcessor
Microsoft releases its new software Microsoft
Office

Sports in 1989
San Francisco wins the Super Bowl against Cincinnati
(20-16)
Oakland A's win the World Series against San
Francisco (4-0)
Calgary wins the Stanley Cup against Montreal
(4-2)
Detroit Pistons win the NBA Championships against
the LA Lakers (4-0)

Music of 1989
Bobby McFerrin wins Grammy for Record and Song
of the Year for "Don't Worry Be Happy"
George Michael wins Grammy for Album of the
Year for "Faith"
Tracy Chapman wins best new artist

Television of 1989
The Simpsons premiers on Fox
The Arsenio Hall Show debuts
Cops premiers on Fox
Quantum leap premiers on NBC
Tales from the Crypt premiers on HBO
The Seinfeld Chronicles premiers on NBC, later
renamed Seinfeld
Saved By the Bell premiers on NBC
American Gladiators debuts
Baywatch premiers on NBC
Americas Funniest Home Videos premiers on NBC
David Spade and Mike Meyers join the cast of
Saturday Night Live

Movies of 1989
Driving Miss Daisy wins the Academy Award for
Best Picture
Other Movies:
Glory
Born on the Fourth of July
My Left Foot
Dead Poets Society
Sex, Lies, and Video tape
Field of Dreams
Batman
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Lethal Weapon 2
Twins
Back to the Future Part II
Ghostbusters II
The Little Mermaid
Driving Miss Daisy
Parenthood
Licence to Kill
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
When Harry Met Sally

Famous People who Died
in 1989
Lucille Ball
Gilda Radner
Jim Backus (Thurston Howell from Gilligans
Island & voice of Mr. Magoo)
Mel Blanc
Graham Chapman of Monty Python;s Flying Circus
Japanese Emperor Hirohito
Sugar Ray Robinson
Irving Berlin
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