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8 unusual facts about 1989–90 in English football


2006–07 Bristol Rovers F.C. season

The previous promotions were all automatic, and came in the 1952–53, 1973–74 and 1989–90 seasons.

Bob Atkins

The 1989-90 season though proved to be his last for the club.Despite the club starting the season badly Bob was again a consistent performer in defence but an injury against Tranmere Rovers on Boxing Day 1989 more or less wiped out his season and although he returned for the final third of the season Bob was never to kick a ball for Preston again.

Ian Woan

Woan did not make an appearance for the Midlanders in the latter half of the 1989–90 season, his debut coming almost ten months after joining the club.

Jim Leighton

However, his lack of confidence during 1989–90 let both his team mates and himself down as United finished 13th in the league, although they did reach the FA Cup final – their first major final in five years.

Jim McNichol

He helped City take the Football League Fourth Division title in 1989–90, before he made the switch from Exeter to Torquay a second time in July 1991.

Jon Gittens

During his four seasons with Swindon, the club reached the play-offs twice (in 1988–89 and again in 1989–90), but failed to gain promotion to the First Division.

Roberto Di Matteo

He helped the club finish sixth place in the league, their highest placing since 1989–90, and reach the 1997 FA Cup Final at Wembley.

Tony Diamond

He signed for Blackpool during the 1989-90 season, but made just three appearances for the club as Blackpool were relegated to the Fourth Division.


1989 Australian Touring Car Championship

Holden's lack of interest in the 1989 ATCC wasn't well received either by the fans or television broadcaster Channel 7.

Alternate Learning

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Amantes e Mortais

Amantes e Mortais (known in English as Fast and Far) is Adelaide Ferreira's second album released in 1989.

Bud Hedinger

He worked at WFTV in Orlando from 1986 until 1989 and then worked at a TV station in Nashville before returning to Orlando in 1993.

Can U Dig It?

"Can U Dig It?" is a popular single by British Grebo band Pop Will Eat Itself, released in 1989 from the bands second album This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This! and it peaked at #38 in the UK Charts.

Chad Bratzke

His 12 sacks in 1999 stands as one of seven double-digit individual sack seasons in franchise history (13.0, Dwight Freeney, 2002; 11.5, LB-Johnie Cooks, 1984; 11.0, LB-Vernon Maxwell, 1983; 10.0, DE-Jon Hand, 1989; 10.5, DE-Tony Bennett, 1995; 10.5, DE-Dan Footman, 1997).

Daniel Chandler

Daniel Chandler (born 1952) is a British visual semiotician based (since 2001) at the department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University (where he has taught since 1989).

Daniel Pérsico

Pérsico qualified as a civil engineer in 1988 from the National University of Córdoba and began working for the provincial government in 1989.

Danny Bernardi

Bernardi has cited his main influences on his writing as being the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, playwrights such as Stephen Berkoff and Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) as well as such diverse sources such as The Clash, Billy Childish, Benjamin Zephaniah.

Demetrio Albertini

Albertini, born in Besana in Brianza, province of Monza e Brianza, emerged as a product of AC Milan's youth system, and went on to spend 14 highly successful years with the club after debuting as a 17-year-old in 1989.

Direktori

During the spring of 1989, vocalist Nebojša Drakula, with the former Varšavski Geto member Miroslav Pilipović "Trta" on guitar, former Pogrebni Zavod member Srđan Marić on bass guitar and former Hogari member Dragan "Rale" Rašković on drums, formed a band performing cover versions of oi! punk acts such as Sham 69, Cockney Rejects and Skrewdriver.

Disappearance of Ben Needham

Ben Needham (born 29 October 1989 in Sheffield) disappeared on 24 July 1991 at the age of 21 months from the Greek island of Kos.

Dodge Spirit

It was assembled at Newark Assembly in Newark, Delaware as well as Toluca Car Assembly in Toluca, Mexico, and shared its basic design with the 1990 to 1994 Chrysler LeBaron sedan, the 1989 to 1995 Plymouth Acclaim, and the export-only 1989 to 1995 Chrysler Saratoga.

Dusit Thani Group

In 1989, Dusit Thani Hua Hin opened (earlier known as Dusit Resort and Polo Club).

Elliot Mazer

From 1989 to 2005 Mazer served as Senior Vice President of New Business Development for Radio Computing Services, Inc (RCS) in White Plains, New York.

Firetrack

Firetrack is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up computer game programmed by Nick "Orlando" Pelling and released for the BBC Micro and Commodore 64 platforms in 1987 by Electric Dreams Software. It was also ported to the Acorn Electron by Superior Software in 1989 as part of the Play It Again Sam 7 compilation.

Flag of New England

On 8 June 1989 the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) adopted a flag designed by Albert Ebinger of Ipswich, Massachusetts, as the official flag of the New England Governors’ Conference.

Francisco Antonio López

Francisco Antonio "Kalimba" López Benediht (born October 14, 1989 in Tela, Atlántida, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer who plays for Platense as a Midfielder in the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Gerard Oliva

Gerard Oliva Gregori (born 7 October 1989) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Austrian side SV Ried as a forward.

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

Over the years, the Green Mill has appeared in many films, such as Thief (1981), Next of Kin (1989), V. I. Warshawski (1991), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Folks! (1992), Soul Food (1997) and High Fidelity (2000).

Harrington College Icebergs

Kazumasa Sasaki (1989) - Asia League, World Junior Championship (2008)

Ian Madigan

Ian Madigan (born 21 March 1989) is an Irish professional rugby union player for Blackrock College RFC, Leinster Rugby and Ireland.

Island Line, Isle of Wight

In 1989 the passenger service was branded as Island Line for the first time, as the name and logo was included on the "new" Class 483 trains' livery.

Jean-Philippe Lamoureux

His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.

Jenny Logan

Though she played WPC Sally Reed in the TV series Dixon of Dock Green between 1968 and 1969, she is most familiar from her appearances as the woman in the television commercial for the carpet freshener Shake n' Vac, which was shot in 1979, and ran from 1980 to 1989.

Jessie Barr

Jessie Barr (born 24 July 1989 in Waterford, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish athlete who will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay.

Joëlle Aubron

Arrested with her comrades Jean-Marc Rouillan, Nathalie Ménigon and Georges Cipriani on 21 February 1987 on a farm in Vitry-aux-Loges (Loiret), she was sentenced in 1989 and 1994 to life in prison, with a minimum of 18 years.

John Gretton, 3rd Baron Gretton

John Henrik Gretton, 3rd Baron Gretton DL (9 February 1941 - 4 April 1989) was an English peer, owner of Stapleford Park in Leicestershire.

Juan Anangonó

Juan Carlos Anangonó (born 1989), Ecuadorian footballer for Argentinos Juniors

Kaiser Convention Center

From 1967 through 1989, the Grateful Dead, an American rock band, performed at the Convention Center 57 times.

Ken Kirzinger

He appeared in 1989's Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan as a New York cook who gets in Jason's way while pursuing Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett) and Sean Robertson (Scott Reeves).

Kubi Indi

In 1989 she produced I Am the Future, a film about a young woman (played by Stella Chiweshe) who travels to the big city to escape Zimbabwe's independence war in the rural areas.

La Jument

The lighthouse became well known in 1989, through a series of photographs taken by Jean Guichard.

Maldita Sea, Vol. 1: 1989–1999

1: 1989–1999 is a greatest hits album released by Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio.

Mat Stevenson

He is best known for playing the long running regular role of Adam Cameron in the television soap opera Home and Away from 1989 to 1994, making a return appearance in 1999.

New York Hot Tracks

From 1986 to 1989, Hot Tracks was hosted by Debbi Morgan and Darnell Williams, who concurrently portrayed Angie and Jesse Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children.

Panic Zone

This track was also the B-side of a split single release with Eazy-E's Boyz-n-the-Hood, which was released in 1989, following the commercial success of Eazy-E's solo debut Eazy-Duz-It and the group's first album proper, Straight Outta Compton, on which a remix of "Dope Man" was included.

Pascal Lefèvre

He set his personal best (82.56 m) on August 28, 1989 in Duisburg.

Post-communism

In most of the countries in Eastern Europe, following the fall of communist-led governments in 1989, the communist parties split in two factions: a reformist Social Democratic party and a new, less reform-oriented Communist Party.

Raúl Antonio Coreas

Raúl Antonio Coreas Pérez (born February 7, 1989 in San Miguel, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for Dragón in the Salvadoran Second Division.

Roswell UFO incident

In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.

Singapore Cable Car

It played hosts to the contestants of the Miss World Pageant when it was held in Singapore in 1989, as well as the sportsmen and officials who were there for the Southeast Asian Games in 1990.

Smith's Food and Drug

In 1989 the company completed its initial public offering and shares of the company started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol SFD.

Soulshock

In the years 1989-1991 was Carsten Schack co-host of the radio program The DUR (Dansk Ungdomsradio) on P3.

SS Taroona

Hellas remained laid-up at Elefsina bay until May 1989 when she was towed out of the bay to Aliağa in Turkey and scrapped.

The KLF films

Some footage from The White Room was used in the 1989 music video for Kylie Said To Jason and the 1991 music videos for 3 a.m. Eternal and Justified & Ancient.

The Top of His Head

Jane Siberry also contributed a song, "This Old Earth", which was nominated for Best Song at the 1990 Genie Awards and appeared on her 1989 album Bound by the Beauty under the alternate title "Something About Trains".

TigerDirect

The company was founded as Tiger Software, a publisher of titles for both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh in 1989.

Where Were You Last Night

Where Were You Last Night is a 1989 album released by Swedish pop artist Ankie Bagger.

Zhang Xinsheng

1986-1989, he was the Deputy Director of the National Tourism Administration, PRC.


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