page_title: 1989 in the United States
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1989 in the United States / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: Official portrait of President George H. W. Bush
context_page_description: Events from the year 1989 in the United States.
context_section_description: January 1 – The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
  January 4 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: Two Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are engaged and shot down by two US Navy F-14 Tomcats.
  January 10 – Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago settles a government enforcement action by agreeing to pay $14 million in backpay to women and minorities, the largest such settlement ever obtained from a single employer.
  January 11
  President Ronald Reagan delivers his farewell address to the nation.
  The National Collegiate Athletic Association adopts Proposition 42, which withdraws athletic scholarships from athletes who fail to meet minimal academic standards.
  January 12 – President-elect George H. W. Bush announces the final members of his cabinet, naming James D. Watkins as Secretary of Energy and William Bennett as the first director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
  January 13 – Bernhard Goetz is sentenced to one year in prison and fined $5,000 for shooting four young men on the New York subway in 1984.
  January 16 – A Hispanic Miami police officer shoots and kills a speeding black motorcyclist in the Overtown section of Miami, Florida, starting three days of rioting.
  January 17 – Stockton massacre: Patrick Edward Purdy kills five children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California.
  January 18 – The Republican National Committee elects Lee Atwater as its chairman.
  January 20 – George H. W. Bush is sworn in as the 41st President of the United States.
  January 22 – The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XXIII.
  January 24
  Serial killer Theodore Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair.
  Joel Steinberg is convicted of manslaughter in the beating death of a 6-year-old child he was raising.
  January 31 – Northway, Alaska records the highest mean sea level pressure on record in the United States with a reading of 31.85 inHg (1078.6 millibars)
caption: January 20: George H. W. Bush becomes President
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