1989

The following events took place in the year **1989 C.E.**

* In-Universe
* Ex-Universe

## Dated

#### January

* Saturday, January 7th: *The New Twilight Zone* airs the sixteenth episode of their third season, "The Cold Equations".

#### March

* Monday, March 13th: Agent LaFerrier and D-237238 observe an SCP-2729-A military base outside of Bend, Oregon. SCP-2729 resets, coinciding with a solar storm in the Solar System.
* Friday, March 17th: Due to workers' incompetence in maintaining SCP-224's soundproof chamber, four SCP Foundation employees are exposed to seven chimes. Dr. Quinn and Assistant Researcher Jessup are killed due to the rapid growth of their bladder cancer and unborn child respectively.

#### April

* Friday, April 28th: The Turman Family — Gary, Lindsay, and their two children — are killed in a vehicular accident.

#### May

* Friday, May 12th: Melissa and Travis Englund are last seen before their disappearance.

#### August

* Friday, August 11th: A housewife witnesses SCP-265 for a second time, finding it park in her house's driveway just past midnight. She documents the incident in her diary and vows to inform the police in the morning.

#### September

* Monday, September 18th: Hurricane Hugo, likely instigated by MTF Rho-6, hits the Virgin Islands, destroying the only Olympic-sized swimming pool on the archipelago.

#### October

* Saturday, October 7th: Incident 3940-1: Mel Blanc is killed in the fifty-sixth SCP-3940 event. The Bugs Bunny statue at the Warner Brothers Studios complex is destroyed by over four thousand arrows.
* Thursday, October 19th: SCP-2969 is discovered in a trailer home nearby Site-77.
* Monday, October 23rd: United Media publishes the first of that week's *Garfield* comics. An animate Garfield costume made from cat fur and lasagna initially manifests in the Chicago offices of United Media and starts harassing the office workers.
* Saturday, October 28th: The last strip of *Garfield'*s Hallowe'en '89 arc is published.
* Sunday, October 29th: A standard *Garfield* comic is published in the Sunday papers. SCP-3166 manifestations decline dramatically and adopt a reliquary pattern.

#### December

* Saturday, December 9th: Documents on SCP-093's recovery are destroyed in a fire at Research Facility █████.

## Undated

* Post April 28th: *Laugh is Fun* airs an episode themed around tracheostomies.
* Post May 12th: *Laugh is Fun* airs an episode themed around squirrels.
* Between August 10th - 31st: Coinciding with a solar storm, all SCP-2729 affected individuals lose consciousness. Upon regaining consciousness, SCP-2729-A, -B, and -C are found to have returned unchanged, unlike the March reset.
* Post September 18th: Thirteen-year-old Saint Croix resident Tim Duncan uses the ocean for swim practice until he is overcome by his fear of sharks. Shortly after abandoning professional swimming, Duncan is inspired by his brother-in-law to pursue a future in basketball.
* Between October 23rd - 29th: The SCP Foundation investigates the newly registered SCP-3166, and its manifestations across North America. Questioning reveals that no employee can recall the illustrator of that week's comics.
* SCP-157-ARC is found in a Titan missile silo and is brought into SCP Foundation acquisition.
* A Beretta Px4 Storm semi-automatic pistol is recovered from SCP-1780-1.
* Incident-2881-1: Foundation personnel attempts to send a D-Class up SCP-2881 via a pulley. D-4375 is lost for two hours until his lacerated corpse is recovered. The autopsy finds that the cause of death was hanging, appearing to have occurred several days prior.
* Site-64's Director Hayden White retires, and Site-64 begins to fall into a reputation of mediocrity.

## Notes and references

1. ↑ SCP-3922 Extended Test Logs
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 What is it Good For?
3. ↑ Grandfather Clock
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 LA U GH IS F UN
5. ↑ Black Volga
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Potentially XK Tim Duncan
7. ↑ Biblical Vengeance Upon Bugs Bunny
8. ↑ In Your Own Words
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 You Have No Idea How Alone You Are, Garfield
10. ↑ Red Sea Object
11. ↑ The "Shot Heard 'Round the World"
12. ↑ The Temporal Anomalies Department
13. ↑ The Tree You Cannot Climb
14. ↑ Secure Facility Dossier: Site-64