1989 in the United States

← → Events from the year 1989 in the United States.

January 20 : George H. W. Bush becomes the 41st U.S. president
January 20: Dan Quayle becomes the 44th U.S. vice president
October 18: Galileo and its Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster being deployed by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.