What day of the week was December 16, 1989?

The day of the week December 16th, 1989 fell on was a Saturday.

There were 9 days until Christmas.

Oscar Alfredo Gálvez the Argentinian race car driver (b. 1913) died on this day in 1989. As did Silvana Mangano the Italian actress (b. 1930) , Aileen Pringle the American actress (b. 1895) , Lee Van Cleef the American actor and singer (b. 1925) .

Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara the Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés. U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody the Jr.